The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-12-30
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING., DEC. 30. 1873,

TUESDAY MORNING., DEC. 30. 1873,
Gossip and GIeanings.
The latest dodge in books-Retu'ning bor-
rowed volumes as Christmas presents.
The voice Of the evergreen pedler is hushed
for another year.
1t is time for well disposed people to think
OF the new resolutions they will make on New
Year day.
Why insult good struggling young man
and cast his soul down with bitterness ?
Here some one has gone and called Sardou
the French Boucicault.
Ifyou want to make a good boy bad or
bad boy worse, nag, snub and rough him.
Don't sp ak gently to the erring child if you
would have him keep on erring.
DE Quincy somewhere t lis an anecdote of
a man who, on being threatened with an as
sau't by eighteen tailors, cried out, "Come
or, both of you'll
wish could get king somewhere to at
tend one OF my lectures, just only for a little
while, and would lake good care of him.
and send him home, and pay the cab myself.
Mark Ttoain.
A favorite amusement of the Texas cow
boys is to rob and murder, and then 90 off
and kill Indians because they did il, you
know.
Sunday School teacher Of many years
experience, has arrived at the conclusion that
the only way to keep an iniaut class perfectly
quiet is 10 supply each member with unlimit-
ed quantities of molasses candy.
John Church told Kentuckan the other
day that Daniel Boone was only ''one-horse
whiskey distller," inste ad of a great hunter,
and the family of Mr.. Church can secure his
effects by writing to the Coroner Of Maysville.
"Whai's the matter there, Alice? Dom .
your shoes fit?" mo papa, they don't tit
me at ALL replied the little one; .'why, they
don't even squeak when go cut to walk"
why don't ycu give us little Greek and
Latin occasionaly?" asked country deacon
ofa new minister. "Why, do you Under
stand those languagcs?' mo. but we pay
for the. best and we ought to have it.''
Although many of the iaborers in the pris-
on of n"ghboring State have been thrown
out of work by reason of the late panic. yet
with true New England fortitude they do not
utter one word of complaint.
Consolation: Housemaid-'T'm sorry to
hear you've lost your uncle, Mary" Mary
eyes, it was quite sudden. But-aI.'t it a
real comfort as got that black dress instead
of the green one you wanted me to buy?'
When old King Lear complained of the
shabby treatment he received from his
daughters after he had divided up between
them, and took his place as boarder in their
respective houses, they cons oled him by ssy-
ing: "You may go, father, and faie worse %
Conversation in the horse car. First
young lady-"Father s&ys we girls must he
more economical, for the panic has strnck
him. What does your father say?' ''Sec-
ond young lady-"O he don't say much; you
know pa is so slow that I don't believe nell
hear the panic is in town till it has most gone
away"
A rural poet thus breaks forth: ''Oh. tie
snore, the Ceautiful snoic; filling the chan :
Der from ceiiug to floor! Over the coverlet,
rndrr the sheet, from her dimpled chin to her
pretty feet; now arising aloft, like bee in
June, now sunk to the wall OF cracked bas-
soon; now, fute-like subsiding. then rising
again is the beautiful srore of Elizabeth
Jaien