The Portland daily press., 1872-12-31
Gossip and GIeanings.


This il the time for making good resolu-
tons In order to break them next wear.
Bayard Taylor says oatmeal keeps the
brain clear
a western paper suggests that the Cana
da journals may be rendered bright by max
ing bonfire of them.
Another California widow is to claim the
sympathy of Pacific jurymen on account of
tve grains of strychnine found in her dead
husbands stomach
Mrs. Minnie Myrtle Miller delivered new
lecture on December 9th, at Sacramento,
called 'The New Shades" 1t referred. pro-
bably, to the latest styles in dresses and
things.
Nearly everything is liable to explode now
a-days. reverend gentleman who parts
his name in the middle, called A Constantine
Barry, it delivering lectures to rural audiences
in Wisconsin, wherein he ''explodes the Oar
vivian theory"
kind is man." is being literally verified.
Booksellers testify that the demand for scien-
tlflc books, especially those of Huxley, Tyn-
dali, Darwin and Lyell, touching mans his
tory in the past, particularly his origin, was
never so great as now
happy corpse is respectfully mentioned
by Massachusetts Newspaper. ''The doc
tor,' we are told, ''looked perfectly natural
as he lay in his coffin, seeming to say to his
old friends, What's all this fuss about ?--I
am happy" To make appropriate remarks
is fine art.
A youthful couple in Fulton county, KY,
husband aged nineteen, the wife thirteen,
have piled to the coufts for joint guar-
dian, having become weary OF the reign of
the husbands mother in-law. The older
married men of the county sigh in vain for a
similar protection.
1t took Boston miss, with school books
in her lap, to remark in no. Sc car the other
morning that she liked George Eliot's style,
especially where che" asks in the second
ever pinched into its pilulous smalness the
cobweb Of pre-matrimonial acquaintance
ship?"
Pittsburg man has on hand breach of
promise case resulting out of courtship
done by correspondence with lady in Eng
lard. He paid her passage over, but ON her
arrival discovered that she was altogether an
other person, though bearing the same name
as his supposed correspondent. Three law
yers are puzzled over the equities of the case.
We find in Max Adelers writings the fol-
lowing touching lines ON the death of favor
ite child. The degree of pathos will be duly
appreciated by all lovers of the sublime and
| beautiful
| The hand Of Death has striken little Josey,
And grief and sorrow thoroughly absorb us;
| When he was born never could suppose he
Would ever perish with the Cholera Morbus.
Weep not for him that doses of maguesia
Have failed to give strong tone to his abdomen;
Where he has gone he'll surely rest far easier,
For, after death, there's suffering for no man.
Says an editor in the City of Brotherly
Love: Philadelphia is preparing for her
great Fire of the Future with considerable
energy and enterprise; and there is every
reason to believe that at the appropriate time,
we shall be able to rival Chicago and Bos-
ton in the magnitude and splendor of our
civic confagraton. If it were possible to
ensure the postponement of this pyric expo
sition until the Centennial Year, it would
add greatly to the effect of the great exhibi
bition; but there is no certainty of this de-
sirable result being secured.
A Kansas youth played trick on two
young girls the other day who were returning
from school, and just about to enter society,
which, for real meanness, can't be beat. Oc-
cupying seat on the train just back Of
them, he entered into Irritation which was
in no way discouraged. The train came to a
dark tunnel, and when it got midway he
kissed the back of his own hand audibly-
gave it a regular buss. Each girl, of course,
charge the other with guilt, and the passen-
gers thought possibly the youth had kissed
both. When they got home, each told the
joke on the other, and for the first time two
girls have the credit of having been khsed