The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-03-12
DECIDEDLY ACCOMPLISHED.
Nbtoaco U1uoIS
TIE DISCOVERY OF A NEW PROOF.
Personal and Peculiar.

Japanese law compels people to sell fish
alive. They are vended in tanks.
The newest application of electricity is for
electric lining of hats to nourish the brain.
The electric light is beginning to be used
in private houses in Paris.
Springfield, Mass, is excited because 9
span of horses for the fire department cost
$1035.
Two hundred and twenty-three slaves
were freed IN February in Brazil, leaving q
total of 800, 900 still in slavery.
Mail bags from Cincinnati were recently
delivered in Berlin in the short space of 81
days.
Emile Zola makes $50, 900 year from nj.
writings. This is interesting as showing
the tendency of thereading public, SO called.
There are about seven distinct dialect:
among the negroes. The Virginia, the Ken.
lucky, the cornfield, the Congo, the Louisi-
ana, The river, and the high-toned muatto.
An observer at Washington says the musk
OF the insugur alton gave tie idea that band,
are going down and drum corps coming ur
in military estimation.
By ludicrous mistake of the copyist, one
article in the written warrant for town
meeting posted, according to law in post
Office in Winthrop, read: "To raise sum
OF money III support of poor and other nee
essary town officers"
The just elected mayor of Utica was ar.
rested as rebel spy during the war, and Il
is alleged, in order to get free, swore that he
was native of Canada and a British sub-
jet. This suggests question as TO hi
eligibility, which will have to be decided be.
fore be takes his seat.
"Three hundred millions of English.
speaking people, all thinking the SAINT
thoughts, all reading the same books, al
booming the same booms, and al suffering
from the same dyspepsia, will tend to make
the Ublted States of the twentieth century
just perhaps tri1e monotonous,o thinks
the Pail Mall Gazette.
Gen. Gordon, a few days before setting
out for Khartoum, said: "If Egypt is ts
have ruler capable of maintaining really
Efficient native government, Ismail must bs
the man. BE is the worst used man iu Eu
rope. He was the best and most capable
ruler Egypt ever had, with all bis faults, enC
the calamities we are witnessing are the nat
ural consequences of the withdrawal of hi.
master hand"
Mr.. Bayard is the fourth of his family who
have served in the Senate. His grandfather
James Ashton Bayard, was elected to the
Senate from Delaware in 1904, and served
till 1918, when President Madison appointed
him one Of the commissioners to negotiate
the treaty Of Client. His uncle, Richard FL
Bayard, was elected to the Senate from Della
ware i'll 1885, and again in 1S41. His father
James A served in the Senate from 1851 te
1869.
The ages of President Cleveland's Cabinet
advisers average about fi'ty-two years., all
the members being upwards of forty years
old, and none having attained yet the age OF
sixty, though Secretary Lamar, the senior in
point of years, is within few months OF
that age. Secretary Endcott follows him by
about year, Secretary Bayard is ifty-six,
Secretary Manning is ffty-three, Attorney
General Garland is nearly ffty-three, and
the Younger members of the Cabinet, Post.
master General Villas, who IS forty-four, and
Secretary Whitney, who is nearly forty.
three, bring down the average.
Half dozen men have been busy lately
completing he interior finish of an elegant
Office in the new Mutual Life Insurance
Building, New York, which is to be occu-
| pied by Chester A. Arthur as law office.