The Portland daily press., 1873-04-14
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MONDAY MORNING, APRIL IA. 1873.
Gossip and Gleanings.

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Gossip and Gleanings.
Every good book takes right hold of that
which lies unthought of in the soul.
A satirist says that modern society misses
two '1ost arts" conversation and blushing.
The publication of an inedited work of La
MARITIME is announced.
LIFE is like wine; he who would drink it
pure must not drain it to the dregs.-Sir ".
Temple.
Three steamers and Boston ship named
Atlantic have been lost within the memory
of the present generation.
All economical parents will do well to put
new hinges on the front gate and double line
their daughters dress sleeves pretty soon.
Mr. Froude will reply, in a preface to the
second volume of ''The English in Ireland"
to the critics of the first volume.
Most men like to see themselves in print.
Ladies like to see themselves in silks and vel
vets.
The inmate of a clearinghouse in Hoboken
describes the programme of his breakfast as
"bells tangled out of tune, and hash"
Society may congratulate itself on the fact
that feminine fastness has gone out of fashion
entirely.
God is glorifed, not by our groans, but by
our thanksgvings; and all good thought and
good action claim natural alliance with good
cheer Whipple.
Mark Twain will sail for Europe on the 17th
of May, taking with HIM the manuscript of
his new volume, which will be published si-
multaneously on both sides of the water.
Gods image slumbers in our souls till
sharp-edged grief cuts bere and there, when,
10! the semblance of his form appears sculp-
tured by the woes of time.
The time to look for and cherish compen-
sations is when troubles come. If the thorn
wounds your finger, consider the beauty and
perfume of the rose.
Douglas Jerrold, for long time one of the
editors of Punch, said that the man never
lived who could make 1856 jokes year-or
even halfthe number. One week he thought
very good allowance.
chance may win that by mischance was lost;
That net that holds no great, takes little fish;
In some things all, in all things none are cross'd;
Few all they need, but none have all they wish.
Unmingled joys here to NJ man befall;
Who least, hath some; who most, hath never ALL
SouthreH, 18Th Century.
Somebody wants to know whether eight
ming calculators" can predict thunder storms,
and if so, why Professor Hutchins is not at
tached to the Weather Bureau at Washing
ton.
A student. undergoing his examination,
was asked what was the mode Of action OF
disinfectants. He replied, "They smell so
bad that the people open the windows, and
the fresh air gets in"
Mr.. George Dawson, the English preacher,
lecturer, and editor of the Birmingham Morn
ing News, an extreme Radical paper of a high
class, is coming to this country to lecture on
Shakespeare.
The Athen@um says that that there is
some prospect of revised edition of the EN-
cyclopedia Britannica. This is good news,
as the information in the last edition 1.-THE
eighth) is quarter of century old.
A San Francisco newspaper indulges in the
ALTERATION of "Diabolical Dissection Of
Dizzy Dignitar;es, remorselessly roasted by
our roaming reporter" as the caption of an
article on city officials.
A fiddle run by steam is the latest Des
Moines novelty, and all the inhabitants are
trying to invent contrivance to make them
run by steam, too. Ordinary muscles don't
take them out of hearing fast enough.
The use of Credit Mobilier stock one can
readily understand, but what our Congressman
manage to do with "four gross ofstay-laces"
isaproblem past human comprehension. They
certainly didn't employ them to diminish the
great waste at Washington.
The proverbial ingenuity of lovers has re-
ceived a fresh illustration in an Iowa town,
two young men having each invited the
wrong young woman to ride, and once away
from home, have changed partners and been
married.
fragments from the Parable of the Unjust
Steward Applied Specially to Life In
surances", is what a San Francisco clergy
man recently preached about. And now we
should like to know what company he is
agent for. '' r1t Tr1
Association with great people sometimes in
stigates weak-minded folks to put on airs. An;
alogous to this is the case of ricketty cid
shanty on the rocks near Central Park,
which, since some grand new houses have
grown up close by it, has actually put bras:
knocker on its door.
Pigasof knew of only three misfortunes-
Sleeping in cold room in winter, wearing
tight shoes in summer, and sleeping in the
same room with crying child which one
can't whip. The same cynical individual re.
marked, There is nothing more dsagreea-
BILE than piece of good fortune that comes
too late"
Spring on boughe sitteth,
Sweetlie sunne shineth;
. Somer bringes smiling, -
And soc the we're Waxetb: