The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-02-19
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. FEB. 10, 1874
Gossip and Gleanings.

THURSDAY MORNING. FEB. 10, 1874
Gossip and Gleanings.
Prosperity makes friends; adversely tries
them.
1t is better to carve your name on hearts
than marble.
Opportunities are like flowers that fade at
| hisht; seize them, therefore, while they last.
lurpan hats OF seal skin are only suitable
'of school girls. A great many middle aged
women are quite unmindiul of this fact.
In Arkansas, when man walks into a
house and shoots the proprietor, he is styled
"an intruder"
Here is the newest floral sentiment: eff
you wish for hearts ease, don't look to mari
gold"
A Nova Scotia woman was lately tried in
Portland, for having two husbands, and no
one thought of urging in her defence the
name OF the town she came from-Pictou.
| Com. Bulletin.
If one wishes TO put distractng conun-
drum to sewing circle, let him ask what
pattern of sewing machine is preferred.
There will be no lack of conversation after
that query.
Abiding To the death of citizen recently,
the Dai.bury Ne,os remarks, "with the single
exception of twenty three years ago, when
he took few lessons on violin, his life has
been blamrless.
As rich and pretentious Shoddyite was
looking at some paintings which he proposed
to buy the dealer pointed to fine one and
said ''There is dog after Landseer." SIS
it really?' exclaimed the pretender 'What
is the dog after him for?'' ''-Independent
When married man goes to roost on an
ash barrel under the stoop, from one o'clock
A, M. until daybreak, instead of seeking his
own comfortable bed, there is hardly doubt
of the fact that something is the matter with
his night key.
A few days since prominent lawyer in st.
Cloud Minnesota, carried home a nice young
turkey, but was told by the servant girl that
it must be very old, as it had lost all its teeth
-whereupcn said lawyer was greatly surpris-
ed, and replied that he had not particularly
" ft,o frl rl>ax, hut lo<l
upon the butcher, who said it was young.
Among the accounts of outrages by the red
men there are intimations of their being badly
treated by the white men, which deserves to
be kept in mind to show that the atrocities
may not have been unprovoked. The In
| dian is not fascinating person outside
novels, but agents, sDeculators and dwellels
on the frontiers are far from being renowned
for all the virtues.
Ladies who own handsome straw bonnets
and wish to wear them again next season
may restore them by washing them with soap
and water ard hard BRUSH Rinse in cold
water and dry in the air. Then to bleach it
| d
ing sulphur has been put. and cover it up,
may have The desired effect.
A little boy was playing with couple of
pennies, the other evening, which a friend
had given him, and putting his finger on one
Of them, said ''Ths one am going t, give
| to the heathen." He kept on playing till at
lact Of bo ho
could not find it. (which one have you
lost?" inquired the friend. ''The one was
| going to give to the heathen," replied the
| cherub.
! As soon as the Congr ssional chaplain clos
es his appeal to the throne of grace, there is a
| clapping of hands all over The floor. 1t is the
way the members have OF calling pages to
their side. Every Congressman begins his
days labor by giving an order to messenger;
hence thu clappng is universal and uproari-
Gus. swell, that beats me-" said an elderly
man in the gallery. with mud on his boots,
which looked as though il had been brought
from the other side Of the Potomac, II don't
see anything in that prayer worth cheering"
A Heatben's Idea.-The Virginia City
| New Enterprise relates the following:
"Rding along trail on the crest of a noun
tain ridge, east of the Lower Sink of the
Carson, in 1860, in company with a Piute
Captain, we came upon an old grave-a
mere sunken spot few feet off the trail.
There said the Captain, there lies one of
my men, He was good man. We buried
him there four years ago. Said we, IS he
in there yet% No. said the brave, point
ing upward, 'he is there-he is in Pah-ah's 8
country Now, said we, wishing to draw
out his notions iu regard to the Immortality
OF the soul, now, suppose we were to dig
there, should we not find the skull of your
man-his thigh bones and his ribs?' Yes,
answered the Indian, we should find these
Then how can he be in Pah-ah country p
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