The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-05-10
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In July the Old Testament revision win be
completed
A recent letter from Rome says ths: Queen
Magherita of Italy Is growing handsomer, and
from Psyche is becoming Juno.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, who is still I'll
from overwork, considers playwriting the most
profitable Of literary ventures.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon, born among the
White Mountains, is 102 years and smokes
pipe continuously.
Ike Commencement Grafton at Smith Col
lege, Northampton, Mass, Ia to be delivered
by General Hawley.
Boucicaulps lecture on the cart Of Acting"
Is indefinitely postponed, the actor being con-
lined 10 his house with rheumatic govt.
There are eight cables across the Atlantic
ocean now in use; the sum total of their cost
was $64, 100000.
Genuine culture, the attribute Of class who
enjoy leisure, asserts the London World, does
not exist in the States except In the narrow
uritan circle at Boston"
Queen Victoria does not favor long prayers,
and suggested to her chaplain that three min
ute petitions were most pleasing to her mai
esty.
100000 is the sum that has been realized
from (Kilmarnock) edition OF Burnss poems,
aud an incomplete copy Of the second brought
e23. 900.
The festivities designed in honor of the COM
ing OF the Gar, which were to be held at Mos
COW, will be held at 81. Petersburg, owing 70
plot to assassinate him at the former place.
At nine O'Clock, a. m, the boys Oakland,
California, are reminded Of the mayors cur
few ordinance by the ringing of the FIRE bells.
At this hour they are expected to be within
the home precincts.
A healthy eye, within the range of the nor
mai spectrum eau perceive about three hun
4 IL n II -
Berlin has proved this beyond doubt by re-
cent experiments.
The Clarendon club at Manchester recently
gave banquet to Salvini. Mr.. Albert ID.
Shaw, United States consul, and other promi-
nent gentlemen complimentad the tragediAn
in their brilliant speeches.
Mr.. William NJ. f. Round, OF the Prison As
ISOLATION Of New York, is now An honorary cor
responding member OF the sSeformatory and
Refuge Union of Great Britain. Seventy
tlroasand are under the charge Of this union,
which has only one other American member.
The charger which Napoleon III. rode at the
battle of Sedan, has become pensioner, and
as such has been turned ont to pasture for the
remainder of his life. This is the second in
stance OF noted horse having become pen
sioner, the other having borne the hero Of
Waterloo.
Viyisection meets with no approval from
Bismarck. Nothing on EARTH, he wrote to
the Scientific Society OF Berlin, would induce
me to become 10 any way whatever the col
league of Virchor or Mommsen. am doc
tor of Law of Gottingen, and an honorary citi-
zen Of Berlin. / am satisfied"
Gable, when he first began to write, Is said
to have been unusually shy. A recent state
ment is that he was startled to think OF seeing
his name in print. This in itself is worthy Of
record aud shows that he Is not made of COM
mon mould-in proof of which one needs only
to search the editors waste basket and watch
the devotee Of sea and mountain when he dis
covers his name in the summer journal.
The two choral compositions at the thir-
tenth examination Of the Leipzig Conservato-
ry were by Americans-Mr. Angelo NJ. Read,
OF st. GATHERINGS, Canada, and Prof. Edwin
Higley, formerly of Middlebury, VT. Paul Ho-
meyer and Bernhard Vogel, the critics, speak
Of these works as displaying marked skill in
the handling of the vocal effects. OF Prof.
Higley's selection they agree that 1t displays
marked talentin the arrangement OF tones
and sonorous effects, as we'll as in its sympa-
thetic appeal to religious sentiment"
Mr.. Ruskin has the finest collection of agateg
in England, and is assisting the British Muse
um iu that department. He has diamond ON
exhibition at the Museum, which is unique in
Capitalization, and for which he gave 5000.
In Mr.. Ruskin's bedroom, preserved among
his choicest treasures, are twenty of Turner'S
most highly finished water colors, representing
bis whole career-from one which he executed
when boy to one which he painted late in life
for Mr.. Ruskin. AS things now stand, in case
OF Mr.. Ruskin's sudden death, this group Of
Torner pictures will go to Oxford, but he ex-
presses himself as uncertain whether that IL
the best disposition to make of them and he ,
may make change with view to having
them still more Of service to the public