The Portland daily press., 1873-03-24
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THE PRESS.
MONDAY MORNING, MAR. "a. 1878.

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MONDAY MORNING, MAR. "a. 1878.
Gossip and Gleanings.
Ourhomes should be as holy as our churches
to say the least.
Punch says Mr.. Carlyle's works will short
ly be translated into English.
Dubuque boasts of German who never
drank a glass of lager in his life. He must be
very young.
The Prince Imperial is enjoying himseit oy
opening thirty letters per day which promise
TO assassinate him as soon as possible.
Eggs are six cents a dozen in Columbia,
Ga. and the people revel in custard pies
eighteen inches thick.
The wise nightingale that leaves her home,
Her native wood when storms and winter come.
Pursuing constantly the cheerful spring
10 foreign groves does her old music bring.
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The latest mode de Paris is to have ones
furs trimmed with lace; which is something
like having hot plum-pudding with ice-cream
sauce. c
Spurgeon dislikes the prefix "Rev." and
has informed his friends that be will send to
the dead-letter Office all letters to himself
having it in the address.
"They will ask thee concerning wine and
lots; Answer-In both there is great sin.
and also some things of use unto men; but
their sinfulness is greater than their use.n-
Al Koran Of Mohammed.
Mr.. Bessemer says he can produce gun
capable of throwing ten-ton ball. Bessem-
er had better get up gun that can throw
baseball so chap can hit it without putting
his shoulder out of Joint.
At place in China appropriately named
Loo Chew, the indignant populace recently
l:nched an evil-doer by tying him to post
and biting him to death, which is perhaps the
Mongolian idea of trial by bhewry.
The intellect has only one failing, which,
to be cure, is very considerable one; 1t has
no conscience. Napoleon is the readiest in
stance of this. If his heart had oorne any
proportion to his brain he had been one OF
the greatest men in all history.-LoceH.
The GazzettG d Italia, the official journ-
al of the Kingdom Of Italy, gravely announc-
es that the Emperor of the French was at
tended in his last moments by the English
priest "Goddam." And the Rev. Mr.. God
dard feels libelled. sIt
What picture of patient misery Is baby
with its rubber ring! Really one sees some
times in the little puckered, twisting face
such grotesque prophecy of future con flcts,
such likeness to the souls process of Crap
pling with problems, that it is uneanny.
H. 81.
When yet noe leafe is on the tree
And daies are shorte, and snowejies on the hille,
The robin comes, and cheerfullie sings he,
In brave red veste, and gladnesse doth fulflle
His littel harte; rnd Of his goodlie song
Each note for simple joie he doth prolong
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no
permanently wise man. but men capable of
wisdom, who, b ing put into certain company
or other favorable conditions, become wise for
short time, as glasses rubbed acquire cleo
trio power for while Emerson.
A trustworthy milliner of mature years as
scrts that feathers will soon be worn as pani-
ers. The idea is said to have flashed upon
the intellect of a lady of fashion while she
was observing the winning ways of the big
ostrich in Central Park
A fond father recently wrote: SIT gener-
| ally takes ten years of training to eradicate