The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-10-21
News and Other Items.

Miss Susan B. Anthony is stumpiug in Mich
igan, and hopes to carry state for woman suf-
frage.
Some American ladies were recently turned
out of the church of Les Invalides in Paris for
whispering during the service.
A piece of cake bearing the print of the
Prince of Wales teeth is on exhibition, under
glass case, at an English railway station.
Virginia will yield this year $4,000 bushesi
Tennessee 250,000, and North Carolina 10000
bushes OF peanuts-a total of 72O,OOO bushes.
Queen Pomare, queen of the South Sea Is
lands, is described as a venerable motherly-
woman. Her majesty goes barefooted, and sets
the mode by wearing plain and loosely-fiow-
ing gown.
The British Museum recently became pcs
sessed of jasinth, precious stone of exceed
ing rarity The specimen is no larger than
pea, and says the London Times, clashes and
glows with lustre which seemsIto denote the
presence of fire and fiame'' 1t cost $500.
The death of S. M. Kier, of Pittsburg, who is
famed as having been the first man to realize
anything substantial from petroleum, is an
nounced. He sold oil for its medical properties
and advertised his discovery throughout tho
United States.
There is an apple tree now standing on q
farm in Rollinsford, N. H., which was planted
125 years ago, and is still in good bearing con-
dition. Its owner says that there has not been
year since his remembrance that this tree has
not produced fruit
German colony of thirty families (now els
route to the United States) have purchased
through an agent large tract of land three
miles above Big Island, on the James River,
Bedford county, Virginia. The principal colo
nists are experienced farmers and merchants.
Four Indians ara at Montpelier to secure pay-
ment from the Legislature of Vermont for
lands of their ancestors belonging to the Caugh-
nawaga and st. Regis tribes, lying between
Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains,
which, they claim, were never sold to ths
whites.
Miss Emma Calender, a practising physi-
clan of Middlebury, VT, formerly Professor
of Physiology and Hygiene in Mount Holyoka
Seminary at South Hadley, Mass, has been
elected member of the Vermont medical So
ciety, now in session at Montpelier, aud is tho
first woman that ever belonged to that organ
ization.
Table manners are to be included in the cur
riculum at Harvard college. President Elliot
has addressed the newly formed dining asso-
citation and he enjoins that students should take
ample time for the courses and not be impa-
tent; that the walters be required to brush the
crumbs from the tables between every two
courses and that neither matches nor cigars
will be lighted in the hall.
In the government of Pleskan, in Russia, a
latt kaI
government intended to send five thousand of
the prettiest girls of the country to Africa to
be married to negroes. There was a panic, aud
the girls made haste to marry any one who
would have them, and there was any number
of marriages. One brandy dealer made a small
fortune out of it, for at Russian weddings they
must have brandy. Now the authorities have
discovered that this merchant started the story
and they are Lot done with him.
President Clark of the Amherst Agricultural
College, corresponding with friend, writes:-
Il have squash in harness, to test its expan.
sive power. 1t has already lifted HOO lbs, and
is now under pressure of 1900 lbs, which L
doubt not will be raised before morning 1t has
crowds of visitors, and the wisest among them
stand in awe as they see how wonderfully the
vital force controls the chemical and physical
forces in its desperate efforts to accomplish its
mission in building squash.r
Friday morning, says Washington dis.
patch, dilapidated looking character clad in
the costume of the days of Andrew Jackson,
appeared upon the portico of the White House.
On his arm he carriedsa basket. From this he
drew bottle, containing what resembled mud
dy water, and proceeded after the manner OF a
priest at the baptismal font to sprinkle tho
stone floor Having done this to his own sat-
isfaction, he replaced the bottle in the basket
and brought forth printed placari having up
on it, in large letters, "For Rent" After plac.
ing this on one of the columns at the side en-
trance door, he shuffled away,with the a'istsd
air of man who had done his duty ani was
content.