The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-12-11
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n. Y. Tribune.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR,

Canon Farrar lectured forty-one times all
told during his tour just ended.
King Theebaw is not a full-blooded Bur-
nese His mother was Shan.
lover thirty men have now been killed at
different times in the new aqueduct for New
York city.
Next Easter Sunday falls on the 25th of
April, fact which has not occurred since
1874, and will not occur again before 1913.
A man in Nicholas county, W. Va, has
seven wild bears in a pen, and is fattening
them for market. One of them already
weighs 700 pounds.
Stepniak's new book will be entitled ''The
Russian Storm Cloud" and will contain
chapters on the Russian Army, Poland, Ter
rorism in Russia, European Socialism and
Dynamiters.
A Georgia paper prompted by the spirit of
the soundest political economy, grumbles be-
cause even the ballots used in the recent At
lanta election were printed in Cincinnati
Some of these ballots, by the way, have been
sent North as curiosities, and it is safe to
say that Atlanta printers could not have
done any worse The prohibition ballot was
a curiosity. 1t represented an individual
with bottle in hand travelling over the
verge of a chasm, an angel supported by
clouds rushing to his rescue, and a wife and
three children in the foreground, who are
placed so as to have good view of the cataS-
trophe in case the angel fails to save the
wretched man.
There is no interviewer who does not
speak well of the late Thomas A. Hendricks
One of them relates an incident in the Ba-
ker and Hendricks campaign, which was
one of joint debates, that explains some
things, thus: when the local committee of
Democrats and Republicans at these speech
making places came up, each to get their ora
tor to take him to a place where he could
have food and lodging, when Colonel Baker
was asked if he had anybody with him, he
would respond that he was alone, and off he
would go with the Republican squad. When
the question was asked of Mr.. Hendricks he
would answer with wave OF the hand, COM
pretending the reporters, All these gentle
men,"
Josushi Nornura, Postmaster General of
Japan, is an intelligent man about forty
years of age. After perfecting as well as
possible the mail service of Japan, he re-
solved to find out what was worthy of imi-
tation here. His trip to Washington was
singularly unfortunate, as upon the visit of
his party to the Post Office Department word
came that Mr.. Villas was sorry to be unable
to see them from stress of business In New
York Postmaster Pearson gave him a
thorough insight into the methods of the city
postofice, while ex-Postmaster General
James redeemed the reputation of the coun-
try for hospitality by handsome dinner to
the distinguished guests.
If the writer or the Record, says the Bos-
ton Post, ever gets an opportunity he ought
to spend an evening with Mr.. Dana of the
New York Sun, and he would find him a
wonderfully versatile man. If his good for
tune should come to him in the summer he
will find Mr.. Dana's place one of the most
attractive in the country. 1t is filled with
trees of almost every variety that will grow
in the climate. There are cayerns of mush-
rooms, and there used to be many chicken
coops, homes of the domestic fowls which
Mr.. Dana's neIghbors loved too well. Then
the guest win find his host ready to talk
with him on any subject from politics to phi
lology. He will tell him much about the war
or about the public men of the last 80 years,
or about French novels, or trees, or hun
bred other subjects. He won't say anything
about the tariff, however, for he hasn't taken
lesson in political economy since Horace
Greeley died, If the young man who thinks
Mr. Dana a crank does not want to talk he
will find that Mr.. Dana can play pretty
game of billiards; he and Mr.. Latin, the
present publisher of the Sun, have spent
many day knocking the balls about. II
Mr.. Dana is crank, cranks are good people
to know.