The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-09-06

| nuisance.
| In General,
| New York State has II ,914 public schools.
There are 60,000,000 acres of grazing land
| in Arizona.
About 10000 Chinese are annually emil
| grating to Siam.
The animal protection society Is to have a
branch at Honolulu.
The salvation army in England claims to
have 800, 600 in its ranks.
| Arizona is expected to produce 5,000,0 900
pounds of copper this year.
| Immense petroleum fields have just been
| discovered in Northwestern Wyoming.
| Two million bushels of wheat will be sent
to tide water this season from Manitoba
ST. Paul, Mimi, has in prospect million.
dollar hotel which will cover $4,000 square
| feet.
A marriage license was issued In DarieD,
Ga, recently to Abram Livingston, aged 100
| years, and Margaret Jones, aged So years.
The Freedman's Aid society Of the Metho-
n sAz-sss.-A -i.n. sss=- sazs.
200, large increase over the previous year.
The census report credits men with spend
ing s49S, 900 for dress, and women $Sl7,-
100000
Seventeen thousand models of rejected in
ventions were recently sold from the patent
office for old junk
Clinton, Ind, cat with family OF three
kittens, has adopted three young coons and
a flying squirrel.
The Roman Catholics propose to have a
floating church to traverse the Amazon riv-
| er, propelled by steam.
An English company with capital Of g.
100000 will develop the Havercock iron
mines, just opposite Ottawa.
Sweden has given the degree of doctor of
philosophy to the daughter of an army Off
Ger.
Landed property worth $50, 000, 600 10 said
to be seeking purchasers in the London
| market.
One-third of the Edisto island, one of the
famous 'Sea Islands," is now owned by ne
| groes.
| 1t is not generally understood, even In
| New York, that the tunnel under the Hud-
| son river is nearly half done. 1t is work
almost as great in its way as the big bridge.
AT recent Mormon conference In Salt
Lake City, some 200 missionaries were sent
out, making 800 for the year. OF these, 100
| go to the Southern States.
Six years ago the sugar product of San
Domingo was 100000 pounds; this year 1t
| will be 100000. The increase is due to
American capital and enterprise. ).
Grace Church spire in New York is to be
219 feet high, weigh 600 tons, and cost $780,
QUO. Constructively, it will be an iron tow
er covered with white marble from Rutland,
Vt. The old tower was wood.
| 1t appears that the Able Morgno has &C.
/ tually formed the company for the discov-
| cry in the Red Sea and Bitter Laks of Egypt
OF the chariots and treasures of the army of
| Pharaoh which pursued the Israelites A
sum of $50, 000f. has been subscribed The
expedition will go by way of Marseilles.
/ The tombstone at Kirkoswald, In Ayr
shire, to The memory of the grandparents
| and great-grandparents of Burns on the
mothers side, has been carefully restored
| by framing the old stone in new one, SO as
| to- expose both sides to view. The names re-
| corded on it are those of John Broun in
Littlaton, who died March 8, 1924, aged if
| "; Janet McGrean, his wife, who died
March %, 1913, aged sixty; Gilbert Broun,
formerly farmer at Craigenton, who died in
| TIA, aged seyenty-nine, and his first wifs,
| Agnes, who died in May, 1742, aged thirty
/ four.
A pearl fishery which is said to be of great
| promise has been opened up In the Gulf of
| California. One pearl, taken from the shell
| of an oyster in December last, is believed to
be the largest yet found. 1t weighs Is ca
rats, and was purchased by a jeweller for
| Sl4,000 Another of Al carats has also been
| found. 1t is perfect in form and finely tint-
ed, and is valued at $4,000. A third very
beautiful pearl of 40 carats has been exhib-
tied at La Paz, where bid of $4,000 for it
was declined.
The following are the totals for the popu-
lation of the great cities Of Europe: Lon
| don, 1882 .440 inhabitants; Paris, 2,225, 910;
Berlin, 1922 500; Vienna, ,103, ITO; st. Pc
tersburg, SIC. $40; Moscow, 511 $40; Constan-
| tinople, 100000; Glasgow, 555 $40; Liver
pool, 252,4 30; Naples, 493, ITO; Hamburg,
| 410, 120; Birmingham, 400, 100; Lyons, 872,-
| $50; Madrid, 367, 280; Buda-Pesth. 1856, 48O;
Marseilles, 357520; Manchester, 341 $40;
Warsaw, $50, 240; Milan, 321, $40; Amster-
dam, 3l7,0l0; Dublin, 1890; Leeds. 309,-
1870; Rome, 300, 470; Sheffield, 2S4. 40; Bres-
lau, 272010; Turin, 252,S30.
There are about 1000 Mennonitcs, or Ana
baptists, in Manitoba, divided into ten or
twelve villages, and occupying the richest
land. They came seven years ago, large
ment for their exclusive use. Their lam
guage is mixture of Russian and low
Dutch, and their customs and habits are
| primitive in the extreme. They are not at
all clearly, living under the same roof with
pigs, cows, horses, and poultry, and keep
aloof from the settlers. Their elders decide
minor disputes, but the power belongs to
the people, without whose consent no busi-
ness of Importance can be transacted. They
are, OF course, subject to the provincial law.
The New Jersey State prison could equip
good-sized bank from its corps of financial
inmates, among whom are Baldwin, ex-
| cashier Of the Mechanics National bank of
| Newark, which he quite thoroughly
| wrecked; President John Halliard, Of the
Mechanics and Laborers' bank Of Jersey
City; James A. Heddin, another cashier
from Newark; Garrett s. Boyce, cashier
from Jersey City; Henry Marchbank, ex-
bank clerk from Newark; Frederick A. Pal
| mer, ex-Newark auditor; Lawrence Beach,
| Jersey City book keeper; Robert Cook, as
sistant secretary of a Jersey City savings
hank, and Elijah Shaw, another Jersey City
cashier.
There lies in the State house rotnnda at
| Columbus, Ohio, piece of half rotten oak
J log, about six feet long, in the center of
| which stands still more rotten piece of
elm tree, NOR, than foot in diameter and
about two feet high, on which is a card bear
| ing the inscription: 'Flag staff Of 1893.
| Erected by Gen. Anthony Wayne at Fort
Recovery, Ohio, where Gen. st. Clair was
defeated in I791." The upright pole was
| mortised into the log, which was buried In
the ground. 1t was found eight or nine feet
under the ground while digging a well on
| the site of the old fort in 1876, and brought
to Columbus few days since to be placed
| In the relic room.
The arrest of three English ladies of posi-
ton on suspicion of stealing a ring at the
hotel at Kssingen has futtered the German
| watering places. On being released they
were accompanied by two Bavarian police
men to the hotel, where they found their
traducer, an Irish lady, seated at the table
dhote. She denied having accused them,
but several of the guests protested the oppo-
SITE She had openly charged them with en-
tering her bedroom at night and abstracting
the ring. Thus confronted, she made an
abject apology and handed to the police
good sum for charitable purposes