The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-04
THE PR RESs
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN a. 1s,,
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
A domestic question-"wher do you keer
your ashes ?'
Good words are like dewdrops: they fall Il;
lently, out who can tell their effectl
Without adversely, says an old writer, a
man hardly knows whether he be honest or
not' " .dl45trsr ..r..tl. ..... ..fl
The pen may be mightier than the sword
says country editor, bat it don't begin to
compare with the scissors.
The mouse viii once hath broken out Of trappe,
p d aidome tysed with the trustlesse bayte,
DuI iyes aloofe for feare of more miphappe
1'i'u ieeosth still in doubte Of deepe deceipte.
-Gascoi5ns
a s'ri was taken with the smallpox while
u"uclns az a ball in Akron, o. She wasn't
mucn sought after as partner after that.
An energetic divorce lawyer of CHICAGO ha.
completed an arrangement with the County
Clerk to have his professional card printed on
the backs of marriage licenses. 2
li3 aat (" ea a.le.l-u r
A Western paper puts it gently by saying
that ''fifty-four persons took up their resi-
dence in the cemetery at Lafayette last
weex." sae la.l -o.a..1 q, rl.s aa.
Putting 10 becoming one of the fine arts.
18th beautiful fiuid," says sn English ink
maker, "writes very pleasantly on any kind
ofpaper."
We get an inkling of how they enjoy life at
the Hub by this paragraph from a Boston
paper: For afternoon and evening amuse-
ments we refer our readers to our advertising
columns .as
One Mrs. Matilda Herin was lately placed
in pickle before London police court for
assault ing the male Herrin with fire-shovel,
because he monopolized more than his share
Of the bed-clothes. @
The dreary days are come when little girls
will cry bee use their scnoolmatss have big
ger dolls 'an theirs, and the little boys will
have black eyes acquired in honorable war;
fare carried on to prove the perfection oftheir
new sleds.
Amber bracelets cut like bees
rrfo1l WI &c strange Transparency who sees
m as f1a v,.1a txvtof
r Doubled so Oft about her wrist
Wouht surely think alive they were
s'a From lilies gsthering honey there.
A successful evasion of the Prussian order
forbidding the display Of the tri-color was re-
Gently made at Strasburg by three young
ladi's who walked around the streets, one
dressed in red, another in white and the
third in blue. eri e
Farewell, old ytarl one memory more
OF song and bloom and woodland hush,
Oftwilight wandering on the shore v
Where long-inrolling pillows rush.
And silvery starbeams hlteripg through
The soundless depth of heavens own blue.
In response to his request, Mr.. Cornell has
received copies of newspapers containing a
notice of Mr. Greeley's lecease from m ore
than eight hundred different jou rnals from
the several States. These volumes will make
grand memorial for the Anne rlcan press as
well as of the greatj urnalist. .l.
Thieves mature young in the progressive
West. An Omaha Juvenile, aged seven, se-
creted himself and a revolver in doctors
Office, the other day, intending to shoot the
good physlcian, plunder his liquorice jar
and depart. The young brigand's mother
whipped him soundly. l.4a
M. de Sainte-B -Beuve, the popular French
writer who died last November in Paris, once
fought duel When the principals took
their positions it was raining hard. Sante-
Beuve has his pistol in one hand, and with
the other he held up his umbrella The sec
onds protested Il have no objection to be-
ing killed, said he; ''but a. to being wet
mop @ la if. au Siam .a
A well-dressed traveller was recently taken
i'll at Saginaw, Mich, and, though the doctor
saw no cause for alarm the patient got low
spirited, thought be was going to die, and re-
quested the doctor to break the news to a
girl in Romeo, whom he loved dearer an
life; he must do it gently for she was ten
der flower and might ''w under the shock,
so all tenderly the doctor wrote. and this was
the response from the loving GIRL
'Dr. D., I care nothing for that Mr..
D, nor to hear from him. You will
please tell him to send me no more word.
s Miss P.
P. S.-Kill him." f