The Portland daily press., 1876-09-23
News and Other Items.

MRS. Florence, the actress, has her stage
wardrobe insured for $4,000.
In Peabody's model buildings, London, the
death rate is only IL annually in 1000, while the
parish rate is 24A.
Mrs. Hicks the wealthy American widow,
who was some time ago reported as engaged to
Minister Schenck, is now reported about to
marry Lord Henry Gordon Lenox
The Minnesota grasshoppers have gotten as
Tar east as Indianapolis, where they are eating
up the crops and laying eggs, in preparation
Tor vigorous campaign next year.
Ralph Meriman, son of Pere Hyacinth's
wife. was married to an Indianapolis lady, on
Monday, and leaves New York for Europe Sat-
urday in the Celtic, to join the Pere and Mrs.
Loyson at Geneva.
Why is it that man always defers knocking
the ashes off his cigar until they have fallen in.
Side his vest and woman always tearfully
declares, the morning after the first white frost
that she had intended to bring those house
plants in the next day.
r. A. Beal of the Ann Arbor, (Mich) Cour.
Ter, who was recently sued by Mr. DJugla for
$4,000 for libel, published continually articles
discussing the matters of the suit, until he was
the fine, saying it was the cheapest fun he ever
had.
Lord Albemarle speaks of dining one day at
Lord John RusselPs, the invitation being to
meet Mrs. Beecher Stowe. He says: ''We
severally did our best to amuse the authoress.
depend upon it, whispered Lady Grey to me
after dinner, we shall all be down in the next
book So we were. For my own part, am
well satisfied with the figure cut in Sunny
Memorial"
just to show that some things can be done as
well as others, the proprietors of Booths thea
tire iu New York have provided that the thea
tire heretofore known as Booths theatre in
honor of Edwin Booth, will be hereafter known
as Booths theatre, by the kind permission of
MI. Samuel Booth, printer.t f 221 Centre street
This is distinction without difference, with
vengeance. 4
In 1886 the pioneers of South Australia set
foot upon its soil, and on Dec %, in the same
year the declaration of the colony as British
prince was read by Captain HIndmarsh its first
governor, under an old gum-tree on the shores
OF Holdfast Bay, near Gleneg, now the first
port of arrival and the last of departure for the
mail steamers which keep up communication
with England and the east. The colony now
has population of aq1arter of million
President McCosh feels just pride in the
growth of Princeton College, which has doubled
its students from 240 in 1866 by steady in
crease, largely from the South, whence the COL
lege drew many students before the war.
Within the same period the college has receiv-
cd 81, 500, 600, most of which has been used in
erecting handsome and much-needed buildings.
and now $100,0O0 are about being turned into
the college Golfers, to be used at the discretion
Of the trustees.
The Prince OF Wales, when he is in Paris,
lives at the Hotel Bristol, where all his rooms
are furnished in the style fashionable in 1920.
The landlord has repeatedly asked the Prince
If he preferred some other style; but he has al
ways said he liked the old fashion, The Dress
ing room alone is furnished in contemporary
style, and provided with Eoglish comforts. He
used to be fond of breakfasting in the public
breakfast room of the ground floor, but four
years ago somebody tried to enter into CONVEX
sation with him, and he quilted the public
room and has never since returned to it. He
dimes out daily, commonly at some fashionable
restaurant.
The London Telegraph illustrated its fami-
iarity with this country in recent editorial,
BY observing that in the United States "a rail-
way train travels along the line in much the
same leisurely manner as a mail coach proceeds
along an English highroad. The driver knows
perfectly well that there is no train likely to
meet him, or to overtake him, an he conse-
quently picks his way along, from station to
station, taking about as much care to avoid
Q collision as the driver of one market-cart
does to avoid another. Between our English
line of railways and those of the United States
there is practically all the difference there is
between highroad in Norfolk or Lincolnshire
and Cheapside or Cornhill on busy day."