The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-10-16
News and Other Items.

Mr. Sp1rgeon in a recent lecture said he had
in his congregation fair proportion of all sorts
of people, except the nobility, whom God had
given up. 1t was one of the hardest things in
the world for God to do to make a nobleuan
into Baptist, and it was a thing which rarely
took place.
The white whale in the London Aquarium
died of pneumonia resulting from cold which
he took in crossing the Atlantic. 1t is evident
that these delicate creatures should be well
wrapped up and prevented from getting wet
when taken on long sea voyages.
The third act of "Othello," with Sothern as
Ohello, Florence as Iago, and Lotta as Desde-
mona, was played at the Edwin Adams benefit
in New York, and it wasn't intended for bur-
lesque either
Babylon, L. l., is the only place on the globe
of that name-the ancient city of Assyria hav.
ing long since "fallen."
1t is reported from Egypt that the Khedve
has incurred $4,000. 900 of new debts in less
than nine months.
Webster Wagner, the sleeping car man, has
been nominated by the Republicans of his dis
| trict for third term in the New York Senate.
The friends of E. W. Stoughton of New
York, count him as sure of the Berlin or st.
| Petersburg mission.
Atlanta's offer to Georgia is. if she is select
ed as the permanent capital to give the state
any ten acres of unoccuped ground in or near
the city, the City Hall lot of five acres in the
heart of the city, and to build capitol as fine
as the one at Milledgeville.
Mr.. Chenery, who is to succeed Mr.. Delano
as editor of the London Times, is scholar of
considerable renown, and has been for some
| years member of the English commission for
| the revision of the Old Testament. The new
business manager in place of the late Mowbray
Morris, is Mr.. Mcdonald, the inventor of the
| Walter printing press.
| The Philadelphia city government proposes
to reduce sll municipal salaries, docking those
| OF $1,000 year five per cent, those of $1,000
ten per cent, those of $4,000 fifteen per cent,
and those of $4,000 and upwards twenty per
| cent
The New York Sun prints a copy of a letter
from Hayes to Garfield, March IL, saying that
| it was his desire for Garfield to withdraw from
the Senatorial contest in Ohio, regarding Gar
| fields chances for Speaker of the House as ex-
| cellent, and and assuring him that he would do
| whatever he could to aid him.
The Manhattan cab company of New York
has voted to disband, ewing to lack of funds on
the part of foreign party who subscribed for
| several shares, but never furnished any money.
Among the novelties at the coming Paris Ex-
hibiton will be youth of fourteen, with feet
shaped precisely like his hands He can use
them for the same purposes, and plays upon the
piano with both hands and feet !ha7ing pc
culiar chair, which enables him to curl his body
| into the necessary position.
Almost everybody has forgotten about the
blue glass craze, but DR.. Wilkins, of the Napa
Insane Asylum, California, says that some of
his patients read about it and thought it might
beneft.them. q, So he had windows fitted with
blue glass for converts to the doctrine, and he
has aeason to believe that in several cases there
were most salutary results. He is careful to
say, however, that he feels inclined to attribute
| this improvement in the condition of the pa
| tients to the influence of the mind rather than
| of the glass.