The Portland daily press., 1873-05-12
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6ossip and Gleanines.
We are always looking into the fntn-0 -.
we see only the past.-Mme Sacetchine . out
s'The Pedalprotectoron" is the name that
they they give to shoe-shop in Plymouth.
He who has not the weakness of friendship
has not the strength.-JOubert.
Holyoke, Mass, since il can't have any
other sort ofdrink, is goingto indulge in We
locipede-rink.
"Whopping-cough' is the editorial orthog-
raphy for it in Minnesota; whence we infer
that they have a bad spell of it there.
Tennessee. Mother aged seventy. Baby
two weeks old. Both doing as well as could
be expected. Don't believe word of it.
An epicureau has discovered that the
pleasantest way to take cod-liver oil is to fat
ten pigeons with it, and then eat the pigeons.
A Connecticut man trundled wheelbar
row some twenty miles just because Ingersoll
was elected.
Man is physically as well as metaphysically
thing of shreds and patches, borrowed un-
equally from good and bad ancestors, and
misft from the start.--Emeyson.
The st. Louis coopers are making a war
hoop about the employment of Chinese labor
in their trade, and threaten to 'stave in"
and ''bung up' the Mongolian interopers.
M. Courbet's pictures are excluded fiom
the Vienna Exhibition because he is Com
munist, but some Vienna students are about
to repair that wrong by providing a private
| place for their exhibition.
| A memorial window, commemorative of
Sir John Franklin, has been placed in a
church in London, of which Sir John was
one of the founders, and which is attended
chiefly by sailors.
A young lady at Troy, while engaged in a
conversation with a gentleman, spoke of hav-
ing resided in st. Louis "Was st. Louis
your native placeT Well, yes, part of the
time" answered the lady.
Chicago personal-"A brick fell from a |
scaffold on Dearborn street yesterday, and |
crushed through bridge underneath. What |
Jim Stevens has the doctor for this morning |
is because it was the bridge of his nose."
Another unknown man, while walking |
on the track OF the Hudson River Railroad, |
has been run over and killed. We have sug- |
gested once, in the interest of humanity, that |
all strangers approaching that road should |
be required to produce letters of introduction |
to the officers of trains, or keep of the track,
and we hope we shall not be forced to do il |
charlottesville Courier-Journal.
A Southern paper has these among its per-
sonals: 'St. Paul is away out West with
Mime sofa; st. John will spend the summer
Elizabeth is in New Jersey; Marietta is in
Ohio; Charlotte is in North Carolina; AMI
Augusta is down here in Georgia They don't |
intend visiting each other this season.
Sothern, the actor, doesn't like to have his
dog form new acquaintances, so he fastens
two very sharp needles to his nose, leaving |
the ends projecting about an inch. When a
strange dog rushes up to "shake noses'' with |
him, he gets thrust that sends him off howl
ing, and the effect is such that Sothern's dog
can't get within gun-shot of any other that
knows how the thing works.
A number of admirers of Mario at st. Pc
tersburg have formed fund, the interest of
which is to be devoted to Mario scholarship
for young tenors at the Conservative de Mu-
sique, and Mario, being touched by this COM
pliment, has presented to the founders two
original full-size paintings, one of himself as
Don Juan, the other of Julia Grisi as Donna
Anna.
Not long since at a Sunday School not
thousand miles from here, the teacher, after
trying hard to impress on the minds of class
of small boys the sin of Sabbath-hreaking,
asked: SIS Sunday any better than any 9th
er dayP' When the smallest boy in Ethe
class answered promptly: "You bet your
boots it is" The answer seemed satisfac-
tory.
A well known English divine, opposed to
reform in spelling as in everything else, once
declared that the fearful photography of En-
| glish formed the best psychological founda-
ton of English orthodoxy, because child
that had once been brought to believe that
through sounded like Through"
though like "though," rough like
ssrough, would afterward believe an ything.
The Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel, an excel
lent paper, is going to start daily. We are
glad fit. We started a daily once. We
ran it nearly four months and then paused.
Since then we take lively interest in such en-
| terprises. Wa have no doubt the Sentinel
| people will make the daily work, and we are
| quite positive it will make them work. A
man who goes through life without having
started daily paper misses rare and valua-
BILE experience. Falling down stairs with a
cook-stove will hardly compensate him.-Dan-
bury Ne,cs.
A few days ago the Newport News was ex-
ultant over cat, in tnat city, that daily
washes its face in basin. Its exchanges
took up the item and added such improve
ments that the editor is wrathful at the stu
pidity that hindered him from seeing his
chance totell good story, and says that he
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