The Portland daily press., 1885-12-09
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A fruit grower at Citra, Fla, has sold his
crop of oranges on the trees for $4,000.
Ex-Attorney General Brewster has resumed
law practice in Philadelphia and is almost
overwhelmed with business.
''Hold-the-Fort is the name Of post Office
in Kingman, Kansas. At the present crisis
it is appropriate.
A traveller in Mexico writes that he was
recently in city with 1900 population
where not single copy of daily newspaper
was taken.
1t is calculated that there are in Canada
from 10000 to $4,000 lacrosse players, 5000
curlers. 1000 snow shoerS, 5000 or 1000 crick-
eters, 1000 football players, 1000 rowing
men, 1000 base ballist, and 1000 bicyclists.
Paris fremen are armed with guns. While
on service in the city the men wear the cap
of soldiers in the infantry service, and when
at fires they wear helmet of brass with
black crest The chief officer is a coionel
They are organized as infantry and number
fifty officers and $50 men,.
Robert Bonner expects to die sometime,
and is getting "copy'' enough ahead to keep
the Ledger running for three years, on the
ground that it will take new man about
that time to learn his methods so as to select
the literary material which has given the
Ledger its peculiar success. He has already
accumulated years supply.
The moderation in drinking practiced by
their American visitors tells heavily On the
profits of the great hotels in London and 9TH
er cities frequented by them. One proprie-
tor felt that he had good cause for complaint
when Mr.. Mackay engaged an, expensive
suite of rooms for six weeks, and yet drank
only three shillings and sixpence worth of
wine during the time.
When Governor-elcct Foraker of Ohio
few years ago went from Hillsboro to Gin
cinnati to practice law, his old friend, ex-
Representative Smith, said to him: "You
will drift into politics there Now let me
offer you this advice: Try to understand
the full significance of every important pub
Lie question, and get on the right side OF 1t.
There is lawyer there named George HOad-
ly. He is generally on the wrong side OF
great issues. Choose the opposite course
from him and you will be right nine times
out of ten"
Thomas Stevens, the bieycler, in the story
of his ride through the Balkan Mountains,
gives description of grim monument to
Turkish valor in the shape of square stone
structure erected some forty years ago near
Nisch. The whole exterior was faced with
grinning rows of Servian skulls partially en-
bedded in mortar. The Servians have since
moved the skulls of their dead comrades and
buried them, but the rows of indentations in
the mortared surface yet remain to tell the
story.
"Since Mr.. Howells has been in his more
or less sylvan retreat at Auburndale," says
the Boston Record, The has been over
whelmed with books from publishers who
considerably wish to furnish material for
his new department, the Editors Study in
Harper's Magazine. 1t will be quite an I'M
dertaking for him to extract the literary spir-
it of the time from the mass of so-cslled lit
erature which is foisted on his attention. Mr..
Howells has made himself very popular in
the neghborhood of his new home, and
seems to enjoy making and receiving infor-
NAL calls where congenial company is to be
had He has been known to allow Interrupt
ton in his morning hours of work, which
are ordinarily kept sacred from intrusion, in
order to welcome kindly visitor, and his
velvet coat has become an object of marked
interest in the little hotel which is under
stood to expect to be visited in future years
on account of its association with Howelis,
just as the Sudbury Inn is frequented in con-
sequence of the charm with which Longfel-
low has invested 1t.