The Portland daily press., 1885-03-31
Personal and Peculiar.

Secretary Villas is receiving and filling post
Office applications at the rate Of 600 day
Snow in parts of New Hampshire Is re-
ported five feet 1eep on level.
The ice in the Hudson is thick for long
distance below Albany.
William Putnam Endicott, the father IF
the Secretary of War, is still living at Salem
at the hale old age Of 81.
Thirteen women were elected school su-
perintendents at the recent elections in
British Columbia.
Ex Senator Pendleton, the new United
States minister TO Germany, has just solid
his Cincinnati resident for $4,000.
A ripe watermelon is reported from Visa
liza. II was grown by Chinese gardener on
vine Of last wears growth. Il ripened on
the last day Of February
The Prairie Dog and The Thomas Cat are
two Kansas journals, and the press of that
State is keenly on the watch for the first en-
counter between them.
Lieutenant Schwatka has presented to the
American Yacht Club the national dag which
he had planted at the nearest point to the
magnetic North Pole yet reached.
The late King Mtesa, OF Uganda, was ex-
ceedingly proud of his blue blood. He was
the lineal descendant of thirLy-ive monarchs
who had reigned in unbroken and uncon-
quered succession.
The Russians believe their defense Of the
European coast line to be perfect, since
they have 1T torpedo boats, or a score more
than England. and sufficient navy for
its defense.
The Canadian Government has granted =
subsidy OF $50, 100000 to a Dominion steam
ship company, and steamers between Hail.
fax and France direct will begin service 10
May.
One of the greatest curioslties in Japan Is
the wonderful and almost indescribable vari-
ETY. Of coins that are used daily, it requiring
in some Instances 100 pieces to make
dollar.
A solid silver balustrade, which had stood
in one of the Mexican churches since the
time of Cortez, was torn down not long ago
and taken TO the mint, producing over sixty
thousand silver dollars.
Miss Cleveland, in her last lecture deliV-
cred in Elmira last Summer, divided the hu-
man race into "boosters and the boosted"
and should she deliver it at the present time
ohN WbNid. IL lA6uhg PlAlS uCtSc1 huQ u6E
iilusirious bsother in the latter class.
Leland Stanford, the Cresus of the senate
worth $75.OOO,OOO, wears suit of plain
black broadcloth but little better than the
day la0orers wear Of Sunday all over the
United States, and bis whole oatft would
not bring $40 il sold to.a secondhand clothes
dealer.
Francis MuFphy's coat was stolen in Pitts
burg few days ago. The thief pawned it
and sold the pawn ticket, the buyer of which
attended Murphy meeting and took the
pledge. Francis Murphy then tied blue
ribbon IN the buttonhole of his own coat on
another man.
As an additional safeguard against the in
PRODUCTION of cholera through old rags i'm
ported from Europe, the Secretary of the
Treasury has given his approval of the 10
cation of a covered lighter at the quarantine
station in the lower bay, New York, for the
disinfection by the superheated steam pro-
cess Of such rags as may come from countries
regarded as infected.
The Boston Transcri t makes the follow
ing frank confession in regard to Mr.. James
Boston portrait; ''Every man of the world
must see that in bis present much-discussed
novel Mr.. James is picturing, with unspar-
ing accuracy, types by no means unfamiliar
in this city of isms. The value of these
creations is that they are not simply por-
traits, though mastery portraits they are in
he larger sense"
"When the electrician, Thomas A. Edison,
was departing from Cedar Key on Saturday
night in his yacht" says The Cedar Key
Journal, che became interested in the phos-
phorescence on the water. 1t excited the
attention of the darkies on the wharf, when
one wanted to know if it was water. One
darkev replied: go way, niger; dat
tightening man am glib each one dem fish
'lectric lamp"
1t was recently rumored that Sarah Bern
hardt, the patriot, was about to accept Ger
man gold; aud the Voltaire went so far as to
say that certain Herr Scherenberg had de-
clared that she had promised to appear at
the Victoria Theatre In Berlin. Boiling
over with indignation, the great actress took
up her pen, AMI wrote to the editor Of the
Voltaire: "Sir, deliberately give the lie 10
Herr Scherenberg, the manager of the Vic
toria Theatre. l never promised to play in
Berlin; and l am astonished to find that q
French journalist is capable of putting such
an insult into print"