The Portland daily press., 1884-04-21

At the Paris sale of the effects of the late
Comte de Lagrange, 626 francs were paid for
the bride worn by Gladiateur when he won
| the Derby.
A society Of young ladies, led by Miss Eva
Mackay, the bonanza kings daughter, go
about doing good among the deserving poor OF
| Paris
Lieutenant Rhodes has been presented, IN
behalf OF the New York board of underwriters,
with an elaborate English barometer, in recog-
milton OF his bravery on the wrecked City OF
Columbus.
A Mohammedan university is to be estab-
llshed at Hyderabad for the dissemination OF
learning and the propagation of the faith. Mr..
Wilfred Blunt offers to endow the first pro-
fessorship.
Fully styled, Prince Leopold was His Royal
Highness Leopold George Duncan Albert,
prince OF the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland. duke of Albany, earl of Clar-
ence, Baron Arklow, duke of Saxony, prince
of Sake Coburg and Gotha, knight of the most
| noble order of the garter.
a soldier in the war OF 1872 aged ninety
eight, has been an inmate of q Minnesota poor
house, because deserted by all his relatives ex-
cept one grandson, who became too poor to
provide for him. The old man recently re-
ceived warrant for 160 acres of land and
$1,000 back pension. He gave his grandson
the land warrant and half the money.
Walt Whitman says of his poems-'They
proceed out OF and rev0lve around ones self
myself, and identity, and declaredly make
| that self the nucles of the whole utterance. +"
This will be surprise to many of his readers
| who have supposed that they proceeded from
an attack of acute dementia.-New York
| Graphic.
A little three-year-old Beacon street girl,
was asked the other evening, if she always said
her prayers at night. On replying that some
| times she did and sometimes she did not the
fNt1 hA~ &Ia-A IL. - tr.
neglect her evening devotions. "Humph.' y
replied the little one 81 don't see what use 1t
Is. Tother night didn't say any prayers and
lasted till morning"
The following is an epigram BY the late DR..
Edward Lasker:
An advocate of mighty size
Was 'gainst small one pitted.
"Ho,n said the large one, full of scorn,
you're for my pocket fitted!"
"Granted, the little one replied:
"Then would the news be spread.
More knowledge In your pockets hid
Than's stored within your head.'
Lord Coleridge was at Mount Vernon with
Mr.: Evarts, and, talking about Washington
| said: II have heard that he was a very strong
man physically, and that, standing on the
lawn here, he could throw dollar right
| across the river to the other bank" Mr..
| Evarts paused moment to measure the
rather "tall' story, but it was not for him
to belittle the father of the country in the
| eyes Of foreigner. ,"Don't you believe it?,'
asked Lord Coleridge. eyes," Mr.. Evarts re-
piled, II think it's very likely to be true. You
know dollar would 60 farther in those days
| than IL does now"
One evening at Windsor in the drawing
room the Hon. Amy Lambert danced High
land Fling with one Of the young equerries,
much to the delight of the Queen, and she
said: why, Amy, you dance charmin gly;
ask what you will and you shall have It,"
a Ialw AL
piled: "The head of Mr.. Gladstone on a
charger" The Queen applauded the saying
with her hand and said: CAT least you NAV
have the charger" and sent immediately and
had fetched gold salver which was standing
upon sideboard In the dining room, and pre-
sented II to the fair dancer.
new club, christened the American and
British Club, is to be established in New York
through the efforts of DIR. Ferdinand Seegree
who desires to establish more intimate and
friendly relations between the United States
and Great Britain. The entrance fee will be
300 until the membership numbers 400, there
after 1t will be doubled. Gentlemen of both
countries and members of the learned profes.
sions are to be eligible as members and honor
ary membership will be conferred on the
President of the United States the governor
OF the State, the mayor of the city, the general
commanding the district officers of the regular
army and navy and any distinguished visitors
Baron Tennyson regrets that an early SON.
net critical of his university, should have
come before the public; but since it has, he
prefers to furnish an exact copy with an apol-
ogy. "I have" he says, "a great affection for
my old university, and can only regret that
this spirit Of Undergraduate irritability against
the Cambridge OF that day ever found its way
into print"
Therefore your Halls, your ancient Colleges,
Your portals statued with old kings and queens,
Your gardens, myriad-volumed libraries
q -ttaht t0d Abn a1n a.
Your doctors and your proctors, and your deans
Shall not avail you, when the Day-bea sports
New-risen DER waken'd Albion-No!
Nor yet your solemn organ-pipes that blow
Melodious thunders thro your vacant courts
At morn and eve-because your manner sorts
Not with this age wherefrom We stand apart
Because the lips of little children preach
Against you, you that do profess to teach
And teach US nothing, feeding not the heart.