The Portland daily press., 1873-10-17
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. IL, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.

FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. II, 1878
Gossip and Gleanings.
DIR. johnson defines ship as prison with
a chance of being drowned.
"Deciduous trees are those that shed their
leaves" my son. Son-"And are hens de-
ciduous?"
A Boston paper inquiries s'What becomes
Of the sons of successful men?' Why, they
succeed to their fathers property.
They have found out in Paris how to say in
French that "Banum is the prince of hum
bugs'-Barnum est le prince de la blague."
An Ohio man became angry because he
hadn't clean shirt, and sold two cows and
purchased 1872 shirts ready made.
The London Spectator says that ga mental
attitude of pulpy good will to everybody is
not the object of human training"
Alton has boy four months old who has
chest measuring twenty-one and half
inches. He had better keep it out of the
reach of the baggage-smashers.
The reputation of man is likeihis shadow:
1t sometimes follows and sometimes precedes
him; it is sometimes longer, and sometimes
shorter than his natural size.-FrenCh Prou-
erb.
If love and ambition should be equal in
balance, and come to jostle with equal force
make no doubt but that the last would win
the prize Montague.
Rev. Gilbert H. Robertson, who recently
fell from grace, is now editing Louisville
paper. His present theology consists of
fervent belief in the grand old doctrine of flu
ture punishment, and LIE holds that Henry
Watterson will be the principal sufferer.
Bangor recountS the odic exploits of me-
dium-sized school-boy, of whom it is said that
''by simply touching with the tips of his fin
gers the back of a chair in which person is
seated, the sitter will be thrown quite across
the room." Which is species of galvanc
assault and battery shocking to think of,
| The young fellows who advocate so earnest
| ly the habitual wearing of dress suits for
evenings ''as they do in London should Ee-
member that the London ''season" is in the
spring during warm weather, and not like
ours in the very coolest aud stormiest part of
the year. A dress suit is anything but COM
Portable winter garment, even with the thick
est sort of an "Ulster."
The money-taker being unavoidably absent
was temporarily replaced at the exhibition
Nondon) of the Bearded Lady and other
natural phenomena, by pretty, bright-eyed
| girl of about fourteen, "Haw-I suppose the
-er-the-er-bearded lady is your mother,'
observed swell. as he paid his money.
''No, sir" said the extempore money-taker,
naively, "she's my father"
Winnie Ream and Edmona Lewis, sculp-
tors, are contemplating a duel; but they
could each be satiated with a far better arti-
Gle of revenge if they would go to work and
sculp each other. Both are brunettes: but
Miss Lewis is very much brunetter than Miss
Ream. This, however, is not the cause of
the serious difference that exists between
them. The trouble aris IS from some rough
criticisms of Miss Ream's sculping on the
part of Miss Lewis.
A contemporary says: A nice old man,
vegetable gardener, called at the Office the
other day and inquired very anxiousy if we
had seen anything in the papers lately about
aworm that was doing much damage to celery
Il intended" said he, ''to have raised a
good deal of celery this year, but durn me if
think it will pay if that burned celery grub
that started at Washington while since,
about what Pve heern so much on, is coming
this way3' light dawned upon the editors
mind-the SALARY Grab.''
Anecdote of the ''Pilgrimage."-Mr.O o.
Finnigan-''My dear, I've be.n thinking that
while you and the children are at Folkestone,
l could so easily-that is, it would be an act
OF duty on my part to join in this great man
Hesitation ot-repintance-at Paray-le-M Mo-
| NAL. You recollect what Father OShaver
said on Sunday about Mrs. OF. Ia good
| Catholic, too, but wide awake )-'I dare say;
| but the archbishop observed that the Church
Of Oireland, faithful, firm, inflexible, invinci-
| BILE, doesn't need no prayers. So yell just