The Portland daily press., 1874-02-20
Gossip and Gleanings.

DTedkI EdilI DIcdk!
Sings the Tempter with fendish glee,
And oh! would never had uttered
These notes now presented to me.
Oil well for the fsh-market boy,
And the tailor's young man, and ba-
Ker's assistant, and student Of Butch
Ery-wcll for them all, say-(sarcdsm).
III.
As with heart-breaking duns they come
From their hucksrer- shops under the hill,
And oh! for the touch Of vanished hand
That would make their voices still.
The contented man is never poor, the dis
contented is never rich.
Ohio wives anxiously telegraph from point
to point, 'Where's Lewis now?"
Never sigh over what might have been
but make the best of what is.
Young Lady-'Did you know Strauss was
dead?' Second ditto-"It is only the theo-
logan, though. ."-Boston Post.
The Democratic legislature of Western Vir-
ginia recently passed law ''to prevent the
owners of hogs from running at large"
"Block your hat while you wait for fifty
cents" is sign displayed in a shop window
on Fulton street. Our Young man from the
West says he has waited in vain for the fifty.
Never be sorry for any generous thing that
you ever did even if it was betrayed. YoL
canuot afford to keep on the safe side by be-
ing mean.
The most eventful day Of the year, accord
ing to the newspapers, is-''the other day."
More things happen at that time than at any
other.
A gentleman writing letter, concluded it
as follows: "Give Everybodys love to Ev-
erybody, so that Nobody NAV be aggrieved
by Anybody being forgotten by Somebody"
Honest and courageous people have very
little to say about either their courage or
their honesty. The sun has no need to
boast ofhis brightness nor the moon Of her
effulgence.
A Custom-house Office at Island Pond mis-
took the pannier of lady traveller for her
portnanteau. and she soon collapsed, leaving
thirty-three yards of silk, three yards OF vel
vet, any many other nice little articles.
An Illinois paper speaks with cheerful con-
fidence of ''Wilkie Collins, the great French
poets" and we dare say this is the most crael
euce in this country, always excepting the
empty benches.
According 10 the new directory, the Dis
trict of Columbia contains no less than four
Thomas Jefiersons, three James Madisons,
four John Adamses, three John Quincy
Adanses, and twenty-seven Oeorge Wash
ingtons.
The following dialogue was csverheard in
Vicksburg: ''Say, Jim, Use noticed sOmefn'
in dis town, is you?' 81 dunno whedder is
or no, 81, what is it?' ''lt's dis. Is yen no
ticed when strange darky comes here, dat
mounts to somefin' de white follss say, "Who
is dat colored mani? but the coud people
say, who is dat nigga?' Jim niger amt
got no sense, nohsw." "Dat's so, 81, sho's
yer born"
Little five-year-old Annie, who was suffer-
ing from bad cold, went to pay visit to
auntie. During the day she related her va
rious successes at school, and ended by de-
claring that she could read a great deal better
than Sakina, who was eight years cd.
"Well," questioned auntie, 'would it not
sound better If some one else said it?' "fes,
answered Annie, with very sober counte-
nance, s'I think it would. have such bad
cold that can't say it very we'll"
Detroit Free Press: ".About eleven O'Clock
Friday night policeman met negro carry
ing trunk along Lafayette street East, and
thinking he had discovered an item, he collar
ed the negro and told b I'm to drop that trunk
and explain. 4 kin d. It, sah,' replied the
stranger, as he put he trunk down. Dt
family what was boar ding me has been sxl
for money, and as dey- was gone out to 'n'gn'
] thougb,e I'd git into some family wnai uey
respected de panic He was ailoweu !" ~