The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-03-18
THE PRESS
TUESDAY MORNING, MAR. IS. 1s7e,
Gossip and Gleanings.


Gossip and Gleanings.
The latest wedding cards are very long and
narrow.
All extremes are errors. The reverse Of
error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies
between these extremes.-Cecil.
Spain is New castle building ON the
strength of some 300 square miles of coal de
posit.
Fashionable young ladies in New York are
wearing scarlet hose, in imitation of their
English cousins in London.
Two miniature pipes of veritable meer-
schaum and amber form the earrings of a
New York belle.
The Adcance believes so firmly In the pre-
dictions of the weather prophet in Washing
ton that it wants him rechristened "Old Ger
tainties."
He who lives wisely to himself and his own
heart looks at the busy world through the
loopholes of retreat, and does not want to
mingle in the ray.-[Hazlitt.
Somebody has written book entitled
''Useful Hints to Ugly Girls" One woman
bought copy; she presented it to the girl
whom her son meant to marry.
''The calculation of angles described by the
impingement of spherical surfaces" is the
way Chicago clergyman SHE'D around the
word "billiards'' on a recent Sabbath
He that wants good sense is unhappy in
having learning, for he has thereby only ways
OF exposing himself; and he that has sense,
knows that learning is not knowledge. but
rather the art of using it.-Steele.
George Sand has given to the world her
opinion of Louis Napoleon. She says he was
neither monster nor an idiot, but that his
Character comprised the attributes of sinceri-
ty and generosity.
Charles Chambers, the last of the signers
of the first constitution of Kentucky, died
last we * at Burlington. 1t is in his honor
that Kentuckians have so many chambers in
their shooting irons to the present day.
A correspondent of so-called ''profess-
ionap journal has discovered that Shylock,
morally, was man of good intentions, and
the villainy that was taught him by Christians
he in time learned TO execute"
The Rev. Mr.. Wess expresses. the convic-
ton that Hamlet was not mad. For our
part we don't pretend to say that he acas mad,
but the conduct of his mother and his uncle
was certainly calculated to make him little
dngry.-Louisuille Comier-Journal.
Samana appeals for university to edu-
cate the youth of the island. The appeal
comes too late. The hosts Of civilization are
about to descend upon her coasts. What she
will want is not so much university as a
penitentiary.
Did our readers ever hear their young lady
acquaintance ask each other, whats your
poltics!' and then giggle. The question has
hidden meaning. For explanation, apply
to the first lady you know who wears a large
hustle.
CASTELAR,, the great Spanish Republican, is
man of parts. Not only great statesman,
orator and political writer, he has issued also
"Life o. Lord Byron" volume of $50
pages, which is said to be one of the most re-
markable works in Spanish literature.
The Buffalo Commercial wisely says: 'In-
stead of trying to give the Almighty a
special clause Of recognition in the national
| charter, let an effort be made to elect to pub
lie office men who recognize Gods laws as
their rule of action.'
A San Francisco man proposes to invent
something wonderful. 1t is perpetual ma
chine that will ''do away with steam engines,
and revolutionize the world" We wonder
no one has thought Of such an invention be-
fore.
1t was splendid joke on the part of three
Albany men to cut one of the headquarters
from Newfoundland dog that had been kill
ed, dress it, and send it to friend, who had
it cooked and ate it, thinking 1t was mutton.
Yes, it was good joke.
The Chicago Journal thinks 'sif the Cod
dess of Justice really has an abiding place in
a haff vxrrn hc,, ,Ic,~o 49,.
her eyes and see what people are doing in
her name." But what are you going to do
with people that would say to the God
dess, under such circumstances, sPull and be
hanged "'-Commercia Advertiser.
Dickens is said to have received only $3.50
per page for his Sketches by Boz" when he
began writing them for the Neao Monthly.
Charles Lamb was then receiving $3.50 per
page for the Essays of Elia' in the same
mag; zine. Macaulay, after he became
somewhat known, received SIG per page.
With too much eagerness, like him who ere
Inc corn be ripe is faln to count the grains
For have seen the thorn through wintry SHOWS
Look sharp and stiff, yet on q future day
High on the summit bear the tender rose;
And ship I've seen that throught storm hath past
Securely bounding DER the witery bay, :
At entrance Of the harbor wrecked at last.
| Dante Cary 3 translation
"Rheumatism discussed" is the theme OF
Western editor. 1t is singular fact con-
nected with the victims of rheumatism, es-
pecially while in the more violent stages of in
fammatory rheumatism, that nothing pleases
them more than to sit down and write
about 1t.