The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-12-13
News and Other Items.

In London there is fashionable form OF
charity which dispenses spectaces to the poor.
The New York Hebrew School Association
has under instruction $50 boys and girls at an
annual cost Of about $4,000.
In English Aflitary circles it is rumored that
10000 French volunteers will join the British
army in case of war with Russia, tempted by
the bounty and the pay.
A member of a club objected to the publica-
ton of the meeting nights of the club, ''be-
cause" said he, eff it's published, we married
men will have to account for the off nights"
The motion to publish was lost.
Laundering has been begun in the immense
forests of Northern California. Some of the
timber is of immense size. 1t is believed the
business will add Immensely to the wealth of
the state
A body, supposed to be that of the lost aero
naut Donaldson, was found on Wednesday,
Nov. %. by some hunters, near Greenville,
Michigan. The clothing was so much decom-
posed as to render it difficult to ascertain its
original color.
George Blair, President of the New York
State Workingmen's Assembly, estimates that
there are now a., 900 workmen out of employ
ment in New York city. He says their FAM
lilies are in many cases on the very verge OF
restitution, and the situation is becoming des-
perate.
DR.. LIE Moyne, the owner of the Pennsyl-
vania cremation furnace, is nearly so years old,
is the father of the Chicago Congressman lie
Moyne, and is a man of great learning and
wealth. He has endowed professorship in
the Washington and Jefferson College, and ex-
pended $4,000 in founding town library. His
eccentrcities are very marked.
The remains of balloon have been found
on the coast of Iceland. In the car were some
human bones, forming an Incomplete skeleton,
and leather truveling bag in very bad con-
dition, containing papers SO deteriorated by wet
that the writing could rot be deciphered A
conjecture is formed that this is the balloon in
which Price assembled during the siege of
Paris, being the only one that was not &C
counted for
1t is reported that Gen. Cyrus S. Haldeman,
New England Manager of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and Col. d. X. Allen, his assistant,
will soon make a trip in the interests of imm-
grafton to Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Colorado,
Nebraska and Dakota, and possible to the FAM
GUS Black Hills gold regions. They will be
accompanied by some Of the leading journal
lists in the country. and by several prominent
capitalists.
The Illinois papers tells new story about
Bob Ingersoll, which runs thus: During his
campaigning tour east, the Colonel one Sun
day went to fashionable church. With char
acteristic Western independence he ignored the
usher, and selecting the finest pew he could
find ensconsed himself in the softest corner.
Soon the great man who owned the pew came
along with his family and sat down. But snch
impudence could not be permitted to pass by
unrebuked, and the proprietor of the pew
wrote on the fyleaf of hymn book: 81 pay
$4,000 year rent for this pew" and passed it
to the Colonel Quick as thought the ready
pencil came out, the book was returned with
an additional line, and the indignant owner
read the comment: G. fine pew for the
price,