The Portland daily press., 1873-05-09
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FRIDAY MORNING.. MAY Q, 1874
Gossip and Gleaninps
Does teamster become mo, 20
when he is blocked I'M? e''o
/ Has not the Modoc war proc.edea g.
enough for England to declare her neutralitv
and begin piratical shipbuilding9
The editor of the Richmond Register plain
lively inquiries if anybody has seen coy,
blushing maiden by the name of Spring loaf
ing round anywhere around these parts
A cynic in the Saturday Reriep says:
Reading is an enormous power, spending
time lazily and unproftably, which used to
| be simply yawned away"
| Circus proprietors wish it distinctly under
stood that the term ''sawdust swindles,"
which occurs so often in New York Papers,
does not refer to their exhibitions.
Dover, N. H., is $50 years old and contains
SOP houses. There were two years when
| they built three houses per year, which ex-
plains the odd numerals. '...
A Pittsburg girl who has four or five beaux
rly llo1 fI,o 1tt,a 20
| put the gate in order so that it would be of
some service, evenings. r..
On the Pacific Slope, says the Chicago
Times, it is not an uncommon thing for edi-
tors to get rich and retire from business. On
the Atlantic Slope it is not an uncommon
thing for them to remain poor, unless they re-
tire from the business. ~re
Edward Hunt, of Newburyport, has four
eagles, which he proposes to let loose on Bos-
ton Common, if somebody will give him
hundred dollars. Ten dollars used to make
an eagle; but in these days of deprecated
currency it takes twenty-five to make one
fly.
Dean Afford lies buried, according to his
wish, beneath yew tree in st. Martins
graveyard. These words, his epitaph prepar-
ed by himself, are engraved on his tomb
'.Derersorium uiatoris Hierosolymam prof.
cientis'-''The inn of traveller on his way
to jerusalem"
Let the young poet, however he may be-
ieve of his art that ssal other pleasures are
not worth its palms," consider what it is to
call down fire from heaven to keep the pot
boiling, before he commit himself to a life of
authorship as something free and easy. That
fire will not condescend to such office,
though it come without asking, on ceremo-
NAL days, to the free service of the altar
Lo,cel. a 1--
It is generally known that the United
States has become the leading cheese produc-
ing country of the world, but considering
what atrocious stuff the mass of it is COM
pared with the English product, the Ameri-
can Eagle, who is judge of cheese, folds his
wings whenever the subject is mentioned,
and looks as serious as an owl.
"a Oduuuiy enjoys uiluScii. hiS uOS
chases the neighbors' hens, his own hens dig
up thei. gardens, his cow breaks down their
fences, and his cats fight on their roofs. But
his father died maniac, and his grandmoth-
er was a respectable lunatic for thirteen years
and as he owns couple of guns, and is quick |
tempered, the neighbors are wise in their
generation, and keep clear of him.
New York paper wants to know why it |
is that drowning men catch at straw" We
don't know that they do. We have seen
several men drown, but those of them
who had any preference at all seemed to be
prejudiced in favor of plank. We don't re-
member even being asked for straw by a
gentleman who was drowning, and it is just
as well perhaps, because we never carry one
with us.
Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, in referring to the rash
ness of some man who offered him $25, 900 to
come to America and deliver twenty-five
lectures, says that to go to America, 'fnot to
preach the gospel but to lecture" is thing
he cannot do, mot for the national debt"
We shall barely think the inducement sufi-
cent for that. 1t would do an Englishman a
great deal of good to come over here, but it
would hardly pay him for assuming the Brit
ish debt.
Each plant endeavors, almost consciously,
to destroy his neighbor, to occupy his ground,
to feed upon his nutriment, to devour his
substance. There are armies and invasions
of grasses, barbarian inroads and extirpations.
Every inch of ground is contested by the
weeds; the forest is a struggle for precedence;
the wars of the roses are a perennial feud.
The serenest landscape, the stillest wood
land, are the mortal arena of vegetable and
animal conflict.
A fine painting by Albert Durer is now on
view at Antwerp. 1t comes from the monas-
terry of Tangerloo, is painted on wood, and
represents the Virgin sucking the infant
Christ, surrounded by the. members of the
family. She is represented as-seated on a
throne of clouds, and has a crescent under her
feet. For long time doubts existed as to
the painter of this work, but lately the mono
gram of Durer has been discovered on the
drapery upon which the child Jesus re-
poses. Eh
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