The Portland daily press., 1873-02-19
THE PRESS
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 10, ,7a.
Gossip and Gleanings.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 10, y;
W ,' Gossip and Gieanings.
Michigan never brass much about it, bl
she has so murderers in her prison under Ii
sentence. elN i'
An external application Of algebra to th
head of Cincinnati schoolboy proved fati
in two days. --.4r.. .-..r..-, .-...-.r
Buzz-saw item-Henry Stonaker, of Pales
tine, Texas. In his life he was lovely, and il
his death he was divided.
| "Poli.eness," says Parton, "appears 4
have been invented to enable people VIII
would naturally fall out, to live together Il
| peace.'' 1- i 70
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A Vermont town is deeply exercised as +
whether their excellent clergyman COMMITTEE
a "sln' or only an ''indiscretion" in playin
blind-man's buff! m .l M ~ a.aag
Beware from ire that in thy bosom slepeth,
Ware fro the serpent that SO lilly ,crepeth
Under tie gras, and stingeth subtilly, fr, III II
Beware, my some, and herken patiently.
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Gen. Sheridan gives tie g,ssips another
chance by positively denying the report thai
he is engaged to ex-senator Morgan's daugh-
ter->or anybody else.
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The i'r wnville States is Of the opinion
that the sale of kisses at fifty cents apiece, to
raise funds for Gospel purposes, should be
sternly discountenanced. The States is right.
They are worth dollar apiece least.
Tommy asks if Professor Longfelow in
what he says of the 'strailing garments of the
night in the "Children's Hour" or some
where, expresses any preference between red
aud yellow flannel.
Deep buried under snow the country lies, .0
Made dim by whirling fakes the rock still flies
Southwest before ths wind noon is AS still
As midnight on the southwark looking hill,
Whose slopes have heard so many words and oud
Since on the vine the wooily buds first showed.
The Merrirnac Journal thinks it is very
amusing to hear some of the heavy mer
whose fortunes were left them by fathers
or mothers-in-law state that there is no bust.
ness tact or talent in the young men of cur
day. +t-Ai .a..aD t-.l .l- Hl
Dame Fashion has issued proclamation to
fashionable mammas. in which it is ordered
that their babes should wear lace caps in the
house as well as outdoors-said caps to be of
the finest lace and tied with wide ribbon at
the back of the head. 4iIi .aIAs-4a 81
44 ..t. 4aai t8 900 = ll aa as-.
A young Englishman who was committed
to the tombs in New York, about month
ago, died, on Monday, just an hour before the
arrival of an order for his discharge. He
was engaged to be married to an estimable
young woman, and it is said that the charge
was tru,nped up to prevent the marriage.
A girl of eighteen, visiting some relations
at Sault st. Marie, Mich, was detained there
by the early close of navigation and remain
ed until a few weeks ago, when, in company
with three gentleman friends, she started for
her home, ninety miles distant, in snow shoes,
and made the distance in eight days. M
Handel happened once to be presiding over
the oratorio Of 'Tsrael in Egypt" The first
tenor began, entirely out Of tune, 81 am an
Israelte." Handel, who was at the organ,
turned round, and glaring down upon the
offender, in voice of ten thousand thunders,
exclaimed, ''You are Won greet beestv' a..
1t is hardly safe NOWADAYS for a man to try
to do the civil thing by young ladies. There
young man lately picked up roll of news
papers dropped ON the sidewalk by lady,
and hastened to restore them. He has been
wondering ever since what the matter could
be with that young ladys disposition.-N. Y.
Mail.
San Francisco has just recorded the first
conviction in an s'embracery' case that ever
occurred in the State. Embracery is an at
tempt to influence jury corruptly to one side
by promises, persuasions, entreaties, money
entertainments, and the like, and in this case
it was by entreaties.
A man in Mississippi has found a tooth,
the crown of which is nine inches long and
the root oil the same length, making eighteen
inches in all. The capacity OF; the ante
diluvian possessor of that grinder for having
the toothache is one of the most impressive
subjects of reflection in the whole domain o
science. s M. IL - -. ..,.i L.
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