The Portland daily press., 1873-08-04
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4. 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
=, All cares appear as large and dark again as
tney are, owing 10 their emptiness and dark
ness. IL Is SO with the grave.-Richter.
The man who comes on the stage exactlv at
his cue is prompt; but the man who does not
come on at all is prompter.
Don't loaf about the streets and depend on
the Lord for your "daily bread" He isn't
running bakery.
The advocates of capital punishment an
swer their opponents by saying: "YOu must
draw the line somewhere"
Speaking truth is like writing fair, and comes
only by practice; it is less a matter of will
tnan Oh naDit; and l doubt if any occasion
can be trivial which permits the practice and
formation OF such habit.-Ruskin.
The attack OF cholera ON Andy johnson,
says Western paper, seems to have been fu :
tile. 1t couldn't get him, because he had his
constitution to fall back on.
One OF the magazines reiterates the truth
that it is great mistake to purchase fIrni-
ture too good for general use. The house
should be especially prepared for the family,
not for occasional guests.
An old fool in Memphis has reopened the
eternal question, ''Who killed Tecumseh?'
by column letter to the Appeal. Tecumseh
is the deadest Indian in the universe, but if
this thing is kept up ghostly reaper will re-
turn to the harvest of hair left ungarnered by
his untimely death.
A candidate for clerkship in Washington,
when asked to state the distance of the planet
Saturn from the earth, answered that he was
unable to state the distance in miles, but did
not think it was sufficiently near to interfere
with the performance of his duties as clerk,
or to get him in any of its rings.
Since that English laborer found the an
tique ring bearing the inscription ''Ethels-
witha," and which is supposed TO have be-
longed to Alfred the Great, Built county
(Ky.) man has picked up a''revolver labelled
JULIUS" and no sort of doubt exists but
that it was lost by Julius Caesar.
Grace Greenwood relates, as an instance Of
the extravaganza of New England humor
that when young farmers wife made hel
first boys pants precisely as ample before a:
behind, the father exclaimed, Goodness, hi
won't know whether he is going to school OF
coming homer
The average Englishman meits in temper
ature Of eighty-fve degrees Fahrenheit. Th'
elimination of human fat now going on il
London is pronounced by competent authori
ties ''hextr'ordinary.' John sits boiling ov'
er at every pore, with his shirt unbuttoned,
and glares at every American as if they had
come over for no other purpose than to bring
their "blarsted climate" with them. In quar-
tiers hostile to the Downing-street magnates
the excessive heat is openly proclaimed as
judgment upon England for that Washington
Treaty.
A friend of ours has thoroughbred point
er dog which is said to be the most efficien
animal of the kind in the United States. /
Dever lets any chance slip by it, this pointe
doesn't. The other day, as it was trottinI
down Tenth street. its master observed tha
it ran up tie front steps of the house an,
pointed dead at the door plate. Our frient
whistled and whistled, but the dog refused t,
bulge an inch. Upon going up to see wha
the matter was, he found that the door-plat,
bore the name of "a. Partridge" 1t is aw
full hard to beat that dog at his business
He only needs hint-justa a mere suggestion
He has even been known to point at tn,
children in the family when his master get
mad at them and makes them quail.