The Portland daily press., 1874-01-01
Il Fl e PR SS.
rHURsDAY MORNING.. JAN. l. Is74.
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and Gleanings.
Kind words cost no hing but are worth
much.
Never state anything as fact OF which you
have not positive knowledge.
The smile is the buI of the full blown laughter,
1he bud CONES first and the bloom comes after;
Snow is such luxury in California that
when it fall the entire population turns out
to SNOWFALL Cinnamon.
With hat in hand and wishing our friends
every Happy New Year," we here make
our profoundest bow
1t is remarkable popularity with debts
that their expanding power CONTINUES to in
crease as you contract them.
A minister having remarked ''there would
be nave in the new edlfice the society was
erecting," an old lady said 'sshe knew the
person 10 whom he referred"
Leigh Hunt was asked by lady, if he
would not venture on an orange Madam"
he replied, II should be happy to do so, hnt
am afraid shoad tumble off,
A speaker at Cape Cod celebration was
surprised to find that the language he
had stated was from tie Bible was really a
familiar quotation from "Gulliver Travels .
Fat men are encouraged to go to the thea
tres in 1t. Louis because one of them hap
pened to be in the way the other evening
when gymnast ,issed bis hold, and the
gymnast wasn't hurt bit.
81 will forfeit my head if you are not
wrong" exclaimed dull and warm orator,
TO the President Moptesquieu, in an argu-
ment. 81 accept" replied the philosopher,
''any trlfe among friends has value.''
II you are wise man you will treat the
world as tie moon does; show it only one
side o yourself, seldom show yourself too
much az once, and let what you show be
calm, cool and polished.
The epitaphs of Dakota papers are most
pathetic. Jim Barret has been sboveline
snow, from which he caug It bad cold, az d
died. He won't have to shovel snow in lie
country where he has gone to.
If you have talents, industry will improve
them; it moderate abilities, industry will sup.
ply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied 10
well-di: eoted labor; nothing is ever to be OBJ
tanned without it.
A shatp Hartford girl with an eye to
Christmas presents. attended both a Bapti>t
and an Episc palian Sunday school, aid al
went well until she gave several answers Out
of her Baptist lesson book TO questions in the
Catechism, and then the churcEmen dropped
her.
Delighted to see you,' said an old gentle
man at whose elbow Hewlett had srtti ID him
self in New York horse ca, The other Gay
.'syod cant tell how deli GIFTED l am to see
you" ''Beg rardon,'' says H., ''but cant
for the life Of me remember tina. we hav.
met before" Like enough so," replied the
old gentleman, ''but nat to the point. / an
delighted to see a,ybody next me wao' !.
clearly not pickpocket.'
Two darkiesir the West went out to hun
possums, and by accident found large cave
with a small entrance. Peeping in they dis
covered three young bear whelps in the int
rior ''Look heah. Sam, while go ip dar,
says one, ''and gets de young bars ,ut you
just watch heah for de ole bar" Sam @,
asleep in the sun, and when opening his ey.
he saw the old bear securing her way into The
cave. Quick as wink be caught Ter by tn,
TIL, and held on ike bazes. '.Fullo, dar
Sam, what dark the hole dar?' 'sLor bles
you, Jumbo. save your elf honey; if $ tai
come out you II find what dark de hole.'
A cross-eyed man cast gloom over a De
troit street car, last Wednesday, by address
ing one ofthe seven men, and strangers, or
the opposite seat, ''ifhe had any chewing &C.
bacco handy" First, the seven strange r.
looked at each other. Then the seven hands
went pocketward, and, upon observing this
m ,tion, each ofthe seven supposed his neigh.
b r the ore spoken TO, and the seven re
turned empty. The cro,s-eyed men cast a
ricohet glance OF Indignation along the l:ne.
and with the remark, "a sweet-scented lot o!
| generous roosters,'' took chew of his own
tobacco.