The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-07-23
Nuts and Raisins.


IN the ball scene in ia Traviata" Path
wears diamonds valued at $4,000.
Lady Florence Dixie is hsleafter 10 edit the
"SOeiety Column" of Vanity Fair.
Millions bible, which has lust been DUR
chased by the trustees of the British Museum
contains in the poets hand writing the dates OF
the birth of his children.
The memory of Francis Barton Key, the an.
thor Of the Star Spangled Banner" Is to be
honored bv monument erected in Patterson
Square, Baltimore.
A Pennsylvania Judge decides that pictures
are not furniture because: "They lack the idea
of utility that makes the basis Of the defni-
ton of household furniture"
The great demand for artificial hazel eyes
would seem to indicate that eyes Of this color
are more liable to disease than those Of any
other hue.
"Well now" exclaimed an old waterman az
Atlantic City, "if that Amt the funniest way
to spell fish ever SEEM" pointing to the name
Psyche" on the name of the boat.
Bavaria has enc brewery to every thousand
Inhabitants, and Munich consumes yearlya
quantity OF beer averaging about one and one
third quarts daily to each man, woman and
child.
A curious taste is displayed by Mr.. Hendryx
OF Padua, who has large collection OF mon.
strosities, among which are a six legged calf, a
three-legged horse, duck with no legs at all,
d uOAOlc-ucdutu CulCkbl, ana a lew other curt-
oslties among the lower order Of animals.
Paris has produced a bird-charmer, who
controls the movements Of birds and causes
them to alight on certain trees provided BY
him at the distance OF 100 metres. 1t is be-
lieved the tree is saturated with some LIQUID
which attracts the birds.
Charles Reade's London publisher says that
once the novelist, as they were travelling To-
gether, pointed to piece OF water in the dis
lance and said. That's where Christie John
ston caught the herrings." He regarded this
incident OF his own invention as reality, 80 ain
cere was he in his work.
Sarah BernhaFdt's idea, as stated BY an
English Critic is that Macbeth was Influenced
10 crime quite as much by the pretty coquetries
OF his wife as by her superior will. Mile. Bern
nardt is soon To attempt the portrayal OF this
character in Paris.
Mr.. Gable made protest against the con-
tract labor system in the State prison, for
which State Senator Carlisle OF Louisiana
called him "a QQixotic moral reformer, mount
ed ON the ass of public credulity, riding against
ne lmmoVable windmills OF fixed institutions"
A Japanese editor is creating a sensation In
Partisan circles He is named JuRor ian hon
orary title) Y. Yano,, and is editor and propre-
tor OF the Hotchishienboun, the principal or
gan OF the Liberal party of japan, Mr. Yano.
although only thirty-fye, is one of the chiefs
OF his party He proposes to spend six months
in Europe to familarize himself with the
manners and methods Of the people, and he
will probably 60 to London at once Upon his
return MIR. Yano will publish his impressions.
1t is shown by work recently published
that GAribaldi had German blood In his veins.
dis grandmother on the fathers side was
German, the fact being proved by this extract
from the church OF Nugge, a small Prussian
village-"Jos Maria Garibaldi and Catha-
rine Amelie Won Neuhof, married 10Th August
1885," This Joseph Garibaldi was the conf
dental friend Of Theodore Won Neuhof, who,
after ascending the throne Of Corsica as Theo-
dore l., sent Garibaldi to his old mother Al
Foddenh0h, near Nuggeberg. There, as now
appears, the italian married Theodore's sister
aud eventually took her to Nice, where he
practised as phYsican