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IHE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, MAR. II, 1874.
Gossip and Gleanings.
New "Ebenezer Divorced Sc
quel to ''Ebb-Tide''
Butler has ordered bust of Farnsworth TO
shake his fist at.
In order to get the highest enjoyment, the
faculties must be alert, and not be lulled into
a mere recipient dulness.-Worner.
IA life OF Rousseau, by John Morley, whose
Voltaire attracted SO much attention, is neaIs
ly ready.
How beautiful was that charity of the H.
diana lady who bought destitute widows
hair for 25 ceuts.
Kansas lawyers are fined for profanity and
contempt of court when they undertake to
quote Latin to the judge.
1T is content alone that makes
Our pilgrimage pleasure here;
And who buys sorrow cheapest, takes
An LII commodity too dear"
That talk must be very well in hand, and
under great headway, that an anecdote
thrown IN front of will not pitch of the
track and wreck.-Warner
An exchange having said: ''The first robin
has been seen; but one robin doesn't make
| spring." the Auburn Bulletin retorts: ''Try
him with bug-and see.''
A Milwaukee paper fears something is the
matter with the Chicago editors, because they
have made no mention of the ''great fire"
for several days.
A society Of Philadelphia ladies declare
| they will not trade where female clerks are
employed. 1t destroys all the romance of
shopping, they say.
A Madison County IN. " town reports
that it has seventeen candidates for Super
visor-eight and half Republican, and eight
and half Democratic. The fractions must
belong to s'Liberal'
Miss Arabela Goddard will cease altogether
to appear as pianoforte player after she has
completed her Australian and American tour.
She has given her farewell concerts in Eng
land.
| There are rumors that ''memorandum
books" are 10 be excluded from the articles of
stationery supplied Congress, on account of
the unlooked-for expense that one of them
has already cost the nation Commercial
Bulletin.
A German in Buffalo fell into u beer vat
the other day and was drowned He drank
as hard as he could to save himself and would
have succeeded had not floating cork chok-
ed him.
There was fight between Danbury and
Norwalk roosters in this place, Friday. The
pain every good citizen must feel over such
| brutal display is somewhat modified by the
fact that our rooster licked.-Danbury
Nens.
The New York Times says that it is not at
all uncommon for an arm or a few ribs care
lessly tied up in brown paper to be found on
the sidewalk, where they have been dropped
| by some medical student who has no farther
use for them.
| Old topers in England feel themselves TO
| 10 and RI irCQ
the Earl of Derby has said, speaking about
the tax on liquors, eve have drunk ourselves
out of the Alabama difficulties during the
past year."
The editor Of Newark paper heard the
other day that new pass had been found in
the Andes. He Immediately wrote to man in
South America that the pass was his. and he
would be much obliged if the man would for
ward it at once.
Happily, Boston is able to provide for all
her needy children without accepting outside
charities. There is no telling What mortif-
cations might have beset her, had any stray
sixpences from sympathizing world been in
advertently admitted to her till
In the latest issue of Ruskin's own edition
of his works, he mildly observes that of
America 'I usually say nothing, because, as
nation, they set their trust in liberty and
equality, of which detest the one, and deny
the possibility of the other.''
Soc have I scene the Fishe with silver scales
Rise from the muddie hole in which he lay,
And seeing on the wave dancing fly,
About it in wide circles gin to play.
While on the shore the Fishermanne did site
And watcne the fish approaching nearer stille
Unknowing that a sharre and barbid hooke
Did underlie the bate that should him killc-
Governor Sexton of Indiana
placed $2,5OO in one of his Overcoat pockets,
forgot all about it, carelessly left the garment
in good many places, and at the close of
week, remembering the money, looked for it
and found it. The fact is mentioned as re-
markable, but we don't see that it is. We
have left our overcoat in hundred different
places within week, and the sum men
toned was never yet taken from it.
Mr.. Stanley was imprudent in going to
Chicago. That man has gone safely
through the perils of Central Africa is no
proof that he will come unscathed from the
moral wilderness of the West. Stanley HIM
self seems to have withstood the moral mala-
ria, but his agent succumbed and absconded
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