The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-01-22
Gossip and Gleanings.
The tongue slow, and the eyes quick.

Gossip and Gleanings.
The tongue slow, and the eyes quick.
No man was ever so much deceived by
another as by himself
Liberality consists less in giving profusely
than in giving judiciously.
The collar which is superseding the Eliza
beth rufle is of white linen of extra thicknes
and is standing with broken ends.
Sun-dals mark only the bright hours.
Would it not be well if more people could i'm
itate them.
Assume all men to be honest whom you Go
not know; but never put it in any ones pow
er to cheat you in case he be rogue.
An Irish editor, in speaking OF the miseries
of ireland, says:-''Her cup of misery has
Eeen for ages overfowing, and is not yet full"
One who wishos the world to know what
he knows about farming, says that the best
way to raise strawberries is with spoon.
Have the courage to be ignorant of great
lumber of things, in order to avoid the ca
lamity of being ignorant OF everything
Sydney Smith, l.at
Coroohod,, fr;os 20 oxo,,so <l,a ,,aov>lo Of
Massachusetts, for not celebrating Forefathers'
Day, on the ground that the Pilgrims wese
only lot of blamed foreigners, any way.
i Useful industry does not so much consist
in being continually busy, as in doing prompt
ly those things which are of the first impor-
tance, and which will eventually prove most
profitable.
Which was the most industrious author,
Dickens, Bulwer, or Warren? Dickens
wrote GAN the Year Round;' Bulwer,
might and Morning;" Warren, "Now and
Then;' still, Warren wrote "Ten Thousand
a Year."
Grandmamma: t'Well, Charley, and what
have you learned to-day?" Charley: "Pneu-
matics, gra'ma-and can tell yoe such a
dodge. i'll was 20 put you under glass re-
ceiver, and exhaust the air, all your wrinkles
would come as smooth as grampa's headv'
Applejack was deferred from competing at
the last horticultural show, With couple OF
big pears, by the advice of sporting friend,
who told him some other fellow might show
three, and three of a kind always beat two
pairs.
A Chicago gentleman who advertises
himself as possessing 'sreligious character
and stfine moral distinctions" desires a
boarding-place where 'his pious example
and exemplary conduct will be appreciated,
and be made available as an equivalent fol
board"
when we have opened our hearts to them, is
true, but for all that, real wisdom will teach
us not to allow the flow of words to be turn
ed on as they turn on the waters of foun
tain, and then run them at full speed, bring
ing up everything, till it requires patent
screw in strong hand to stop them again.
On cold windy March day, I stopped at
an apple-stand, whose proprietor was rougn
looking Italian. l alluded to the severe
weather. when with cheerful smile and
tone. he re replied: eyes, pretty cold; but
nd-by-tink of datr' In other words
the time of warm skies, flowers, and songs, is
near. The humble vendcr little thought o.
the impression made by his few words. ''By
and-by-think of thatr.
Having to preach in the pulpit of the town
in which he four.d his wife, on the Sabbath
after his marriage, one maladreit minister
who had grown iron-gaav as bachelor
in his simplicity so tar forgot ak suggestions
possible to the occasion, as to announce
as his text: Job xxx. 2. and reat
amid the Iainiu, filters of the peo
pie, so that 1 were as in month:
past; as fin the days when God preserved
me?'
Archbishop Whately was tsnce occosted a
the table of the Lord-Lieut erant Of lrelant
by an aide-de-camp, with the question
"What is the difference. cur Grace, between
an archbishop and do,akey?" His Grace
owned that he did not know. "The atcn'
bishop has a cross on his breast, and the aoh'
kew on his back" Eyes, yes; on! see