The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-04-04
H E PRESS
FRIDAY MORNING, April, TO-.
Gossip and Gieanings.

FklDAf mVkNiNG. APRIL 4, 1879.
etea Gossip and Gieanings.
Cincinnati is keeping 1900 chorus singers
in spirits for its musical jubilee next month.
= A Danbury (Ct. dog has learned to bring
in eggs from she barn, and his delighted own
er names him Leigh Hunt.
When Cincinnati woman shoots at her
drunken husband and misses him, the news
papers say: "Another bullet wasted"
Now Sarah Walker, who is. only seventy
three years old, wants newspaper notice be-
\, cause she walked twenty miles in one day
Religious people in New York only attend
one place of amusement during the present
season, namely, Lent's circus.
No; the members of Professor Agassiz's
expedition did not suffer much from rheulna-
tism; but they got some newer alg@.
A young lady recently, on being requested
to sing 1.-THE Maiden's Prayer" Immediately
favored Rockford audience with 'Mother,
may go out to swim?'
Mr.. Carlyle is reported to have spoken Of
the Dublin University bill as s'an amorphous
botch, out of which nothing endurable can
ever be made"
Certainly the force of imagination is Won
derful either to beget in us an ability for the
doing OF that which we apprehend we can do,
or disability for the not doing OF that which
we conceive we cannot do.-HdkeueH.
A retired actress has been teaching elocu-
ton to the children in Carson City, and the
old people declare that all the young folks say
"beeyoutifool skeey," and 'snobul iuke.n
/ Friends must be used with shut eyes, and
as objects Of prime necessity, just as we eat
our daily bread without prying curiously to
see who makes it or how it is made.
! With every one the expectation of mis-
fortune constitutes a dreadful punishment.
suffering then assumes the proportions of the
unknown, which is the soul's infinite,-B
1 zdc.
An enamored Philadelphian has been con-
victed of petty larceny for abstracting his
adorsd ones carte de visite from her photo |
graph album; the judge deciding that to steal |
carte was as bad as to steal horse.
Gustave noro o,,l DI.,.l..l
about to do for the modern Lutetia that
which they have recently done for the mod
ern Babylon, and the work is to be published |
simultaneously in the two capitals.
A grocer asked an artist: SIS sculpture diff |
fieult%' The artist replied: ''Why, bless you
no. You have only to take block of mar
BILE, chisel, and knock off all the marble you
don't want.
Love, as 1t is the greatest treasure of our
souls, SO is it the only security stands bound
10 GOD for all our debts; all the other facuI-
tles OF man SCENE to be receivers only, and
TINS the dlscharger of all their accounts
Montague Essaeys.
lis mourDful hour in life when a man
comes to the conclusion that fame, love, and
happiness are not worth good cigar 'Tis
still more mournfnl hour when man comes
to the conclusion cigar itself is worthless.
AT dinner-party recently given in Paris,
the servant handed a lady, who is not only a
Jewess, but very Jewess, slice of ham.
She refused by signs. Theservant exclaimed:
20, Madame! In this centuryr' L1i
A New York fashion letter predicts re-
turn to the costumes of Empress Josephine.
"Already the Josephine waist is prescribed by
dress-makers." 1t would be good thing for
our young men if the Joseph-in-trowsers
should also come in fashion. .-Bllfdlo En-
press