The Portland daily press., 1884-04-30
Nuts and Raisins.

At Easton, Ca, one man has occupied
the position OF postmaster forty-nine years.
The late A. j. johnson, publisher Of John.
sons Cyclop@dia, left fortune OF $1,000 600
At Los Angeles, Cal, a genuine vampire
was recently captured.
An Autobiography of Judas Iscariot,o by q
Church of England divine. is the latest litera-
ry novelty.
DIR. Samuel W. Gross, the Oldest surgeon in
the United States Is lying dangerously i'll at
his home in Philadelphia.
The Salvation Army was hooted out of the
streets of Salem, and retired crestfallen to the
barracks.
The London allopaths are said to be indig-
nant because John Bright employs homs-
pathic physician.
George Inness, the artist, now working in
Virginia, will soon 60 on q sketching tour to
the Yosemite Valley.
The house in which Gen. Grant was born
has been photographed for the State Historical
Society. 1t is in Mount Pleasant, Ohio.
Japanese paper napkins are quite in vogue
among European tourists who prefer them to
the napkins made use of on the steamers.
Georgia Cayvan, formerly celebrated as
reader, is said to have made the shit of her
career" in MAY Blossom" at the Madison
Square Theatre.
Austin Dobson is at work on history of
Thomas Berwick and Pupils", 1t ia 10 con-
tain hundred illustrations of the representa-
tive school of English wood engravers.
Nine rosy checked peaches were seen last
week In fruit store on Broadway. They were
hot house productions the first Of the season,
and were sold at seventy-ive cents apiece.
Tolono, ILL.,, claims to have a number of
wells containing natural gas, with which the
farmers do their cooking and heat and light
their houses.
The San Pedrito Lake, supposed to be the
cause OF the annual yellow-fever epidemic In
the state of Colima, Mex, is to be mapped by
Emilio Mahlo with view to draining it.
Out of fourteen Americans who exhibit at
the Calcutta Worlds fair, six were patent
medicine men, and three manufacturers of
sewing machines.
Halls Journal of Health says the seyerest
cold may be cured if, soon after taking ii,
she patient will keep warm in bed and eat
nothing for day or two. Fasting is also pre-
scribed, by celebrated physician.
John Wins, resident of Stratford, Eng
land, after spending week in jail, was sem
fenced to months imprisonment, with hard
labor, for stealing one penny's worth of coke
he was ga years of age, and had always borne
good character Such is the injustice of
English criminal laws
The prospective marriage of GLADYS, Count
ess of Lonsdale, and MIR. Edgar Vincent is
much talked OF in the upper circles in London.
de Is striklngly handsome, the financial ad-
wiser OF the Khedive, and a brother of Howard
Vincent, who undertook the work of chief de-
tective in London, and married millionairess
According to notable society journal, the
fnger-bowl must go 1t isno longer in demand
at the festive board where fashion plesides,
and now people Suddenly remember that many
years ago it was discountenanced by French
gourmet, who affirmed that its presence indi-
cafa1 in IN ri ~
accomplished master of the knife and fork
would never soil his fingers at table.
ChiDa's dwarf trees are curiosities OF forest
ry Every child knows how the Chinese cramp
their women's feet by bandaging them when
they are infants, and thus render it impossible
for them to walk. 1t is however, wonderful to
see miniature oaks, chestnuts, pines and cedars
growing in flower pots fifty years old and yet
not foot high. To do this, take young plant
cut of its tap root, and place it in basin in
which there is good soil kept well watered. II
it grows too rapidly, dig down and shorten in
several roots. Every year the leaves grow
smaller, and the little dwarf trees make inter
esting pets.
member OF the firm of Julius Campo of
Hamburg Heine's publisher, claims to have
discovered among some old manuscripts sever
al works OF Heine that are of great literary
value, consisting OF an essay on Baron Gotta
and the Augsburg AHqeneine ZeSt,eq, whose
correspondent Heine was German draft Of
the testament, wherein the writer asssrts that
ne burned his early memoirs; lampoon on
Jacob Venedy, the author, and number of
poems ad dressed to the "Mouche." They will
be published in one volume, having been pro-
nounced genuine by DR.. Edward Engel, the
editor Of "Heines Memoirs" nowIappearing in
the Gartenlaube.
Mrs. Alexander Stewart, the richest widow
in the world, is 81 years old, is afflicted with
many real and imaginary ills Of mind and
! body. She worries a great deal, and has be-
come a complainer, though some of the SUM-
shine of her earlier disposition glints into the
gloom of her expiring days. None except
near relatives and friends of long intimacy
visit her, and all Of her business is transacted
by ex-Judge Hilton. About snce week she
ventures out for a short walk on Fifth avenue.
A stalwart watchman follows ten feet behind,
to see that nobody annoys her. She carries a
few dimes in her hand for beggars, however,
and is quite industrious In getting rid of them
On returning to the great white mansion
which her husband built, 80 like tomb in its
architecture, she takes nap as cure for the
fatigue which the slight exertion has brought
on. The house is gloomy, and the chief set of
parlors Is never opened. have good reason
to believe that conspicuous law firm, under
engagement to prospective heirs, are constant
ly making study of the case with reference
to future legal contest. 1t is said that besides
real estate she has twenty-six millions in gov.
ernment bonds.-New York Letter to Albany
journal.