The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-08-22
News and Other Items.

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earth beautiful depart. The tongueless woman
bias just died at Bootstown, Ohio
The total value of the Centennial buildings
and their contents is estimated at the neat lit
tie sum of $104 100000.
Some Chicago ladies have been managing a
yacht race. The sails were cut bias and trim
med with real lace.
Avery, Mckee and others of the convicted
whisky men are reported as getting discourage
ed about their pardons, they are SO slow in
coming.
In letter to friend Ex-Governor Wise of
Virginia, who is now ill in Richmond, says:
81 never expect to leave my room again except
to be earned to my grave"
The Brooklyn Argus thinks 'The delibera-
ton with which some men wipe fly off their
nose must be very aggravating to fly that
likes to know the worst at once
San Jose, California, has been sued by a
Fourth of July orator. He wants 81, 900 for
speaking his piece, while the city offers him
So
An enthusiastic Republican Of Buffalo has
the name of Hayes and Wheeler grown in large
letter of white clover on grassy terrace in bis
yard.
There are about 10000 square miles OF coal in
the Province of Nova Scotia. or one-third more
than in Great Britain, which contains 1900
square miles. The deposits pro badly equal all
the coal in Europe, Russia not incIu1ed.
"Yes," said dis tinguished French politi-
clan to friend the other day. 81 visit M.
Theirs occasionally now, for he is troubled
NIT hrop nd ho+u 81
ing one can sometimes get in word''
1t is said that Harriet Martineau remained
firm to the last in her negation of Immortality.
She said on her dying bed: 81 have had enough
of life in one, and can see no good reason why
Harriet MartiDeau should be perpetuated."
"Gentlsmeu," began a speaker, addressing a
Tiideu and Hendricks audience up in the Sixth
ward. Instantly every body turned around and
closely scrutinized the house for any interoper
answering that description-New York Com
mercial.
1t is said that before the Prince of Wales set
out for India he was placed in a conserv atory
heated up to Indian temperature to test his
powers of endurance. His Royal Highness
tainted away, but was more successful on the
experiment being repeated.
Should Gen. Grant and Senator Ferry both
be taken away before the first Monday in De
cember the United States will be without a
Chief Magistrate until the 4th of March next,
as there are no provisions for electing one. Leg
isation to remedy this defect has been intro
duced into Congress, but never enacted.
Bashful Spooner ION his honeymoon): Lar
~, my wife and. Il have both noticed that the
towns-people stare at US very hard. hope that
you havn't been telling anybody that we are
newly married? Larry (the faithful factotum):
Me tell 'em sor? Is it likely Old go agin my
express ordhers? Why, whnever anybody
thryed to pump me, sir, Owe towld them 'em
you wasn't married at all.
Mr.. Sims Reeves, the English tenor, adds his
testimony to that of other famous singers to
the effect that alcoholic or malt drinks are in
furious to the voice. In letter to DR.. Lennox
Brown, Surgeon to the Royal Society of Musi-
clans, Mr.. Reeves said: "Whatever may have
been the practice in the past, such notions as
that the drinking of so many bottles of beer or
stout per evening will give voice are obsolete as
am happy to say, is the idea that no man is a
hosptable gentleman who allows his guests to
go home sober, By long experience
find it better to do without them entirely"
During one of the expeditions into the eau
casus, Ignatieff ordered battery of artillery
under captain named Sergueieff to shell
column of the enemy that threatened to out.
flank his forces. The order was obeyed, but
the shells did not explode. and produced no
more effec. that round shot. Ignateff galloped
to the battery and addressed the captain in lam
guage rather more vigorous than compliment
tary. He calmly lifted shell in one hand and
applied portfre to the fuse with the other;
then remarked to the general: Gas you see,
the powder is bad.' The general sprang from
his horse and embraced him, crying, "Serguei.
eff, my son, you are drawer than l."
The king of the Texas cattle kings is proba-
bly, Capt Richard King, who has farm about
80 miles from Corpus Christi in that state. A
local journal speaking of his great transactions
In 1--we stock says: SIN March last he sold one
person from Kansas $4,000 head of horned cat
tie, all out of his own stock, for the sum of
1927 500, deliverable in Hays City, Kan, $780,
600 paid down in cash and the balance on de-
livery; and in April he sent off the stock in 10
droves, which arrived all safe. To be certain
to have the requisite number to be delivered he
added 5000 extra head, and still has left some
$4,000 head. beside $4,000 head of sheep and
1000 or 5000 head of horse and mule stock. He
has some 60, 900 acres of land under fence and
is now fencing in 10000 acres more, and still
has 100000 acres in and about the same tract
1t took 700 men to drive this lot of stock, and
upward of 900 for the OUTFIT