The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-02-26
,ERMS SIS. 90 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. ga -,
Gossip and Gleanines.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 90. 80.
Gossip and Gieanings.
A Detroit paper says that Lake Erie has
kicked her sheet of ice all to pieces.
The Young man whose cherished idol has
found a use for her old mittens appears in
great force in the magazines for March.
A publisher gave very good reason for
nreferrinc deceased authors to living ones. He
said that the former never kept him waiting
for copy.
George Sands translation of the Psalms is
pronounced by critics, to whom she has read
specimens OF it, the noblest work she has
ever written.
A Kentucky dentist had to pay a dollar 10
have a false notice of his death corrected.
The editor wished to teach him the value of
advertising.
Lancaster county, Pa, cat i, said to
roost very contentedly with the chickens
every night. The feelings of the chickens
were not ascertained by the local reporter
who constructed the item.
Irreso,ution on the schemes of life which
offer themselves to our choice, and incon-
stancy in pushing them, are the greatest and
most universal causes OF all our disquiet and
unhappiness.-[Spectator.
Daniel Pratt SAYS he has made one hun
dred speeches in favor of the Union Pacific
Railroad, and Oakes Ames only gave him a
dollar. Daniel is cheaper than Congress
men.
Ladies who don't care to show their prefer
ences too plainly carry the favored ones por-
trait in their lockets, judiciously shrouded
with small bit of silk A deep locket will
hold good many different likenesses.
The sounds of our English words are COM
monty like those of string music, short and
transient, which rise and perish upon a sim
gle touch; those OF other languages are like
the notes OF wind-instruments, sweet and
swelling, and heightened out into variety of
modulat.on. Spectator.
The Louisville Courier-Jounal thinks
Amadeus must feel pretty much as the
preacher did who sent his hat around for
collection, and, on having it returned to him
without cent in it, thanked God that he
had got his hat back from that congregation.
The celebrated Waller, contemporary
with Milton, once criticised the o.d blind
bards paradise LOST, thus: "The old
bird schoolmaster. John Milton has publi,h
ed a tedious poem on the fall of man; if its
length be not considered as merit, il hath no
other"
Theodore Tilton's all-absorbing thought,
on beholding Anna Dickinson for the first
time, was, to express it in his own language,
"that if spiritual beam should penetrate
and illumine that young woman's soul as the
suns shaft had touched and gilded her brow,
she would be heard from by her countrymen
by-and-by."
Recently proofsheet of the list of men,
bers of the Michigan House of Representa-
tives was given out, on which corrections
were to be made if any errors were dis
covered. Soon after, the compiler Of, the
Manual received the following note from one
of the single men: 'In proofsheet of Man
ual in House, see you say am married
Please correct, or send the woman around,
and oblige."
A Cincinnatian has discovered plan to
thaw out frozen water-pipes. 1t is by the
use of furnace and boiler. the steam from
which is forced into the pipe by rubber
hose. All you want is small boiler. a
few yards of rubber hosea cart-load of
fuel, and an engineer, and the thing is done.
We are growing wiser every generation. A
hundred years ago they would have poured
hot water from tea-kettle on to the pipes.