The Portland daily press., 1885-07-28
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The new post office at Boston has cost al
together 1884, 295.O6
Mr. Archibald Forbes is engaged in writ
ing a military biography of the Emperor
William.
1t is said that nine out of ten Russians eat
with wooden spoons from wooden plates and
bowls, and drink water from rude wooden
cups.
Cinnamon in Chicago have stolen a num-
Der of pug dogs for roasting purposes. The
pets of the bellies are declared to be very like
the breed commonly eaten in China.
A fool in Kansas village brushed his hair
upright and stood still for a noted marksman
to shoot off the ends of it. He will never do
it again.
The Toronto Mail reports that clergyman
in the county of Bruce preached on recent
Sabbath to his delighted audience from II
a. m. till p. m.
Mr.. Herbert Spenser, oyerburdened with
the demands of correspondents, has adopted
the plan of mailing autographed circulars
| explaining why he does not answer the let
| tiers received by him.
Susan Coolidge contributes to the very
beautiful midsummer Wide Awake a long
ballad based on the traditions of the famous
Luck of Edenhall." The ballad has four
full-page Illustrations by E. Fl. Garrett.
A negro washerwoman worth $1,000 died
in Brooklyn the other day, and the papers
said she left no heirs Two days later
score of heirs put in an appearance One of the
lmp0ssibilities in this nineteenth century is
for a rich person to die and leave no heirs.
General Gordon of Georgia few years ago
resigned his seat in the senate to engage in
railroad business, and in short time was
said to have acquired a fortune of half a mil
lion. He then began specializing in Wall
street and lost everything, and is now poor
man again.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Thurston, who will be
| pleasantly remembered as the editor of that
| delightful book of selections, "Mosaies of
| Life, has edited new and even more valu-
| able and pleasing book of similar character.
| entitled ''Echos of Many Voices, which will
| shortly appear in d. Lothrop & Co.'s Spare
| Minute Series"
A newly appointed Democratic postmaster
| in Virginia caused the arrest of the Repub
lican incumbent who refused to surrender
before receiving official notification of his re-
moval, the charge being that of unlawfully
keeping post office and unlawfully retarding
| the mails. The post office in dispute is
worth $75 year to the incumbent.
| A man residing ON the line of a railroad
has taught his dog to bark vociferously at
every passing train. The impulse of the
fremen is to watch for the barking dog and
hurl pieces of coal at him in passing. The
result to the owners that he has delivered at
his door all the coal he requires for his own
| use free of cost and is now contemplating
| the opening of coal yard for the supply Of
his neighbors. He thinks he can compete in
price with the Oldest coal dealers in the vi
| entity.
The Emperor of Germany is dreadfully fee
bic, and cannot walk without assistance. 1t
is fact that the court physicians have
warned the Crown Prince and Prince Bis
marck that he may go off at any minute, and
he never goes to sleep but there is an appre-
hension that he will not awake again. AL
though his Majesty still has everything sub
mitted to him as of old (and ON this point he
is very tenacious, strongly resenting any in
clination to take the reins on the part of the
Crown Prince, yet he is really almost past
attending to business