The Portland daily press., 1873-08-12
THE PRESS.
TUEsDAYMORNING, AUGUST 1s. 1873.


TUESDAYMORNING, AUGUST 12, 1873.
Gossip and Gleanings.
The Indian question--'White man got any
rum?"
The Ohio River has remarkably long face.
1t is twelve hundred miles from its head to its
mouth,
If thou wouldst be free, joyful and calm,
take the only means that cannot be affected
by t-Virtue.-Richter.
That is a sensitive young man who slings
lemonade in circus-tent. He got mad be-
cause an admiring country-man pointed him
out to his wife as one of the Aztec children.
Chicago pays out good deal of money for
educational purposes, and is vexed to see
some of her prominent business men hang out
signs of "two wrent."
The Governor of South Carolina spends
$4,000 year. He probably pays too much
attention to what the Governor of North
Carolina has to say ON the subject of refresh
ment.
In the village of Walpole, N. H., which is
called oftentimes "Saints' Rest" there were
counted the other day thirteen regular minis
tiers, and it wasn't considered much of day
for Darsons either
A Texas paper speaks of lady at Dallas
who has bonnet worn by her great grand
mother two hundred years ago. There must
have been some longevity among the people
as veil as the bonnets of that family.
The Cincinnati Times asks: Scan it be
possible that George Francis Train is writing
the C@sarian articles of the New York Her
aid, and that he is to be their opposition car
didste for the PresidencyP"
A canoe regatta, in which the contestants
will be Indians, is to take place along the
shore at West Haven, Ct, during the last
week of August. The course is three miles
III ltuStu, prizes dulOuut W POW.
Jones said he was going to Portland by the
Fall River Line. "But," remarked Smithers,
"yoh can't go to Portland on Sound steam
err' ''Then," fejoined Jones, "as will not
go on an unsound one, I will stay at home,"
which he did.
This is told by Paris correspondent:
''Why are you crying so, my child ?" inquired
a mamma of her grown-up daughter. "Be-
cause Mile. B. gave me slap in the face"
sAnd did you return it?" mo, as gave
her one first"
A worthy old lady offers the following ad-
vice to girls: "Whenever fellow pops the
| question, don't blush and stare at your foot.
Just throw your arms around his neck, look
him full in the face, and commence talking
about the furniture
A little girl who had great kindness of
heart for the animal creation, saw hen pre-
| pairing to gather her chickens under her
shelter, and shouted earnestly, "Oh! don't
st down on those beautiful little birds, you
| great, ugly old rooster"
They (men of activity and faction) contract
| habit of ill-nature and disingenuity necessary
to their affairs and the temper of those upon
whom they are to work, that liberal-minded
men would not persuade themselves to en-
| tertain, even for the prevention of all the mis-
| chief the Others Standardization.
Barnum wants to get nightmare to ex-
| hibit at his museum. Let him eat mipce-
pie, three sausages, and dozen pickles, plate
of salad, and few pigs feet, at midnight,
and 60 at once to bed. He will get one of
the animals in two hours or less
As rich and pretentious shoddyite was
ooking at some paintings which he purposed
to buy, the dealer pointed to fine one and
said: "There is dog after Landseer'' SIS it,
really!' exclaimed the pretender. ''What is
the dog after him for?''.
The authorities in the gun factories of the
royal arsenal contemplate the introduction
! iuto IuC oolNiCc VI Lew gun IOF Idllu OE udr-
Dor defence, 1t will probably weigh about
thirty-eight tons, and will be three feet longer
than the Woolwich Infant, which weighs
| thirty-fve tons.
| A very funny fellow went into Uniontown
tPa.) grocery, one day last week, and offered
to swallow two dozen and half of raw eggs,
if anybody would pay for them. The eggs
were promptly furnished, and the funny man
as promptly hid them under his belt, and, o.
coute, was correspondingly happy.
| Conclusion of Long Branch letter
"Long Branch, as place to leave, is the
most charming in America. Five dollars a
day for a stall 10 sleep in is but a small por-
ton of the 'lreariness that you miss when you
are away from it."
| There are few periods in life more critical
than that in which sensibilities and strong
feeling begin to develop themselves in young
people. The question is about to be decided
whether what is at present merely romantic
feeling is to become generous devotion, and
to end by maturing into selfdenial, or wheth-
/ er it is to remain only sickly sentiment,