The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-18
News and Other Items.

There was q glorious union of heart and soul
in Troy-George f. Heart and Celia B Soul
Count valmaseda will conduct the funerals
of the unfortunate Spaniards sent out to Cuba
as reinforcements this winter.
Entries for the colored nurses of Andrsw
johnson are now closed, and it appears that he
had 70 of them.
Marshal McMahon's son follows his fathers
example and enters the army. He was grad
uated recently at military school, and Las
become by promotion an officer in regiment
of infantry.
Among the novel features of the Cincinnati
exposition ale specimens of pork packed in
hogsheads made of polished black walnut, and
with plate glass heads. The animals never en-
loved such elegant quarters while they were
living.
The present librarian Of the University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, Va, denies that
Edgar Allen Poe was ever expelled from that
institution, as is generally asserted in biograph
| les of the poet He says further that Poe dur
| ing his college course received prizes for pro-
| ficency in the ancient languages.
A Frenchman in Illinois who recently at
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a cornfeld, got lost therein, and severe storm
| coming on he could not find his way out till the
| next morning, when on ascending a Knoll, ne
discovered that be had passed the night within
| a few minutes walk of his own door.
Sergeant Bushrod d. Washington of Watse-
ka. ILL.,. of the list Illinois artillery, is great
| grandson ofLawrsnce Washington, brother of
the first President of the United States, and
has many valuable relics of his illustrious rela-
tive, among which is the private seal of George
| Washington, which will be on exhibition at
Philadelph during the Centennial
Col. D. R. Anthony of Leavenworth, Kan,
has arrived in Rochester on a visit to his
friends. The Col. regards his recovery from
his wound as only question of time, though
great care will be required in the future. He
| proposes to make a brief stay in Rochester and
New York, and then return to Leavenworth
and resume the editorial charge of his paper.
The salaries of the different monarchs o.
Europe are given by a German statistician a:
follows:-Alexan6er III, $9152,00O or $3.50 a
day; Abdul Aziz S9,0O0,000, or $24, 700 a day
| Francis Joseph, S4,OO0,0O0, or S10,O50 day
Frederick William III, $3,0OO,Oc0 or $S,210 g
day; Victor Emmanuel, ~ 100000, or 5000 8
day; Victoria. 50, 900, 900, or &c. go day; Leo
pold 5000, 900, OF 81, 643 day. In addition tc
this salary each of these individuals is far
nished with a dozen or more first-class houses
to live in without any charge of rent
Clarence w. Bowen, writing to the Indepen
dent of recent interview with Thomas Car.
lyle in which he was first snubbed and ther
invited to walk, tells the following incident
Here we approached street crossing. WheI
half way over Mr.. Carlyle suddenly stopped
and, STOPPING down, kicked something out o
the mud, at the risk of being run ever by one o
the many carriages in the street. With hi
bare hands he brushed the mud 4 and place.
| the white substance in clean spot on the cur
store That said he, in tone as sweet AM
in words as beautiful 1 ever heard, lis only
crust of bread. Yet was taught by my moth
er never to waste, and, above all, bread, NOR
precious than gold, the substance that is tn
same to the body that the mind 10 to the SOU
L am sure the little sparrows or a hungry do
will get nourishment from that bit of bread