The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-30
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 80, 1878
Gossip and Gleanings.

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The Boston Transcript felicitously calls
Murray's "Mystic Park Street Church,
The French Assembly meets on the 5th of
November. The Parisian authorities had
better get new street opened, and ready to
be named.
Mrs. Patterson, daughter of Andy John
son, makes better butter than any other wo-
man in Tennessee; and yet she doesn't as
Dire to be so much as alderman of her native
village,
A new bird.of-paradise has turned up in
New Guinea. Its colors are green, copper,
violet and golden, and, when its plumage is
expanded, the bird appears to have formed
two golden semi-circles about itself.
An impecunious resident of Hooperton, H.,
recently stole locomotive to go to the Chi
cago exhibition, and would have got there if
he hadn't happened to meet another locomo-
tive on the same track.
Vicksburg offers reward for the recovery
OF an old lady, aged one hundred and eleven,
who, it is supposed, had been kidnapped by
some felonious journalist from rival city,
desirous to secure her obituary for his own
local items.
The English people are so small minded
that they've had the Secretary of the Great
Eastern Steamship Company before a magis-
trate for the triiing irregularity of an alleged
forgery of paltry $50, 900 worth of dividend
script. .
English Catholics are going to protect home
piety against the cheap competition Of pau
per foreign saints by organizing pilgrimages
to the domestic shrines of ST. Edward tn
| Confessor, st. Swithin, st. Thomas of Can
terbury, &c.
Lace shades are rapidly superseding linen
for front windows of fashionable domiciles.
The new styles are very elegant, copies ol
statuaiy being woven in the lace, surround
ed by wreaths of flowers. Monograms are
also displayed, and black velvet squares are
sewed on this inside that the effect may be
better seen from the street.
! Says the Detroit Free Press, "Fire sho
gun in any direction in this country, and yot
hit poet" Nobody but newspaper edi
tor can understand what horror this dreadfu
statement is capable of inspiring. As h,
reads it a doleful train of MSS. passes goblin
like before him, and life seems but horrit
dream.
Mrs. Oates of Green county, Georgia, get.
only $4,000 for husband killed on the rail
way; and when one reflects that in the ordi
nary course of human events woman get
but one husband in lifetime, and has hare
work to get him, the sum seems ridiculously
small. 1t would be different if man nigh
sacrifice himself in that way two or three
times; but we never yet saw husband wht
was able to do it.
In the great masters of pathos our tears ar
not drawn from us; they flow of themselves
| There is no design on the sOftness of ou
hearts, no insidious undermining no painful
and elaborate besiegement. For writers t,
kill, merely to melt their readers with seen
| of tender emotion, is unjustifiable manslaugh
ter. There is, in short, nothing to be said 70
those whose delight it is with malice afore
thought to spread feast of woe and serve u
little children, sor any sweet human thing
they can lay hands on, that their guests ma
enjoy the luxury of tears. These are tn
Herods of lterature.-Quarterly Reriew.