The Portland daily press., 1876-11-04
News and Other Items.

new YORK city consumes 10000 900 eggs an
nually, principally supplied from Iowa, Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Canada.
Shaking hands with nearly 1000 centennial
visitors day has nearly put the Presidents
right shoulder out of Joint, and now he won't
see anybody but official visitors.
Edwin Booths eight weeks season at San
Francisco, just closed, is regarded as the most
successful on record on the Pacific coast. He
appeared in all his well known parts, and also
brought out the "Fall of TarquiD," an old trag-
edy by John Howard Payne.
The fine collection of paintings which has
been on exhibition at Leavitt's art rooms in
New York, all summer, failed to draw Dur.
chasers, last week. The actual worth of the
whole was $4,000, and most of the pictures
were withdrawn, from the failure to get the
upset or minimum price marked In the cat
alogue-a plan of sale in vogue in Europe.
Judge McAllister of Chicago, whose chargo
to the jury in the trial of Sullivan for the MUIR
der OF Hanford in that city, has been generally
denounced, threatens to commit for contempt
any person who may present to him petition
asking him to resign. Before proceeding to put
his threat into force the Chicago Tribune ad-
Vises MIN TO pause for reflection"
The Assyrian collections of the late Mr.. Geo.
Smith will soon arrive in England. His work
is to be taken up where he left it by Mr.. Hor-
mud Rassam, native of Turkey who is an
Oriental scholar of rare culture Mr.. Rassam's
name is not unfamiliar to newspaper readers;
he was one of the captives of King Theodore
of Abyssina.
A gentleman in Virginia City, New, whose
Chinese cook left him, was unable to retain any
OF numerous Johns" for over day, until he
induced one of them to explain thst some ap-
parently meaningless strips of red paper on
the kitchen wall contained the Chinese inscrp-
ton: BOSS woman, long time tongue. Muchee
jaw jaw
strange story is told of horseman on a
white charger, who, in the thick of a battle be-
tween the Turks and Servians, rode in front of
Servian regiment and shouted to them to re-
tire, as the Turks we're in the rear. The ap-
partition was not seen again, and proved to
have been Turk who had risked his life ir the
ruse.
The Gear Alexander receives in round num-
bers $4,000 day income; the Turkish Sultan
$4,000; the Emperor of Austria $4,000; the
Emperor of Germany $4,000; the King of Italy
$6440; the Queen of England $627O; the King
of the Belgians $1643; the President of the
French Republic $500; the President of the
United States $40, and yet, Notwithstanding
the latter fact, there are hundreds of good citi-
zens who aspire to be President of this great
country.
Peter Cooper attended the Cooper Institute
meeting in New York Wednesday evening and
listened to Mr.. Evarts' speech. He came on to
the platform with his initiation air-cushion I'M
der his arm, just at the time when the audience
were applauding one of Mr.. Evarts' points, and
the venerable infationist taking the compli-
ment to himself, bowed his acknowledgements
amid loud laughter. Mr.. Cooper enjoyed Mr..
Evarts jokes, and laughed and applauded gem
erously except where Mr. Evarts touched upon
tne currency question. He laughed most when
a voice called out, "Peter Cooper will be our
President next"