The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-22
CORPORATIONS AND THE PUBLIC.
Boston Transcript.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Connecticut can BOAST OF eleven living eX-
| Governors.
The Eastport Standard has this personal:
Miss Annie Peabody's pet alligator is dead
The ice harvest on the Hudson this year is
| estimated to reach 100000 tons.
Senator Jones may look to be pelted black
and blue with oranges upon his return to his
home at Milton, Fla. The Santa Rosa News,
his county paper, scolds him roundly for
making ridiculous spectacle of himself,
and while other Florida journals make be-
| lieve to be merry over the matter, some are
downright mad.
The late Elijah S. Alexander of Chicago
spent 100000 in fighting the ''bobtaiP' horse
| car system in that city. When he was in a
car, if any one attempted to put fare in
| the box, Alexander would stop him, saying
that when the conductor put in an appear
anee he would pay the fares of the whole
carful. In that way he made fresh converts
every day, and the companies were forced to
succumb and put on conductors.
The best decorated man in Prussia is the
Crown Prince of Germany, who mas p or
ders and decorations to plant on his breast,
which make him look as if he wore a breast
plate. Count Puckler the Marshal of the
Palace, comes next with 81; Bismarck fol-
lows with a modest 48; Count Perpoucher,
Marshal of the Court, 40; Count de Moltke,
"A; and so on down to humble 10, which
Count William of Bismarck wears.
Giteau's sister and her husband are both
ruined by the division he brought about be-
tween them Mrs. Scoyille is living in pow
erty in Chicago upon the frugal alimony paid
her by her former husband, while the latter is
struggling unsuccessfully in his profession,
and making barely enough to pay her this
alimony and live himself. He recently de-
clared in court that his business receipts last
month were only 1914, and that an execution
had been served upon him by the sheriff.
The commander of the Hamburg steamer
Bohemia made some successful experiments
in shilling the sea with linseed oil during the
late gales on the Atlantic. The amount used
in twenty-five hours was about one hum
hundred and thirty pounds, and under its
calming influence the ship was eaSed when
in dangerous positions, and securely rode
out the storm. A despatch from London
reports the successful use of oil by the
steamer Actor during the same period.
In the first scene of Faust at the Lyce-
UNI Theatre one evening Henry Irving fell
from the machine on which he, with Mr..
Alexander as Faust, was foated out of the
doctors study. He struck his head on the
table and cut his face in three places. One
of the wounds, over the eye, had to be
stitched up. His face bled profusely, but the
wounds were covered with plaster and the
plaster covered with paint, which had to be
renewed frequently during the evening.
A correspondent of the Pail Mall Gazette
says that nearly all words beginning with 81
have, in some degree, second rate or bad
quality about them, as slow, slap, slang, etc.
Sleep may be an exception but the low quail
ity appears in the word sleepy. Students of
English etymology will find number of cas-
es in which consonant sounds have definite
and almost inyariable meaning. For instance,
almost all words beginning with st have
Specification quite in contrast wife those be-
ginning with 81, as strength, stand, strike,
steam, start, etc. The st CONVEYS the idea
of force, while the 81 indicates lack of fore
The last new thing in hats beats all that
has gone before it, and is scarcely likely to
be equalled by anything that can follow it.
Herr Luders of Gonlitz has painted photo.
graphic hat-or a photographing hat. The
novel head dress contains in its upper part
small Photographic apparatus and number
of prepared plates In the front of the hat
there is a small circular opening, behind
which the lens is fixed. By means of a
string on the outside of the hat its wearer,
whenever he finds himself enjoying pleas
ant view or attended by an agreeable person,
can instantaneously photograph the land
scape, the lady of the gentleman nncon-
sciously within range of his instrument.