The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-06
Gleanings.

Nieanlngs.
\ woman at Chelsea, H., has died
/ from 4 spider bite.
zone of those things no fellow can
! find Out"-a good husband after IL P. II.
A rattlesnake bite was cured lately at
Fayette, ILL.,, by liberal applications of
mud!
\ Peoria dentist announces that he
extracts teeth with great pains. Most
dentists do.
Leisure is sweet to those who have
earned it, but burdensOme to those who
get il for nothing.
1t is an error to imagine that women
talk more than men. They're listened
to mOre-thats all.
Josh Billings says very truly, ''YOu'd
better not know so much than to know
so many things that amt So"
4 stylish bonnet can be obtained from
Paris for Sl2G. Indulgent husbands Will
cut this out to show their wives.
King Amadeus, of Spain, has signed a
decree providing for the gradual aboli-
ton of slavery in the colonies Of Cuba
and Porto Rico.
The public should remember that the
rate of postage upon transient newspa-
pers to any port in the United States is
now only one cent.
\ writer, in giving advice to bathers,
remarks that it is only good swimmers
who get drowned at the beaches. They
venture out too far.
4 little boy in Buffalo bled to death
I . f., ,.fl n n in fnr
caused by a glass bottle which was
thrown at him by a playmate.
OF a miserly man who died of soften
ing of the brain local paper said: "His
head gave way, but his hand never did.
/ His brain sOftened, but his heart
couldn't"
I In Switzerland n milkmaid who is
good singer gets more salary than 9TH
I ers, because under the influence OF mu-
sic cows 'give DOWN. better and give
more milk.
\ wise physician once said, 81 OBJ
serve that every one wishes to go to
heaven, but l observe also that most
people are willing to take a great deal
of disagTeeable medicine firstn
Mrs. Mary F. Snow, of the Pacific
Slope Woman Suffrage Convention,
says that a great many more meR than
women, propOrtiOnately, seem to realize
the enfranchisementO Of women.
\ man incarcerated in the Tombs has
e been figuring in chalk on the walls oil
] his cell 1t read: an New York city
I thespires of 342 churches, worth S41, 130,-
4 600, point heavenward. ] am here fol
+. stealing n loaf of bread for my starving
child"
/ In Difference to leap year, the women
: of NirOqua, Wisconsin, conducted the
! Fourth of July celebration. The mar
/ shall of the day, orator, reader of the
Declaration of Independenee-all-all
: were lovely women, while the brave
: men looked on and admired.
Tue servant of a Prussian officer one
day met 4 crOny, who inquired how he
got along with his fiery master. ooh,
excellently," answered the servant; ''we
; live on very friendly terms-every
morning we beat each others coats; he
, takes his of to be beaten, and / keep
mine on"
The remains of 4 woman and her new
born babe were found in the fifth story
of n Pittsburg warehouse last week.
She had been deserted by her drunken
husband, and left to give birth to her
LEAldlll
unburied till the stencil of decompOsi-
tion attracted attention.
y young woman once married n man
by the name of Dust against the wish of
her parents. After n short time they
began to quarrel, and she attempted to
return TO her fathers house, but he
refused to receive her, saying, "Dust
thou art and unto Dust thou shalt re-
Jurn." And she got up and ''dusted."
\ clergyman who was recently dis
coursing upon the alarming increase of
, intemperance astOnished his audience
) by eXclaiming: "a young man in my
; neighborhood died very suddenly last
) Sunday while was preaching the Cos
! pei in n beastly state of intoxicatiOn. -
5 Moral-clergyme should study gram
3 mar.
, a good story is told of a clergyman in
e n Massachusetts town who forgot his
= notes on Sabbath morning, and as it
was too late to send for them, he said to
e his audience, by way of apology, that
/ this morning he should have to depend
] upon the Lord for what he might say,
! but that in the afternoon he would come
/. better prepared!
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