The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-01-06
TERMS Sc. 90 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE

IHE PR ESS
MONDAY MORNING, JAN. 6, 1873.
Gossip and Gleanings.
People who sell hay do business ON a slarce
scale.
Kansas Indians have smallpox visible
through their red paint.
Lift Rock, Ark., is as badly scared as
Boston about the small pox.
Oregon has fifty-six pound cabbage that
it raised itself.
everybody should begin the year by keep
'ns diary, then there will be nobody to
laugh at anothers failure.
An old Danbury gentleman mead 70 ..v
'na' any young man with good health and
poor appetite could save money.
The path Of sorrow, and that path a,ona
Leads to to the land where sorrow Is unInor-
No traveller ever reached that blest abode
Who found not thorns or briars in his road
-Cowper.
Six big girls banded together the other day
and thrashed an Iowa schoolmaster so Sc
verely that he had to have doctor.
A Columbus, Ohio, bridegroom borrowed
" of the officiating minister to pay for
Turkish bath after the ceremony was ended.
'Twere better far, the lowIiest bird
should sing Alright to Thee the lowliest song
Ihan that seraph strayed should take the word,
And hymn thy glory wrong-Jean IngeIoc.
Chicago talks of introducing romantic
means of transit within its limits in the shape
gondolas to ply on lis sweet-scented river and
canal.
Landseer has rival in Mr.. Jones of Chi
cago, who, as dog painter has few equals.
He can make coach dog out Of common
white cur in ten minutes, if he ia not dis
turbed.
A bereaved husband in Ohio has sued the
Cleveland Medical Woman's College for the
value Of his deceas ID wife, whom the lady
student in that establishment dissected too
small for decent interment.
Little Robbie we It to show and saw an
elephant for the first time in his life. When
he came home his mother asked him what he
had seen. Robbie replied: "An elephant,
mamma, that gobbled hay with his front
TAIL"
Beecher says: 81 think myself a great deal
of praying is like person drumming on a
telegraph instrument without the east idea
OF what he is doing; but even at hat there
is something at the other end who knows
that somebody is trying to do something"
The follow ng lucid advertisement appears
in contemporary: "Wanted-The washing
of a few gentlemen. Who needs it, as it is a
poor widow, to apply at this Off e'' Gentle
men who need washing ought to patronize
that widow.
The following is an extract from an obitu-
ary in the Utica Herald,-"Iron, which has
stood the tortures of thousand years of al
chemy, yielded bright, gol1en showers, as it
fell beneath his downward giances. Cold
rock forsook its cleavage and followed the
line of his demarcation. Roseate and ami
NAL tissue was as an open book before him."
The Christian World, without discussing
the orthodoxy or otherwise of George Eiiol's
"MddIemalch," indorses her .dea that cer-
gymen should not be specimens of imb, ce
gen ility'', who represent Christianity as il
it were ar institution for getting up idiots
genteelly.
A girl in one # the rural districts of Pitts
field was overheard trying o convince a
school fellow that she liked him better than
she did some other urchin of whom he SEEM
ed jealous. "Of CO. rse like you better than
l do Bill" 'sfor don't I miss words in my
spelling lesson on purpose, so as to be down
to the 70 Vt of the class where you are?"
A party of boys has been arrested near
Albany, living in a hut, where they "played
Robinson Crusoe," and supported themselves
by killing the hers and chickens of the nei h
borhood, under the apprehension that they
were wild animals. The savages the guise
OF policemen appeared on the scene and, con-
trary to all tradition, overthlew the encamp.
ment.
An Atlanta paper, speaking of three brides
maids. says it is no idle compliment to say
that they are like three Graces, their face:
mirroring back the purity and softness of the
skies, their eyes floating in a light of dewy
tenderness, or throwing radiant flashes from
the inner shrines of thought like Jewel tinted
sparkes caught from broken ralnbows. The
question is, how much of the English Ian.
guage was left for the bride9
In view of the rapid increase in the num-
ber of murders committed in New York, and
the growing infrequency of the punishment
OF their perpetrators, an amendment TO the
statutes is suggested, which shall comoel ev-
cry person who murders another to in.er his
victim at his own expense, and to cause an
obituary nc tice to be inserted in at least two
daily pape at his own proper cost and
charges.
Some people have no idea of the fitness of
things. How inappropriate, for instance, just
at this juncture, to thrust under the nose ot
startled public such an item as this, cut
from an exchange: Louis ~. died from
smallpox at the age of GA, although it is well
known he had the disease when he was 1.
years old. Medical reports show that persons
have had the disease five, six, and even sever
times"
Bland Ballard, young Kentucky gentle
man, shot himself the other day on the eve O
his marriage. He had learned that his fathe
displo, saI booauoo rotb;,,r, \ 4 loo,x -;