The Portland daily press., 1872-12-25
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Gossip and Gieanings.
Advertising is the ladder by which men
climb up to fortune if they keep their hold.
Our druggists have a nice lot of pills for
the holidays.
California children are happy. The castor
bean crop, this year was failure.
Brete Harte's lecture is pronounced sue
cess In New York from every point Of view.
When there is about six inches of snow on
the ground hen will stand on one leg in it
for an hour at a time, and think of last Fall
In Colorado, when a lady wears diamond
jewelry to any extent, she is alluded to by the
local gusher as being well ''salted.'
The hard times are affecting Lo, the poor
Indian; he complains that nothing but bald
headed smigrants go West now.
Winter with its horrors is approaching, and
the poor should be looked after. A nice
breast-pin can be bought for thirty cents.
A Redding youth attempted to run a dog
fight and hay cutter at the same time, Sat-
urday, and now dredges his proboscis with
his other hand.-Ddnbury Neacs.
Mrs. Fremont is described as having grown
stout and gray, and never, in the days of her
girlish beauty, was SO fascinating as at the
present time.
An Ohio cheese merchant has invented an
electrical machine for killing skippers.
''Cheese struck by lightning is now the only
kind admissible.
Our people generally regret to learn that
the one dollar gold pieces are to be withdrawn
from circulation. They were great convsn-
fence to the public.
They speak of promising boy in Ken
lucky not as one who will grow up to be a
great man but as one who has the material
in him for big funeral.
A young woman fondling her newborn
babe, and young man his newborn NOUS
tache, are two Of the most beautiful sights in
this world.
Louisville don't mean anything personal
when the statement is made that the hog dis
ease has closed many business houses in Gin
cinnati.
An out-of-town lady fell on tho walk in
front of the City Hall Monday evening,
breaking one of her legs in two places, and
scattering pint or more of sawdust to the
four winds OF heaven.
'I lay the weary pen aside
wish you health and love and mirth
As fits the solemn Christmas tide
As fits the holy Christmas BIRTH
Be this, good friends, out carol still,
Be peace on earth, BE peace ON earth,'
To men Of gentle will"
--T6ackerav.
friendess boy f. ON the town house, to bring
up for the ministry, but the experiment was
failure, as the child froze to death last week.
That female philanthropist will see the time
when to be frozen stiff will be a luxury
worth hankering after.
If Congress were but kinder,
'Twould Danish from our ground
Tho Italian organ-grinder
Who carries the monkey round.
For it makes you feel quite funky
When you think, if Darwin's true,
That you might have been the monkey
And the monkey might have been you'll
There is one boy in Danbury who won't
get anything in his stocking Christmas. He
left a pan of ashes on the front stairs, to fol-
low an organ grinder. and moment later his
indulgent father came crashing out at the
front'door and down the front stoop, accom-
panied by that pan and its contents, and
looking for all the world like real god riding
in the clouds. For few minutes that boy
thought he had pile driver for an ancestor
Danbury Ne1s.
Sweetly breathing Vernal Air,
That with kind warmth dost repair
Winters rains; from whose breast
All the gums and spice Of the East
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