The Portland daily press., 1873-04-24
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THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, APR. "a, 1873

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THURSDAY MORNING. APR. "a. 1873
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Gossip and Gleanings.
Tommy wants to know if the bacswoods
aren't the lumbar regions?
II is rather cool in San Francisco paper to
advise young man to 'go West"
An Illinois paper announces that Edwin
Booth will ''tragediate'' in certain town.
An unfortunate calf has been born in In
diana without a tail and is as yet all uncon-
scious of the horrors OF. "dy time
John Weston has contracted with Mr. John
G. Merrill to build him a commodious house
upon his old homestead the present summer.
A ghost at the West is stealing coal, which
is thought to be better sign than if it stole
ice.
The announcement that truth is stranger
than felton, is said to depend chiefly upon
who tells it.
The Christian Leader truly declares ''that
strikers are, at the best, clumsy and wasteful
methods ofredressing grievances
The soldier makes pillow of his knapaack,
and the civilian makes nap-sack of hs pill
low.
John c. Merrill has just finished a good
dwelling house on the corner of Smith and Ok
ford streets, for Frank Wildly, who will make
this his home.
Louisville newspaper notes the fact that
since the Indiana Sunday Liquor Law went
into operation the larger share of the male
population of New Albany attend morning
service Oh the Kentucky side ofthe river
Clinton, Wis, talks Ruskin about the pro-
ductions of a lady artist, the chief merit of
which is that she paints them with her ewes
blindfolded. To appreciate them properly the
spectator should adopt the same precau-
tion.
A London correspondent of the Womans
Journal says, ga majority of the Scotch
members Of Parliament are in favor of the en-
franchisement of women, and believe the
same might be said of the Scotch clergy, if
they were canvassed upon the subject as the
members have been."
Mr.. Browning's poem is in type, and con-
sists says the Athen@um, of $500 lines. 1t is
poetic version Of great tragedy which
came before the law courts of department
in the north Of France, last year, and the
poet has in the outlines of the story kept close
ly to the facts, with the view of presenting TO
the readers mind the key to them in human
passion.
Kingsley says: If you wish to be miserable,
you must think about yourself; about what
you want. what you like, what respect peo-
pie ought to pay you, what people think of
you; and then to you nothing will be pure.
You will spoil everything you touch; you
will make sin and misery for yourself out of
everything God sends you; you will be as
wretched as you choose.
An enterpr;sing California editor lately
electrified the public and heightened his sub
scription list by announcing a new story by
Bret Harte, written especially for this pa
per;;'' the story being, in point of fact, an
emanation from the teeming brain of his lit
erary reporter. Mr.. Harte, learning of the
affair, wrote on for an explanation, and gets
in reply the following dispatch: GAN right.
Wi publish statement tomorrow, and give
name of author
Experiments made in Italy, to show the ef-
feet of different colored light upon respiration
have resulted in showing that green and vel
low rays, which are most important to the
vegetable kingdom in taking up carbonic acid
are also most favorable to the respiration Of
animals; that is, to enable them to give off
the most carbonic acid. Here is hint re-
garding the kind of colors best fitted for wall
paper or household ornament.
The best piece of news, in the literary way,
for many day, is the announcement that
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner have
written novel in partnership! It will be pub
lished about the end of the summer, and will
be octave in form and proftisely illustrated.
The book deals with the salient features of
our American life ofto-day and, las might easi-
ly be OWNED, is in the nature of satire.
Mrs. Thrifty sent up to my room, before
breakfast, raw egg, to be swallowed in
glass of sherry, as an appetizer and strength
ener. doubt, though, if she would have
sent me an egg-slng SO early in the day, if
had not called her attention to the crcum-
stance that sings were known to and patron
lied by one of the godliest men of the old
Testament. ''No less a parsonage Mrs.
Thrifty" l said, ''than David was accus-
toned to sling, and we read that when
mere STRIPPING he took a sling, and immedi-
ately thereafter, as you are aware, he slew
Goliath! the sling, probably, gave him
strength to perform this feat" Mrs. Thrifty,
though puzzled, was not convinced, but said
she never considered the passage in that
light. $50 says Barry Gray"
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