The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-06
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


There arc 2S5 lawyers in the present Con-
gress.
Mr.. Tennysons fortune is put down at
100000.
Of Jay Gould's partners, Mr.. Conner is
said to be worth 49, 100000 and Mr.. Morosini
$2,000,000.
Lieutenant Greely's book to be pub
lished this month will have 100 Photographic
Illustrations.
Roscoe Conkling has received as Christ
mas present barrel of chewing gum. 1t is
for Mr.. Conkling's dyspepsia.
The total number of deaths from small pox
in Montreal during the late epidemic ex-
ceeds 5000, distributed over ooo houses.
The health of ex-Vice President Wheeler,
who has not been well for come time, is now
better than it has been for several years.
Mr. Parnell probably receives the largest
mail and sends the fcwest replies of any SIM
ilarlv conspicuous politician in the world.
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is to move
this week into his new Washington house,
the dining room whereof contains twenty
one tons OF solid mahogany, imported from
Honduras"
Secretary Manning, the newspaper gossips
say, like Salmon P. Chase, works in his Ii
works in the evening also unless he has
dinner party onshand.
Col. Fred Grant, in accordance with the
special request made by his late father, sent
a presentation copy of the memoirs of U.
S. Grant to ex-Secretary and Ex-Governor
Geooge 5. Boutwell,, who was Gen. Grants
personal and political friend.
A New York man who owns much real es-
tate has, in view of the threatening aspect
of the silver question, inserted in all his
leases proviso that the rent shall be paid
in gold coin. 81 don't want to pay my debts
in deprecated currency" he says, land
don't mean that any one shall cheat me out
Of what is due, even If Congress does think
it all right"
Claus Spreckels, ''the sugar king of the
New World" as he likes to call himself, is
said to derive an income of $5,000000 from
his sugar plantations in the Sandwich
Islands. In his domain he yields the most
autOcratlc power of any monopollst IN the
world, His home at Honolulu is like the
dream of Sybarite. His wants are served
by an army OF negroes.
The new postmaster of Philadelphia has
directed all his subordinates who required to
give bonds to have the bonds prepared by
Mr.. Megaree, defeated Democratic candi-
date, whose price is ten dollars for each
bond Heretofore the bonds have been
drawn up lat cost of fifty cents each. The
number of employees who must give these
bonds is eight hundred, SO that Mr.. Megar
gee will make fine thing of it.
One reason why everybody in Pittsburg
does not use natural gas is that in repairing
the frequent leaks the gas has to be shut off
from every consumer ON the main. For in
stance, glass factory was suddenly left
without gas for an hour and half, big
furnace chilled and the company lost $24, 600.
A big restaurant was left without fuel in its
ranges at II o'clock and had to send its Gus
toners away hungry. So business men put
clause in their gas contracts, calling for
constant supply or else indemnifcatlen for
losses, and good many private citizens stick
to the dirty but reliable coal.
The Hon. S. S. Cox has sent to the PreSi-
dent from Constantinople copy of his work,
"Three Decades of Federal Legislation"
bound in that city. The leather of the bind
ing is the finest white morocco. The cloth is
web of Turkish embroidery in silk, gold
and silver. The initials Of President Cleve-
land appear in the centre of each cover, and
surrounding them is Turkish sentence sig
nifying MAY Allah guard you" This is
counterpart of the copy presented by Mr..
Cox to the Sultan of Turkey. Only two vol
umeS were prepared in this style.