The Portland daily press., 1874-12-18
News and Other Items.

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Germany is going to unity its methodsrn,
procedure in civil, criminal and bankrupree
cases throughout the empire.
The area of the Indiana coal measure
said to approximate one fifth of the entire Is
of the state.
The young ladies of Rockford, H., have
formed cooperative self escorting church
and party-going society,"" the object of which
is to make the young men of the period more
useless than ever.
Some Young men in Vienna have formed
matrimonial league. Every member OF the
league must be the son of a man of property
and must pledge himself to marry poor girl,
one who has neither dowry nor expectation,
and must forfeit 10000 forms if he violates
this pledge.
The English bishops ara after thei- clergy.
A rector with sal ry of $4,000 year, having
failed for $4,000, compromising with his 81
creditors at % per cent, has been requested by
his bishop to resign. He has declined, and
says that, having ''great expectations, he will
eventually pay up in full.
A mans ideas are not apt to be spoiled when
dressed in another PERSONS language, especially
tongue. AS an instance beginner in German
reading one of Schiller's poems, came to the
word Wassertiau water nymph), which he
rendered 'washerwoman," that being the near
est equivalent he could find.
Among the humors of the election in Wor-
cester was the fact that in ward a husband
and his wife were the opposing candidates Tor
the school committee, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers on
the independent ticket. The wife proved a
stronger candidate than the husband, and re-
oelved twice as many votes or Whereabouts.
An cnterprising voter of Cleveland, Ohio,
voted three times for sheriff of Cuyahoga
county in the late election. OF course a candi-
date so ably voted for was elected, and the
voter, having been convicted of the voting, was
sent to the pcnitentiAry for three years. One
good turn deserves another, and the sheriff for
whom the voter voted saw him safely to the
prison.
The Syracuse Journal says that the late Ezra
Cornell had recently met with some pecunlary
reverses which impaired his private fortune.
The greatest of these losses were about $780,
600 in the Ithaca and Utica Railroad, and some
800, 900 to 100000 in the Ithaca and Geneva
road. 1t is understood, however, that a Judi
cous settlement CT his estate will leave his
family about three quarters of million dol
lars. Thelcollege funds are in tact.
For full dress Kalakaua wears a fashionably
cut black broadcloth swallow-tail coat, studless
white shirt ront, boots of the box toe pattern,
a part colored ribbon in his button-hUle, three
immense plain gold rings, bracelet on his lefS
wrist, rundown collar and black lie. He
also wears a pair OF pants. The dress of his
his great-grandfather was less elaborate. ut
far more comfortable.
The excitement in New Brunswick over the
school question increases. The Catholics de-
sire separate schools and refuse to pay taxes as
sessed for the support of undenominaiional
public schools The authorities are seizng and
selling property of delinquents, among whom,
at St. John, are the Catholic clergy. A consta-
BILE recently visited the residence of the Bishop
of the diocese, and attaching books, sold them
at auction for the pavement of the school tax.
King KaIakaua of the Sandwich Islands has
received an invitation to visit Westboro' Mass
The extending of this invitation is prompted by
the fact that Mrs. Chamberlain. an old resident,
was one of the original band of missionaries
that went to the islands about 55 years ago,
when the inhabitants were savages. Mrs.
Chamberlain is in her S6th year, and she re-
tains her mental faculties to remarkable de-
gree. She speaks the Hawaiian tongue flu
emily.
Guizot's heirs have discounted the suit which
was the last expression of Guizot's pride. His
idea was that neither himself nor his family
should he indebted to the empire, which he
hated. One of his family was thus indebted,
and had accepted assistance from the Emperor,
and the suit was that the Emperor's heirs
should be compelled to accept repayment from
Guizot. In this material time it is rare to see
a suit maintained on one side to compel the &C
ceptance of $4,000, and on the other uphold
ing the right to the sum-
A white marble monument has been placed
over the grave of William III. Seward IN the
cemetery at Auburn. 1t is described as follows
by the Albany Journal: SIT consists of large
and beautifully sculptured table laid entirely
over the tomb, raised at the head about three
feet higher than the suface Of the plane, and
surmounted with cross wreathed with the
leaves of the oak and the laurel. The face of
the table bears the words, William Fl. Seward.
Born May &c. 1909. Died Oct. 16, 1925 and
the base of the urn bears the inscription which,
in his lifetime, he said was the only epitaph he
was ambitious to deserve: He was Faithful"
An English amateur photographer claims to
have discovered method Of fixing the image
of an object on sensitised plate not more than
half an inch in diameter, an impression from
which can be afterwerd enlarged to the neces-
sary size. The plate is fixed into an ordinary
locket or keepsake hanging from watch-chain
and can be suddenly exposed, by q touch of the
finger, on entering room. and an image taken
of picture of a person, without any one be-
sides the operator being awareof it. The opera
tor, however, in order to secure passably dis
t!nct Impersonation, would have to possess an
unpqually steady hand.