The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-01-16
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING. JAN. 1e, 1874

HhADAI MOhNlNGs JAM l6, 1874
Gossip and Gleanings.
An imaginary quality-A lady's age.
Wisdom is oEentimes nearer when we stoop
tl:an when we soar.
Prosperity is blessing to the good, but a
curse to the evil.
If we seize too hastily, we may have to drop
as hastily.
NO other living thing can 90 so slow as a
boy on an errand.
What is the use of saying, "Hit one of
your own sighs?' 1t is bad enough to have
to heave one, but you can't hit it.
When Milwaukee paper remarked, re-
Gently. "The lilac bushes are budding" a
reader said excitedly, "You lilac Satan"
An old-fashioned judge has decided that
railroad companies must pay for killing EN-.
ployes just as though they we're passengers.
Two hearts that beat as one are singularly
oblivious to mud. We never knew man in
love to circulate petition for new pave.
ment or an additional lamp-post.
The "Journal of Satan's Disciples'' il a
nice name ftra publication they have Just
started in Sicily. There are lots of the same
kind ofiournals in our own country, but they
haven't come out so frankly yet.
A veteran observer says that "Old friends
are like old boots. We never realize how per-
fectly they were fitted to us till they are cast
aside, and others, finer and more stylish per-
haps but cramping and pinching in every
corner, are substituted"
For the average of men the doom mnst
always be work, and though man is dis
tinctly the happier for knowledge of any art,
or for any knowledge or almost any emplov-
ment outside his daily labor, we doubt # the
entrance of ambition into tina. pursuit does
not take away half its charm, in DESTROYING
all its restfulness. Spectator.
critic, alluding to an amateur dramatic
club in Santa Cruz, says: "Colonel Shaw,
the new editor Of the Sentinel, will be val.
liable acquisition to the club. As Hamlet,
ne is excelled by few professionals, and he
dances barn-door jig in style never before
seen outside of Kilkenny"
As men have movable heads, which they
can turn to the right or left, forward or
backward, they should not from mere con-
trarness fasten on themselves, as blinkers,
prejudice. stupidity, caprice and obstinacy,
which pre- vent their seeing anything but wha,
is straight before them. Even distinguished
talents cultivated between such blinkers may
become mania.
Cabman-(more in sorrow than in anger
though. )Oh, no, mum, I didn't go to hint al
eighteenpence was too little, nor as that ther'
dorg O. yourn has jolly well took his sixpell
orih out o my cushions; only meant to sa,
as it was Christmas ti1e, and wishes yo,
and all sich kind hearted ladies the compli
ments of the season.
"How do you like the clam song?" aske,
an old lady of her daus hter as they stepped
into the stree: latter popular concert. "Clan
songr' exclaimed the young lady in astonish
ment. "why, what do you refer to, mother p
why the first song she sang" "Oh, yo,
mean Shells of the Ocean, don't you, moth.
er?" swell, yes," said the old lady, II dc
think that was it; it was something about
clans, any way, and you know do like them
so well.''
A Scotch parson had a farmer neighboi
who was in the habit of shooting on Sunday
but after while this Sabbath breaker joinet
the church. One day the minister to who's,
church he belonged met a friecd of th,
farmer, and said, ''do you see any differelc,
in Mr.. p, since he joined the church p
''Oh, yes" replied the friend, "a great differ
ence. Before he, when out to shoot on Sun
day, he carried his gun over his shoulder, bu
now he carries it under his coat"
Let the wind aud the waves of adversit,
blow and dash around you, if they will; bu
keep on the path of rectitude. and you will b.
as firm as rock. Plant yourself upon prin
ciple, aud bid defiance to misfortune. If gos
sip, with her poisoned tongue, NEEDLES will
your good name, heed her not. Garry your
self erect; let your coarse be straightforward
and, by the serenity of your countenance and
the purity of your life, We the lie to all who
would underrate and belittle you.
LONG AGO.