The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-23
THE PRESS,
MONDAY MORNING, FEB. 2s. 1874
Gossip and Gleanings.

MONDAY MORNING, FEB. 2S. 1874
Gossip and Gleanings.
We believe Jack Frost has uot yet been
suggested as the author of Beautiful Snow.
Time IS short. and if your cross be heavy,
remember you have not far to carry it.
A gentleman of Jackson, Tenn, has pre-
served in alcohol, a bed-bug which was caught
In a bed that General Jackson slept in.
female Exquisite: 'Quite nice ball at
Mrs. Millefeur's, wasn't itp, Male ditto:
very quite. Indeed, really most quite.o
The Waite family. from which the Chief
Justice descended, were the first settlers of
the town of Maiden, Mass.
For the first time in five years the county
jail yesterday was without lady boarder.
And the boys were sad.-Chicdgo Inter
Ocean.
A Sioux City hotel has a black-and-tan
dog that killed a thousand rats in a month.
This is good puff for the dog, but is hard on
the hotel.
The religion founded by Buddha is older
by six centuries than that founded by Christ
and professed by 100000 of the human
race.
Waiting for things to turn up is unphlo-
sophical as well as improbable. Things will
turn up just as fast and as often while you
are working as while you are waiting.
An English Judge, Baron Anderson, ON be-
ing asked to give his opinion as to the proper
length of sermon, replied, "Twenty min
utes, with leaning to the side of mercy"
The following advertisement is posted near
Western depot on the front of small res
taurant: "Lunch, twenty-five cents dinner,
fifty; real gorge, seventy five cents.
An Indiana paper thus politely expresses
an opinion of judge: ''He knows just
about as much Of law as mule does of min
eralogy-the~chances being in favor of the
mule"
A drummer who was greatly addicted tc
whiskey, was asked by reviewing officer what
made his nose so red. "Please your honor u
said he, 81 always blush in the presence Of a
general officer.''
1t is pleasant to know that the Texas mis-
sionaries have established Sunday schools
in Black Jack, Lazy Cove, Rat Skin, Coon
Hollew, Wolf Creek, Sleepy Hollow, Bull
Mountain, Smokey Hollow, and Goose
Creek.
For pure grit and long-continued patience
you want to 60 to Toledo. A young lady in
that town has sent one hundred and sixteen
pieces OF poetry to newspaper, and though
all have been rejected she is struggling with
another.
| In England they are not satisfied with put
ting alnm in bread and iron in tea, but have
also taken to adulterating turkeys. A dealer
in Norwich found method of stuffing thei
breasts with pork fat. One of his customer,
took over four pounds of that material from
his turkey.
| Mr.. Beecher resents arguments against hi
theological vagaries by this little story, which
is funny and good: Our Western critics, BY
their rare power of seeing what is not to b
seen, remind us of the doctor, who always
treated his juvenile patients for "worms, u
whatever might happen to be their symptoms.
One day, being called to boy who was suf-
fering severely, he felt the pulse, and looking
at the mother, with solemn shake of the
head, said, ''Worms, madam, worms p
''Now, DOCTOR" said the mother, sit ism t
worms at all, 1 tell ye; that boy fell down on
the woodpile and broke his leg, and want
you to stop crying worms and set it imme-
diately." "Ahr' said the doctor, determined
not to be put down, ''worms in the wood,
madam, worms in the woodp'
The correspondent of the Cincinnati Times
writing of the visit of the legislative commit.
tee to Newburg Insane ASYLUM, says, "One
| ofthe fatherly Senators stepped up to one o.
the young lady attendants and said, "My
poor girl, do you know how long you have
have been here?" The poor grP smiled ard
replied, Nearly year, "How long do you
think you will have to stay" continued the
Senator in the same sympathetic tone. 'Well'
SIR continued the fair lunatic, I shall proba-
bly, stay till they stop my wages or get mar
ried.' And she walked away laughing. The
kind-hearted Senator looked after her with
tears in his eyes and murmured, Poor thing
poor thing! while the poor thing related
the affair to the matron and laughed till she
cried.''
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