The Portland daily press., 1873-03-13
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THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. IL. 1s7a,
Gossip and Gleaninys,
Womans mission-Submission. Likely,
The some In lave, bis stepdame being dead
Began her hoirce with garlands to comment
-Tu6erriiie.
The Wheeling Register speaks of certain
Congressman as the "mob-o-liars."
A yotive offering which is not a sacrifice
Voting yourself an increase of salary.
Captain Mayne Reid ("Onward") is spoken
of as reform candidate for Parliament in
England.
A Georgia paper thinks that 1t does about
right when it simply preserves the outward
forms of Christianity"
The Christian Register speaks of Theo-
dore Tflton's ''Brazep Silence,'' with refer
ence to the Beecher scandal -
Impecunious lovers are now urging the
adorable object" to share an ''island home.''
with an eye to San Domingo probably.
Repentance Is the greatest business we
have to do in this world, and the only har-
binger we can send to provide for our accom-
modation in the next.-Clarendon. -f
1.-THE man resolved, and steady to his trust,
Infex1ble to Ill and obstinately just, til
May the rude rabble's insolence despise -
Their senseless clamours and tumultuous cries."
t A J ie Addison.
Stove pipes" are going out Of fashion for
ladies' riding hats, and the cavalier beaver,
with long ostrich plume, is now the correct
thing. .-
At recent fashionable wedding all the
guests signed a document whereby they de-
clared that they had witnessed the ceremony
performed, etc. l
After the first Of April, all the sewing ma
chine agents are to be killed as soon as they
make their appearance in Pittsburg. That is
4 move in the right direction.
To get moneyto educate dull boys because
they are pious, says the New York Observer,
is robbing God and fraud upon the church.
1t is crime or blunder, and sometimes
both. slE 41 HT
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j There are two great advantages in having
ones clothes sent from Canada: First, they
are cheap; second, you can't send them back
if they don't suit, which tends to cultivate a
contented disposition.
A transparency at the South end OF Boston
bears this announcement: "Teeth extracted
evenings These who are tired Of balls,
theatres and visiting, have now anew amuse-
ment open to them.
That fellow who went around last fsh pre-
dieting mild and open winter, says his proph
ecies would have come out all right if it
hadn't been for the new tangled invention of
atmospheric waves"
Why not drop the phrase criminal class"
and henceforth speak of that portion of our
citizens as the insane class? Our courts
are continually proving the impropriety of
the old fashioned designation. gt
Guizot's Olives of Four Great Christians
Of France" devoted to ''Saint Louis and
'sCalvin," is ready; the second volume, con-
tanning SAM III. Vincent de Paul. and ':Du-
plessis-Mornay,'' will appear shortly.
A Wisconsin Justice of the Peace divorced
a couple recently as follows: He stood them
in the middle Of the floor, backs together,
and as they walked away from each other he
repeated the marriage ceremony backwards.
4 Duns get get up their ''little reminders" on
enamel ed paper with an embossed mono
gram, and get some feminine hand to address
them. If this isl't heartless triling with the
best feelings of the youth of the perioi, what
Is?
NJ. Hegenmuller De Hengewar is an at
tache of the Austrian Embassy at Washing
ton, who is much admired in society circles.
When he makes fashionable calls, his name is
taken in through the kitchen door in sections,
and when he travels, his pass is always ship
ped as freight.
Nothing is more certain than that our man
ners, our civilization, and all the good things
which are connected with manners and with
civilization, have in this European world of
ours, depended for ages upon two principles,
and were indeed the results Of both COM
bined. mean the spirit Of q gentleman and
the spirit of religion.-Burke.
1t is astonishing how much wisdom there
is in the papers. Here is q Minnesota jour-
nal that, with gravity that is characteristic
of it at all times, describes the old flag which
the First Minnesota Volunteers carried to
Bill Run, and says, SIT bears the inscription,
May God defend the right the regiment
having been on the right during that battle"
A Lansingburgh, N. T.. man, thinking he
was about to die. endeavored to get prom
ise from his young wife that che woul never
marry again. The lady hesitated long time
but finally gave her husbands anxious heart
partial ease by saying, 81 will promise not to
marry more than can help"
Ashley Falls, Conn.,, is place of which lit
tie is known, but which is asserting its claim
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