The Portland daily press., 1876-10-14
News and Other Items.

Better late than never. Two hundred boxes
of Centennial exhibits have just arrived from
Siam,
An absent-minded Hudson IN. " lady, who
got lost at the Centennial, had to telegraph
home to her husband to find out the name of
her hotel.
President Chadbourne of Williams told the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, who serenaded
him the other night, that in his college secret
societies have done good rather than HARM
otto Grundman, a noted Antwerp art in
structor, has been invited to take charge of the
new life" school in connection with the Bos-
ton Museum of Fiue Arts, and has accepted
the position by cable despatch.
Mr.. H. Irwin, a medical student of Man.
chester, Eng, lately saved weakly, scrofuous
patient in the Infrmary of that city by
TRANSMISSION of blood taken from his own arm.
The experiment was watched with great inter-
est by many medical men, and at last accounts
promised to be highly successful.
Governor Beveridge of Illinois, Professor
David Swing and General John NJ Palmer
have been elected judges for the next contest
of the Illinois Intercollegiate association, with
Carl Schurz as alternate Robert G. Ingersoll
was nominated both for judge and alternate
but was defeated by vote of twelvs TO eleven
because of his infidelity in religious matters.
Another Haywood appears for notice The
ex-president of the Columbia, KY, bank writes
to the Courier-J ournal that r. A. G. Martin,
cashier of that bang, was killed in a manner
similar to Heywood's death, and probably by
some gang of thieves. TIe calls for a substau-
tial expression of sympathy like that now
shown to Heywood's widow. Martins widow
is living in Shelpyville, Ky.
The English pension list includes some
rather singular items. The Penn family receive
yearly and are to receive forever $4,000 in pay
ment for their proprietary rights in Pennsyl-
vsnia. A London paper suggests that as all the
advantages of these rights passed long ago to
the United States, it might not be impertinent
to suggest that "a should assume payment of
the pension.
1t has been believed for generations that one
Capt. Mason and the "Laconia Company"
were the earles. settlers of New Hampshire. A
document made public not long ago among the
Winthrop papers shows that David Thompson
(for whom Thompson's Island in Boston har.
Dor was named) made permanent settle ment
at the mouth of the Pscataquis river at least
six years before tho organization of the Laconia
Company.
A correspondent of the London Times insists
that Temple Bar is neither ugly, uusightly,
clumsy, nor abominable. He says that Sir
Christopher Wren designed it after the model
of Sansovinos Bridge of Sghs at Venice, with
certain notifications; and the beauty of that
model is acknowledged throughout the civilized
world. The proportions of Temple Bar are
correct according to the rules OF classical arch-
lecture. The four statues are bold and strik-
ing, and they are no mean specimens of sculp-
ture in stone. Altogether, Temple Bar is one
of the few specimens in London of Palladian
architecture. which is little understood and
still less appreciated by architects
Mr.. Joaquin Miller ingenously tells a curl
GUS California story, which recalls that of the
cattle in Harte's Gabriel Conroy'' He de-
scribes an emigrant train passing over the
prairie and meeting herd of buffalo at full
speed and moved by one of the apparently in
sane impulses which sometimes seizes these
animals. In an instant the immense herd had
passed-there was no wagon, there were no
men, oxen, horses left; even their bodies were
obliterated. The only survivor was a woman,
who was carried out OF the horrible struggle
on the back of one of the herd-how she never
knew; her first c Consciousness was that she
stood in safety upon little hillock and the
whirlwiDd had gone by.
Mr.. r. 81. Hutton, the literary critic of the
London Spectator, says in the preface to an
American edition of certain of his essays that
he has often been puzzled to understand why
the style of the greatest American authors is
so simple and lucid-"has so little in it of the
full-mouthed rhetoric of democratic pride, or
even the old visionary republican ideaiism %
His conclusion is, that complete sincerity and
simplicity of style may be more strictly natural
to the intellectual culture of republic than to
the intellectual culture of societies as complex
as those of Enrope