The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-05-21
Echoes of the Dav.

Under the caption of Echoes of the
Day." the Brooklyn argus gives bright and
fresh editorial paragraphs on current topics
So bright indeed are they that fallible editors
cannot resist the impulse to steal them. The
Argus, justly proud of its bantlings, strenu-
ously objects to this conveying" not bear
ing in mind that for lazy man it is easy to
cavort round an item with pair of scissors,
but some labor to credit it. For this stealing
our Brooklyn contemporary is responsible,
inasmuch as4it throws such a powerful temp
tation in the editorial way. frequently in
the selected matter on the first page of this
paper will be found items from the argus,
very often without credit. Without doubt
items will continue to appear from the same
source, sometimes without credit. When
ever selected paragraphs are seen, unusually
bright, it will be safe to credit them to the
Brooklyn Argus, or Rochester Democrat, or
New York Commercial Advertiser, or New
York Mail tf5
As a just acknowledgment, prop itiatory
offering, debt of conscience and collection of
good things combined the following iteros are
given from the Brooklyn paper: 'n
Another fine Illustration of that Yankee
ingenuity about which we hear so much, is
the discovery that the best way to escape the
annoyance of water bugs running about the
floor, is TO pull off their legs.
A critic of "Lohengrin'' writes that hith-
erto, Emusic has been feminine-infinitely
lovely, but with the meekness of Eve" We
never heard the ''Anvil Chorus without
re alzing this. There is something in the
sturdy cordiality with which those dirty-faced
| uyns;os pnupd tbat anvil which 10 iufinitalv
| feminine, and which appeals very powerfully
| to the feelings, particularly OF married men.
The Washington Chronicle also employs
one of those eagle-eyed fiends who sweep
their shears majestically around paragraph,
and then can't keep sober long enough to Ie-
member where they got it from. t'f
Philadelphia is going to have a flower mis-
sion. How much better is this than sitting
upon beer kegs all day and hale the night,
spinning vain webs of Centennial fancyl
Literary Gossip.-The forthcoming match
between two prominent New York editors, to
see who can write the best editorial while
suspended by their feet from the telegraph
wire, is all the talk in intellectual circles.
The lady who advertised for fashionable
Protestant hair-dresser, has received an i'm
pertinent note from fellow signing himself
IA Calvinistic Capillarist."
a MASSACHUSETTS, Woinan locheu ner me
| briateG husband in the garret to reform him,
| and as soon as he got sober enough, he hung
| himself with Dio Lewis neck-tie.
IL is stated that Mrs. Pleasant, of Missouri.
| shot a photographer last week, because he
| represented her with turned-up nose. 1t
was an unpleasant occurrence, to be sure
| bit it seems to US that the artist was Grim
inaly negligent in not having previously as
certained what kind of nose Mrs. Pleasant
preferred.
Several fashionable young ladies of New
York have entered into solemn covenant
with each other never to marry man who
cannot walk mile in nine minutes.
The Pittsburgh Commercial accuses the
Boston Post of mental disorder. Mental DIS
orders are apt to skip Pittsburgh, and lne
human mind there preserves health y insig-
nifcance.