The Portland daily press., 1885-07-03
Philadelphia Press.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The number Of Quakers in the United
States is estimated at less than 100000.
Lightning is reflected for 100 to 200 miles,
and thunder may be heard for 20 or 25 miles.
1t has been estimated that ON an average
one house per hour is added to the buildings
in London, England.
President Cleveland is the latest $50 Eng
lish-you-know' victim. His new carriage is
queen eabriolet Victoria style"
The tramps are complaining that the bust
ness is lamentably oyerdone. There are
hundred men now where there was one fif-
teen years ago.
Denmark has new law which provides
that drunken person shall be taken home
in a carriage at the.expense of the man who
sold the drunkard his last glass. 4
Young ladies at the seaside are wearing in
the morning the gayest of summer gowns, of
ten of scarlet, frequently of Turkey red or
of white, with the most brilliant of trim
mingS.
A traveller in India believes in the success
of English civilization. He says that he
Travelled 543O miles in the land of the Hin
d00S and every evening sat down to dinner
in swallow-tail coat and white necktie.
An American physician, DR.. Natchtel, has
NtuAAiS ohAO AocO ANC yCdlo ALst1O CuholOCldUlC
effort to organize ambulances in Paris to pick
up persons who from any cause fall down in
the public streets. 1t is computed that 5000
accidents occur annually in the streets with
out any assistance to the sufferers
The President hopes to get away for his
vacation about the 1st of August. He has
made no plans for his outing yet. But his
present purpose is to go to the Adirondacks.
He will be away about month. He does
not propose to make many appointments be-
fore he goes. Some appointmentsin the dip
lomatic service may be expected soon.
Henry M. Stanley sails for the Congo
country at the end of next July. He is said
to be seriously disappointed because of his
failure to obtain financial assistance from
England for the Congo company, organized
to promote railway, mining and commercial
enterprises in the new free state. The COM
pany, it is said, is likely to utterly collapse.
When Mr.. Phelps, minister to England,
was teaching at Yale, it was among his du-
ties to instruct the academic seniors in law.
A student was asked one day to give the es-
sentials of deed, but described will. Prof.
Phelps called his attention to the mistake,
but relieved him and the situation by re-
marking at once, "Mr. Blank, shall have to
take the will for the dead"
A family uptown in New York was sur
prised the other day, and not altogether de-
lighted, at the persistent attentions of an or
gan grinder who played in front of the house
for the better part of the forenoon. The sur
prise ceased, and the delight did not increase.
upon the discovery that two charming little
cherubs, the hope and pride Of their parents,
had been emptying their mothers purse by
driblets from the. nursery. window When
the money was all gone, the musician went
also.
At sale of curios in Philadelphia on Sat-
arday, tiger, elephant and bear skulls sold
for 80 cents and 81 each. Three ''roses of
Jericho" 5000 years old, taken from Egyp-
tian mummies, sold for so cents each. An
original deed signed by William Penn,
brought SIG; bottle of water from the Dead
Sea 20 cents; piece of rock from the Gil
ants Causeway, Ireland, $1.10; a tablet of
black stone inscribed with the beginning of
the Mohammedan creed 1926; and feather
once worn by the Queen of Madagascar SIS. rs.