The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-05
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

There are no fewer than sixty-four vol
umes of the German Bible for the blind. 1t
costs $25.
The President took Canon Farrar into the
White House Conservatory, and said it was
the first time he had ever been there him
self.
The London Lancet is of opinion that the
proposal to free the ring finger of pianists by
dividing the connecting band is ingenious in
theory, but liable to be dangerous practically
The last shot of the war was fired by a
Confederate soldier named Cosby. 1t was
at hog that strayed into the lines and
brought Cosby's mess good dinner.
At the Chenango county fair, N. Y, one
of the drivers in horse race fell off his sui
ky. His horse went on all the same, only
with increased speed, and won the race.
Capt. Pardon Trip of Marion, Mass, has
looked at life through the upcurling blue
rings of the contented smoker. During fifty
years he has turned $1,000 worth of tobacco
into ashes.
A new process of gas making has been in
troduced in Paris. 1t consists in passing
stream of water over glowing coke. The
product is said to be better than ordinary
coal gas
In Iowa, it is said, there are 955 farms
owned by women; twenty of these are dairy
farms and are managed entirely by women.
There are in the State 122 women physicians
and five women lawyers.
A New York school teacher, a woman,
has just died at the agd of thirty-eight, from
general debility, the result as declared by
her physician, of oYerWork 1t is said to be
the second case within week, the other be-
ing man aged forty-four.
The Rev. Moses A. Hopkins, the colored
clergyman of North Carolina who has been
appointed minister to Liberia, says: "There
are more than 10000, 600 of people in West
ern Africa who are anxious to trade with
Americans, and expect to see the day when
The last House of Representatives hay
ing failed to pass the joint resolution sent
down by the Senate accepting them, the
Grant relics are not yet the property OF the
nation. The work must be started from the
Machining at the coming session once IUr,
mally accepted, the relics VIII pc unpactk asd
from the cases in which they repose at Inc
war Department,
Tboro are engaged in the fishing industry
| &c Enrege and America upward of 10000
Yaesels and 100000 men. The annual product
lof fish is not much short of 100000 tons,
Int few people will stop to realize the impor-
| lance of these figurrs. AS ton OF hsh Is
| equal in weight to about twenty-elght sneep;
years supply of fish food for Europ pc a noo
! America might be represented by 4z,oOo,ooo
\ AZ 49, 100 oro ;norsosing in
cars ILL ''sae mentioned that a train OF
4 form - - ~ ago between
!orth and Forest. Also, q gentleman driving
IN Fredericton, met, below Nashyaak q
| large bull moose, which showed fight toward
Ine morse, paving and striking with his fer
waro Ieet III frightened away by the gentle-
man himself. A-moose also walled leisure
last July. WV "''
Major Ben Perley Poore the purnal'st. is
Just recovering from severe illness. Writ
ing from his historic house at indian Hill.
near Newburyport Mass, to friend he
bllthely says: Last week was tried by nv
physician on charges of illness, found guilty
OF over work last summer and Sentenced to
my bed with frequent doses Of nauseating
H Hi,4g = l write this in my dressing gown,
about presently"
The New York Star records a neat renar
tee by William NJ. Evarts He was entering
tne ourroWgate's court to continue his fun
WIN WIN zen. Butler and Gen. Pryor in the
hand. 1t was plethoric bag; for Mr.. Ey-
arts, while long on sentences, is never short
on briefs. He was about to enter. but was
matted by small boy, who had been stimu-
lated to make remark. "Hello!'' said the
small "a, boy, pointing to the green bag; sole |
ciotneS OH. no." said the statesman. |
giving the small boy new nickel: sstbese |
are new suits" Gen. Butler and Gen. Pry- |
OF, the ways who put up the lob. were not |
the last to see the joke.