The Portland daily press., 1873-12-02
It H e PR ESS,
TUESDAY MORNING, DEC 2, 1873.

All the difference-the ancients used to urn
On little James too brief career
The curtain sadly drops:
She watzed away to Paradise
From eating celery-tops.
will listen 70 ary ones convictions. but
pray keep your doubts to yourself have
plenty of my own.-G0ethe
How much thinner is board with the sur
face pIaned off? Not any! fr a surface has
length, and breadth, but no thickness.
The life of an honest man is beautiful
poem; and every human being who reads it
feels better, stronger, more hopeful for it.
Fadover tells us Mrs. Fadover says the D :
formed Retrenchment party must be what
her doctor calls ''sporadicar'-it don't break
out in many places.
Our incorigible being asked if he wasn't
won by the Rev. Mr.. Platitude's discourse
last Sunday, replied that he was more than
"won;'' in fact, he was half Jozin'.
1t has been noticed toat the men who in
terrupt the end Of play by breaking for the
door, all have low foreheads and scrubby
hair.
If hole be literally nothing, the future
historian of Massachusetts will be appalled,
at the amount Of hubbub there has been at
the Hub about nothing.
At Harpers Ferry the romantic style is to
marry on the bridge. If in after years, or
less, it doesn't become a bridge of sighs to
the happy couple well and good.
A querulous Bostonian objects to paying
the gas company's bin of $1S for the frivolous
reason that there were no burners in his
house during the time charged for.
The Reedsburgh wis., Free Press en-
ploys women exclusively. 1t says: we
have calico foreman, two dimity Compost
tors and the sweetest little devil in pink
muslin to be found anywhere"
Il thought you were born on the 1st o.
April" said husband to his lovely wife.
yho had mentioned the 21st as her birthday.
"Most persons would think so, from the
choice made of husband" she replied.
The ''fall' season has now arrived, and any
one whowants to see human nature under owly
circumstances will keep of icy corners. 1 here
is much real enjoyment in seeing Dom pous
man tall down, crack his hat and get up aut
throw bad words around.
The following announcements of L, ,ndol
booksellers
JOAQUIN MILLER, HALF CALF,
CHARLES READE's A SIMPLEToN,
would appear to herald forthcoming libel
suits.
The deputy-sheriff in charge of the MANS.
tee (Mich.) Jail temporarily left the supper
table at which his prisoners were seated, the
other day. "Search has been instituted for
all but two of them, who had served ,eir
terms nearly out, and only went to neigh
boring store TO get drink, returning soon
after.
man with some wit and very long nose
met neighbrr one frosty morning, who sang
out, ''Halloo, Smith; met the end of your
nose back here piece, and saw it was COM
pletely frozen.' "No fault of mine,'' said the
undisturbed Smith; 81 rubbed it as tar as I
could reach"
A Hartford Bricklayer let fall brick from
fourth story apon the shoulders of a man
passing beneath. The man paused for a mo-
ment, and then, with voice trembling with
emotion, shouted: Hi! you dropped a
brick" The bricklayer, who was looking
over the edge or the scaffold to see II the
brick was damaged, cheerfully answered, "All
right, you needn't mind bringing it up
My ady's mini: is sanity sweet;
Methinks it is virginia.;
Whereon an angels fingers feet
Forever fly melodial; -r-
And thus she thins but heavenly things,
That mid the tranquil of her eyes,
Most sweetly brim and harmonize,
And blend in hues of angels wings,
With pensve loves and spmpathies;
And. like holy cordial,
That music on the living strings
And keyboard of my heart, and all,
An echo so excites and rings,
That Mirth itself must swoon and fall,
And melt away beyond recall
So mutely in such musckings,
So sweetly melancholial.
-1'heophile Mdrzials.