The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-26
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SATURDAY MORNING, APR ss. ls7a
Gossip and Gleanings.
Japtain Jinks sells papers in Syracuse.

Captain Jinks sells papers in Syracuse.
oia Tom Fuller said, GAN seasons of the
year can be carved out of an April day
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e. hqeh' n. j., has a boy with a cloven
.oo'' ne 'rled to stop a circular saw with
ooi,n omifH,hS has hit it, he says if there a,e
| people about who can't write. os ,,a a
informs us. why don't they telepranbs BE-,
"Lucca-here, now,'' Is the way Pittshurs
| paper announces the presence OF the eouta.
trice. r-p 81. r.G. -o.4 3 Z,
A seaiaring saint in Ohio, whose son had
in some way occasioned him grief used 10
say, ''Ah! children, when they are little,
tread on our knees but when they are old,
they tread on our hearts," N
A reverend orthodoctrinaire in Beatrice,
Neb., procaims his unqualified disapproval of
public library which contains works by
Herbert Spencer, Darwin, Tynelll, and Hux-
ley.
The gentleman so often spoken of in nov
els who riveted people with his gaze, has OBJ
tanned employment in a boiler mandatory,
with extrapay, on account of his peculiar fac
| ulty. i. t1 ge-rla .1f r
Speaklng OF the sacred poetry in use among
the negro students at Hampton, religious
| paper describes them as metrcal marvels of
! Wld subimity and pathos, mingled in the
NEST ndescribable doggerel i. .,..--.f
All through the life of a pure-rninded, but
ieeDie-Dodled man, his path Is lined with
nemorys graye-stones, which mark the
spots where noble enterprises perished for
lack of physical vgor to cmbody them in
deeds.-Horace Mann -47 : 9.If oi t9
! Sir John Lubbock believes that 'sLa Belle
Helene" of Troy. is malgred by popular ira
dtion. His present. Eastern journeying and ID
the study of Homer have vivifed his chival-
rousness, and he is now trying to convert the
Royal Society of fAntiquaries to his belief ss.7
1t is said that an Indian squaw recently
died at Lancaster, Mich, at the age of one
| hundred and fifteen years. If we were TO
1--we that long, we don't think we could be in
duced to die at all. We should keep on lv-
ing and see the thing through. or perish in 2
the attempt.-LouiSriHe Coe,rfer-,Journal ~ B.
The New York Commercial thinks that the
proposal to compel all hotels to supply their
upper stories with rope ladders is nothing but
a device of Satan. What provocation to
the lofty but curious spirit of some unquiet
American, to set the building on fire, just to
see how the derned things would work. ~ 60.
Isa signboard vested right? This ques- Z
tion is now before a Chicago court. There
are in that city two hotels named the Briggs
House; and each wants the other compelled
TO get married, or resort TO some other device
for having its name changed. The judge has
the matter under advisement. -aof lass
Why is it that young ladies seldom object
to their beaux smoking very often remarking
that they enjoy so much the flavor offs good
cigar, but do object when their brothers do
the smoking? This is an idle question, but
one which is calculated to furnish food for
reflection. 15f ad H Ta s1As -al
s Its Ttd.esr.ra 81
The Nashville women, little while ago,
announced an intention of being economical
aud wearing calico to church. At last ac-
counts they had only succeeded In making a
dress cost $3.50, but they are now going to
trim them with Valenciennes, and do not de-
spair. q, -5r CIT t....5 es-trf -gu-,71 q q II
i11r ..-- E,s.!15 Cox ~t.I.-s
Sir Henry Bulwer once asked a French
hoy seven years of age, what profession he
intended to follow when he grew up. 81 will
hN Ira1 7 L.
be, my little man ~ said Bulwer to the lads
elder brother, nine years old. 81 will be the
cure" said he adding, "aly brother win kill !.
the people, and win bury them; and be-
tween us we viii have. the yillage.'' - ,.-. =
The Saturday Review says, 1T is a familiar
trick ola certain school of poets to represent
the landscape as sympathetically responding
to the feelings of the person who is gazing on
it. Ifyou are merry, then all nature is gay
and frisky, too; the sky smiles, and the trees
nod with quite waggish air. If you are
sad, the scenes mourns with you, the foliage
droops, and the very sunshine is pathetic
Many persons, besides schoolboys and coli
lege students, use the phrase '.He is brick,''
without the least idea that it is supposed to
be of classic origin. 1t is said that King
Agesaus, being asked by an ambassador
from Epirus why they had no walls for Spar
ia, replied, eve have" Pointing to his
marshalled army, he said, "There are the
walls of Sparta; every man you see is
brick" .'i@7'H
@7'V ie f7e a' 1910 i1Tara- Ladr 1ed
The learned and ingenious Max Muller has
recorded that "no language can be infection
al without having first passed through the
the agglutinatiye and isolating stratum
We had always been of the same opinion our
selves until we came to study Arabic, or, as
it is vulgarly called, Gum-Arabic. When
this language was passed through the Gag
glutsna-ive and isolating stratum it stuck
fast, and nobody to our knowedge has ever
been able to thaw it out. -. ..,-.-,,
Mr.. A. Bronson Alcott, having returned
from talking tour in the West, says that for
conversation he prefers Western company
before an Eastern. There appears disposl-
tion to deal with things at first hand, GER
tain robust handling, rough, perhaps, but
ready and respectful, that more than COM
pensates for the dantier and more decorous
book-training common to Eastern people.
And yet the West laughs at Mr.. Alcotts &C.
centricities. y. 4.4Haf o9
.1 81 44ss
GOETHE AND LEssING. .-Goethe's poetic
sense was the mnotaur to which he sacri-
feed everything. To make study, he would
soil the maiden petals of woman's soul; to
get the delicious sensation OF a renex sorrow,
he wonld wiring heart. All that saves his