The Portland daily press., 1873-01-14
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TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. IA, 1s7a
Gossip and Gleanines.

d.
Gossip and Gleanings.
They are harvesting 1O-inch ice on the po-
tomac
Tuneful lyre-A music teacher who does
not keep his engagements.
A Titusville monster says that the jury in
the Stokes case ''verdicted."
"Chronic alcoholism killed fifteen year
old topper in st. Louis last month.
Another Iowa heir to an English estate.
Name not mentioned. Value, e4O,0OO,0Oo
sterling.
:. MI. funch knows young man who is so
lazy 'i'ae ne VIII not labor under an impress
sion.
"hat Is the worst article in the market to
speculate in? Do you give it upp Tea of
course, because it is always sure to 90 TO mot
''The mind of man has natural,v e..
greater alacrity and satisfaction in tracing
resemblances than in searching for differen,
ces."-RuYke.
By the laws Of King Ina 100 years before
Alfred, as they are extant in the Saxon
tongue, there is mention made of shyres and
of the shyremen whom we now call sheriff.
A merchant advertised for q clerk "who
could bear confinement" and received an
answer from one who had been seven years in
jail.
A statue Of the Parsee baronet, Sir Cowas-
jee Jehangeer Readimony is to be erected at
Bombay. Ready-money seems to attract ad-
miration all over the world.
Young is said to have composed his 'Night
Thoughts with skull before him. MANY
modern poets could do better this way than
by trusting to the contents OF their own
skulls.
Swift's maxim in conversation was; Take
as many haHminutes as you can get, but nev-
er talk more than half minute without
pausing, and giving Others an opportunity to
strike in.
A young lady in Western New York has
just declined an offer of marriage from a
wealthy lover whose name is Hussey. 1t is
impossible not to admire the spunk of that
woman who refuses to be called a Hussey
for any man.
Garibaldi's wife is dark, fierce-looking
woman, who parts her hair on the side. The
enthusiasm with which Garibaldi has faced
the 'cannon's mouth in almost every quarter
OF the globe may not have been wholly in
spired by his devotion to political liberty
Com. Adr.
The father of Dorabella recently found that
little girls chubby little hands full of the BIOS
SONS of beautiful rose tree, on which he be-
slowed great care. 'My DEAR" said he "did
not tell you not to pluck one of these flow
ers without leaye?" eyes, papa," said Do
rabella, "Dut all these had leaves"
The mightier man. the mightier is the thing
That makes him honord or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state
The moon being clouded presently Is miss'd,
But little stars may hide them when they list.
The crow may bathe his coal-b black wings in mire,
ana unperceived fly with the filth away;
But II the like the snow-white swan desire
The stain upon his silver down will stay,
The latest verdict recorded was upon
gentleman who expired in fit of inebriation.
The jury returned, 'Death by hanging
round a rum shop" This was savage and
devoid ofregard fer the gentleman's family.
In similar case in California tine verdict
was more gracefully and considerably put:
Accidental death while unpacking glass"
A Hartford subscriber writes that he is lust
recovering from the small pox, and will be on
in few days to renew his subscription. We
hope he won't mind little thing like that.
We will send the paper, and wait for the
money. We will wait cheerfully. We amt
OF that avaricious kind of people who will
grab for money as if for very life. We despise
such things. There's no earthly reason for
his coming on; we will wait.-Donb,uy
Neacs.
Two interesting marriages are reported in
literary circles. Robert Dale Owen, in his
old age, to an artist maiden who has be au-
tiful summer home on Lake George, and
Rose Terry of Connect ut, to young bank
officer in Winsted, which divides with Hart
ford the honor of being her residence. e
average Of the ages of the four gives an exces:
to the male members Of the quartette.
may be unconstitutional,
| 1t may be considered absurd
But think the American Eagle
Is an utterly futile bird.
He cannot sing like the linnet
He isn't wise like the owl,
And he hasn't the tranquil virtues
Of the common barnyard fowl;
He didn't save Rome, as the goose did;
He does nothing that ever saw,
But hold arrows, and laurels and gridroD:
Promiscuously, in his claw.
''What do you call that?" Indignantly
asked customer at cheap restaurant
pointing at an object that he had discovered
in his plate of hash. ''Wristband with sleev
buttons attached, sir" said the waiter brisk
ly. "Well, do you consider that prope
thing for man to find in his hash ?' aske,
the customer, in wrath. "Good heavens
sir!' cried the waiter, 'would you expect t,
find ten dollar silk umbrella in fifteen cen
plate of hash?''
Eloping lovers from Louisville and vlclnit,
have from time immemorial made Jefferson
vile, Ind, their Gretna Green, but the clerl
of the court there has cruelty declared tha
he shall in future issue marriage licenses on
ly in cases where the bride is a resident of th