The Portland daily press., 1885-11-10
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A Brown University Freshman is % years
old, married and has two children.
Ex-President Arthur says he did not save
cent of the 100000 he received as salary
while President.
The statue of Washington just presented
to the city of Milwaukee is the only one of
the Father of his Country west of New York
city
A Nevada prospector, led by the debris
which some squirrels had dug out of their
burrows, found gold ledge which he has
sold for $35,000.
If Ferdinand Ward lives he may claim
that he has dome the State some service,
for New York is receiving ifty-six cents a
day for the eX-fnancier's work as filter OF
rough stove castings.
Mrs. Mackey is amazing London with her
dinners. Her latest sensation in that direc-
ton is rose dinner. The table-a large one
lis literally bed OF roses two feet deep,
with spaces reserved for the plates.
lola writes of himself that at one time he
was so poor in financial resources that star
walton stared him in the face. For months
he lived on SparrOws Which he caught in a
trap outside of his garnet window and which
he was obliged to prepare himself.
A Chicago paper and Milwaukee paper,
on recent Sunday published portraits iden-
tically the same, one giving it as a likeness
of famous burglar and the other as the por-
trait of M. Clemenceau, the French Radical
leader.
4 Colorado man claims to have discovered
device by which he can overcome the laws
of gravitation, and he proposes to put his
theory to the test by jumping from the roof
of five-story building according to a local
paper. His device consists of two electric
belts fastened around him in peculiar man
ner, which he says will sustain him in mid
air. His namo is Boyd, and he is private sec
Rotary to the Governor OF the State.
A friend of President Arthur kept watch
of the newspapers and clipped out every
thing that was published about his matri-
monial intentions. Just before his term ex-
pired these clippings were all pasted in a
handsomely bound scrap book and presented
to him. On the cover was stamped figure
of Cupid with culver full of arrows and
the words: ''Many were called, but none
were chosen"
A precious carpet has been destroyed in
San Francisco. 1t covered the floor of one
of the rooms of the mint and had been used
for five years. The dust of the precious met
ais used in the coinage during that period
had fallen upon it, and when it was taken
up the authorities had it cut in small pieces
and burned in pans The ashes were sub
jected to the process employed with mining
dust, and they realized $1,000.
A locomotive driver who can point to forty
years Of uninterrupted service without sim
gle accident, is not man to be met with
every day, says the Pail Mall Gazette Such
a one is Saxon engine driver of the name
of Henze, who has just gone into retirement.
During his forty years of railroad riding
Henze has Travelled a distance of 1885, geo.
graphical miles, or 1,900,102 kilometres-in
other words, distance equal to forty-seven
journeys around the earth. Germany is adj
way trayeling-per one of the slow9st as
well-but the performance of this veteran OF
the line is remarkable one.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, when in
Philadelphia the other day, said that he
owed much of his success in life to the sug-
gesti of a newspaper reporter He was en-
gagged to lecture in Baltimore several years
ago, and just before he was to begin his dis
course the newspaper man, who had been sent
to report the address, inquired in an off-hand
way swell, DR.. Talmage, are you going to
give us MANY points to-night?'' points ?''
repeated the clergyman. points ?" ''Yes,"
replied the reporter, you won't get much
space tomorrow unless your lecture is full
of good points that the paper can't afford to
leave out" II thought very deeply over the
reporters words" said DR.. Talmage, in tell
ing the story, "and l saw that they were full
of sound wisdom. Since that time nave al
ways endeavored to make my lectures and
sermons and literary work bristle with
points that is to say, with striking thoughts
and phrases.
London Life tells some anecdotes OF Lord
Tennyson's peculiar gruffness. On one oc-
casion he was at d garden party, and some
body offered him sandwich. He was la
boriously munching this when the. hostess
rushed up to him with anxious Inquiries
about his health and entertainment THANK
you, madam" " he said, II am eating sand.
wich. Are your sandwiches usually made Of
old boots, may askp Another time ne
was asked 30 read one Of his poems at a
house where there was party of young
girls. He blankly refused; rs sha'n't?' he
said. Presently he noticed that one of the
girls was SO deeply disappointed that the
tears stood in her eyes. He laid his hand on
her shoulder and said, Would you like to
hear me read?' ooh, yes," she exclaimed
''Then will. People say am brute, and
they are right, but will read to YOU" And
he took the book and delighted everybody by
reading for a long time.