The Portland daily press., 1873-12-10
THE PRESS.
MORNING, DEC. 10. '7s.
Gossip and Gleanings.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 10, '73,
Gossip and Gleanings.
How did they learn that their ways were small?
How did they know they were scornsd by all
And heard the family speak their Ss %iadsH 0ln0''
What pity!
A Chicago hackman charged New Yorker
$29 for an hours work, and rather than have
any fuss about it came down to $2.75.
Now that skating has set in, care should be
taken to avoid the air holes. 1t is surprising
the amount of moisture an air hole contains
A Nebraska man reckons that the re-
cent increase in the price of rags has added
three per cent to the valuation of his family
81 live by my pen," said poet, wishing to
impress young lady. "You look as if you
lived in one," was the reply.
The following was received by trader in
Machias, not many months since 'Send us
a small Kag of butter for DeleckeHApertites." %.
An advertisement for teacher in rural
school district concludes in this way: "N. B.
No man need apply who wears a shawl.''
The amount of time that may be wasted on
trifies cannot, perhaps, be realized under
more exasperating circumstances than in
struggle with a greasy door-knob.
A million dollars worth of ostrich feathers
is imported into England every year from the
Cape of Good Hope. Every pound of these
feathers is worth fifty guineas. .p
There is good story of little boy, who,
going into a bookstore with his mother, crept
up to the juvenile of the establishment with
the sly qnery "Say, have you got any books
for boys that amt got any religion in 'em ?''
A Milwaukee hack-driver who ran over and
killed a man was fined $500. 1t has had rath-
er depressing effect upon the survivors, but
then you can't most always tell what mans
worth till he dies.
Bailey of the Dapbury News commenced
some remarks in prayer-meeting recently by
saying solemnly, 81 would not live alway
yet, when I get pretty sick, always send for
the DOCTOR"
At one of the ragged schools in Ireland a
clergyman asked the question, "What is
holiness?' A pupil in dirty, tattered rags,
jumped up and said: ''Plaze yer reverence,
it is to be clane inside.''
A boy living on the Sugar Hollow road, ate
twenty-one buckwheat cakes one day last
week, and so disturbed his stomach as to
cause his death in three days after. The last
words he uttered were of modest triumph.
He said: ST slung emp
1t has been carelessly remarked that the
happiest women in the world are those who
have no history. The lesson of daily obser-
vation compels us to say that this is mis-
take, and that the happiest women in the
world are those who possess new bonnets.
An Illinois farmer presented his daughter
with chrome, wash-tub, axe, three fiat
irons, and dish pan on her marriage day,
and she was so mortified that she attempted
to commit suicide. The idea that she was
to come down to kitchen work!
Mr.. Prudhomme, in the decline of life, was
talking with his nephew, to whom he related
stories of his youth. "But, uncle" suddenly
exclaimed the young man, ''What struck you
most! during your life?'' "My dear boy, it
was your auntp'
A Troy editor took his wife to New York,
Friday. The conductor when he came along
recognised our Troy brother as entitled to
free passage, but not knowing the lady,
whispered to him, SIS this lady friend of
yours p mo, no, said the Troy editor in
haste, 'sLe is my wife,"