The Portland daily press., 1873-05-14
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY IA. 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
| 1t is thought that the Modocs must soon
leave the 'lava'' for grub.
iowa woman has been giving herself
Ills IN the matter of four pairs of twins in
seven years. pN"' '"'"' -
A., poutd keeper has resigned becau.e
.ne common Council objected 70 ri, ,rri,,na
Hon. before his name. "i'''ns
Carpenters are fearfully careless about mt
ting up closet hooks. A Philadelphia woman
broke down four before she could hang herself
AIgernon Glydon Grswod carries bricks
up a ladder in Chicago all day, and when the
peaceful evening shadows fall he goes home
and beats his wife.
A Cleveland child ran away the other day,
and one of the local papers says that the
''cause of her disafection Is not known"
Dsaffection /, an expressive word
1
A Florida Alderman sold his vote for an
oriode chain and a circus ticket, and his
friends are naturally ashamed and indignant
They lnow that he might have obtained a
jack-kuife by simply asking for it.
A religion of the bare intelligence makes
everything disputable; ofthe feelings, every
tnng vague; OF the conscience, everything
rigid. Intelligence in religion gives form to
feeling, feeling gives warmth to conscience,
and conscience gives firm basis to BOTH
Kerr.
| Ex-Secretary Boutwell, has some mysteri-
Gus grudge against the City of Chattanooga.
He declares that it is destined to become the
Pittsburg of the Southwest 1t is rarely that
man surrounded by such powerful moral
influences, attains such refinement of spite.
| A fellow walking through 4 church-yard,
stumbled upon the inscription: 81 am not
dead but sleeping" Disguised at what he
deemed manifest attempt to impose upon
travellers, he exclaimed: "Well, ifI was dead,
by thunder r: own itp'
This is the season for brass bands to puff
themselves up with the idea that people have
to keep awake all night to fight bugs and
mosquitoes, and that it Is pleasanter 10 per-
form such duties to the accompaniment of
| war-like airs and funeral marches. ...
Working of the optional system at Dart
mouth: Calculus and Greek are optional dur
| ing part of the course. The following ex-
| tract from the first recitation of certain
| class in Calculus Is instanced: Professor-R.,
what is the object of studying Calculuss
RIO get rid OF Greek, sir.-Dartmouth An
uil itr au.. VI
In the midst of the gloomy feeling, that
equally possess the inhabitants of town and
country, when Winter slops over teo outrage
ousfy in the lap of Spring, 1t is some comfort
to hear that one of those seemingly invinci-
BILE prize-package fiends has just been killed
on Western railroad. ~ q d7s
1t Is recorded of that suffering saint. D.
| Pratt, Esq, that once while addressing
small but enthusiastic crowd in close room
| filed with tobacco smoke, the old man stop
ped for moment from contemplating "The
specially of all specialties," and in his own
| characteristic way remarked, Gentlemen,
your speaker amt ham,"
1t is now definitely settled that the theat-
rical and amusement managers generally, to-
gether with the ''stars" and leading members
of the profession, are to assemble in New
York, in July next, in convention. to take
action in relation to obtaining special rates
and better facilities on the principal railroads.
1t is proposed to form themselves into a CO.
| operative society, elect officers, and meet
each July in New York city, in furtheranee
of their interests.
| Corporal chastisement is sometimes good
| for school boy, and if he can be induced to
take il without fuss so much the better.
There are various ways of bringing this
about. A school ma am in Haverhill, Mass,
finding boy one more than she could handle
persuaded him to take deserved fogging
without resistance by arranging that he
should have his choice from litter of bran
new puppies. That teacher is woman of
e1pedients, and will get along with the school
If the supply of puppies holds out.
"Georgey, boy" said the grandfather to
the future father of his country, "Benjy
Franklin's father is soap boiler, and he 10
going to grow up and call down nre from
heaven. Yours is not, yet you are not who'll
| ly uninstructed, my son, in the science Of
chemistry. Tell me, thea, since have now
leached these cherry-wood ashes for more
than week, i, the liquid ready for the addi-
tion of soap grease? The hero OF Mon
mouth, Trenton and such, let up for space
upon the stick he was whiting to reply,
with all the ingenuoasness of childish igno-
rance, "Father, cannot tell lye." After
| that he passed into history. r '... r,...a