The Portland daily press., 1885-08-20
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

A Mt. Oliyet, KY, groceryman had some
eggs hatch out while lying loose on a shelf
in his store.
According to an eminent Southern author
ity on barbecues, it takes ten hours to roast
a whole OK to perfection.
Princess Beatrice's husband having been
made royal highness Princess Louise
wants to know why she can't have a royal
highness, too.
DR.. Douglas gave to friend from Akron
o., few days ago, the following epigram
written on one Of Gen. Grants tablets: 81
am not personal pronOun, but a verb A
verb is thing that does, or is, or suffers
1 find in myself all three of these.
A silver dollar weighs very nearly an
ounce. Hence any letter not heavier than
dollar can go for a single two-cent stamp. A
not the silver dollar, five nickels and small
copper cent will give an ounce.
A woman eighty years of age, living in
Laurens county, S. G.. says that she has ney-
er been inside of a store. The Charleston
News doubts whether her duplicate can be
found in the United States. Such lifelong
indifference to the allurements of the dry
goods counter is certainly abnormal
The custom in Pennsylvania has been to
engage boys, often only 7 years of age, at
the breakers outside Of the mines picking
slate. At the age of u they were given
work inside the mines, attending the fans
ana ar doors and driving mules. The new
law demands that all boys under IA wears of
age shall have an opportunity for an educa-
ton.
A Syracuse bookseller has collected ac-
counts of the lives of 10000 centenarians.
10,
majority were women. Fifty single women
reached 100 years, and only II bachelors.
Ministers are the most numerous of the pro
fesslonal classes, but the whole list does not
contain single newspaper man. Fast living
Is the bane OF the editorial staff
An entirely new kind of bank note. print
ed in colors, instead of the black and white
of the Bank of England notes, is being pre-
pared for issue by the Bank of Scotland. The
chlef novelty of the new note is in its colors,
Wnlch VIII, OF course, make reproduction by
photography impossible, and, it is believed.
Will prevent forgery. The paper ON which
the bank note is printed is made by the same
firm that produces the Bank of England
notes.
A preacher in Youngstown, Ohio, having
declared from his pulpit-''on the authority
of prominent physician that mo less
than six ladies belonging to the best circles
require his attendance every month for de-
hrlum tremens." The doctors have held A
meeting, pronounced the statement to be ri
diculous, and demanded that the name of
the prominent physician" shall be given.
ms the clergyman promises to do.
A puzzle in ornithology is found in an item
in the Advertiser, Of Fort Gaines, Ga. That
paper learns that ''befo' the wah" there was
bird throughout the South that sled ex-
clusiyely on cookie burrs." 'sAt certain sea-
sons Of the year." runs this strange chroni-
Gle, these birds would sweep down upon the
fields, and wnen they departed not a burr re-
NAMED. The smell of burnt and burning
powder for four years seems to have been too
much Tor the burr-eaters since now not A
bird OF the kind is to be found in the bush.
One of the front windows of store in New
Haven, Conn.,, is filled with trophies which
Lieut.. Howard gathered in Canada and the
West. Among the curosities is an Indian
saddle, made of fur and trimmed with red
fringe and beads medicine bag. fur head
dress, tomahawk, bone hide scraper and
a tobacco and pipe pouch of fur and beads
also an Indian tom-tom of brown leather
about the size of drum head, Riels battle
flag, taken at Batouche, scalp lock. bows.
arrows, spears, rifles and the hat worn by
Ross, one Of RiePs near friends, who was
shot at Batouche.