The Portland daily press., 1873-12-23
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. ss, 1878.
Gossip and Gleaninys

Gossip and Gleaninys.
Must man be iight-headed who is lantern.
jawed?
About the coolest thing We know of isa
room without a stove this season of the year.
Having sold its public library at auction.
Iowa city is going TO inve.t in theatre.
Dan Rice advertises that old maids can vis-
it his show at half-price, but he never had a
female call for halfprice ticket.
AT ball in st. Louis, the principal feature
was pound OF pepper judicously sprinkled
on the floor.
Some pretty holiday fans run up to ooin.
at the top. They are uset Il il ladies are dis
posed to put ''horrid mems" eyes out.
John quickly extemporized five tow bags'
is probably the shortest sentence ever writ.
ten, containing all the letters of the alphabet.
"If there were no ether sign to indicate
that Christians is coming the rapid increase
in the number of scholars of the various Sun
day Schools would be sufficient
A lecturer recently telegraphed to atemper-
ance organization that he would lecture on
"a taste for Naples and Rome" The tels
graph got IL "a taste for apples and rum"
About these Christmas times the whirr OF
ladies' skirts is most mighty in the thorough
fares. 1t enables the street-ceanng contrac-
tor to take holiday.
Proiane swearing is abominable. Vulgar
language is disgusting. Loud laughing is i'm
polite. 1nquisitivensss is offensive. Tattling
is mean. Telling falsehood is contempta-
BILE. Ignorance is disgraceful. Laziness Is
shameful
An episode in John p. Hale's career was
the devoted attachment between young la
dy OF his family and the actor, John Wilkes
Booth. In Booths diary, which was taken
from his dead body, there was picture Of
this lady.
A schoolgirl in one of the rural distri cts of
Plttsfied, was overheard trying to convince
schoolfellow " that she liked him better than
she did some other urchin, of whom he SEEM
ed jealous. ''Ofcourse like you better than
do Bill" said she, "for don't miss words
in my spelling lesson on purpose, so as to be
down to the foot of the class where you are ?'
A New England boy seeking his fortune In
the West, writes home that be has Joined
three churches of various faiths, for he is per-
suaded that this is the way not only to se-
cure the patronage of the best people, but
| also to have a hand in all the fun there is
| going. Piety pays in the West and is pop
| ular.
A man in Eldora, Iowa, married again the
week after his wifes death, and his neghbors
gave him deafening cbarivari. The bride
groom finally appeared at window and adj
minstered scathing rebuke to the crowd, in
this manner: Saint you ashamed of your
selves to be making noise about my house.
when funeral took place here but four days
ago?''
Mark Twain, at public dinner in Lon
don, recently. responded TO the toast "The
Ladies'" and in the course Of his remarks
said, "Ah, you remember, you remember
well, what a throb of plain, what great
tidal wave Of grief swept over us all when
Joan of Arc fell at Waterloo, Much laugh
teri Who does not sorrow for the loss Of
Sappho. the sweet singer ofIsrael? Laugh
ter.l Who among us does not miss the gen
tie ministrations, the softening influences,
i Al.
lLaughter.l Who can join in the beartless
libel that says woman is extravagant in dress
when be can look back and call to mind our
simple and lowly mother Eve arrayed in her
modification of the Highland costume?"