The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-06-09
Personal and Peculiar.

Government officials in Japan are required
to wear European costume during Office
hours.
The czar's Oldest sons English tutor,
Mr.. Heath, did good deal of the peace
making, it is thought.
The youngest telegraph operator lives in
Courtney. Texas-a little girl of seven, who
learned the dot and line alphabet before she
mastered her pot-hooks and trammels.
A clergyman announces, with some in
dignation, that more money is spent in the
United States on pups and dogs than on
preachers and divines.
There is woman in Nebraska who has
had two husbands, both of whom drank
themselves to death. She now keeps a
saloon for which she pays a license fee Of
81 900 year.
Philip EYarts, sen OF Senator Evarts, is
a member of the graduating class of the
General Theological seminary this year, and
is about to be consecrated as an Episcopal
clergyman.
Secretary Endicott is the Oldest and best
looking of the new Cabinet members. Tall,
heavy, well formed and straight, with q
thick gray moustache and silyery hair which
hangs on his forehead, he walks, acts and
talks like an aristocrat. He Is an aristocrat,
too, and he might be looked upon as the
Mugwump of the Cabinet.
The statement is made that the package so
often described as being placed In the hands
of blushing brides who visit the strong vaults
of the Treasury, and said to contain 5,0co,-
Geo, is in reality made up of old government
documents worth about 80 cents to junk
man. This being reform administration,
the next bride who visits the Treasury may
expect to handle real package of money.
The red man of the Penobscot grows paler
every year. Ex-Governor Joseph of the
Oldtown Indians, gave highly civilized ball,
recently. The young squaws wore white
gowns, and the braves wore hair oil and
other accoutrements of peace and fashion.
They glldcd through the figures of the Ian
GERS and shook out the Virginia reel with
the native grace of the children of The forest
united with the polish of the metropolitan
dancing academy.
At the WolvercOte Mill, near Oxford, 375
| tons of rags have been consumed in making
250 tons of paper for the Oxford edition of
the Revised Bible. This amount would cov-
er two and quarter square miles. and
would go round the world in strip of six
inches wide, or if the pages were laid open
| one after another. The sheets piled in
reams as they leave the mill would make a
| column ten times the height of st. Paups,
| or folded into books before binding at least
| 100 times that height. About 1850 goat
skins we're used in binding the copies which
were presented tQfhe American COMMITTEES
| of Revision.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana relates the following
"reminiscences of Andrew Johnson, whom he
met in hotel in Richmond, Immediately
after the Union troops had entered the city.
| On shaking hands, Mr.. johnson began to
/ express his views concerning the necessity
of severe punishment for the chiefs of the
Confederscy. To which Mr.. Dana replied:
"Why urge these opinions upon me? Mr..
/ Lincoln will be here this morning or to-
morrow, and he has the decision of the ques-
tion." 81 know that" rejoined Mr.. john
son, shut the subject is Of such moment,
and it Is SO necessary that an example should
be made that wish to argue the question
with every gentleman meet"
A West Virginisn, who had been in
Washington since March Is seeking minor
appointment, suddenly realized that his case
and credit had both gwen out. Being an
expert bicycllst, he stole machine from a
gentleman who resides on Eighteenth Street
near M, and started for home over the near
4 a
| note to the owner of the bicycle, stating that
he has borrowed 1t and would return the
machine in good order by express. 'I
would rather hoe cornhills in West Virginia
at twenty-five cents per day than wait
around Washington for a Cabinet place."
said the note in conclusion.
strange circumstance occurred in fam
lily in Brookheld, H., on Sunday. Were
they at all inclined to be superstitious it
might be considered an omen of something
dreadful. At one-quarter to 0 o'clock a
member of the family noticed that the clock
in tie sitting room had stopped. In the
house are three watches and two clocks.
Upon investigation it was found that all the
clocks and watches had stopped at precisely
the Same moment. Upon manipulating all
went to ticking again but one of the watch
es. There is no possible way by which the
family can account for the unusual event.