The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-26

extravagant iiyers of the present day in
Gotham.
Now that am getting old and can climb
the hills no longer" says Mr.. Ruskin, my
chief pleasure is to 60 the theatre Theatre
going with him, he says, is one Oh the pleas
ures that have least worn out
James Russell Lowell is reported to have
been offered by the Harpers $4,000 for SIX ar
ticles for their monthly, and $1,000 by the
Century company each for as many articles
as he would write. 1t pays 70 Dc d literary
Teller" like Mr.. Lowell.
Alphonse Daudet has devised anew scheme
in literature His forthcoming book, "Une
Rupture dams lie Monde, has been SOLD 10 q
syndicate. who are to form a company, sell
shares and presumably pay dividends on the
enterprise.
President Cleveland denies that he has the
marvellous memory his fatterers have as
cribed to him. He says his memory is very
canricious. often retaining trifing details re-
garling some crossroads post0ffice, while
letting slip matters of the first Importance.
It is still positively affirmed in Washington
that the last time Mr.. Henry Watterson was
in that city he called upon Secretary Endi-
colt and sent in his card, which was returned
with the remark that the Massachusetts
statesman had never heard of him.
Joseph English of Boston has wasted ten
and half valuable hours in writing on a
postal card the eutire address of the Hon.
II. B. Metcalf, delivered at the General Con-
yenti0n of Universalists, held last year in
Brooklyn. The address contains 4, 1872 words,
and Mr.. English wrote them all with steel
pen, by gaslight, without the aid of magni-
flying glass.
Mr.. Longfellow, as one learns from the
new life by his brother Samuel, once wrote
to Nathaniel Hawthorne concerning the po-
EN- ''Eyangeline" thus: II thank you for re-
signing to me that legend of Acady. This
success / owe entirely to you for being will
ing to forego the pleasure of writing prose
tale which many people would have taken
for poetry. that might write poem which
many people take for prose"
Edward Atkinson, the well known Stats
tician, presents figures showing that the rail-
roads of the United States give employment
to $4,000 people and transport 400,000,000
tons of freight annually, one-half of which is
food and fuel; and furthermore, it is proved
that the freight rates are so low that the
Eastern mechanics can have years supply
of food hauled from distance of 1000 miles
for the proceeds of one days labor.
Onontiyoh, a full-blooded Indian, gradu-
ated No. IS in a class of forty-six at the Buff
falo Medical College last week He is the
first of his race to take honors in a course of
medicine in this country. His uncle, Oron-
yethekhia Burning sky was graduated at
Oxford, England, and is now a successful
practitioner at London, Ont. Onontiy0h is
of pure Mohawk blood, and his name signi-
fieS Beautiful Mountain.
Roscoe Conkling's friends deny that he is
to deliver tile address at the Albany Bi-Cen-
tennial in the summer. They say that he
declares himself altogether too busy. These
friends also unite in absolutely denying the
truth of the statement that he is to re-enter
politics and the Republican party. To one
after another he has given as his reason for
refusing the invitation of his friends in the
party to become candidate for the United
States Senate that he is making great deal
of money fol the first time in his life, and
that he enjoys the sensation too much to per-
NIT anything to interfere with it.
Edgar NJ. Forrest, reformed gambler and
drunkard, is holding exciting and profitable
revival meetings in Missouri He says that
he was converted about six years ago while
running far game in Parsons, Kan. One
night while dealing, being then several hun
dred dollars ahead of the game. he says that
he felt as though hand was laid on his
shoulder, saying, ''Stop." SO impressed
was he with the thought that it was the
hand of God, that he threw all his winnings
upon the table and exclaimed, Right here
quit" He went to work the next day ex-
horting the drunkard and the gambler to fol-
low his example. He held meetings in Hia-
watha, Kan, and over 500 took the pledge.
The Rev. Sam Jones, whatever his other
characteristics, has a truly Scriptural regard
for money. If he is correctly reported, he
says: II have no use whatever for money;
have all the money want. My needs are
supplied bountifully. My family is CON-
Portable and happy, and can't see what on
earth would do with money if l had it. A
couple of hundred dollars in the bank is an
abundance, and is all have. As long as a
man has plenty for his wife and children
and himself he ought to be contented.
don't think the Lord sent me out into the
world to make money; but He did send me
out into the world to do good. As far as my
wife is concerned, my life is insured for
$4,000, the interest on which, when | am
gone, will be enough to keep her; and as for
my children, don't want to leave them ST..
If they are of any account they won't need
it; if they are no good money would be a
curse to them"