The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-18
THE PRESS,
SATURDAY MORNING. OCT. Is, 1873
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
A reporter of Louisville paper recentlv
found pocket-bOok filled with money. and
Immediately handed it over to the police as
the money was counterfeit.
Speaking truth is like writing fair, and
comes only by practice; it is less a matter of
will than of habit; and l doubt If any occa-
sion can be trivial which permits the practice
and formation of such habit Ruskin.
Whale skins are reported to be gradually
supplanting cow-hides in the Northwestern
cordwainery market. They are not only quite
waterproof, but possess the additional advan-
tage that pair of Michigan-sized boots may
be made from single skin without piecing.
1t is sometimes very annoying to have peo-
pie volunteer information upon subjects in
regard to which their ignorance is remarka-
BILE; but that man was simply aggravating
who said that Pennsylvania is so called be-
cause the lead pencil was invented there,
man must invest himself near at hand
and in common things, and be content with
a steady and moderate return, if he would
know the blessedness of a cheerful heart and
the sweetness of a walk over the round earth.
This is lesson the American has yet to learn
-capability of amusement on low key.
Gail Hamilton knows a woman who "can
speak Greek as naturally as pigs squeak; to
whom Latin is no more difficle than to a
blackbird tits to WHISTLE; who dreams in
German and thinks in French; who vet en-.
broiders her own capes and gowns and those
of her friends.
There are frequently observed very curions
analogies between men and other brutes.
Now, down in. Martinsburg, West Virginia,
lately, rat abstracted money enough from
the drawer of a bar-keeper to start bank Of
his own. Finally there was a run on his
bank and he absconded, leaving assets enough
to pay just so per cent. of his Indebtedness.
In accounting for the universal popularity
OF Shakspeare's greatest tragedy, Hazlitt re.
marks that though Hamlet is but name
and though his speeches and sayings are but
the idle coinage of the poets brain, yet they
are as real as our thoughts. st is we wh(
are Hamlet"
A farmer lost a gimlet in the woods nea
Monticello, Minn., three years ago, and th,
other day cut down an iron-wood tree, fast il
the forks of which he found-not gimlet
but three-quarter inch auger! He is sorry
he didn't wait year or two longer, as a two
inch auger was just what he wanted.
A good little boy in st. Adams told his Bis
brother that if he would put his toe upon the
chair he would cut it off. His big brother
laughingly complied, when the little fellow
deliberately chopped it off with hatche.
The good little boy couldn't tell lie, ant
will probably have his head put on postag'
stamps hundred years hence.
An invention has lately been exhibited a
Vienna. for petrifying dead people so com
pletely that they are just like marble, and cal
be planed and polished and wrought into an
desirable form. This will enable people +
carve their dead friends into mantel orns
ments, or other souvenirs, or use them 70
af ha
Warren, Penn, has a set of polite thieves
When one of them robs man he writes ;
polite note, leaving it in the place of th
missing articles, explaining to the victim th,
manner in which the robbery was committed
Mr.. Isaac Eddy paid $3.50 in greenbacks
the other day, for piece of brown paper
the only writing material the light-fingere,
gentleman could lay his hands on at tn
ime.
The history of the tune known as Bonn,
Doom is certainly very queer. A goo,
many years ago Mr.. James Miller was il
company with other musicians and poets, an,
talking about Scotch music, Miller expressed
an ardent desire to write some Scotch music
Mr.. Clark, by the way of joke, told him t.
keep to the black keys of his harpsichord anc
preserve some kind of rhythm, and he would
invariably write Scotch air Cartain n IL