The Portland daily press., 1884-06-23
Nuts and Raisins.

OoruolluS vanderbilt is en- route for Europe.
Canada contains $4,000 Odd Fellows.
Some of Queen Victoria's cattle recently
brought about $4,000
The novels by Miss Braddon are being trans
lated into Telugu and Caranese.
Colonel Jno.s HAY is preparing biography
of Abraham Lincoln.
treatise on Latin medieval student songs
will soon appear from the pen of Mr.. j. A.
Symonds.
In Paris the daisy is still the favorite flower,
but clover blossoms are their successful rivals
here.
"Huckleberry Tim," Mark Twain's new
book, is to be illustrated by Mr.. Edward W.
Kemble of New York.
Boot-buttoners are of such amazing length
that one is no longer compelled to "stoop to
conquer" the unyielding button.
Hand-painted sashes are quite the style and
will not only crafty aesthetic tastes, but give
employment to artistic young ladies'
Theodore Thomas will furnish enjoyment to
Long Branch Hotel boarders during July and
and August.
ing, is sold in this country for $1.5O, whereas
in Europe the retail price is 1925.
1t has been suggested that if Mr. Lawrence
Barrett would retrieve the losses he has met
with in Europe he would do well to write his
| impressions of England.
| Prince and Princess Poniatowski will spend
July at Indian Harbor Hotel, Greenwich,
Conn. This was once the headquarters of the
Tweed ring.
| On the 29th and 29th of June Hamelin will
celebrate the 6O0th anniversary of the legen-
Diary incident of the Ratcatcher described in
Browning's "Pied Piper of Hamelin,"
A monument is to be erected in Patterson
square, Baltimore, to the memory of Francis
q nhn %zA \
| Banner"
At the Chicago Wagner Festival the en-
frances, or tunnels" to the different aisles
were painted in different colors, which were
matched by the tickets.
There are but two perfect copies of the MAJ.
arin Bible in existence, Each of them is in
two volumes and they have been sold for S13.
$50 and $4,000 rectively.
Mr.. M. j. Burns, draughtsman for the Cen
tury magazine, received gold medal for the
drawings he exhibited at the Information al
Fisheries Exhibition, London.
! The following prayer, almost synonymous
both in sentiment and expression, with our
Now lay me" is universally taught to little
children in Scotland:
"rhs night, when lie down to sleen
| gle my soul to Christ to keep;
l wake a. moo, wake a. never
gle my soul to Christ forever"
Mr.. Fred Saunders of the Aston Library ha 8
recently catalogued the library of the late
Robert L.. Stuart which consists of ten thou
sand volumes, most of them of the best edi-
tions. The Bibles, with the missals and litur-
gles, are four hundred and forty in number
and contain among them, printed copy dated
Venice, 1880, and MSS. Bible of the thir-
teenth century.
Chinese Gordon is said to prize above all
others the following fine lines of Robert
Browning
| 81 90 to prove nav soulI
| see my way as birds their trackless way.
shall arrive! what time what circuit first,
l ask not; but unless God send his hail
Or binding freballs sleet, or sitting snow
In some time, his good time I shall arrive!
He guides me and the bird. In his good time!''
A new system of shorthand, with every sign
aoorevlated from an alphabetic character, has
| been devised. Take for instance the letters a.
b, d. The semi-oval that forms the lower part
OF the small script letter will represent a.
line straight down stroke will represent the
letter b. The upper semi-oval in the lower
body OF the letter will represent d. Every
character IN the alphabet will be given SINH
lar sign. Twenty-six characters only will have
| to be memoriZed,
The name of the Rev. John Harvard, who
founded Harvard College, is found to have
been twice entered on the college books at
| Cambridge, England, the first entry stating
that he entered the college in 1927, and took
his M. A. degree in 1926, the other that he en-
| tered in 1928 and became M. A. in 1885, Sub
sequent entries show that his residence was in
Middiesex county, although it had been pre-
viously supposed that Southwark was his
| home.
In an article in the London Spectator Wal
ter Besant writes as follows: 81 maintain
that fiction is fine art, governed by general
rules like any other art; that these rules can
De taught, like those of any other art; and that
| the teaching breaks down Just where that of
painting, music, or sculpture breaks down-at
those points. namely, where natural aptitude
is required and fails to appear. This is the ru-
dimentary condition of the art, just as an eye
Tor color, form, and drawing-in other words,
natural aptitude-is required for the painters
art"