The Portland daily press., 1885-10-13
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Samuel J. Tilden has had 1877 books read
to him during the past eight months.
Druggists average from So to S15 per month
from each moderately large family in New
York.
General Grants burial at Riverside Park
has caused the extension thither OF street
railway.
Mrs. Leonard, South Brooklyn, N Y, has
a cat that sits on eggs like hen. -Four
families of chickens have been hatched by
this cat, and she is now engaged on the n1tn.
The most remunerative professorship in
the world is that of Professor Turner, the
distinguished anatomist of Edinburgh, which
yields him $4,000 year.
A statiscian at Jacksonville, Fla, esti-
mates that the watermelons brought into
that market this season, if placed end to end,
would reach to Cape Horn.
Forty-fou patents in one week is the num-
Der which some inventor must yet secure be-
fore he can break the record. A Yankee
now leads with forty-three.
The "Old Oaken Bucket" was written,
says A. P. Russell in his Literary Notes."
by Woodwork, a journeyman printer,
"while under the inspira ion Of brandy"
The gamblers of Omaha have made prop
osition to the city that if they are not inter-
fered with for one year they will pay for all
street improvements and keep up the water
works.
Statistics show that we really have no such
thing as an equinoctial storm, and yet al
most everybody continues to look for one
every six months, and generally find one, or
think they do.
DR.. A. S. Davis of Chelsea, Me-, owns a
hundred or more acres of land at Turtle
Head, where no one is allowed to fire gun
at bird or animal. The squirrels come
without fear and eat nuts from his pockets
while rabbits and birds have no fear.
Edwin Booth and his daughter have just
placed in the Episcopal church at Middle
town, X. l., window in memory of the ac-
tors deceased wife. 1t is 13 by 8 feet, and is
pronounced admirable both in design ana
color.
The bite If mad dog is not so fatal as is
generally supposed. A report upon the sub
ject for the Department Of the Seine for the
last three years, shows that of 1856 persons
bitten by rabid dogs in 1881, so died; in loS2,
9 out of 81 bitten died, and IN 1883, only OF
40.
The Queen of Italy is having magnifcen
fan painted for her by an Italian artist,
which the Paris news describes as painted
on kid leather, and represents the Queen
surrounded by the Graces and other allegor-
ical figures, with the genius Italy in the act
of crowning her.
A horse dentist went to Mechanicsville, N.
Y, to operate on the teeth of the horse of
Colonel Ellsworth, the first Union soldier
killed in the rebellion. The animal is SO years
Old, aud could eat nothing except potato
mash. After the operation the horse could
nasticate oats, but it is thought the relief is
only temporary.
One day last week son of Benson J. Los
sing the historian, was riding on moving
machine on his fathers farm. In the left
pocket of his overshirt was hickory stick
about four inches in length, three inches
wide, and an inch thick. As he was riding
along rifle ball shot by someone struck the
stick and embedded itself in it. The boy
does not know from which direction the bal
came nor who shot it. If the stick had not
oeen in his pocket he would have been in
SANITY killed. As it was he was not in
jured at all.