The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-08-17
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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A grandson of Mrs. Darlington B. P. Shil-
laber) is to enter Columbia college this year.
Land is going for % cents per acre at sher-
ifs sales in two or three counties in Geor-
gia
Cyrus w. Field uses the cable as freely as
an ordinary person does the telegraph But
then it costs him nothing.
The Marquis of Lorne dips his private pen
into an ink bottle made out of hoof of Lord
Gives Crimean charger.
All the salaries of religious teachers in the
country do not amount to so much as the
sum spent annually in supporting dogs.
Among the victims of the intense heat in
New York last week was Matthias Krudewig,
a German inventor of some note, who de-
vised among other things, an ingenious air
cooling apparatus.
Lulu Hurst, who created such an excite
ment, last winter, by public exhibition of her
marvellous alleged strength, has lost her
magnetic power, but not until she has saved
$4,000 out of her exhibition.
A Brooklyn paper says of Alden, the, fun
ny man Of the New York Times editorial
staff, who has been appointed consul general
at Rome, thar one time, when about to take
a months vacation, he turned in thirty COM
ic articles in BUNCH being one for every
day of his absence.
W. F. Conant, an inmate of the Concord,
N. a., Iasylum, was made violently insane, it
is believed, by remorse, because he deserted
from the army in the war. His doctor recent
ly wrote to President Cleveland, asking the
mans discharge, and has just received it. 1t
is thought the news will save his life.
When the chief engineer of the Illinois
Central railroad was laying out the line, and
wanted mellifuous name for a station he
would shuttle pack Of cards, each inscribed
with a letter, until satisfactory combina-
ton suggested itSelf-as TolonO, Guargr,
Aledo, Diona, Nakoma and so on.
A curious incident occurred in the Parade
Church. Shorncliff, England, on Sunday, Ju-
ly %. 1t was found that the church was be-
seiged by various kinds of birds, principally
swallows. Every effort was made to dislodge
them, but without effect and at last some
soldiers were obliged to fire a volley of blank
cartridges, which completely routed them,
and, the church being soon vacated, the SER
vice was held.
With the exception of Tennyson, John
Ruskin is the last living member of the gal
axy of early Victorian writer's, and although
his later years have diminished, rather than
increased his fame, his DEATH if it results
from his present illness, will revive the
memory of his brilliant and incisive essay
into the field of art criticism, and the vigor-
GUS impulse he gave to the accurate study
and sympathetic enjoyment of nature.
Among the professional journals compiled
in Paris in MS. is the Bon Guide, the organ
of heggars, containing information of great
utility in their calling. For subscription
of eight sous month they may consult it for
few minutes daily. 1t does not contain
literature or politics, and all the articles are
to the point. One may read; Tomorrow
at noon, funeral of a rich man at the Made
leine;; = ''Vt 1, marriage of clerk, no impor-
lance" Wanted blind man, who plays
the flute" or "a cripple for a watering
place"