The Portland daily press., 1884-02-25

The old house 10 which General Grant
was born at Point Pleasant, o., came very
near being carried away by the foods dur
ing the recent overflow. Clermont County In
which Point Pleasant is situated, is almost
surrounded py the Ohio and the Little Ma
mi rivers, and when the overflow occurred
acres Of land were submerged. The waters
rose to within short distance Of General
Grants old home, aud for time threatened
to carry it away, but, fortunately, sabsided
before any damage was done.
The Director General OF the Worlds Ex-
position has been notified by General Diaz,
commissioner general for Mexico, that 4o,-
600 feet of space in the main exposition
building is required for the exhibition Of
Mex,can minerals, woods, etc., and 10000
feet outside the building for the Mexican
garden, the building for the Mexican COM
mission, and for camping ground for
battalion of Mexican troops. Director Con-
eral Burke has designated $4,000 feet inside
and 100000 feet outside the main building.
Over $500, 100 has been appropriated BY the
Mexicans, who will send magnifcen. band
of musicians and a corps of cadets.
Some idea of the magnitude Of the busi-
ness of raising sweet scented flowers for
their perfume alone may be gathered from
the fact that Europe and British India con-
some about $50, 900 gallons of handkerchief
perfumes annually; that the English reve-
nue. from eau de cologne alone IS $40, 900 an
nually, and that the total revenue from 9TH
er perfumes is estimated at $2 a0.000 annu-
ally. There is one great perfume disiillery
at Cannes in France which uses yearly 10G,-
900 ponnds Of acacia flowers, 10000 pounds
of rare flower leaves, 80 0O0 pounds jasmine
blossoms, 10000 OF tuberose blossoms, and
an immense quantity of other material.
The Quakers of Logan county, Ohio, do
not now worsbip with the quietude usual to
their denomination, but are holding revival
meetings of an exceedingly demonstrative
character. Noah McClain, the evangelist
who has brought them into such stste of
excitement, is . negro. He is described a.
a wonderfully magnetic orator. The daily
exercises last, with brief ihtermissions,
from 10 O'Clock iD the morning until past
midnight. The widest Of campmeeting
scenes are here exaggerated. Peculiar at
tacks Of coma are common among the con-
verts. One young man, an atheist, defiant
and shockiugly profane, fell suddenly iusen-
sble, and lay so for two days.
Statistics are being collected in France for
the purpose of forming an estimate as to
whether the total number of inhabitants in
the country will be greater or less than 1t is
now at the close of the century. Thus far
the fguTes tend to show that there Ia likely
to be decrease rather than an increase in
the population. There are not upon an ay-
erage more than two children IN each fami-
ly in France, aud though there has always
been an Increase in the population sincs
1906, the rate Of increase has been CONSTANT
ly declining from SO per 10000 yearly TO 20
per 10000. Returns also state that out OF
every 100 inhabitants of Paris only thirty-six
are born in the department, 6fly-seven CON-
ing from the provinces, and seven from
abroad. Moreover, while the number OF
births remains nearly stationary in France.
the rate of infant mortality is enormous. be-
ing as much a, q per cent. in Normandy
and Is per cent. of the whole of France.
The beer breweres of Germany, exclusive
of those situated within the boundaries of
Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, and Alsace
and Lorraine, are shown by official state
mants just published to have decreased in
number by over 5000 within the psst ten
years. Still there are enough left. In 1872
they numbered Il, ,l57. Last year there
were 10,92l. But II the number Of brewer
ies ueC. c'seu, tue quantlty or beer produced
and sold increased in the same period by
nearly fifty pr cent, having been 16, lO2, ITO
hectolitres about 426, 706,7i3 gsllons) In
1872, and 22.1l3,180 hectoliites in 1882. 1t
has been estimated that the beer production
o. Germany is al present in the proportion
Of about sixteen gallons to each person In
the population within the borders Of The em-
pirs proper, about sixty gallons per head In
Bavaria, f0rty-eight in Wurtunberg, nine
teen in Baden, and fifteen in Alsscs and
Lorraine.