The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-04-12
Gleanings.


The flower trade of New York city ag-
gregates over one million oil dollars
year.
A widower was recently rejected by
damsel who didn't want warmed
Over' man.
A Wisconsin girl was married bare
foot, in the boOtless hope OF obtaining
good luck thereby.
A candid old bachelor says: "After
all, a woman's heart is the sweetest IN
the world; it's a perfect honey-comb-
full of sells"
A young lady wants to know whether
/ a girl may be sure man loves her unut-
| terably when he sits in her presence for
an hour without speaking.
A citizen of Salem complains that he
has neighbor who lives so close TO him
that said neighbOr has not spent a cent
for fire wood for six months.
A man who was told by clergyman
to remember Lots wife, replied that he
had trouble enough with his own, with
out remembering other mems wives.
Husband and wife in Russia always
own their property separately, and in
stances of wives suing their husbands
for debt are by no means uncommon
A temperance editor in drawing at
tention to an article against ardent
spirits in one of his papers, says: 'For
| the Effects of Intemperance see our in
side"
"Don't trouble yourself to stretch
your mouth any wider" said a dentist
/ to a man who was extending his jaw
/ frightfully, Gas I intend to stand outside
during the performance"
1t is a fact, hardly realized in this
country, that Russia is as famous for
I high educational advantages extended
| to her women as is the case in the United
! States. Boys and girls are equally con-
sidered.
The Woman Suffragists of Massachu-
sets claim that there are $50, ,692 women
in the State who are ready to vote, more
than three fourths of whom are natives
of the United States. These wOuld-be
voters pay taxes on Sl31 100000.
In Cincinnati woman lately bailed
her husband out of the statiOn-hOuse,
where too much indulgence in the flow
ing bowl had sent him, with the pro-
ceeds of the sale of her hair, which was
unusually long and beautiful. He, on
his part, grieved so much at his faithful
wife's surrender of her chief beauty for
his sake that he procured a divorce, and
is expected to marry another woman at
an early day.
A humorous young man was driving
| q horse which was in the habit of stop
ping at every house on the roadside.
| Passing a country tavern, where there
were collected together some dozen cOun-
/ trymen, the animal, as usual, ran oppo-
site the door, and then stopped, in spite
of the young man, who applied the whip
with all his might to drive the horse on.
The men on the porch commenced a
hearty laugh, and inquired if he
would sell that horse eyes" said the
/ young man, "but l cannot recommend
him, as he once belonged to a butcher,
and stops whenever he hears any calves
bleat." The crowd retired to the bar in
. silence.
Horse car conducting has its amenities
in San Francisco. The other day there
entered a passenger, richly dressed, wear
ing suit whose polish reflected ones
! face almost as a mirror, and from the
pocket of his velvet vest hung a massive
gold chain. The chain alone gave him
l the apDearance of q fortunate miner.
The conductor, as the car neared the de
: pot, started on his tour of collection, in
I tending to commence with the miner.
He placed his hand on the side-pOcket
of his coat to draw forth his nippers,
: when out came formidable five-shoOteT
from the miners hip pocket, accompan-
! led with this exclamation: "LOOk hyar,
stranger, kim from the mountains, but
you can't get the drop on men
The following bit of romance from real
: life appears in the Greeley (COl.) TIi
| buHe:
l About thirty years ago a young maI
was betrothed to a girl in England, bu
subsequently the engagement wa,
I! broken. He afterward married anothe
: woman, had children, lost his wife anC
came to Greeley. On Monday morning
e an old man with staff was at the depo
q on the arrival of the train from the East
An old lady, Miss Dean, stepped from
It the ears and inquired for Thomas Nc
, Dowd. The old man knew him, an'
L would be happy to carry her oaggaS'
d to Mr.. Childs', where he was stopping.
Ir She said that MeDOwd was eXpeceln5 S.tdI5
ID her, and she was sure she woulu Aiio'
him, for he was an old acquaih : :.
On arriving at the house, !le .Iot Iiot ii,' ~.
ID asked her if she was certain that sn1
m would recognize her friend. Vi course s.s-
as wOuld. Well, Maria, ! am t.ie ne o1T Tb}lJ. ii.
W., 49,, sael,in@ lust then Justice Cllliuss is
ly came in, and the lovers i,;,', :,