The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-22
THE PRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. as. '7s.
Gossip and Gieanings.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 2s, '7s.
Gossip and Gleanings.
-''""eso'o thieves steal the telegraph wires.
MIR. Disraeli's wife was sixteen wears older
than her husband.
A Western jury recently brought in uor
dict OF '.iustifiable breach of promise -
Seal skin parlor mats are the latest e,sb;o,.
able affectation.
Black velvet muils are quite fasbiona-
Die this winter, those trimmed with fur mar
ticularly so.
1t is announced that DR.. Livingstone is en-
titled to seven years arrears of salary as
British Consul in Central Africa.
| This question aSitates Lawrence, Kansas
''Should young man leave his music lessons
to split wood, when his mother is at home in
perfect health ?''
Rubber thimbles are among the many arti
cles to which caou.chouc has given rise.
They are said to be better than those made
from any other material.
The ponderous Parepa has surmounted the
Pyramid of Cheops A cynical Egyptian de-
clared, when she got to the top, that she
did t look ahy bigger than her husband.
II 1ssla leather muffs are the latest thing in
thai 'ine They are mott pretty, and altogeth-
er useless. They will probably be fashion .
able
piucky little lady in Titusville, Penn,
seized burglar by the beard in her house on
Sunday night, and so astonished him that he
fed precptately And then she tainted.
A Ladies' Debating Society at Paris, KY,
lately decided that bachelors are nuisance.
We presume that one of the objects of the
society is to abate the same.
The new Mayor of Boston has evidently
sat down suddenly on slippery coal cover on
the sidewalk; at any rate he is making war
on those winter nuisances and has instructed
the police to see that they are roughened or
removed.
But wise wordes taught in numbers for to runns
hecorded by the MUSES.; live for aye
Ne Lay with storming showers be wasn't away
Ne bitter breathing winds with harmful blast
From Spencer's r's"7he Buines Of Time"
Many yield right grave and sage advice
OF patient sprite to others wrapt in woe
And And can In speech both rule and conquer kind
Who, If by proof they might feel natures force
Monld show themselves men they are indeed
Which now will needs be gods.
FROM "GoT6udHc;" By Sackcitle and Norton. .
Charles Warner declares that you cannot
bring up family without the rallying point of
hearthstone. The frequently beleaguered
partner of a Madison avenue Xantppe has
tried it very often, and says he wouldn't give
cent for hearthstone as a rallying point
Commercial Adcertiser,
The epitaphs of Dakota papers are most pa
thetic. Jim Barrett had been shoveling snow,
from which he caught bad cold, which turn
ed into fever. The fever settled Jim's mum
dane affairs, and a local paper says most af-
fectingly, in his obituary, s.He won't have TO
shovel snow in the country he has gone to"
a Williamstown vt. man wants a wife:
''She must be short, thicl-set, with curly hair
and Keen, black eyes. Her age am not so
particular about, say anywhere from thirty
five to forty" He won't find his wife. There
isn't single woman in Vermont thirty-five
years old
Ebenezer Coggswell has tolled the bell for
two thousand funerals, in Derry, N. II. As
Ebenezer's time draws nigh, he is looking
about for veteran to toll the bell when he
goes to his long rest. Ebenezer says he
don't want no snip at the trade to do the
business for him." He wants one who can
pull the brazen bell with some execution and
taste.
! The editors and publishers of newspapers
in Maine met the cher day at Augusta,
whereupon the Portland Press ventures to
affirm that there was there gathered togeth-
er ''the very wisest and most virtuous little
crowd of men in the seedest of last years
clothes that ever met at the State Capital"
No question about it; but no doubt, if they
had explored the Legislative halls, each with
his little lantern, they would have had no
better luck than Diogenes of old.-N. Y.
Mail.
That woman who has been calling at the
Post Office twice day for some half score
years has turned up again. This time it is
the Woburn, Mass, Post Office she besieges,
and according to reliable papers from which
we get the information, she has been calling
at the Post Office there for twice a day for
twelve years. 1t is not known whether there
has been Post Office there for twelve years,
but then that is immaterial, so far as the
point of the story Is concerned.
The Bostonian gass-blowers are inanufae,
turing relics of the great fire. Theyblow bot
rites and other vessels into all sorts of shapes
esembling the result of intense heat, while
the inside is ingeniousy filled with all sorts
OF liquids, from cheap whiskey to castor oil.
Corks are inserted showing every degree OF
burning, from slight scorch to half con-
sumption, while the contents have the ap-
pearance of having remained intact. These
relics sell readily for from twenty-five cents
upward.
'BriGnoli has been cruelty received in Italy.
The latest admonition came from a theater
In Nice. He was to sing in Lucia but, at
ter the first few phrases he was assailed by