The Portland daily press., 1873-11-20
THE PRESS,
THURSDAY MORNING.. NOV. 20. 1878
Gossip and Gleanings.

THURSDAY MORNING. NOV. 90. 1878
rf 37 4 Gossip and Gleanings.
Pearl fishing wi he actively carried on in
the Gulf of California this season.
When the Spanis. sent Tornado to haul
down the American flag, they sowed the
wind. Now let them reap the whirlwind.
81 want to buy this watch and chain, but,
hang it, I've left my money at home. I'll
only take the chain. and leave the watch as
security. Thatll be all right, won't itPo
We rather Ike the tone of Mr.. Fish's con
versation with the Spanish Minister. The
little word must" is as good as an army Just
now.
We have seen in late invoice of fashiona-
bic New York furEiture: elegantly uphol-
stored kneeling benches tor the weary and
heavyladen."
Men cannot be in their senses when they
brew with bad malt and look for good beer, or
set wicked example and reckon upon rais-
ing respectable family. -...-...
We often live under cloud: and it is we'll
for us that we should do so. Uninterrupted
sunshine would parch our hearts; We want
shade and rain to cool and refresh them.
II anybody sees row of buttons coming
down street, let him preserve Lis equilibrium
and think not of supernatural agencies.
There's woman behind them.
farmer recently and informe1 him that he
would like to have son. ething from bis pen.
The farmer sent him pig, and charged him
$9.75 Tor it.
Says the Brooklyn Argus: Mr.. Tilton's
novel opens Overpowingly, with thunder,
lightning, hurricane and shipwreck. He had
misad his Signal Bureau chart. and couldn t
wait to get another one.
Bitter to Blbbage, the Dubuque de(aulting
bank cashier, in his involuntary exile fr, IN
thi, his native land, with :bout S267, 200 OF
the banks funds in his pocket, oh, how Bit
ter, mist be the ref ection that, with all his
opportunities, he left over 100000 to be
stolen by the President of that bank.
Timkins thinks the Western itemizer was
not happy in speaking OF long passenger
train as being full Of people as a string of
idea of elongation is well conveyed, but the
writer should have remembered that sausages
are filled with minced meat.
Simpkins, having welded and settled down
accumulated 81 ght scar over his eyebrow.
the cause of which is upnecess ary to state
but an quisitive acquaintance asked him
whether it was a mark of the chjeken-pox.
"Worse than that" replied Simpkins. tits a
mark Of henpeck."
At weekly meeting a straight-laced and
most exc nplary deacon submitted a report in
writine of the destitute widows who stood irI
need of assistance from the congregation.
Are you sure, Deacon asked another sober
brother, 'that you have embraced all the
widows% He said he believed he had.
1t is reserved for little frdgid Iceland to ge
ahead of every other part OF this side Of th'
planet in celebrations. This island celebrates
not her centenary, but ber mieDary, in 1874
The first settlement in the country was made
in 874 near the present capital, Reykjavik
and the people propose TO recognize the
thousandth anniversary of the event by Z
| grand jollifcation- rar aT .Iq. g
A man was recently arrested in one Of the
St. Louis Gem eteries under suspicion of be
! ing body-snatcher, but he was discharged
when it tranapired that he was only a direc
tory man, csnvassiug the tombstones for as
sistance in getting up directory that sha
/ ay Ch.cago7s 465, GOO IN the shade. st. Loui
was unfortunate in Publishing her director
! first.
"Old Probabilities" has returned tror
Europe, and severely rasped the young mett
geological prodigy whom he leit in charge dul
ing his absence. He had got the wet bul
I and areas of low temperature SO horEibl
\ tangled W with snow-storms, panc, Santa
60 massacre and high winds, that it. 7wis TAX
days aud nights Of incessant labor to Set. tn
weather on its pins again.