The Portland daily press., 1885-03-06
CONVICT LARoR.
Milwaukee, Seminal
Personal and Peculiar.

President Cleveland shaves himself.
Ofticeholders' jokes on marching forth are
good for 80 days.
The average American citizen dearly loves
to make part of a big crowd.
The President of Venezuela is a full
blooded African.
The cost of lightning American and Can
adam seacoasts last year was So, $4,000.
Chicago's water works have pumping
capacity of 150,00O,000 gallons each day.
Gen. Grant gets $500 for each of his arti-
cies for the Century. This is at the late of
$50 page, beginning on the Shiloh paper.
Supplies for the supper of the inaugural
ball, in Washington, sent from New York
city, filled three large freight cars.
New Workers say that Kennebec are supe-
rior to Oregon salmon, being finer and more
delicate in favor.
It is said that no one can live comfortably
in Washington and keep house and maintain
any sort OF social footing upon less than
$4,000 year.
General Logan finds great difficulty in
keeping presentable necktie on hand, be-
cause his wife sends them away to the crazy
quilt dends.
One of the rich single women in New
York receives several offers OF marriages by
post every week, and doubtless most of the
others in similar manner
Professor Proctor, the astronomer, saws
there are 695, O1S, $4,000 different ways in
which the cards can be dealt for a hand in
whist. If you don't believe this. just take
pack of cards and see for yourself.
Colonel Lamont, as private secretary of
Governor Cleveland of New York, received
81, 600 salary per annum. AS private secre-
tary of President Cleveland of the United
States, he will receive only So, $50.
An ice gorge on the Delaware River ex-
tends from Lambertvile, fourteen miles
above Trenton, to point three miles below
the latter city, and is said to be thirty.fi five
feet thick in places.
Fashionable young ladies' ia New York
who delight to go to extremes in everything
now dress in mourning without Grape. When
asked if any of their relatives have departed
this life they laugh merrily and reply, "Oh,
dear, no; but it is Lent"
"Good Men Gone Wrong is the headline
which the Connecticut newspapers place
over the account of the sending of three
eminent bankers to the penitentiary. "Bad
Men Gone Right" would come much nearer
the truth.
There are differences even among Italian
princes. The least enternrising and shrewd
among them come to America and grind
hand-organs. The sharp nobIeman stays in
his own sunny cline, bides his time and
finally marries rich American girl.
Rnnausa pott; or;aJ ooodo I,oi;or, -
did-when singing ''Home, Sweet Home''
in st. Louis, paper in rival city says:
'The thought of home is enough to make
anybody weep-tbat is, if they appen to be
temporarily sojourning in st. Louis"
The Rome IN. Y.) Sentinel reports that
two men who served on a jury at trial in
Utica the other day, after they retired, voted
GU verdict in direct opposition to their real
sentiments because they did not know the
d difference between the terms "plaintiff,' -
and defendant in the case.
Sar..h Berhar.t gets $500 day for acting.
OF this her creditors take $50, leaving her
$l20 Her table costs her 500 q day, and
fuel and lights about S. more. Her carriage
hite-she has sold her own equipsges-comes
to s. day, and cosmetics, including rouge
S. more.
Yes, my son, said Bob Burdette, it is a
solemn, eternal tact that "Truth once
crushed to earth will rise again." And in
these days of awful carelessness truth is
kept SO bnsily engaged in performing the
grand rising act that she looks like woman
picking up pins.
A host of kilograms were sent from Wash
ington to General Grant Immediately upon
the passage of the retirement bill. The first
one was from Congressman Boutele, and
told of the enthusiastic applause with which
the action of the House was received. There
were twenty eight or thirty other dispatches
OF congratulatory nature.
A small village clamored for small faclli-
ties' for several years, and recently there