The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-01
IHE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 1. 1874.
Gossip and Gleaninrs.


Gossip and Gleauings.
A poor man is to be avoidel-he ,.o,.a
principle and never has any interest in anv.
thing.
The practice of kissing dramatic perform
ance was first introduced at the Theatre
Francois on the 18th of January, 1855.
Johann Strausss new operetta, "Le Carr
avail de Rome," is said to have won COM
plete success at Vienna.
Shakespeare on "artist- in-hair'' establish
ments-"Waterfall was there, my country
menr'
Now winter is really gone; and the ladies,
bless EN-! will soon look over their thin mus
lin dresses and sing 'Nunc dimity."
the streets. Boys who grow up without
schooling will never amount to anything in
their lives, and finally die petit-jufors
A bird-dealer, reading in the morning pa
pers that the Canaries are in revolt, has put
up the price of his yellow songsters to meet
the case.
Mr. Henry This, of Bay City, Michigan,
became intoxicated the other day, and being
unable to explain to the satisfaction of the
Court why This was thus he was fined 81.
| Arkansas newspaper correspondents in the
Legislature make assertions and back 'em up
by saying: ''rve got six bullets which says
| it's so.''
A poor family in Pittsburg lately bought five
cameps hair shawls at $4,000 apiece. They
wanted garments that would be warm and
comfortable, and did not care for show
A sullen silence is both a sin and punish
ment; no devil frets and vexes. wears and
wastes the spirits of a man like this dumb
devil, like this sullen silence.
| Intellect in weak body is like gold in
| spent swimmers pocket,-the richer he
would be, under other circumstances, by so
much the greater his danger now.-Wdsson.
Denver is to have new hotel, and the pub
lie are assured that the walls will be bullet
ro'f, SO that guests won't run any risks on
account of an affair in the other room.
Thrice unhappy he who, born to see things
as they might be, is schooled by circumstances |
to see them as people say they are-to read
God in prose translation. Lowell.
Drunkards are known to have reformed ION
conviction;' but no burglar has ever been
known to have reformed, no matter how
many times he has been convicted.
A neighboring critic says the music at a re-
cent entertainment was worth three times
the price of admission. The price of admis-
sion was fifteen cents
Saylorville, Ia, has tales for the marines |
about wonderful discoveries of petroleum,
and everybody who isn't boring is bored |
Herewith.
Chicago real estate operator to his wife
Do you love me, dear? She: Lots. [Kiss.l |
Do YOU love me? He: Corner lots lSeveral |
kisses.
The Miss Beatrice Amore who recently |
made success at Malta as Viola, in ssLa
Travaiata,' is said to be a daughter of Fl. w.
Tremble, of New York, now consular agent
at Milan.
| Voltaite once praised another writer very
heartily to third person. 1t is very strange,
was the reply, that you speak SO well of him,
| for he says you are charlatan. Oh, replied
Voltaire, think it very likely that both of us
are mistaken.
Good sense and good nature are never sep
arated, though the ignorant world has
thought otherwise. Good nature, by which l
mean benefcence and candor, is the product
OF right reason, which of necessity will give al
lowance to the falings OF others, by consider
ing that there is nothing perfect in mankind
Dryden.
To a large circle of friends, Mr.. Knight, the
London publisher, was known as a most
amiable and excellent man; and Douglas
Jerrold, with witty tenderness, said that the
epitaph on his tomb should be contained in
the two words, ''Good Knight
One of the most eventful epochs in boys
history is. when he first addresses his father
as the ''old man. 1t is pairiarchial term,
and if the boy is rightly treated afterward by
the family physician he lives great many
| years to enjoy it.
A Detroit woman tried to whip her boy the |
other day but he had read all the articles on |
moral suasion in the educational monthles |
and knew that she had no right to break his !
spirit in that way, and he stabbed her in the |
arm, and packed his trunk and stole some |
money that she had laid away to pay the rent,
and took a train to Chicago.
A rural lady in getting on the train at the |
Danbury station, Saturday was polite enough
to knock at the car door. The brakeman
managed to comfort his visage into SEM
blance of gravity until he got the door open, |
and then he precipitately adjourned He |
said he thought he would laugh his head off |
before he got through with it.
The Paris Figaro, anticipating the dog DAYS,
tells of wonderful safeguard against hydro.
phobia, recently patented by French DOCTOR
This consists simply OF an umbrella or cane,
which, on pressing spring, turns by an in
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