The Portland daily press., 1885-09-01
AN UNSEEMLN SPECTACLE.
EXCHANGE
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The handsomest jewels are now set in si,-
yer, instead of gold.
John r. Mclean says that it costs him
$4,000 day to run the Cincinnati Enquirer
Nearly half in number and two-thirds in
circulation OF the newspapers of the world
are printed in English.
The boys in the service of the United
States quick letter delivery are to be paid
eight cents for each letter.
The startling statement is made that about
$4,000 letters addressed to the President of
the United States are received at Washington
daily.
The Empress of Austria has offered a
prize of 1000 for the best portable hospital
or sick room tent for use in war or during
epidemics.
The first prize for violin playing at the
vienna Conseryatorium this year has been
awarded 10 a lad OF ten years., Friedrich
The widow of General Custer has sold H.
600 Of her Boots and Saddle sketches Of
her husbands career. 1t has the merit Of
originality and piquancy.
man died lately in London from the eff
fects of bite of a cat. And verdict of
death from hydrophobia" was rendered by
VIZ NSAcANA JILL ulldO iufCotlSdbtQ Tile Case
Alfred Gratten, the village blacksmith of
No. Washington, Me-, uses bellows that
were made 116 years ago. They are in good
condition and will out blow anything in
town.
The Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria
contributed some original drawings for a
picture book and accepted pay at the rate
gwen 70 otner artists, though she presented
the money to a charity.
Alexander R. Hart, who will publish Gen.
Logan's book, says, that the work will not
have anything to do with Logan's campaigns,
but is a history .'of the conspiracy which led
up to the Rebellion" and will contain
startling facts and documents
Prolonged freshness is secured nv standing
flowers in water for some hours before they
are sent away. 1t is the greatest fallacy to
suppose that any which have to be sent to a
distance should be fresh picked They will
travel better and last longer if allowed to i'm
blbe full supply of moisture before start
ing.
Here is the breakfast that President Cleve-
land is accused of eating in the Adirondacks:
1t begins with muskmelon, a beefsteak and
an omelette, with four hot rolls and two cups
of coffee as an accompaniment It proceeds
with broiled ham and spring chicken and
more coffee. 1t continues with lamb chOps
Tried potatoes and hot rolls and ends with
ice water.
Here follows a story told in the San Fran
cisco Argonaut of that owner of a great deal
OF the golden fleece, the new Lord Roths-
child: Some ladies were once discussing in
his presence the difference between the real
and the ideal, and he was appealed to for his
opinion. The real,'' said the fnancier. sis
the Spanish coin; the ideal is the Spanish
A good one has lately been told on General
Toombs. He met young friend who was
going to move to Atlanta ''What business
will you embark in? ?" asked the general. 81
have not decided as yet, but will try to made
an honest living at something" was the re-
ply. MY young friend,' spoke up General
Toombs, you are going to the right place to
succeed, fol-. there will be no opposition in
in the line"
Lady Salisbury, the. wife of the English
prime minister, is described as Handsome
tall and stately, slightly dogmatic, as when
she wanted to reform the morals of harems
in Constantinople, but frank, intelligent
well read, and not without a certain sense of
hqmor. She speaks French perfectly. but
Whether from constitutional or national dis
ike to any tongue but her own she suddenly
and unexpectedly drops any conversation be-
gun IN that language
The factory at Alyarado, Cal, has made
1,250 tons of refined beet sugar this season.
This is said to be four times greater than the
total sorghum sugar in the United States
The Alvarado factory has been in operation
six years, and its profits are computed at
100000 on an investment of S125. 900. The
growers get $3.50 ton for beets. and the
yield Is said to average twenty tons to the
acre. Inc factory pays out about $4,000 a
year for beets.
-Four more gas-lighted buoys upon Pintsch's
principle have been sent off from Paris to the
Suez Canal to join the eight already doing
satisfactory duty there. The buoys are
charged with compressed oil gas, and will
burn for days OF weeks, according to size.
without any attention whatever. The first
OF new pattern of gas beacon on the same
principle is to be put up in the CLYDE on the
Grantoch rocks. 1t has two red lights and
VIII Durn Tor hYe weeks with one filling of
gas.
Prof. Muttrich Of Berlin, has reached the
following conclusion from his forest meteoro
logical researches: That the forest exercises
apositiye influence ON the temperature of the
air. That the daily variations of tempera
ture are lessened by the forest, and in sum-
mer more than winter. That the influence
Of the leafy forest is in summer greater than
that of the pine forest, while in winter the
tempering influence of the pine forest pre-
ponderates over that of the defoliated forest.
An attempt to determine the influence of the
forest on the mean annual Temperature led
to no sure results.
Senator Logan's new home, out en- Colum
bia Heights, is almost ready for occupancy.
1t is the place known as the old Stone man
sion and for it the general gave $780, GOO, with
five years to pay it in. 1t was a bargain.
The house is large, convenient, cool and
handsome. Though built years ago, it is
well preserved There is about Il acres of
ground and the view of the city from the
front porch is one of the handsomest to be
obtained from any point on the heights. Mrs.
Logan has selected all the furniture and
when she and the general return in October
they will move in. During the winter they
expect to entertain quite extensively
Some facts and figures showing how care
less many persons are appear in Washing
ton budget concerning the Dead Letter Office
The whole number of letters received during
last year was 4,S43999, or an average of 49,
675 for each working day. OF these, 3,719,-
$50 were sent to the Central Office because
they were not called for at the postoffice to
which they were directed; 112.648 were re-
turned to the post offices by hotel keepers
and thence sent to the Dead Letter Office be-
cause the departed guests for whom thew
were intended failed to leave a new address,
Of the domestic letters opened, 1887 con-
tanned money amounting to $33, 770.17; 20
204 contained drafts, checks, money orders,
ETC., to the amount on $1,567, 948. IS; S4,OS8
a1fo NJ pnO
receipts, paid notes and Cancelled obligations
OF all Sorts 3S,348 contained photographs,
and 25,554 contained articles of merchandise.