The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-18
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING., JULY IS, 1878

FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 1S. 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.
A man is as old as he feels. woman as old
as she looks.
Flowers made of mother-ofpearl are new
ly-invented trimming for wedding dresses.
Dogs of good social position at the water
ing-places wear batste garments, embroider-
ed with monogram.
Babies are cheap in Scotland. A woman
lately sold one to drunken roysterer for a
halfpenly.
Somebody says that politeness is like an air.
cushion; although there is nothing in it, it
eases the jolts wonderfully.
Young fellows on limited salaries, who de-
sire to marry, should emigrate to Japan,
where one can live in luxury for five cents a
day.
Never was any proverb more erroneous
than the one which tells us ''love is blind.'
Every lover can see great deal more in his
sweetheart than any one else can.
Old fashions are being every day revived in
ladies' dress. As an instance,.ytLe present
style of wearing the hair dates back to a
period prior to the invention of combs.
A wise man treats the world as the moon
treats it. Shows it only one side of himself,
and let's that side be calm, cool and polished,
while he. himself looks at all sides of the
world.
the door with this one word, .''Agorsequr-
dere," asked the woman what she sold,
when she said she did not sell anything, but
that 'agues was cured here.''
They have introduced gold and stock tel
egraph into the principal hotels at Loi G
Branch. The wives and daughters of stock
brokers have thus certain way of finding
out beforehand what the evening paternal or
marital temper will be.
A New York girl at West Point says the
idea that cadets are great firts is popular
fallacy. They know nothing whatever about
it. If girl tries TO ''flirt'' with one, in the
New York acceptation of the word, it fright
ems him almost to death.
A youth of nineteen lately fled from Dod-
son, o., TO escape the clutches of an enamor-
ed girl of twenty-five. At Rockland, Ind,
he received this telegram from a friend: sect
up and dust. Sails on your tract close.' He
''dusted" his best, forthwith, but she came
up with him in an obscure Illinois town, and
led him back home and to the altar.
A young lady who is doing some climbing
in the Catskils, has created sensation with
her Alpenstock, which is branded with the
names of several of the Alps, two passes in
the Pyrennees, nearly all the Scotch noun
tains, Mount Washington in New Hamp-
shire, peak of the Blue Ridge and several
localities in the Rocky mountains. The
stick is nearly covered, and she has earned
all the names by actual climbing.
| A Kansas City Peeping Tom who got a
ladder, after the ballet, and pesped over the
scenes to see with his own eyes how the fair
les transformed themselves into humans again
was detected by one of the damsels and ''sous-
ed'' with bucket of dirty water. And then
the actors and supes, and property men and
everybody kicked and poun led him, and
thrust him into outer darkness, and now he
is opposed to the drama on moral grounds.
A Boston paper chronicles ''the death of a
| well-known artist" who was "amopg the
| foremost painters who devoted their talents
| to the decoration OF the highest grades of
household furniture" This is good, We did
not before fully appreciate the extent of the
| guild of artists. We are continually sitting
down on their master pieces This we'll
known had the further distinction of being
the Oldest member of the Handel and Haydn
Society.