The Portland daily press., 1873-06-19
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING.. JUNE 10. 1878
Gossip and Gleanings.

THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 10, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.
The Comm oncement season has begun land
the voice of the graduate is heard in the land.
Potato bugs are marching in squadrons into
Ohio and pitching their tents on all the hills.
A sense of honor serves many people, in
lieu of wisdom, and keeps them from making
themselves ridiculous through print.
"Pure love is monarch of all difficulties.
Beautiful and light-footed, like the leopard it
leaps the chasms of separation, and crouches
delighted at the feet ofts ownp' Just so.
The Pope is better. Indeed, he is persist
emily and indefatigably and suspiciously let
ter. better Pope than Plus TX. we have
not had for twenty-five years.
What more precious thing can man have
than the first love of an innocent girl-with
an undivided interest in fourteen boulevard
lots.
During the warn weather the principal
occupation of the ''girl of the PERIOD seems
to be sitting on the stoop waiting for the
''coming man,
The bullet which Mr.. Henderson of Geor-
gia put through the head of his b:other while
the latter was playing ghost. materially added
to his qualifications Cor the role.
French surgeon inserts watch crystals in
the skulls of dogs, in order that he may OBJ
serve their brain-works. II he thinks he can
make good watch-logs in that way, then that
Frenchman is mistaken.
According to report, the Ngarcons" in the
Paris cafes are belying their whilom reputa-
ton for politeness, by conducting themselves
after the manner of free and independent
American walters.
A Partisan musical dictionary defines a
shout to be "an unpleasant noise produced
by overstraining the throat, for which great
singers are well paid and small children well
punished"
Pearls require airing as much as horses
and babies. Unless they are constantly
worn, they change color, and finally crumbe
to pieces. This is not the case with dia-
monds, though many New York ladies act as
it they thought it was.
Two or three school girls in Athens, Ga,
were made quite i'll recently by swallowing
heartsease flowers. Their romance was, that
whenever they swallowed one of these flow
ers whole, and then expressed wish, they
would have it gratIfied.
An exchange propcunds the following CO.
nundrum: What shall be done with people
who annoy their neighbors at public enter
ianments by giggling and chatting all the
evening"? The only remedy we can think
OF IS, let them get married, which generally
ends their giggling days.-CieUeland Plain
dealer.
This is sketch of the late Alexander Du-
mas, by one of his contemporaries: "Tbe
fgu;e of a drum-major, the limbs of Her.
cules in all their conceivable extension, pr m
inent lips, African nose, curled head, and
bronzed face. Scrape his hide and we find
the savage underneath"
a. young man in Peoria sought to secure
his sweetheart by strategy, so he took her
out for a boat ride, and threatened to lump
overheard into the lake if she didn't consent
| to marry him. But it did not work. She
offered to bet him dollar that he daren't
dive in.
Old Mrs. Cotton of Norfolk, Va, is tie
proprietor of a venerable mule that has been
an inveterate chewer of tobacco for mary
years. Whenever he becomes obstinate. as
mules occasionally do, it is only necessary to
give him chew, when he becomes perfectly
kind and gentle.
An Ohio editor was rendered insane while
going home the other night, to hear the fol-
lowing words come from dark porch, on
sha0y street: 'Oh! John, wonder # that
moustacbe feels as good on your lips IS it did
on mine9 Johns answer be did not wait
to hear. Moral-don't make love when re-
| porteris around.
| Areporter for a Western paper. speaking
ofa certain fair creature, remarked that ''the
Pofusion and color of her hair would lead
one to look upon it as though it was spun by
the nimble fingers of the easy hours, as they
giided, through the bright June days, whose
many sunny rays of light had been caught in
ths meshes, and were contented to go no fur
ther." This is better than saying the girls
hair was red. -
An enraptured Texas ed,togrr r. slses nis
Impressions of the opers@ Inc aroma OF
violets exua..,-.om it as though every note
were an odorous petal whose exquisite scent
is carried to the finer nerves of the brain up
on the balmy air Of sound, dying away in me
lodious and evanescent falls, and swelling
with the richness of perfumed life into being
again, until the soul is wrapped in mantl of
sensuous delight that makes it faint with rap
ture."
One of those doleful prophets who are for
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