The Portland daily press., 1873-02-08
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THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB 8, 1878.

THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB 8, 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.
James Tyler, aged los, was fined IS, re-
Gently in Chicago Court. for beating his
own son, aged so.
Out OF four thousand plays written during
the past four generations, it is said that only
thirty five are now performed.
Duluth has discovered that it is built on a
:ch coal mine, so that householders may dig
their fuel out of their cellars without paying
carriage.
When lite birds + the bush doe chattcrins.st'e.
If the sweet nightingale begin to sng,s
With brest upon a thorne. the rest arc mute
Ana when the moon doth pace the crystal sky,
f'acn s1arre Is faine to shut his golden eye
Henry Ward Beecher, at the Tyndall dir
ner, said, Il don't say that good sewerage is
gospel, but say that bad sewerage is her
esy.
The late Mr.. Cranston, of Newport, has
left s75, 900 for the benefit Of persons of in
digentility who are "too proud to beg and too
honest to steal"
An Ohio legislator presented resolution
forbidding any more babies being named
John Smith. It.was referred to committee
of which John Smith is chairman.
There is religious sect at Bristol, VT,
who wash each others feet. There is also
sect in Washington WHO whitewash each 9TH
er's regulations, but it isn't very religious
sect.-N. Y. Com. Adr.
The result of hammering classics into the
skulls of the sophomores at Tufts College,
Mass, is that they call the University boat
race nothing but an 'aquatic arena;' which
certainly has q decidedly Rowman smack.
The New York Herald says some papers
are ungenerous enough to want Hoax Ames
expelled from Congress, when he has proved
one Of the most valuable mines Of newspaper
sensations opened this winter in Washing
ton.
A well-to-do old gentleman at Nashville,
Tenn, has brought the science of economy
to so fine point that he stops his clock when
the sun shines, to save wear and tear, and
determines the time of day from outside OBJ
servations.
The Taunton Gazette records this horird
remark: "Pilkins says the first time his
wifes mouth has been shut for ten years was
Saturday when she passed house with red
flag hanging out. 1t was an auction sale,
but the effect was tine same"
The bee soc cunningle doth drane the swcete
From primrose pale, or blue-cyed violet
And straight doth close 1t in waxen chest
For winters npping days to keep it safe:
Soc he who reads in youth what wise men wrote,
With clear intention to express their wit
In Later years shall Joy remembsriDgit
1t is related of judIcious theatre-goer that
when, upon one occasion, disturbance oc-
Cured in the gallery, and an obnoxious man
was about to be thrown over the railing, he
cried out: ssDon't waste him; kill fiddler
with himr'
The horrid devil fish described by Victor
Hugo in Lis ..Toilers of the Sea- is no fig
ment of the imagination. A genuine speci-
men, lately captured on the coast of Georgia,
is in the cabinet of private gentleman at
Middleboro. 1t is four feet in diameter and
had diver in his clutches when caught.
A New York correspondent asserts that
two of the journals ostensibly devoted to in
surance in that city live solely by blackmail-
ing. If this or that company refuse to give
thom an advertisement something derogatory
to it forthwith appears. Unless this Or thai
insurance officer comes down with patronage
Any man, woman, or child who neglects to
tell his dreams after this must expect the dir
est results to follow. A boy in China told
his schoolmaster he dreamed that he had been
murdered by his step-mother, who placed his
remains in jar under the floor. Sure enough,
the boy neglected to appear at school; the
man at once few to the house, and without
rhyme, but with great reason, tore up the
floor, and the boy walked in the door. His
mother had kept him home to run errrands.