The Portland daily press., 1885-10-24
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


calls himself "Stepniak" is Michael ORA
gomanotf
Sixteen American colleges are looking for
presidents. Quite as many banks are doing
the same.
There is a japanese student in the Shelf
field freshman class at Yale who weighs only
So pounds.
Let not the English newspapers scold
about Americans any longer. Some of them
have lately sanctioned professionals"
Edward Everett Hale reiterates Bulwer's
assertion that three hours of daily brain work
is ample to get from man the best that is in
him.
Canon Farrar, in his lecture on Dante, de-
clares the "Divine Comedy" superior to all
the epics Of Virgil or Milton, not excepting
paradise Lost"
Prof Bartholomew, it is said, will retire
from business with his equine paradox the
first of November with snug fortune OF
100000
Fifty-six per cent. of the population of
Massachusetts dwell in cities, and thirty
two per cent. within half an hours journey
of State street, Boston.
Cremation societies have been formed in
eighteen cities in this country, and in Pitts
burg and Milwaukee undertakers propose to
junct of their business.
The prevalence of yellow in the dresses Of
women, this season, is said to be due to the
influence of beauty of Vienna. The queer
fact is that the beauty is blonde with the
yellowest of yellow locks.
The Germans rarely have been pitted
against the Spaniards, the Dutch being the
old-time enemies of Spain. On the 26th Of
May, 1874, the Spaniards gave the Germans
quite drubbing in the battle OF Bltonto.
President Adams, in his first address to the
students of Cornell University, tells them
that it was a wise saying of great English
wit, who said of certain study that it was
not necessary that he should have forgotten
it.
VIM. p. Waterhouse of South Auburn, Me-,
has in his possession a small bottle contain
ing cucumber which grew in bottle more
than twenty years ago. The bottle was filed
with strong pickle and the cucumber is yet
well preserved. 1t is good illutratiOn of
the power of the most scriptural salt.
A Spanish merchant in Puebla, Mexico,
Senior Campero, who has made large for
tune in that city, put up notices on his ware
house offering aims of 81 to all really needy
persons. He suddenly became the most
popular man in all Puebla. He kept his
word.
A Canadian came to Buffalo and bought
new stove. To take it across the river he
would have to pay round duty. So he set
up his stove on the pavement, built fire in
it, and managed to fill it with ashes and spot
it with rust so that in few hours he took 1t
over the ferry as second hand stove, duty
free.
eff blood counts for anything" says the
Boston Pilot, president Cleveland has just
appointed a young man to the Naval Acad-
envy who ought to be good sailor and fight
err His name is Arthur Brainbridge Hoff,
and he is the son of commander, grandson
of rear admiral and great grandson OF a
commodore, the latter hero, cambridge Of
the Constitution, "Old Ironsides."
Mr.. Potter Palmer of Chicago comes tothe
front as radical reformer. He requires that
the porters in his hotel shall turn into the
office all ''tips" received from guests. Mr..
Palmer says. "When man comes to this
hotel and pays $3.50 and So day he is en-
titled to the best service the house has" And
the travelling public, with evident emotion,
shout Amen!
On June 5, in the province of Tobolsk, ST.
IBERIA, frost killed all the vegetables and
covered the rivers with a thin layer of ice.
Early in the morning of that day Praskeya
Fedotoff of the Koorgan village went in the
woods to pick up dry branches, with which
she used to make fire. On the same day the
villagers found her in the woods frozen to
death.
Once shepherd, caught out upon the hills
by night, built fire under the lee of pile
of stones that he had tossed together. The
heat split some of the stones, and in the
morning the man saw within one of the
cracks a piece of shining silver ore. That
hapdened in Peru, and thus were discovered
the mines of the Cerro de Pasco, which have
yielded $500, 100000.
Under the Iowa law druggists are required
to make monthly reports of liquor sales. In
Muscatine, where all the sanitary conditions
are most favorable, the people seem to be af-
fected with some peculiar ailment which re-
quires good deal of alcohol to cure. A
small dealer found that 1t took fifty one feet
of paper to enumerate his sales Tor month.
He sold as medicine 152 barrels OF beer, SO
gallons of whiSkey, 10 OF gin, OF alcohol
and of brandy.
jefferson Davis has been interviewed on
his Mississippi plantation. He made the
announcement that he had left the war be-
hind him and with it public life, He de-
votes his time to literary and philosophic
pursuits. Sir Walter Scott is his favorite
author. Among poets he regards Byron the
greatest. Moore is the perfection OF har-
mOny, while Burns expresses human feeling.
The three-Byron, Moore and Burns-make
a complete combination. Bulwer, among
modern novelists, is perhaps the greatest
He is also a close student of the Bible.
Finally, he is an expert at euchre.
The Bangor Commercial has this item: "a
Bangor man just returned from the Chaudi-
ere river district tells how the people look at
small pox He stopped over night at a French
Canadians whose son was foolish. The ma
tive said he was made thus by small pox.
Said he: "You see, we have all got to have
work done up early, said to my wife, i
guess this is good time to have it. SO l
hitched up, went down to the village and got
it. 1t killed three Of my children and made
that boy foolish"
The criminals of the Saghalien Islands. q
territory belonging to Russia, have done
great work. For the last five years they have
been digging tunnel to connect the post
Due with the Alexandrovsky settlement.
The work was exceedingly hard, for the ex-
lies had to dig through a rocky mountain.
Now a horse railroad is running from the
post to the settlement by the way of the
tunnel To reward the diligence and ener-
gy of the exiles, some of whom were political
criminals, the Gar has graciously allowed
them to name it the Tunnel OF Emperor AL
exander I'LL"
Interview with the Maine Sculptor.
A New York Mail and Express reporter