The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-01-27
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY MORNING., JAN. %. 1874
Gossip and Gleanings.


VERY, pery blo.ld hair is row called ''the
light fantastic tow"
The significant name of the Vice President
of the Iowa State Temperance Society is Tod
Hunter.
have upheld the theory for nigh on to fifty
years, we are told that the rattles on rattle
snakes tail don't indicate his age.
oplcer thinks tSe strongest case of egotsm
he ever heard OF was where his friend Snips
advertised for bushelwoman, and a Miss
Peck applied for the situation.
Profanity never did any man the least good.
No man is richer, or happier, or wiser for 1t.
1t commends no one 10 society; it is disgust
ing to the refind, and abomniable to the good.
''What is more exhilarat:ng sight," asks
Vermont paper, ethan to see eighteen hand
Nineteen, answers the Boston Post.
In California obituary it is stated that
"the deceased was person OF romanti, ma
ture.. He placed the brcech of his gun in the
fire, and looking down the muzzle, departed
hence instantaneOusly."
A young clergyman, small of stature,
preaching as candidate in a certain place,
one Sabbath, peer:ng over the pulpit Bible,
announced as his text: ''It is 1. Be not
afraid"
A girl eighteen years old in Paris, is under
treatment for singular disease of the visual
organs, the peculiarly of which is that while
she can read and write readily when it is dark
she loses the faculty of sight in daylight.
Coleridge, when lecturing while young
man, was once violently hissed, He i'm
mediately retorted: when cold stream o.
truth is poured on red-hot prejudces, no
wonder that they hiss.'
Mr.. Marrowfat knows his wife is "dreadful
uneasy when the fre-bells ring, but he
could not help giving expression to some re-
night and found the basement hall full of
watering pots.
"Upon the valleys lap,
The dewy morning throws
thousand pearly drops,
To wake a single rose.
Thus often, in the course
OF lfe's few Heeting years,
A single pleasure costs
The soul thousand tears.''
The editor of the Courier-Journal happen
ed across this item: "A magnificent punch
bowl, inlaid with gold, of the most gorgeous
description, is to be presented to the most at
tractlve gentleman of the Bachelors Ger
man, in Washington, this Winter" But he
says they can't inveigle him into that sink
hole of corruption by the promise of punch
| bowl.
A boy who displayed long, dangling watch
chain, was asked:-
''What's the time of day, Jim?"
The lad drew out his watch very ceremoni-
ously, and after examining it for while, re-
ferred TO another boy, and said:-
''Is this the figure nine or the figure sew
en?''
He was told that i. was the figure seven.
"Well, them said the genius, sit lacks
just about half an inch of eight.
A minister went to professor of elocution
in Philadelphia TO enter upon course of in
struction, whereupon the professor gave him
as an exercise Willis hymn, the first line of
which was read after this style:
The perfect world, by Adam trod;
At this point he was interrupted by the
professor calling to his daughter in an ad-
joining room, and inquiring: Daughter,
have you ever read, THE perfect world, by
Adam Trod.'" The daughter, with a quiz
zical expression, responded, '.No, father,
Pve not met with the work: is it recent
publication ?"
A country fellow entered one of the New
York banks, and, walking up to the. counter,
exclaimed: "Here am. want you to take
fair look at me-" Without word further,
he strobe out. The next day the same Gus
toner reapreared, uttered the same words,
and again disappeared. The third day, at
about the same time, he walked in, and, ad
vancing to the teller's desk, threw down a
draft payable three days after sight. Now
said he, you've seen me three times. Iwant
the money for it,"
There is a station on the Selma and
Meridian Railroad named Cuba. A few
nights since as the train with an emigration
agent and a crowd of freedmen going West,
reached this point, the brakeman put his
head inside the car door, and sung out
sCubav' One old darkey rose, and as his
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