The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-06-10
Personal and Peculiar.

The members of the most active charita-
BILE society in Providence, K. L, are known
as the Irrepressibles.
A Massachusetts city points with pride to
the large number of arrests by the police as
an indication of the city's growth.
The horse which General Grant rode the day
Lee surrendered is owned in Vernon, Onei-
da county, New York, and marched In the
procession on Decoration Day this year.
Dom Pedro. Emperor Of Brazil, has
reigned for tifty-three years, a longer period
than has been enjoyed by any other living
sovereign. 1t is true that he was but six
years of age when called to the throne.
The statement is reiterated that Premier
Gladstone, in an absent-minded way, gives
extravagant orders to various tradesmen,
and that Mrs. Gladstone is kept busy watch
ing his eccentricities and returning superfiu-
GUS articles.
Florence Marryatt was asked why her he
roes were always light-haired, and replied
that she was always most impressed by dark
haired men, and as she usually wrote about
somebody she knew she changed The color of
their hair as one way of covering up their
personality.
A New York bank director, in commu-
nication to the Tribune, suggests that every
bank should have an album containing pho
tographs OF its officers and employees, so that
in case OF defalcation an authentic reproduc-
ton could be sent out within twenty -four
hours.
n. A. Brewster recently performed the
remarkable feat of standing in one county,
shooting across another, and hitting and
killing deer 10 still another. He stood in
Randolph county, Ala, shot across Calhoun
county, in the same State, and killed deer
in Carroll county, Ga.
Some more popular impressions spoiled:
Catgut is obtained from sheep; German sill
yer contains no silver; the strawberry is not
berry; Turkish baths did not originate in
Turkey, and are not baths at all; whalebone
is not whalebone, and contains none of it's
properties.
The bicycle is novelty in northern Dem
mark. A bicyclist on tour in that region
not long since became benighted and light
many miles along lonely highway in the
dark. countryman whom he met was
stricken with terror and fell upon his knees,
in which position he was found by beiated
letter carrier. "What is the matter ?" the
postman asked. "What, indeedP' STAN
mered the peasant; "for the devil has just
gone by on windmill, and God have mercy
upon me-"
Skeletons of twenty five or thirty men
were recently found in canon near STEMS
Peak, Nevada. Several hundred cartridge
shells and some small pieces of blue army
uniforms were also found on the ground.
The red bones of Indians were also found
near by, and several Indian graves are only
a short distance from the battlefield. That
battle with Indians was fought there years
ago there can be no question, and that the
entire command of soldiers were massacred
is equally certain, for had the soldiers been
victorious those of their comrades who were
killed would have been buried. 1t is proba-
BILE that the soldiers we're surprised.
Nearly everybody knows that Sir Boyle
Roche, the eccentric member of the Irish
House of Commons, on one notable occasion
when a coercion act was introduced,
'smeIed rat, saw it floating in the air,
but nipped it in the bud" Later another
menber, Mr.. Cory, who voted for the legis-
| latiye union with England, was howled at
by ten thousand angry citizens in College
Green. He drew revolver: "Clear the