The Portland daily press., 1875-07-21
News and Other Items.

California devotes 80, 900 acres to grape grow.
ing, comprising 100000 vines.
There never was SO much or such good frui
in London as during the present season.
The number of people stated to be out Of
employment and in destitute condition owing
to the recent floods in France is 5000.
Quite an excitement has been caused al
Grand Rapids, Michigan, by the discovery OF
gold in the suburbs.
Two of the lady riders in Barnum's Hippo.
drome were thrown from their horses on
Thursday evening. Miss Roberts was severely
bruised about the head, and Miss jackson had
q leg broken.
By industry and perseverance woman can
make qnilt from 81 ,063 pieces. Such thing
has been done in Georgia, after years Of labor
and the quilt is as good in all respects as one
made from one piece in single day.
There was sale of blooded trotting stock at
Crystal Lake, ILL.,, on the 14th inst, at which sc
stations, brood mares, fillies and geldings were
sold for $3O,25O. The highest price realized
was $7006 for Lakeland Abdallah, blood bay,
sired by Rysdyk's Hambletonian.
jackson Hayes, born and educated in this
country, died in Sweden the 23d ult. He is
noted as the man who undertook to make
skating an art to be taught the same as dane.
ing. He was a companion of the King of
Sweden.
A boiling lake is said to have been discovered
in the Island of Dominica. 1t is situated in
the forestcovered mountain behind the town of
Rosea, at the height of twenty-five hundred
feet above sea level. 1t is two miles in cir
conference, and the margin is lined with beds
of sulphur.
The Cornell crew at Saratoga Lake hit upon
one of the most unique of the many agencies
for the display of college patriotism. They
discovered that their float is the haunt of
countless mud-turtles, and having captured a
number of them, they painted them with the
college colors, in alternate punches of red and
white and then released them.
Mr.. Childers, M. p, is about to spend three
months in Canada and the United States, the
main object of his visit being to decide the
price at which the colony is to buy back the
freehold of the entire of Prince Edward Island
which rather more than 100 years ago was
granted in great blocks of many thousand acres
each to seventy persons.
John Welsh, president of the centennial
board of finance, estimates the total cost of
the exhibition at eight and a half millions
The city of Philadelphia and the state appro.
priations, together with private subscriptions,
reach three millions. The stock basis will
thus be about five millions of dollars, and this
it is expected, will be met by admission fees
and sale of materials after the exhibition.
Philanthropic people in Chicago are talking
about establishing floating hospital for sick
children. The enterprise proposes to remove
the evil of tropical temperature for at least
eight hours. OF one-third of each day, by plac-
ing the children on a floating hospital, and
keeping them moving through the atmosphere
out on Lake Michigan. That atmosphere is
cooler than the atmosphere of the city on the
shore of the lake, and, it is believed, offers
ameliorations for the sick children during the
summer months that cannot be commanded on
an extensive scale in any other way.
The Palace hotel now nearing completion in
San Francisco, is the largest hotel structure in
the world. 1t covers $3.50 square feet of
ground, and is seven stories high; "a, 661, 900
bricks were used in its walls, 5000 tons of cast
and wrought iron, and 4,561 ,524 fee. of lUm.
Der and timber. 1t contains 1000 windows. 337
of which are bay windows; 800 rooms non,
of less than 16x17 feet, and 1888 bath rooms.
there are five passenger elevators and seven
gas burners and thirty two miles of gas and
water pipes. 1t requires $4,000 yards or TWEEN.
ty-eight miles of carpets. 1t can accommodate
1000 guests, besides 800 servants and EN-.
ployes.