The Portland daily press., 1874-04-21
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL p. 1s74
Gossip and Gleanings

Gossip and Gleanings.
Hickory, Dockery, Dick,
Our fleet came home too quick.
For they're at it again,
| Those butchers from Spain,
| Quick! rescue poor Dockery, Dick.
In New Hampshire they value skinned
mllk at two cents quart for feeding pigs.
we pay ten cents quart for it for feeding
oables.-Lou. Cour-Joarnat.
A lady correspondent of Western journal
thinks there ought to be statute oflimitation
against the temperance of long-lost hus
bands.
"Apollo. LII it be true that you learned to
play the jews-harp when a boy, we. cannot
see any good reason why you should not ap-
| ply for the position of musical critic on some
leading journal.
| There is fortune awaiting Secretary Rich
ardson somewhere in Europe, and we beg to
remark to him very earnestly that it can be
secured only through his immediate presence
and his personal exertion on the ground.
A Louisville boy wanted to leave cold
world in which his mother would Only give
him two pieces of pie for dinner, and so he
swallowed several percussion caps, but they
didn't kill him.
The Chicago Post says of a literary gentle
v,oor nft hot .kr.
those mild blue orbs are indeed the slumber-
ing fires of genius. He is also a very good
young man. With the exception of few
games of ma cbles played on Sundays, while
boy, his life has been without reproach."
1t is high time that dogs were given origi-
nal and characteristic names. Let us confer
fame, then, on Penny" Pottsville, Pa,
poodle, whose owner thus named him be-
cause the dog was one cent 10 him, and has
had ten mills with cat. Like every other
bad penny, this one always comes back.
Rather a keen piece of sarcasm is INDUCED
in by the author of ''Eldorado," now bur-
lesque at the Strand Theatre, London. He
makes the son of one of the characters well
come his father TO Paris, and ask him if he
had pleasant railway journey. "Oh, yes,"
says the parent, .'capital, we had railway
accident" 'Indeed! What was it ?'' says
the son, "We arrived safelyp'
There is something in the free air of the
great Northwest, that frequently develops
beautiful simplicity of character. A Lima.
Wisconsin, young lady recently eloped with
human antique, old enough to be her
grandsire, and gave as a reason that there
were six girls in her fathers family, while
this poor man hadn't any.
Young ladies' waists, the Herald of Health
says, indicate, when they are like an hour
glass, that the sands of life will run out soon.
Very true; but isn't it better to look pretty
and be happy for brief period than to be
ugly and awkward through long and un-
pleasant lifep We don't say it is; but the
debating societies will please consider the
question.
Landlord Keith :, OF Salina, was once not-
1ied by genrIeman TO please reserve him a
seat at the table by tipping up a chair,
which he did. When the train stopped for
supper rush was made for the table, and
soon all were seated except good-sized
Dutchman, who was about taking the re-
served seat, when Mr.. Keith told him that it
was reserved for gentleman. He replied:
"Mine friend. he has Gomez
|
Not long ago, writes Londan correspon-
dent, an eminent English authoress was leav-
ing an afternoon concert in London, when
two old ladies from the country, finding that
she was the writer of books that had delight
ed them, rushed up to her and begged per-
mission to kiss her hand. The authoress
blushed deeply and began tugging at her
tight-fitting glove. The glove was only with
drawn after minute or two Of effort, caus-
ing much embarrassment to the modest au-
thoress. A French gentleman, who had wit
messed the proceeding, remarked that if it had
been George Sand she would instantly have
thrown her arms around the old women and
kissed each on both cheeks.