The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-04
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

The weight of 100000 dollars in green
backs is within fraction of 2S41 pounds.
The top of Mount Ascutney in Windsor,
VT, is covered with snow.
A citizen of Augusta advises crusade
against dogs and awnings.
Minister Pendleton is studying German
four hours day at Berlin.
There has never been holiday, theatre
or a circus on the Island of Malta.
The sabre which Butcher wore and welded
at Waterloo was sold the other day by auc-
ton in Berlin for 94.
collection of cents in frst-class condi-
ton, not only including all dates, but all va
rieties, is worth $1,000.
Hannibal Hamlin has an imitator in Col
umbia, Penn, a man who hasn't worn an
oyercoat for thirty years, and who has never
been in bed sick.
Jesse r. Grant is to sail for England next
Wednesday, partly ON business of his own
and partly to arrange for the publication
there of Gen. Grants Personal Memoirs
The widow of the Emperor Macmillan of
Mexico is now As years of age. The doctors
note an extraordinary improvement in her
condition, and anticipate complete re-
covery.
Mrs. Lippincott c9Grace Greenwood'D of
Philadelphia says that her very promising
daughter has devoted seven years to English
ballard singing and languages, and only IS
months to Italian opera previous to her sue
cessful debut in Milan last fall
The crew of the fishing schooner Lizzie
Poor, at Belfast last week report that recent
" they picked up at sea a tin wash basin,
ten miles from land and eight miles from any
other vessel. tits remarkable that the basin
should have floated so long without filling
with water
The Indianapolis Times is authority for
the statement that Gen. Lew Wallace has
read the proof sheets of that part of Gen,
Grants book relating to the battle of Shiloh,
and is perfectly satisfied with the references
to himself and his actions at that battle, as
recorded by the general in command.
President Diaz of Mexico has removed
from Humboldt street to the Gale Cadena,
fayorite place of residence for rich mer-
chants He lives in good style, but without
luxury, and is as simple a man in his habits
as Gen. Grant was. He may be frequently
seen with his charming wife strolling through
the forest of Chapultepec.
September is always to be associated, SO
far as war memories are concerned with two
supreme events-the announcement in 1862
by President Lincoln of his purpose to issue
the emancipation proclamation, and the
lighting of the terrible battle at Antietam,
which came a few days before the President
proclamation referred to.
There is a mule in Madison county, Miss.
in possession of Mr.. Canthen, farmer,
which was among the animals given back
by Gen. Grant to the Confederates at the sur
render at Appomattox. Mr.. Canthen rode
the mule from Appomattox in 1866 to Mis-
sissippi, and has cultivated crop of corn
and cotton with him every year since that
| time.
Said an old Washington man the other day
to a reporter: 81 remember Webster partic
ularly as often borrowing small sums OF
money from me, which sometimes he repaid
and sometimes forgot. Calhoun afterward
| following Webster's example, used frequent
| ly to borrow small sums Of money from my
| self and others, but, unlike Webster, Cal
| noun, never failed to pay up. | recall an in
stance of Secretary Calhoun stopping his
carriage ON the way to a conference at The
| PRESIDENTS house to pay 30 cents which hi
had borrowed the day before to give to az
| old beggar woman.
The highest rent paid in Germany is that
which is obtained for little niche on the
staircase leading down to the famous Bres
| lau restaurant, the Schweidnitz Cellar, used
| by a sausage vender for the frying and sale
| of his sayory ware. The place is barely
| large enough to admit a small table with a
| behind it; yet at public auction by the city
authorities the lease of it for a term of years
| was knocked down to the highest bidder al
| 1000 marks per annum.