The Portland daily press., 1877-10-10
News and Other Items.

Mr.. Delaney Kane and others are moving in
the matter of New York ''tattersalls," which
is to be precisely similar in every respect to its
London prototype. The tile-bricks, if none of
the same kind can be found here are to be i'm
ported. and the grooms, jockeys, and other sub
ordinates will wear English uniforms and occu-
Ply the news as they do in London.
Mary Glenn mer, according to 'Jennie June,''
commands the largest sum paid to Washington
correspondents.
The Burlington Hawkeye tells of friend to
the human raceIwho has invented patent boot
jack which shuts up like a vice when it strikes
anything, and hence is calculated to hold.on to
cat every time until the mocking laughter
with which the feline is wont tolgreet. the touch
of boot jack is hushed in death.
ASandwich Islander claims to have buried
the real Sir Roger Tichborne on Sydney Island,
in the South Pacific Ocean.
Mrs. Josephine Russell the fat woman of
Milwaukee, died recently while on exhibition
at fair Her weight was 700 pounds.
Qneen Victoria has done one thing lately
which pleases the Prince of Wales. She has
snuboed John Brown. But his soul is march
ing on all the same.
for them in Kentucky. This makes them very
dear, for mules hind leg weighs as much as
four thousand pounds.
Alexander 81. Stephens tips the beam at nine
ty-eight pounds, and issigradually working up
to par.
The daily new spapers in Deadwood are not
much larger than sheet of foolseap, and are
delivered for $18 year. Every subscriber is
required, as announced in the prospectus, to
"down with the dust"
DR.. j. G. Holland has begun the erection Of
his new summer home, Bonnicastle, on Roots
Point, opposite the Crossman House, Alexan-
dris Bay 1t will cost about $4,000. The grounds
will be handsomely laid out, and the house sup
piled with water and gas.
Mr.. Archibald Forbes, the correspondent Of
the London Daily News. whose graphic and
trustworthy reports of the battles in Bulgaria
have evoked such praise, had just time to send
on his report of the third battle before Plevna
when he was seized with fever and he is now
said to be on his way to England.
Robert Toombs has Cataract over one of
his eyes, and Is covered all over with disabili-
ties (political). He is going to have the Scat
aract'' removed if he can.
The death of Senator Bogy leaves only two
Romon Catholics Ia the United States Senate
Senator Herman of New York, and Senator
Spencer of Alabama.
Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, the author, is in the
seventy year of her age Though her
pen has been comparatively idle of late, she is
still student.
Senator Morton is constantly anxious to hear
the latest news, seeming deeply interested, it i s
said, in nearly everything in the newspapers
excepting base ball items. He listened intently
to the reading of Senator Conkling's speech
He is determined to see: everything which the
newspapers say about himself. He likes to
see callers. and questions them as to their opin-
ions regarding his condition. He lies in re-
Ginning chair, and takes only beef tea, chicken
broth and grapes.
A Chinaman who died at Bellville N. j.,
last week, was buried as he would have been if
he had died in his native land. He was clothed
in the usual Chinese garments, including hat
and shoes, and placed in common coffin,
which was then put in aSgrave three feet in
depth. At the side of the grave there were
placed dish containing two roasted chickens
and another holding rice and chop-sticks. By
the side of the dishes bottle was put, and in a
hole at the foot Of the grave small stone pot.
Religious ceremonies were performed, the grave
was filled, and all the property of the deceased
"a trunk and clothing-were burned.