The Portland daily press., 1873-04-05
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SATURDAY MORNING., ARP. < ,e7o
Gossip and Gleanings.

SATURDAY MORNING, ARP. <. 1879
Gossip and Gleanings.
"The wife secret''-her opinion of her
husband
Az mus;cke,s sacred sounde my fansies eft begonne
In concordes discordes notes and clies in tunes of
unSo"H' -Gascoigne.
We state our experience, and then we come
to a manly resolution Of acting in contradic-
tion to it.-Burke.
Charles Cowden Clarke has two volume
work on ''The Comic Writers of England in
press
1t is very justly as well as frequently OBJ
served that if our nation be ever ruined it
must be by itself.-AddiSon
A new -Chatrian novel, "The
Brothers Rantzan; A Story of the vosges,"
is just published abroad.
Is there any reason why the name 'lapdog''
should be monopolized by any particular
breed of CANNES? Don't they all drink that
wayp
Theology is but science of mind applied
to God. As schools change, theology must
necessarily change. Truth is everlasting,
but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is
but our idea of truth classified and arranged.
-Beecher.
A Germantown family has cat that
drinks tea and coffee. He is very fastidious
as to the quality of his young Hyson and Old
Cover nment Java. He takes them both
Straight" refusing anything in the shape of
trimmings"
Thieves break in and steal in the Cincinnati
station house to such an extent that the po-
| lice have scarcely any clubs or overcoats left,
and the authorities think of engaging pri-
| vate watchman.
But one man has been arrested thus far on
suspicion Of being Roscoe, the murderer of
Charles Goodrich. A dozen men at the very
least should have been arrested and discharg-
ed by this time.
The Executive Mansion of Missouri is said
to be so filled with electricity that every one
who enters it is terribly Shocked. The phe-
nomenon is attributed to the over-charging of
the architect who built it.
| The veteran historian, Leopard Ranke of
Berlin, announces as nearly ready for publ-
q Of fho ho
tween Bunsen and the late king of Prussia,
Frederick William ".
The death is announced of the singer Isa-
bella Fabbrica. She was born at Milan, and
Donizetti and Mercadante, among others,
wrote several operas for her. This once cele-
brated prima donna died at Lisbon, where she
has resided for some years past.
A clergyman in Chicago, in discoursing on
capital punishment last Sunday, expressed
| the opinion that if the galows is SO effective
in preparing criminals for heaven as it ap-
pears to be, it should be used with increased
vigor as a means of grace.
B0ston's burnt district is to be rebuilt on a
plan peculiarly appropriate for the Hub,
namely, after the pattern of wheel, with
straight streets radiating like spokes from
common centre, and curved avenue at the
periphery, in which fellows may circle till
they are etired.-Rochester Democrat.
| A German printer named Conrad Lutz,
now living at Burlington, Iowa, has received
| off info ho
into the Wurtemburg landwehr. Inasmuch
as he left Germany when two years old,
contemporary intimates that he intends re-
naming in the landwher he is.
Chocolate has nutty taste, but is heavy.
Coffee is heating, but has fine, serious fla
vor in it. We used to prefer it at all times,
but tea has become preferable to the medita-
tive state of our digestion. How the Chin
ese came to invent it, as Sancho would say,
we do not know; but it is the most ingenious,
humane, and poetical of their discoveries. 1t
is their epic poem."-Leigh Hunt
Another Wisconsin man has fallen victim
to the law which allows a woman to procure
a policy of assurance on her husbands life.
The companies remark that under the pres
ent mixed condition of chemical expert testi
mony it would be throwing good money after
bad to dispute the claim, although they know
where she bought the strychnipe.
For take thy ballaunce, If thou be 50 wise,
And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow,
| Or weigh the light that In east doth rise
Or weigh the thought that from mans mind doth
But if the weight of these thou canst not show
Weigh but one word which from thy lips doth tall;
That doest not know the least thing Of them alp
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small
-Spenser.
The Macoupin (Ill.) Inquirer says that
Greene county young lady, who is wor' $780,
600. recently refused to marry clergyman
because she thought she was unfit to be the
wife Of a minister. He then abandoned his
sacred calling, and proposed again. The sec
ond time she declined his offer, on the ground
that she was too good to marry man who
would throw away his clerical robes to win
woman's hand.
The late Henry Thomas Buckle, author of
''The History of Civilization" made a point
of acquaintns himself with the chief Ian
guages of Europe, but he could not have &C
quired much conversational facility. Trav-
cling once in railway carriage in Holland,
he ventured to address fellow traveller in
Dutch, who after time explained that he
was sorry he did not understand Italian.
The infant son of Mr.. Charles Allen Per-
kns and the Princess Isabella de Bourbon,
niece of the ex-Queen of Spain, was baptised
in Paris on the 18th inst. Queen Isabella
and Prince Alphonso, the sponsors, were rep
resented by Count Gurowski, and the gather
ing of Spanish mobiles and American sover-
| egns was very large The infant Ia WORN