The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-01
THE PRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 1, ia.
Gossip and Gleanings.

"NoDAA MVhNlNU, JAN. Il, '73
Gossip and Gleanings.
There is transcendent power in examdle
we reform Others unconsc,ously when We
walk NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S,oetciins.
1t is sure sign of an early spring to see 2
cat intently watching small hole in the
wall
Men are sometimes accused of pr de merely
because their accusers would be proud them
selves were they in their places. es.-iShenstone
For New Years reception toilette, among
other glories, a ''Louise Cary" overskirt,
with a Lucia" basque, is the proper thing
Wash. Chronicle.
VI miserly man who died of softening of
ine Dram, the paper said: ellis head gave
away, out his hand never did. His brain
so1tened, but his heart couldn't
A rufilan ostlsr at Hackney has been tor
turing horse. He lut it to the rack Tbe
mails ought to see to this.
A Titusville oil prince has papered his
house with ten-torty bonds, which are relev-
eddy handsome border of ten-dollar green.
backs.
Preserve your conscience always soft and
sensitive. If but one sin force its way into
that tender part of the soul and is suffered
to dwell there, the road is paved for a thou
sand more iniquities.
A sexagenarian in Vallejo, CAL, danced
thirty-one hours in secession. An appre-
ciative Western editor heads the story of the
achievement ''How an old fool danced thirty
one hours and yet lives.''
The famine stricken editor of the Titus
vile Press tearfully remarks: ''Twenty-five
cen each is the price of California pears in
town, and yet we are told that civilization
advances, an! that Providence tempers the
shorn lamb who cannot raise the wind"
"How far is it 0 Cub creek ?" asked tray
eler ola Dutch woman. 'Only shoost lit
tie ways" ''Is it four, six, eight, or ten
miles?" impatiently asked the stranger.
"Yas, dinks it is" serenely replied the un-
moved gatekeeper.
Some naughty boys in Muscantine, Iowa,
locked the doors of church full of worship
pers, and then quoted Scripture from a dis
tance at the congregation as they clamored
out of the sheepfold some other way.
In descanting upon the dearth of Servant
gals in Chicago. the Post of that city takes
occasion to remark that ''the unaccountable
neglect of Providence to create at least one
servant for every lady who is brought into
world has long been felt as grievance by
civilized humanity"
A Cincinnati youth who persisted iu visit
ing young lady in Louisville, well knowing
the local prejudice between the two villages,
was seen few days since in doctors office
inquiring what piece of court plaster eight
inches by twelve would cost; and how much
"skin-grafting'' cost by the square yard.
A Delaware woman put button and pin
in her mouth the other day, and accidentally
swallowed them. If she had taken them in
separate doses perhaps no harm would have
been done, but the pin had passed through
of hnf
In her throat, and nice SUI geon's bill her
husband will have to pay.
Western women think that people are
growing over ftssy nowadays. II a man die
and two or three grains of strychnine, or hall
a pound of arsenic, or an ounce or so of anti
mony ,e found in his stomach, his poor wife
has to go off to prison, and go through a trial,
and see her name in the newspapers, and be
acquitted and neglect her sewing until she
hasn't thing fit TO wear.
A woman in Fort Wayne wants a divorce
>from her>husband just because he hasn't been
sober loftNs months, don't buy her children
any clothess applies red-hot poker to hel
tAS"N, oioNno fuihitulO idCcLlOuSly over Lut
heads of the little ones, calls her ugly names
and isslightly irregular in one or two other
particulars He says the cause of heir do
meseie sfepble is incompatibility of temper
The eman who never failed in myth
Such one never lived, and is never likely to
All success is a series of efforts, in which
when closely viewed, are seen more or les.
failures. The mountain is apt TO over shad
ow the hill, but tie hill is a reality neverthe
less. Ifyou fail now and then, don't be dis
couraged. B ar in mind i; is only the part anC
experience of every successful man, and til,
most successful men often have the most fail
ures.
A more or less worthy Scotch wife was re
monstrated with by her minister for he
habit of beating her husband. She explained
that her husbands conduct was not at al
that it ought to be. The minister, recon
mending kindness and forgiveness, enjoine,
her no more to use her fists and nails, but t
cheap Goals of fire upon lis head" 'sWeel
minister" replied the now enlightened wife
"since yo say sac, I'll try the Goals, but
may tell ye that twa or three kettles o. boil
ing water hae wrocht nae improvement.
distinguishing TrOubadour.