The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-11
THE PRESS
SATURDAY MORNING. JAN. II. 1s7a

THE PRES 9
SATURDAY MORNING. JAN. II, 1s7a.
Gossip and Gleanings
Joint ducation-gymnastics.
Some Kansas hotels employ female run
ners.
Rev. Ell. W. Beecher received over 1000
callers on New Years.
Strawberries large and delicious, are plenty
in the San Francisco markets.
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright;
But looked 100 near have nei her heat nor light
Webster; in duchess Of Malfy.
Charles Mathews, the veteran actor says
that as lorg as he can afford an audience
amusement he will stick to the stage.
Mrs. Schneider of Liverpool, has recovered
$125,O00 damage hom the curate of st. Mary's
Church for breach OF promise.
See-the dapple grey coursers of the morn
Beat up the light with their bright silver boofa
And chase it through the sky.
From "Antono's Rereage;'' By Marston
A New York dealer in holiday goods i'm
ported 10000 Christmas trees from Maine
| . 2 .all Ill L,,+
The Boston Investigator thinks that if
Adam is accountable for consequential
damages" he will have rough time of it.
'sLike children, for some bauble fair
That weep themselves to rest,
We part with fe-awake? ami There
The jewel is in our breast
A happy man is the busy journalist when
he can work at comfortable desk with not
more than dozen interruptions an hour.
The owl said, ''Why can't you fly?
The fish said ''Why can't you swim?"
And both remarked "How stupid he is,
I'm thankful I'm not like him!''
The semi-aunual explosion Of the Hercules
powder works at San francisco, occurred De-
cember 21. Two Cinnamon were blown clear
home and few other persons injured.
A novel idea at the funeral of Northfeld,
VT, man who died the other day, was the
taxing up of a cole ,tion for his widow and
six tatheriess children.
An exchange says that the correct answer to
the gentleman who wrote the song, ''Why
did marry ?'' would be because you met a
woman who was first-class fool.''
Sardou, in his new play of ''Uncle Sam,"
presents "a daily line of steamboats, between
Chicago and New York." and speaks of New.
ark as the s'most fashionable watering place
in the country"
An Eastern man who wrote to the editor
OF a Nebraska paper inquiring what kind of
houses people livein in that State, was inform
ed that the houses were all built out of doors,
and so low between the joints that the CHM
| ney stuck through thereof.
| Fashionable church going girls think it no
harm to use religious papers for their bustles.
! That's how the Montreal Witness ''the only
| religious daily has obtained such circula-
ton in Ottawa. So says an Upper Canadian
exchange.
A gentleman near Vineland, Wis, entered
an orchard to steal some. apples, and got
away with them, all light W hile his friend,
who sat on the fence and demonstrated, fell of
and broke his neck. There appears to be in
this incident useful lesson for the young.
The story of Ben Wade's objection to lis
daughters 5 marriage to carpenter is authori.
tatively contradcted, on the ground that in
the first place he made no such objection; in
the second place his da lighter never was en-.
gagged to the carpenter in question ;and in the
third place he hadn't any daughter
The refusal of the principal of all Indiana
bows school to grant one of his pupils leave
|
| low the most poignant ang ish but it was
more than counterbalanced, few days after,
| by the ineffable joy that shone in his face as
he bounded into the principals room with a
telegram in his hand, exclaming, ''Now I've
| got to go home. Fathers deadv'
| A ST. Louis widow has lovely daughter
| and takes boarders. One of the nice young
mfn is sweet on Bella, and coming home the
other night, he saw light, graceful orm
sweep past him in the hall, and heard the Sc
| euctive rustic of crinoline. He knew that
form and clasped it to his heart, imprintine
impassioned kisses on its lips. He dropped ii
when he heard t. ese words: "Hurry up,
Massa George; Use got to hurry after soft
soap.''
On the news arriving of the conviction of
Stokes, group Of laboring men down town
were discussing the matter earne stly, and
spoke of the delay of justice in the case. One
of the Irishman present said, with much
earnestness, "Ah. if Jim Fisk had lived,
Stokes would have been hanged long agop
''True for ye-that he wouldp' answered
three or four voices of the same nationality.
''He'd bin put through long afore this time,
ye may be sureP'
A Pennsylvania woman who has for two
years been afflicted by the cancer, and has
been treated by eminent physicians without
obtaining relief, dreamed that stranger
came to her house and gave her some medi.
cines, saying that they would effectually cure
her. Next day, on going to the door and
looking out, she saw the identical man of hel
dream approaching the house. He offered
her bottle Of medicine to cure her cancer
She took it, followed his directions, and i.
now-is bad as ever.
A Brooklyn dressmaker, with Roxcellan.
for her first name, sued Deacon Earle of on,
OF Brooklyn's Presbyterian churches for $50,
| 0)0 damaoeS for NOT m rrv;no bar onJ L.