The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-11-09
THE PR SS.
SATURDAY MORNING. NOV. Q, 1879.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Mr.. Greeley's young man is said to be
sweet on Anna Dickinson. He needs
strong intellect to lean upon.
Monkey fur is the last flrore in furrin'
parts, and New York is expected to ape the
fashion this winter.-[ World.
Taking sarsaparilla will not make man an
aristocrat, although it will give him the best
blood in the land
In six months Boston has sent six million
gallons of rum to Africa, besides its mission
airy work.
An Alabama youth went deer-hunting and
shot his brother, to whom he was not partic-
ularly attached, either.
A Main street boy received a dollar for
learning eight hundred bible verses, and has
bought with it handsome deck of linen-back
cards.-Dan6uiy Neps.
Cool. A butcher killed his neighbor gro
cery-man's favorite cat, the other day, and
soon after sent to borrow his sausage cutting
machine.
young man in st. Paul committed sui
eide, the other day, because he had two
sweethearts and conld not decide between
them.
An imaginative speaker at the recent New
York milk producers association, said that
the noise of mixing milk and water at Jersey
City, in the early morning, sounded like
Niagara.
Miss Lizzie Hayden of Topeka claims she
was terrified into marrying her monster, and
wants divorce because he sleeps with re-
volver under his pillow.
For ten cents wcrth of Glove powders
something that wouldn't stir her much, but
would make her dream of him nights'-a
Savannah clerk put up magnesia.
General George Hobbs, formerly major
general in the Massachusetts militia, died at
his residence in Worcester Saturday, at the
age of sixty-six years.
WILLIE.-No, there is no law prohibiting
the sale OF liquorice. You can get it from
any of our druggists on prescription from a
physician.
There are couple of men near our Office
door this afternoon talking about future
state. They are very intelligent men, but
they don't know as much about the other
world as they would know five had double
barrel gun handy.-Danbury News.
A Mill Plain farmer never grows tired OF
extollfng the cheek of a book canvasser who
called upon him, last summer. He says
''there isn't hair enough in mattress to
make him pair of whiskers.'
"Wbat is your consolation between life and
death ?'' asked a Sunday school teacher of a
young lady in the Bible class, who blushed
and said: ''Fd rather be excused from speak
ing his name.'
They change school books so often in the
Omaha schools, that the school houses are
surrounded every day with scores of booE
peddlers' carts and the air Is filled with the
yells of the dealers, who speak of the merits
of their respective books.
Travelling suits are now made-as they
were some years ago-of navy blue cloth,
made with long redingotes, buttoned down
the front with two rows of oxydised silver
buttons.
Mrs. Partington gave Ike, in early life, in
structions upon two musical instruments,
but she's sure she can't rightly tell whether
they were the guitar the piano or the petard
and guano, for the life of her.
Though life be short, and man doth as the sun,
His journey finish in little space.
The way is wide an honest course to rum
And greet the glories of virtuous race,
That at the last, do our just labors crown
With threefold wreath, love, honor and renown.
Well-informed persons report that about
four-fifths of those who have taken the
Weekly 1ribunein in northern and eastern New
England will not renew their subscriptions
The postmasters, who have been its efficient
agents, will now let it slide.
A French correspondent tells us that there
is at Paris mandatory of damaged china
which is marked 'sN." and which is sold as q
part of the imperial dinner service saved
from the ruins of the Tuileries. There il
quite brisk trade done in this business.
! Father-What says Solomon, my son? E? Re
buke wise man, and he will love thee.
10
Father-Aye, my son, both wise and hon
est, but principally wise.
Son Then how much he must love hi.
country!
Before paper came into general use, oul
| TeutOnic forefathers wrote their letters, cal
endars and accounts on wood The Boo, o.
beech, being close-grained, and plentiful il
Northern Europe, was generally employed
for this purpose: and hence is derived tn,
word book.
Transcendentalism has been defined a!
"The spiritual cognoscence of Psychologist
irrefragability connected with cOncubient
ademption Of incolumnient spirituality and
etherialized contention of subsulory concre.
tion'' which was translated by \ New Yorl
lawyer as follows -"Transcendentalism i,
two holes in a sandbank: storm washer
away the sandbank without disturbing the
holes.
| We are much pleased with the result of the
| election. We have the highest opinion O
General Grant, we respect Mr.. Colfax-an(
still we are not happy. Before election W,
departed from our usual blameless behavior
SO far as to emphasize our expressions of con
vlctlon by means of wagers-and now we've
won them all! We have so many new hats
and eight out of ten of them too large for u.
that it we took off four hat to every acquan
tance on the street we should arrive at the
ofhce with dozen or more on our head. W.
have gloves enough-all of them too small
for us-to supply the whole tribe of quad
rumana, leaving two pairs for every
tore-handed man in America. The
sub-eoitor and ourself pass the great
er part of the time in trying On new
neckties, and all our ''copy" is written OF
paper collars, against the wearing of which
we are prejudiced, and yet we feel they mus
be utilized in some way. Moral: Although
wagers are in the highest degree reprehensi
BILE and we cannot too strongly deprecate the
practice; still if sinful man ioiH do so-doE'
call it hats: Legal tender is preferable.-A
lanto Weekly.
The POWER OF MUsIC.-We have seer
| in one of the papers an article upon 'sTht