The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-07
Gleanings.


gel of life-Jean Paul.
Miss Tennie c. Claflin is out of the
Colonelcy Of her New York regiment.
Mrs. Sinclair, the divorced wife of
Edwin Forrest, comes into 4 large prop
| erty by his death.
There are two things in this life for
which people are never prepared, and
they are twins.
An Arizona woman has had three
husbands murdered within the last ten
years, but isn't discouraged yet.
Miss Phelps says there is no use quar-
relling with woman, the press, a rail
road company, or the telegraph.
A woman named Mary Tabor has
acted as mate on a Missouri steamboat
for two years, earning SIS per month.
Henry J. Raymond died June IS, 1859;
James Gordon Bennett died June !,
1872; Horace Greeley died November %,
1872.
A young lady doing honors in the
White House is a novelty in American
history. The distinction will fall on
Nellie Grant.
\ crusty old bachelor says that love is
wretched business, consisting of little
signing, little crying, little dyeing
and good deal OF lying.
a man named Page asked a hotel
keeper at Omaha what time it was, and
being told that it was II o'clock, he shot
himself through the head.
a Judge, pointing with his cane to
prisoner before him, remarked, ''There
is great rogue at the end of this stick"
The man replied, "At which end, my
lord?"
Have you seen my black-faced an
telope ~ inquired the keeper of a
menagerie. mo" said the visitor,
''whO did your blaek-faced aunt elOpe
with ,"
"Don't you remember the next word
/ in your lesson? It's the word after
cheese. What comes after cheese ?"
! ''Mouse!" triumphantly exclaimed the
puzzled pupil.
y knowing one says that it may be
set down as a rule that the sentimental
young ladies who scratch off poems
about death and the grave have holes in
their stockings.
Bulwer says poverty is only an idea in
nine cases out Of ten, and that there is
really more happiness among the work
ing men in the world than among those
who are called rich.
For the third time within period of
nine years the Illinois Female College
at Jacksonville has been burned. These
repeated conflagrations are said TO be the
work of incendiaries.
"Home is the place for boys,u said
Spinks to his eldest pride and joy.
4
like to stay ut home all the time, but
ma sends me to SCHOOL,
Miss Alexander, who was formerly
connected with the California Theater
has made hit as a lecturer in Chicago.
Tha subject of the first lecture was,
| ''HOw l Became a Mormon" etc.
A young lady who was rebuked by
her mother for kissing her intended,
| justified the act by quoting the passage:
"WhatsOever ye would that man should
do unto you, do you even so unto them"
Old lady to her nieee-"GOod gracious.
/ Matilda. but it's cold. NV teeth are ac-
/ tually chattering." Loving niece
I "Well, don't let them chatter too much,
or they may tell where you bought
'em.n
4 man, recently arrested for being
/ the husband of four wives, says he has
no recollection of having married so
many times, and thinks it must have
( happened while he was away from
home.
\ husband of six months experience
gives il as his opinion that wedding
rings should be re-cTistened suffer-rings.
His wife says that she came to the same
conclusion before she had been married
two months.
Jacksonville Tenn young ladies tie
up their taper fingers, and when the
young gentlemen callers in the evening
inquire the cause, blushingly reply, az
burnt them while broiling the beefsteall
this morning"
"George," asked teacher of a Sun
day school class, "who above all others
do you wish to see when you get to
heaven ," With q face frightened mp
with anticipation, the little fellow
shouted "Gerliah."
Mr.. Spurgeon's sister is preaching at
Willingham, Cambridgeshire, England,
with such success that the police au-
thorities there have expressed their
thanks to her for effecting a decrease in
the number of criminal cases.
Two elderly ladies came to Deerfeld,
Mich, and framed and raised as good
house as there is in the neighborhood-
not a bit of male labor being expended
on the structure. They have now set
about leveling the ''primeval forest.'
wouId-be school teacher in Alabama
recently replied to question by one of
the examiners, "DO you think the
world round or fiat ?p by saying, "Well,
some people think one way and some
another, and Tll teach round or fiat,
just as the parents please"
After all, it is the best wisdom to treat
with absolute Indifference or contempta n
great deal that happens in this world of
misunderstanding Let any good and
well-meaning man reflect upon the
blunders and ISLANDERS that assailed and
passlbly annoyed him week ago. and
consider how very dead they are now!
such fruit of Ignorance and malice dies
OF its own rottenness.
A training school for nurses has been
started in England, attached to the
Royal Intirmary, founded by 4 wealthy
gentleman who lost his wife, mainly be-
? cause no good nurses could be obtained.
: An applicant must be over thirty years
2 ofage, must havea good character. She Is
| first on probation for one mohlh. II
e found suitable she serves for three years
: one year in learning the h'.IuIe Vi
Y diseases, and two years III hospiltt.L t-si1 sei
/ vice and practice. She receives sulail
. WAGES from the first and afterwards
. -. I,Lo Eu0Iish have an idea tn1L