The Portland daily press., 1873-03-15
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SATURDAY MORNING, MAR. 15, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.

SATURDAY MORNING, MAR. 15, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.
Scandalous-The friendship of two young
ladies is always plot against third one.
SIT tit be thou" is the Greed of Doubt;
sIord. save mer' is the Greed of Faith.
The fashionable evening gloves are of soft
peau de Suede, with six or eight buttons.
To be bodily tranquil, to speak little and to
digest without effort are absolutely necessary
to grandeur of mind or OF presence, or to
proper development OF genius. IBalzac.
Let not Ser Martin or Dame Bertha say
Seeing one steal, another sacrifice
That they have looked into the Judgment Day
For still the one may fall, the ether rise;
Dante (Carg's translation.
Skepticism has never founded empires, es-
tablished principles or changed the worlds
beart The great doers in history have al
ways been men of ffaith.-[Chapin.
Jimmy cannot see why the Left of the
French Assembly should be so anxious for
the dissolution of that body, as, if it were dis
solved, there would not be any left.
We never nursed dear gazele
To cheer with its fond, dark eye;
So if it never knows us-well-
We take it that's the reason why.
enquirer. THE phrase "even to the Bit
ter end" does not originate from the cucum-
ber, as that is generally quite uneven, and
largest in the middle.
1t was Charles Lamb who said of the "wa-
ter cure'' system, that it was neither new nor
wonderful, for it is as old as the deluge,
which, in my opinion killed more than it
cured.''
The President has Wisely refused to call an
extra session of Congress, for the purpose of
making an appropriation to furnish the Con-
gressional Globe with Illustrations by the pho
tolithographic process.
Alas! that learning should not save pig
from the auction block. The educated
pig" is to be disposed of at Washington for
non-payment of rent. Learning appears not
to be appreciated at the capital.
Tho Woob;pufor, CfOx covs n ia roporfad
that ''New York Congressman will distribute
their additional salary among benevolent in
stitutions." This is the first time in the his
tory of the country that sample rooms
have been called benevolent institutions"
Affection is divine diet, which, though it
be not pleasing to mankind, yet Almighty
God hath often. very often, imposed it as
good though bitter physic to those children
whose souls are dearest to him.-Izaak Wal
ton. l1
An important contribution to the medical
Jurisprudence of insanity has been made by
Tyrolese gunsmith who has invented pock-
et-pistol capable Of killing two dozen people
within minute; thus of course, excluding
all possibility of ''pre ditation."
An Indiana woman is mad because her hus-
band took her very best sheet to hang him
se.f VIXEN there was an old clothes-line in
the cellar which was good enough for the pur-
pose. She says he always was extravagant,
and too lazy to 60 into the cellar for anything.
sR-.ta. .ass4 stls rH ...t4 soea
Rochester has one gardener who hasn't
new variety of tomato for sale this Spring.
He thinks of quitting the business, however,
and accepting situation among Barnuu's
moral young men, where he viii he out of
} the reach of temptation to engage in the sale
of spurious vegetables.
Prosperity is said to be more trying than
adversely, theory which most people are
willing to accept without trial; but few men
stand the drying out of the natural sap of
their greenness in the artificial heat of city
life. This, be it noticed, is nothing against
the drying and seasoning process; character
must be put into the crucible some time. and
why not in this world? A man who cannot
stand seasoning will not have high market
value in any part of the universe.
ssBdckLOU studieS' bu Warner,