The Portland daily press., 1872-12-06
THE PR ESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 8, 1872.
Gossip and Gleanings.


The Galaxy calls Spurgeon the coarser
Beecher.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin edits the Christian Leader.
He is equally able with pen and voice.
1t is quite the fashionable thing in Canada
at this season, to furnish an air-hole item for
the daily papers.
The mayor of Owenshoro, KY, not choos-
ing to be outdone by the President and the
Governor, issued his Thanksgiving proclapa-
ton.
frenchman can now make cheap sham
diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emerads to
deceive the very elect. A Boston jeweler has
been humbugged by them.
The fatigue Of the limbs incident to rail
way travel is occasioned mainly by the trem-
bling motion under the feet. Inyalids will
find great relief by the use of an air cushion
for footstool
Brandy and alchohol are now manufac-
tured from lichen and moses in st. Peters,
burg, and in the northern provinces of Rus
sia generally this branch Of industry has be-
come quite extensive
An unfortunate Lowell man has gos to
grind hand-organ one whole day, except an
hours intermission for dinner, because he
wagered that Grant would not be the next
President of the United States.
The Owattonna, Minn,, Journal sighs for
dance, surprise party, church sociable,
theatrical performance, spelling school, candy
pull, or something of the kind 'just to har-
row the dense monotony''
The COurier-Journdl, of Louisville, desires
the people of that town to take warning by
the fate of Chicago and Boston, and saws
that every good citizen win now put barrel
of gunpowder under his building and be pre-
pared for emergencies.
In May when sea-winds pierced our solitudes
l found the fresh Rhodora in the woods
Spreading S e;ag its leatless blooms in damp nook
10 please the desert and the sluggish brook;
| The purple petals, fallen in the pool,
Made the black waters with their beauty CAV;
Here might the red-brd come his pumes to cool,
And court the flower that cheapens his array
T;n. Khodoral If the sases ask thee why
pn rnis etarm ,, n is wasted on the marsh and sky,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
why thou vert there, o rival of the rosei
never thought TO ask, never knew:
But In my simple ignorance suppose
The self same Power that brought me there. brought
! you Ralph Wdido Emerson.
The keeper OF New York groggery, en-
ullous of the style of doing things in England
as depicted in one of George Cruikshank's
cartoons in Oliver Twist, where the crowning
glory OF an ale-house is set forth in sign:
Licensed to be drunk in the premises adj
vertises in conspicuous characters: ''The
biggest hot whiSkey in the city for ten
cents.'
a Troy Polytechnic institute professor the
other day conplimented student for some
thing he had done, as follows: "The city
of Troy is the worst place in the world,
aud the Rensselaer, institute is the worst
place in it, the class offs the worst class
In the institute, the second division is the
worst division in the class, and there are
eight young men in that division who are
worse than the rest, and you, Mr.. Smith, are
the worst one Of the eight
AT the first Baptist church of Nashville,
Tenn.," says the Union of that city, 9Th
lady members have agreed that they win dis
pense will all finery on Sunday-wearing no
jewels but consistency, and hereafter appear
at church in plain calico dresses.' And the
Brooklyn Union mentions these ladies as
"lady Pecksniffs,' - insisting that, to be con-
sistent they shoulG wear their calico on every
day OF the week. ''When ladies give calico
ball, says the Union, ''each one tries to out
shine all the rest in the tints and tournue of
her calico. Thus it viii be precisely in the
calico robed church-going ladies. Their cal
icoes will divert their thoughts from their
prayers quite as much as did ever their silks.
Having passed silly resolution, each will be
looking at each to see if she carries it out.
Each will watch the other to see if she has
LETT her jewels at home. If these ladies had
simply resolved, as Christian women, to dress
at all times more simply and economically,
without any universal role to which it is i'm
possible and inconsistent that each individual
can submit, the highest end would be gained,
and the one of watching and commenting on
the Lords day left out. As it is, they have
turned their Sunday into day of calico and
personal inspection, through which each fair
worshpper will sit as a secret detective. Yet,
mind you, their finery and furbelows are only
left at home for one day. They exist just the
same; they, cost the same extravagant
amounts as if they were worn on Sundays as
well as week days. Thepride of the eye and
the lust fdisplay are in no wise quenched
in these calico-robed worshipers. They own
their finery just the same; they have only
entered into new pride to leave it at home
on Sundays. They have changed their mode
of display, that is all. Out on all such lady
Pecksniffianism r'