The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-20
Nows and Other Items.

Cardinal Manning says the material prosper
itv of ireland was never greater than now. The
people of Ireland never possessed SO wide an
EXTENT of its soil since the day in which they
possessed it all,
Mrs. Stryker, wife of the New Jersey gener-
al. has presented the National Museum at Phil
adelphia with compass and chain used by
John Ladd in assisting William Penn in layin :
out the city of Philadelphia.
The body of John Blackforl, an American
actor, who was lost three years ago in trying to
ascend Mount Blanc without guides, is said by
Swiss newspaper TO be found in an immense
block of ice which recently fell from the noun
tain. The body is thoroughly preserved.
1t is officially announced in Paris that the
vexed question of how the restored Vendome
Column shall be crowned has been settled. The
statue of Napoleon, as it was before the Com
mune, will be replaced, and the complete resto-
ration of the whole monument will soon be ac-
complished.
Pecuniarily, Cincinnati didn't make much
out of her big musical festival, last week, the
expenses and receipts footing up very nearly
tbs same-S40,000. But the treat was rlch
one. and now the feeling is strong IN favor OF
the erection of permanent building torfuture
festivals
Talk about puzzles but here is tough one:
Two men, A and b, bought 100 acres OF land at
500 per acre. Each paid $4,000. A took his
share off the north side at $11O per acre, while
b took his share south side, at 800 per acre.
How much land did each get? How can the
question be proved?
IT, U;oo DroS;dapt Colf,v IN non noeS that the
net profits on his lecturing tour just finished,
amouus to $4,000; that he ''has had the jolli-
est winter of the past twenty years, and that
he shas on hand more invitations to lecture
than would fill every night for the next WIN
ter
Vice. President Wilson met his old friend
Mrs. Jefferson Davis in the streets of Memphis
the other day. and the two are said to have
clasped hands with cordial and friendly ardor,
repairing Immediately to neighboiing ice
cream saloon, where they discussed strawber-
ries and ice and the memories of the past"
While the ladies of Oneida, n, Y, were
working at the polls for the election OF a
no license Board of Excise, one of them reeeiv-
ed the following note my dear wife: have
washed the children, put them to bed and stir
red up the pancakes. what snail 40 next!
Your loving husband, -
The tallest person now living i'll New Eng
land is said to be Charles HI. Holmes of Tops
field, Massachusetts, whose height is six feet
and eight inches! Mr.. Holmes is the last
surviving child of the late Hon. John Holmes
of this state, for many years Representative
and Senator in Congress during the administra'
lions of Madison, Monroe, Adams and Jack
SOD.
A family at Mishawaka, Ind, received from
some unknown source several complimentary
tickets to a circus which was to exhibit on a re-
cent evening. All the inmates of the house
hold went, and when they returned found that
their dwelling had been broken into and rifed
of everything valuable. 1t is supposed that
the burglars sent the tickets in order to get
their victims safely out of the way.
MI. Joseph Howard, jr., in The New York
Star, contradcts explicitly the story that Mrs.
Tlton is writing book, and also the curious
story that Mr.. Beecher intended to go to Eu-
rope after the close of the trial. He also COR
reefs the apparently malicious report that the
daily prayer-meetings at Plymouth Church
have been discontinued since the close Of the
testimony in the trial.