The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-03-05
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 5. 1877
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
The song of toper-"That bright smile
haunts me still"
"Patrons of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS match
makers.
For spinst er to take the SIDE of a woman
OF AZ, requires AIDE.
Weston paper chronicles visit from q
travelling fifty-cent dollar store.
A patent ilon coffin dealer advertises that
those who have used his invention once will
use no other.
A voter praising favorite candidate at a
late Irish election said: ''He is as fine fellow
as ever lifted hat to lady, or boot to
blacksuard
1t is mortally aggravating to boy with
hard SNOWFALL in his hand to chase another
boy mile for the purpose of hitting him, and
then to miss him by about eight feet.
Boston money-tenders are looking about
for customers. Probably one of the most
difficult things in the world is to find some
body to whom to lend money.
When women war 'gainst rum and beer,
and close for aye each drinking place; then
shall the salty, silent tear, roll sadly down
each lunch-ffend's face.
There was a colored wedding in town last
week which boasted cards, nine roasted pigs
and hundred cakes, and tapered off with
three reception days.-[Columbus Miss In
deX.
st. Louis man staying in Boston hotel
where the bar is for safety located at the top
of the house, on inquiring where he could
get drink was answered in these memora
bic words. Fills de ST. Louis monte au ciel.
Good takers are becoming rare nowadays.
but are occasionally to be met with. Of one
whose conversation is very entertaining but
rather disconnected, witty lady once re-
marked, ooh yes, he's very clever, but he
talks like book in which are leaves occasion
ally missing"
1t is reported that young lady in Lancas-
ter has the letters Y. M. c. A. engraved on
one corner of her visiting-cards, which she
hands to certain gentlemen visitors. At first
they suppose she belongs to the Young Mems
Christian Association, bnt it is not long be-
fore they rightly construe the letters to mean,
''You May Come again."
A gentleman who has penetrated the east
ern section of Wetzel County, West Virginia
describes section O. about thirty square
miles where a newspaper, secular or religious
never finds its way. The mud and log shan
ties contain from eight to ten children each
and there was one family of fifteen persons
Indian meal, he says, is the chief article o
| food.
| Swansdown for trimming to opera sack
has been much affected this season. 1t
very becoming to most wearers, but rathe
embarrassing to gentlemen escorts Flakes Q
the soft material fly about with generous pro
fusion and lodge on the garments of nea
| neighbors, so that at the end of two act o
an opera, a gentleman in full dress SUI
looks like large blackbird just finishing tn
| cheerful process of mOulting and giving evl
dences of intentions to change into white
bird.-BOston Irooetler.
The editorial gossiper in Erery Saturday
L A. L T. mo-
turn to his native land in company with an
English emigraht of the best sort-an inteIli-
gent mechanic, who would have excited NO
surprise if he had been caught reading Erery
| Saturday, who had his wife and children and
| personal effects with him, and went about
diligently inquiring what steps he should
| take when he reached New York to find thu
Indians and their canoes in waiting to trans
port him up the Hudson, or some Othe
river, to Chicago. Here was brave dis
coverer."
In New Haven two students ventured tt
call upon two sisters with whom they hat
slight acquaintance. They were invited tt
the sitting-room, where beautiful domestic
scene presented ITSELF The mother wal
| reading aloud useful historical work, anG
her two daughters were industriously sewing
while listening. The youths were seated,
when the reading began again, and was con-
tinued without any signs of interruption. In
vain did the love-struck students seek to
catch the eyes of their adored; in vain were
all their manifestations of impatience. The
monotonous reading flowed on for two hours
or more, when the disappointed and dis.