The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-07-13
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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


The new postage rates have already in
creased the sale of heavy writing paper and
envelopes.
Out in Denver they are having floral
and strawberry show, where are on exhibi-
ton several berries over six inches in cir
conference
A society woman in New York is wearing
deep mourning for her dog, which died three
months ago, and uses black-edged cards and
stationery solely on his account.
California papers report the discovery of a
new wine-peach wine, made from the Juice
OF soft ripe peaches. 1t is said to be the
nnest Favored and most delicious wine ever
discovered. e'e-
An engineer who tried the first electric
light for locomotive headlight last week
says he can see the track plainly mile
ahead, while with the oil light he could see
only 1876 feet ahead.
The ex-Empress Eugene wrote the follow
ing pathetic sentence in private letter to
Monslgnor Goddard at Chiselhurst: ST am
left alone, the sole remnant of a shipwrecl,
which proves how fragile and vain are the
grandeurs of this world
physician having discovered and pub
lished the fact that seasickness is caused by
lack of blood in the brain, the New York
Times suggests as remedy that voyagers be
stood on their heads during the first twenty
Tour hours after leaving port
BY means of fines extorted from all who
profanely swear within range of a certain
court house in Florida, goodly sized fund
for the poor has been formed-an illustra-
ZION Oh the poets line, From seeming evil
still educing good"
A mother dragged hopeful fresh from
slumber into New York police station on
the eve Of the Fourth and begged that he
might be restrained from sleeping with lit-
tie brass cannon she had just taken from his
bed. 40
Michigan woman has provided herself
with mourning raiment, including hand
some black bonnet ''because there are 81
many delicate members of the family. and
she mad to have some new clothes any
way.
When the Milwaukee Young Mems Chris
tian Association asked for $4,000 with
which to buy a lot to put its $4,000 building
on. the subscription list was headed
and seconded by two brewers, who gave $500
each. w.
DR.. Phillips Brooks has done in London
what he has done in Boston again and again.
lie is credited with speaking at the rate of
300 words minute which is 100 words a
minute faster than the English reporters can
follow him. He is called one of the most
rapid speakers ever heard in London.
DR.. Gilbert, French oculist, reports to
the Acdamie de Medicin that, having been
obliged to remove a diseased eye from a
young girl, he replaced it with one taken
from rabbit At the time of his statement
IA days had elapsed, and the eye had retained
its vitality and was doing we'll
Statistics collected by British consuls
show that in Prussia there are 5212 cases
yearly of alcoholism in fatal form. In
Sweden and Norway drunkenness is de-
creaslng, as 1t is in France and Holland.
Whlle IN Belgium, Austria and Switzerland.
the evil effects of drinking are fearfully on
the increase.
Stormonth, who will be accepted as good
authority, gives thanks, in his dictionary.
as the familiar form of ''thank you,' with |
out hint that it is undesirable, and we have
daily examples of its use by careful gram |
maflans. The question here seems not so |
much one OF grammar as one of taste and |
preference. Strictly speaking, thanks" is |
correct, but by fastidious speaker it will |
scarcely be preferred to the more deliberate |
and old-fashioned form.
Ten copies of Miss Cleveland's George |
Eliot's Poetry, and other Old Studies,'' are |
being specially bound for presentation to |
Queen Victoria and the surviving former
ladies of the White House''-Mrs. James
*. Polk of Nashville; Mrs. Phillips, former
" Mrs Betty Taylor Bliss of Virginia; Mrs.
John Tyler of Virginia; Mrs Harriet Lane
johnson of Baltimore; Mrs. Martha John
son Patterson, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield and
Mrs McElroy.