The Portland daily press., 1874-01-28
THE PRESS,
MORNING, JAN. 2s, ,74.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 2S, '74.
Gossip and Gleanings.
All the brothers and sisters of Eng and
Chang were twins.
One of the Siamese Twins was much older
looking than the other.
Doctors motto-"Patient, and long suf-
fering."
1t did not take General Grant long after
Mrs. Caiy Stanton's nomination fo- the role
oi Portia to think the matter over.
IL Is somewhat singular fac. that every
! member OF Congress from Minnesota was
either born or spent the early part of his life
in Maine.
A Tennessee paper OF the 10th instant pub
fishes the Presidents message to Congress
last December. The Editor hal probably just
been released from Jail.
| Economy mnst come in somewhere. When
laiies wear SO much lace and silk about their
necks and collars, dress skirts must necessari-
| ly be narrow and scant,"
Employees on the Bay View Street Rail-
road in San Francisco have struck against
nineteen hours work each day. Wonder
they didn't strike BEFORE
Old Curmudgeon, who has always hated
the small boy, expresses his qualification at
the mildness of the winter. He expects
much from the thinness of the ice this year.
A bachelor agriculturist in this neighbor-
hood has concluded to get married. He says
it is impossible for him to run the farm and
take care of the pigs at tine same time
An Irishman, on being told that newly
invented stove would save just half his usual
fuel, replied. ''Arrah, then IN have two and
save it all, me jewell
We see il stated that "a man was mysteri-
ously knocked down and killed. in Cincinna-
ii one day last week. There is no occasion
for any mystery about it. The fellow had un-
doubtedly made pun on the new Chief JUS
tice's name.
A Buffalo Alderman had the misfortune
one evening last week to be taken to the sta
tion-house and locked up. He was very sleepy
at the time, aud his fist words upon awaking
the next morning were, ''No sugar, if you
please"
An old bachelor said:
s'There's more jewelry worn nowadays
piece that always admired which don't
often see now."
'sWhat is that?' asked young lady.
"a thimble," was the reply.
A 'ery good hit was made day or two
after election by one of the defea cand-
dates. A gentleman approached him with,
'Well, Mr.. -, how do you fee?" SWELL"
said he, II feel, suppose, pretty much as
| Lazarus did," 'As Lazarus did, said the
| first speaker, show is that?" 'Why," said
he, Lazarus was licked by dogs, and so have
l BEEN"
| A Scotch minister recently in dscoursirg
of certain class of persons who were obnox.
ious to him, concluded with this singular
peroration, ''My freens, it is as impossible
! for sinner to enter the kingdom of heaven
| as for COO to climb up a trce-wi her-teif
foremost, and harry a craw's nest; or far
500 to sit on the top of thistle and whistle
| like laverock."
Your mother is your best earthly friend.
The world may willfully do you many wrongs,
your mother never; the world may prosecute
| you while living, and when dead plant the
| ivy and nightshade of slander upon your
| CRASHES grave. but your mother will love
and cherish you while living, and if she sur
vive you, will weep for you when you are
dead, such tears as none but a mother can
weep. Love your mother.
| The glorious songster of our Southern for
ests, the mocking-b bird, is in danger of extir-
patton. Thousands are every year taken
| from the nests, only to die in their cages,
like the inhabitants OF some plague-stricken
city. Many fall beneath the fire of miscalled
! sportsmen, who shoot each feathered thing,
from a humming-bird to crow, and this
slaughter must be stopped. In one sense,
this noble warbler is the national bird of the
South, the pride and glory of that land in
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