The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-16
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Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
The least flower with brimming cup may stand,
And share its lewdrops with another near
Alice Wellington, Boston's coming poctess,
isa teacher in the Girls High School
A Louisville editor aludes to himself as an
''unfaling reservoir He probably has wa
ter on the b ain.
A pedagogical youth in Wayne county,
Iowa, was fined s25 for persuading boy to
study with pole four feet long.
tennessee hires out convicts TO work on
railroads, which looks like offering premium
Ior them to make tracks.
'onh onilth says nobody ever paid him
mucn attentlon until he broke out of Jail.
and then he was much sought after.
A Philadelphia grand jury find and declare
the blowing of steam whistles within the
limits Of the city nuisance, dangerous 10
life and limb.
l doc no body no harme, L say none harme,
l thynke none harme, but wishe curve bodye
good-and yf this be not ynoughe to kepe
manne alyue, in good fayth longe not to
lyue. e."-Sir T. More.
Pilkins, thinking that an exhibition of con-
jugal affection might increase the quality of
his dinner, called his wife, "my sweetest"
She merely asked him who the others werc
Dickens once said of the newsboys that
''they seemed fresh from the hands of Ma
ture." Some one thinks Nature must have
had very dirty hands.
Mark Twain's description of the moral
status ofsOciety in the Sandwich Islands has
"enthused' great many ardent natures
hitherto unsuspected of missionary longings.
A lady in Danielsonville, Ct, has domesti-
Gated butterfly. A butterfly is ornamental,
but it hasn't that depth of affection and those
social qualities which can be relied on in a
cockroach when once his confidence has been
gained.-Boston Post
A new edition Of ]. S. C. Abbott's popular
romance, the ''Life of Napoleon ILL., with
additional chapters appropriate to the closing
of the career of the ex-Emperor, will shortly
be published by B. B. Russell, Boston.
A young man in San Francisco found an
old deacon he knew "bucking the tiger'' in
gambling hell. ''What," he exclaimed,
s'deacon, you here?" eyes,, was the reply,
''I am bound to break down this evilrnstitu-
tion.'
A Yale college student lately went through
civil service examination, and after passing
triumphantly, astonished the examiners by
telling them that he did not want any office,
but merely wanted to see what the examina-
ton was like.
st. Petersburg is said to be more gay and
brilliant this winter than for many years past.
lied, and balls, parties, receptions, and other
social entertainments are seemingly without
numbsr.
We have seen letter from gentleman in
Nice who says, among other things, that
Brignolis recent appearance at the opera
house there was complete fasco. He was
repeatedly hissed and whistlcd at during the
opera, while large number left after the
second act.-N. Y. Mail.
The Commercial Advertiser, hearing that
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., still lives "to champ the
bit of fancy" remarks: There never was
much corn on that Cobb but he has been
perfect prodigy of husks.'
A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser
advises passengers to Europe not to apply too
early for state-roons, as recent travellers have
discovered that on certain line those who
applied earliest received the worst rooms, the
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