The Portland daily press., 1873-04-02
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 3. ga.
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Gossip and Gleanings.
Kate Field is threatened with deafness
In imitation of the gentlemen, certain Ia
dies are wearing colored linen collars and cuff.
Princess Bully Mule OF the royal family Of
the Apache tribe of Indians Is dead.
A novel by the Princess Mathilde Bona
part is announced as soon to be published 10
Paris.
Leading bellies are wearing lace handker-
chief about the neck, tied in bow knot, la
NJ. lie Curate.
The English fashion OF wearing CATERS Is
gaining footing among some young gentle
men.
You will find this good gauge or criterion
OF genius, whether it progresses and revolves,
or only spins upon itself.-Coleridge.
He who longs after beautiful Nature can
best describe her, said Bettine; he who is in
the midst of her loyeliness can only lie down
and enjoy.
party of emigrants from New York have
bought tract Of 126,OOO acres in Trego
County, Kan, which they are going to lay
out Tregonometrically.
The latest natural productions of Pennsyl-
vania are a calf with thick fleece Of wool
and dog which gets drunk regularly every
day.
Very large fans-a style introduced in the
winter-will continue in vogue all summer.
Those of white lace with gilt or coral sticks
are particularly handsome.
have heard, indeed, of some virtuous per-
sons who have ended unfort Inately, but new
er of any virCuous nation. Providence is en-
gagged too deeply when the cause becomes so
granddaughter.
A clergyman in Pennsylvania instead of
saying ''Let us pray" says, 'Let us interview
the throne of grace!' The dominic had
once been reporter.
The newest French shoe is. of black silk,
embroidered with beads and lacing at the
side high above the ankle. 1t has thin sole
and small fiat heel.
An ingenious Yankee seamstress makes
squirrel, in his revolving cage, turn her Sc W.
ing machine, and her Hibernian competitors
can't understand how she manages to do
long seams with "such little baste."
The recruiting officers in the West are for
hidden to enlist drum cards. The Commissa-
ry Department doesn't get its hands on more
than enough whiskay to supply the present
drinking force of the army.
On the motion of James Otis, June 8, 1866,
a gallery was opened for such as wished to
hear the debates, the first instance Of author
lied publicity being given to legislative delb-
erations in America.
o Boston brown bread, although eminently
digestlble, yet weighs so heavy that anybody
may put up muscle by using two loaves of it
for dumb-bells every morning, and then
breakfasting on the loaves.
The little boy who sang ~ want to be an
angel in Sunday school with 40 much ener-
gy that he almost choked himself, confessed
to an enterprising reporter that he really
wanted to be captain on canal boat.
An Indiana Sunday school man writes to
Bible firm in New York :-"Send me some
Sunday School papers and books. Let the
books be about pirates and Indians as far as
possible"
Mr.. James Barkley, Missouri school
principal, has invented new system of spell
ing, in the hope of harmonizing the wide diff
ference of opinion on that subject existing
among the teachers of his district
SO, here what gentleness these women have,
five could know 1t for our rudeness!
How busy they be us to keep and save
Both in hale and also In sickness,
And Away right sorry for our distress!
In every manere thus shew they ruth,
That in them Is all goodness and all truth.S
"Singing chambermaids' have their value
on the stage. In private life, however, they
are not appreciated. A wealthy gentleman
of this city, when hiring chambermaids,
makes point of it that they must neither
have ears for music nor throats to give utter
ance to song.
The file that in the summer noonc
Did humme his never ending tune,
In evenings colde did silently
Fold up his gauzie wings and die.
A plying tree sowe teares did weepe
-''+- Which falling on him, in his seepe
OF cleare and yellowe amber there
wondrous tombe did him prepare.
There is man in Southport, Ct, whose
nam. is scheikushwaukilari 1t is all right
enough so long as he is kept in Southport,
but he is going west to founo !. town. and tho
brakemen out there viii soon have an oppor-
tunity to break their hearts and spring their
;ays m, Observation-Disclosures