The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-04
News and Other Items.

oaHou hoInScnllu, az the mead OF the vienna
hrm, is credited by the papers of that city with
an income of $4,000 day.
A daily penny religious paper was started
at London Tuesday. 1t supports the church of
England, and is neutral in politics.
And now some of her very loyal Canadian
ubjects want the queen to assume the title of
impress of Canada, to take effect on the Goth
of June, the anniversary of the 10th year Of
her reign.
Over fifty houses were blown down by an
April hurricane at Pensacola, Fla, and there
was some loss of life, and many persons were
injured. A call is made for aid for the
sufferers,
Garnets stood the Southern hotel fire at st.
Louis better than any other precious stones,
while amethysts lost their color and became
like topaz, pearls were entirely ruined,
diamonds crumbled to dust and canoes be-
came as soft and brittle as chalk.
The steam street cars at Paris are perfect
success. They run in the grandest boulevard
of the city, and through some of the business
streets, turning sharp angles, and climbing
considerable grades, at a speed of eight miles
an hour. No one has yet been hurt, nor horses
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Hobart Pasha, Admiral of the Turkish navy,
is also Captain in the British navy, drawing
Ell day as an officer on the retired list. Mrs.
Hobart, who has been with him at Constan-
tinope, died at that city three weeks ago,
while Hobart Pasha was absent inspecting the
fleet
The funeral of John d. Lee, at Panguitcb,
Utah, was attended by large number Of people.
A new coffin was obtained, and the body was
dressed after the usual manner for burial. The
whole town turned out. Lee had lived at
Panguitch just previous to his arrest, and was
highly esteemed as neighbor and citizen.
A bill passed by the Missouri Legislature GER
tainly makes q serious business of the grass
hopper scourge, and for the war that has been
declared upon it all able. bodied male persons
between IL and 60 years of age are to be
drafted for two days in each week d uring the
spring months of the years, those who refuse
to respond forfeiting dollar for each absence
Joseph Brooks of Arkansas, who was one
of the two governors elected in that State in
1872, but who gave up his pretensions to the
office when the President recognized Governor
Baxter, died on Monday evening. He was
opPoAheCu pOo VI Alttl6 IlUCk sOUu aILeE
his gubernatorial troubles, which position he
held at the time of his death.
Rochester, N. Y, is agitated over the question
of allowing German to be taught in the public
schools. The board of education injected this
language into the school system of the city
shortly after the Franco-German war, but
finding upon due trial that it was working
serious damage, they elected it; and now the
German population rise in indignant protest.
In the recent great walking match at London,
from constantly walking in one direction
around the hall O'Leary, the pedestrian, had
the muscles of one leg contracted, and the
shoulder on the same side dropped about three
inches. This was the result of walking five
hundred and twenty miles, with twenty-six
abrupt turns to each mile, always in the same
direction.
West Virginia has the largest and most
valuable body of timber of any State in the
Union. Prof. Fontaine estimates that the
area still covered by forests is between 9,000,-
900 and 100000 acres, and that the value Of
the surplus exportable timber is fully $75,000,-
600 as it stands in the forests. The oak
walnut cherry, ash, poplar, maple, elm, syca-
more, and locust attain size there not sur
passed on the American continent. ..
The California state medical society has
almost unanimously declared that the practice
of making annual contracts with individuals or
societies for medical attendance IS not only
derogatory to the dignity of the profession,
but a violation of the code of medical ethice
adopted by the American medical association.
The society decided to strike from the roll of
membership the name of any physician who
shall hereafter make or renew contract for
annual medical attendance