The Portland daily press., 1885-09-25
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Rev. Thomas Thomas, of Fayetteville.
Ark, is ia years old. There is some sense
in his asking his hearers, why will we die?"
A parrot said to be 80 years old is owned
by an Orlando, Fla, farmer, who has refused
$500 for it.
Three million pupils now attend the free
schools in the Southern States, and over
$19,Oo0,000 is annually raised to support
them.
dancing master at Yeddo, Japan, an
nounces millennial celebration of the
death Of an ancestor, who was the first of the
family to practise the art of dancing.
It's shocking, but it's true, that ''Ouida 81
real name is Mary Ann Stubs, and not. as
we have been led to suppose, Louise de la
Rame.
Naugatsck, Conn, has violinist named
Bunnell who is more than eighty years of
age, and his violin, he says was made over
300 years ago. He values it at $4,000.
In Spain,' says the Boston Journal. ga
letter can be registered to be sent to the
United States for five cents, but if a person
in Boston wishes to register a letter to be
sent no Worcester the charge is ten cents.
citizen of Augusta is the possessor of a
silk handkerchief which he has owned for
half a century. 1t was imported from Japan
IN 1914. 1t is of large size and is white with
a black border.
A. f. Mason who lives up in Oxford coun-
ty, has two kittens: one of them has double
feet on all four of its legs-eight feet instead
of four The other-its four paws are like a
hogs with mittens on the toes all Joined to-
gether with thumb.
In reply to statement made by CORES
pondent of Western newspaper, that an
artist can live in Munich on $3.50 year, ten
American artists who have tried it declare
that only by tight squeezing can $500 be made
to last man year at the Bavarian capital.
Mr.. Bonner is going to take Maud s. home
to his own stable and drive her little him
self. She has trotted the fastest quarter, the
fastest half, the fastest three-quarters and
the fastest mile ever trotted, and he thinks
she is entitled to be taken out of training and
get little rest.
A Western editor has figured out that a
million dollar bills weigh 2,841 pounds. A
million thousand-dollar bills weigh just the
same, which shows the superiority of paper
money to him who carries his fortune in his
pocket. A million OF money in silver weighs
about thirty tons, and one in gold less than
two tons.
Why asked the schoolmaster in aston
ishment, cant you readP" NO." replied
the farmer landlord, throwing hammer at
the hens to remind them that they must get
out of the corn. "No; fact is, / did set out
to learn to read once, but when [ thought
that L should never be able to read a ten
thousandth part of the stuff that's written,
L gave it up In despair"
1t has taken the Washington correspon-
dent of the New York World little time to
do it, but he has at last found out the trouble
with President Cleveland. He says that
the President has heen so rapidly raised from
obscurity, and is so surrounded by parasites
and toadies, that 'he lives in an unwhole-
some atmosphere of f1attery with ne real,
solid, true friend upon whose advice and
good Judgment he can absolutely rely"
A negro in Jackson county, Miss, killed
two-year-old cow by butting it with his head.
He was trying to catch the COW, when the
owner told him to look out or the COW would
butt him. The negro said that he could play
the same game, and that he could kill the
COW by butting it. The owner of the COW
told him if he killed the cow with his head
by butting her down he would give her to
him. The negro bowed his head and went
for the COW, striking her in the forehead and
killed her.
Instead of giving the parsOn a silver water
pitcher or donation of dried apples and
pumpkins, our ancestors made him a present
of negro slvaye. This was done in Maine.
Although it is not agreeable to be compelled
to believe that slavery has existed in this
State, the parish records of the town of York
show that meeting on the 9th of January,
1882, it was Voted that there be slave Pur-
chased by the Parish to be Employed for the
use of said Parish in Laboring for the Rever-
end Mr.. Samuel Moody"
An almost incredible story of clerical in
tolerance comes from Little Leigh, in Ches-
hire, England. The resident Baptist minis
ter reported at public meeting that since
coming to Leigh he had met with actual per-
secution from the rector. He had been un-
able to obtain house in which to live, and
having decided to build dwelling be found
that his attempt to purchase land from Lord
Leigh was met with protest from the es-
t 1aoli3n ehurchmen. In reply the rector
clares that he but keeps his ordination VOWS,
having sworn to do all in his power to pre-
vent the spread of schism.
At the office of the Adige of Verona there
appeared the other day an aged lady. still
robust and gay, who offered to recite at per-
formances proposed to be given in favor of
old actors, reserving benefit night for her
self. She was Rosalind Caruso. formerly an
actress, well known in Verona through her
career, and latterly on account of her venera-
bic age. She has just completed her Tooth
year. She is still able to read without snac-
tacles. A Ii the savings she had been able tn
accumulate during sixty years on the STAGE
had been deyoured by the troubles she had
gone through. principally by the burning of
the Monte di Pieta and the inundati0ns
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