The Portland daily press., 1872-04-09
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Familiar toast at Democratic banauets--
health to Horace Greeley, the Free Trade
candidate for President in 1876. 81 |
On gate post in Western town is a
sign: Take warn't No tracs nor life insur-
ans, nor soin' masheens wanted here.'
-"Oofty Gooft' says: ed vas youst SO
eysy as needle Good walk oud nit camers
eye, as to get der behndt wort nit voom-
ans' -
Henry Clay Dean approves of the Gin
cnnatl Convention. So does Jefferson Da-
Wis. Wade Hampton, we suppose, approves
ofit,-and Wendell Phillips.
Mrs. Ann Thompson. of West Union
Iowa, is distinguished for patriotism. She
has stopped the pension paid her as a war
widow, her son, aged fourteen, being now
able to support the family. ~ l
An Irishman having jumped into the
water to save a man from drowning, upon re-
celVlnS quarter from the person as a reward
for the service, looked first at the money and
then at him, and at last exclaimed: ''Pm
overpaid for the job
-One evening in company, during CONVEX
sation, gentleman quoted the expression.
that Man proposes and God disposes."
Yes, SAID maiden present, ga man pro-
posed to me once, l said no, and have never
seen him since, so 1 thought somebody had
disposed of him.
The Troy Times styles Summers double
barreled Protest" one of the most sabsurd
pretences ever set up by any man in his sober
senses" But Charles Sumner has given the
most indubitable proofs during the last wear
that he is not in his sober senses.
A young theological student, not far
from Boston, recently invited a Young lady to
Attend a caI. L.
the individual was in this wise: ''If you come
as temporary supply l must decline the
invitation. am only hearing regular candi-
dates''' He didn't supply
"A Philadelphia woman who, forty wears
ago, at the age of sweet sixteen married a
rich old fellow of three-score for his money.
expecting soon to be gay and festive Young
widow, has recently died aged So. leaving
husband of 100, and four children to mon I'm
her loss.
AS wife was holding her husbands acb-
ing head in her hands, one morning, she ask
ed: care man and his wife one?H 81 sun-
pose So" said the husband e.Then," re-
Joined the wife, 81 came home drunk last
night, and ought to be ashamed of myself"
Olive Logan commenced one of her lee
lures at Newark, recently, with the remark,
Whenever l see pretty girl, L want to
clasp her in my arms" $50 do WEI shout
ed the boys in the gallery. For a moment
olive was nonplussed, but, recovering her
self-possession, she replied @Well, bows, I
don't blame you.''
AT fire at Saltwater, Wis. lately. a
Mrs. Tanner, about one hour before the fire.
gave birth to child. In one hour and fen
minutes from the time of its birth the mother
took the child and fled for her life from the
names, and took refuge at a neighbours
Neither mother nnr oh;
trying ordeal.
IIhe local editor of the Jacksonville Jour-
mat "rSIe the other day an item to the effect
Sn s; }, ih ha was lingering in the lap of
spring, put the managing editor cent II
out" He said the idea was good onou uu ~
and original, and all that sort of tb;no r.,
it would not do to publish, because the l, ~
moral tone OF the paper had to be maintained
in town full of seminary girls ''''''
"A characteristic anecdote is related Of an
out-at-elbows poet who by some freak of for
tune coming into possession of a IS bill. call
ed to lad and said: "Johnny, my boy, take
this William, and get it changed" '.What
90 you mean by calling it William ?' inquir-
Ell Ine wondering lad. 'Why, johnny" re-
plied the poet, 81 en- not sufficiently familiar
win 1t to take the liberty of calling it Bill,
The story is told of negro who was
$500 :Ly IhaC he and his colored
Dr9tnren niignt De preserved from what he
called their "upsettin sins.o mR mnSS -. y
said one of his friends, at the close 'o of ~ .
meeting, you amt got de HANG Of tI III 'iie
word. FITS besettin,' not 'up-setfin .11. al
der" replied the other, eff OATS so ~ u ~
But was praying de Lord to save ne fro ou
ene SIN OF ntoxication, and if dat amt an IN.
SCUM SIN dunno what am" "
"A Ierlhan expressman called at at bouse
in Brook YIN recently to deliver box 'ioq 9e
rang the bell, and servant o;r, ooA. ne
door, when the expressman said HpenGu tne
got small pox. and if you likes will ca %rv
it up stairs" The girl looked horror larry
en-, and not relishing the idea of admitt;nck :
man with the smallpox, slammed, boltsed
and barred the door in the astonisbed er'
pressman's face.
Inc collector of the town of Olive. on the
nsn nuouC and Oswego railroad, had a lega
tra;,s IN Inc nature of detainer to serve on
ha;i,r;o, mhicn stopped within the limits of his
paiIwick. so he and his man yyant ST., Us ~
work to pass chain thronah ~ "I l siyy "
the rear car, but before II co,, Cne pack emu OF
anytning substantial, the engineer was 49, ~
aware a OF now matters stood, and he threw threw
the throttle wide open, and started ne ue 'nre :
with Jump. The effect on the III .Ie trai,l
posse, who had hold of the loose oo oe &c y,
chain, was the same as that on tha 1,,a;c Sne
who attempted to capture train on tba d.
citic road with lariat - VIC d.