The Portland daily press., 1874-03-10
Gossip and Gleanings.


"Glorios, like glow-worms atar off, shine bright;
But looked to near have neither heat nor light
It is said that in the making up of costumes
three shades of color will be very fashiona-
ble.
A Western paper speaks of a "maternal
grandmother" Does it know of any other
kind?
A Georgia paper has for its motto: cit is
not rank, nor birth, nor state, but get up and
get that makes men great"
Gloves, as they 60 up in price, increase in
buttons. Dame Fashion tells us that five,
six, and eight buttons are worn.
Snow Johnnie" says grandma, 81 want
you to sit as still as a mouse" ''Mouses
don't sit still, grandma" Sure enough.
New Orleans people sit on their porches,
dressed in Summer attire, these evenings. We
could do it here if we chose
A Kansas crowd lynched an Eastern man
the other day, but finding that they had
made mistake they sent the body home in
very nice coffin.
1t is rule of etiquette in Arkansas that
no true gentleman will eat, with his leg
thrown over the back of his neighbours chair
if he can help it. 9lp
A new style of boys trowsers has been in
vented in Boston, with a copper seat, sheet
iron kuees, riveted down the seams, and
waterproof pockets to hold broken eggs.
As "the boy is father to the man," so is
the girl mother to the woman; and hence the
first thing she learns to do well with her doll,
is to spank it,
II costs a dollar year to keep a chicken /.
That is, it costs the man who owns it that
much, but the next-door neighbor who has a
garden, hasn't made his estimate yet.
We have had almost every shape of para
soils, and now we are informed they are to be
fiat, a la japanese, and so inexpensive that
numbers can be owned, to match every cos
tune.
Hamburg lace and machine embroidery are
used exclusively for trimming white dresses and
undelclothing, instead of the magic or Cow
entry rufiing, SO much in vogue for the past
eight years.
A little girl asked minister, ''Do you
think my father will go to heaven% Why
yes my child. Why 90 you ask "Well,
because if he don't have his own way there,
he wont stay long was thinking" :.
1t is vain 20 put your finger in the water
and, pulling it out, look for hole; and equal
ly vain to suppose that, however large space
you OCCUPY, the world will miss you wher
you die. 30 @
The pupils of girls school in Pittsburg
out for their daily promenade, were recent
mistaken for an approaching band Of ten
perance reformers, and their appearance wa
the signal for general closing up of the s;
looms.
The purest and most beautiful type of p;
tience is that suddenly displayed by youn
man in great hurry to purchase postage
stamp, who finds his passage to the wlndo
blocked up by pretty girl, lesurely huHtin'
through her clothes for three-cent piece.
mud-hole in Bennington, Nebraska
so deep that small children are often ios'
it. and local paper says: I'VE don car
ANYTHING about it., cause our folks ere Jus
ont of children but for the sake of our su
fering neighbors we call attention to th
NATTER
A young man having put crown pie
into "the plate' in an Edinburgh church
mistake instead of penny, asked to ha'
it back, but was refused. In once, in 10
ever. "Aweel, s.weel," grented he; Il W
get credit for it in heaven" ma. ma
said Jeems, the doorkeeper, ''ye'll get cree
only for the penny ye meant to gre"
Josh Billings's Spice-box.-The dog th
will phollow everybody aint worth Suss.
Beware ov the man who is alwuzz teddy
swop old friends for new ones.
Young man. yu had better be honest th
cunning, and it liz ard work to be both.
When 1 pla whist alwuzz like a phoof
a partner, for they do hold such good hand
One OF the most perfekt viktorys you
achieve over emmy man IL to beat him IN
liteness,
Ikant tell exaIktly what's the mat'ei w
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