The Portland daily press., 1886-01-02
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Five plantations in Texas are operated by
convict labor.
1t is said that three crops of corn can be
grown annually in Honduras
Lady Churchill's campaigning costume was
dark blue Dress with primrose vest and
little black velvet hat.
Twenty-Five million dollars is to the credit
of Italians in one of the savings banks OF
New York
Mrs. Talmage, the wife of the Brooklyn
preacher, lectures every Sunday to class OF
800 women and men.
The second colored man ever appointed on
the Boston police force, Henry r. jenkins,
has just been put on duty.
The destruction of the Pont Neuf at Paris
by the floods will give a new value to the
MANY paintings and works of fiction in which
the ancient bridge figures.
Horace Greeley's namesake and nephew
did not choose to ''go West it appears, but
went South and is a leading man at Sumter
ville Fla
Some of the signers of petition for mrni-
cipal suffrage for women in Boston are OPP
posed by a remonstrance signed by their
wives-a most delightful paradox, indeed.
A million dollars, it is said, will weigh Il
tons in gold, % tons in subsidiary silver coin,
262 tons in standard silver coin, and 100 tons
in nickel.
Emperor William has asked his subjects to
celebrate his accession to the throne of Prus-
STA on Jan. instead of Jan. ., the latter
date being the anniversary of the death OF
Frederick.
Mrs. Henry Adams, who died so tragically
in Washington lately, and to whom the au-
thorship of Democracy was generally as
cribed, is also believed by many persons to
have written the Bread Winners"
M. Pasteur has his theory of happiness.
'sTrue happiness" he says, appears to me
in the form of man of science .devoting his
DAYS and nights to penetrating the secrets OF
nature and discovering new truths.
1t is said that the historian Bancroft and
George II. Calvert are the only two Ameri-
cans now living who ever met Goethe. The
| former is eighty-six years old and the latter
| eighty-three.
That man-of-war's cruise isn't always
there and back again is shown by the fact
that one of the vessels recently returned from
the Asiatic station had travelled fifty thous-
| and miles of ocean since she went into COM
! mission three years ago.
| The largest individual patron Of the Wash
ington postofice, receiving more mail than
! the President or any member of his cabinet,
| is a pension attorney whose mail frequently
a,4a aissa4a foasr-aiad fiun hundred letters q
1t is said that Adam Forepaugh and Bar
nprn Railau. a tAhipee,a4sf-ie .rrS, GU 10
| travel in the East next season with his show,
| while that of the other firm viii go through
| the West
Anton Rubenstein within three weeks gave
seven piano recitals in Berlin, and played
from memory 1856 different compositions by
| twenty-nin composers It was probably
! the most colossal feat in the history of
| music.
| Mr.. Murfree, the father of Egbert Grad
dock, the novelist, is a tall, patriarchal
Tennessean, who cannot help betraying by
his looks the pardonable pride he feels in
his daughters success, Mrs. Murfree is a
pleasant little elderly woman.
The wife of Joseph G. Mackin, the Chica-
go politician who was recently sentenced to
Imprisonment for tampering with election
returns, is said to be in want. After her
husbands conviction she left her parents
home because her mother tainted her with
the melancholy outcome of her marriage
The Augusta Chronicle states that the in
come of General Toombs averaged, from 1910
to 1875, $4,000 year. His last large cases
were tried when assisting the States attor-
will case and the Eberhardt murder case, in
all OF which he was finally successful. He
used to say that he had often made So, 900 at
single sessions OF court in Ebert.
French physicians seem to value their
professional services far more highly than
American physicians do theirs. Judging from
Doctor Alvarez, a homeopathic in Paris. He
lately brought suit against the Princess di
Medina-CnIi for 600 600 francs 1920 oO0) evi
IDENTIFY one of his most valued patients, justi-
flying his enormous charges by the fact of
her enormous wealth. The court regarding
the bill as eXOrbitant, awarded him $4,000
francs $4,000, after compelling him to pay
costs
The Harvard students who do not wish to
be compelled to listen to prayers should be-
come Baptists and go to Brown. The matter
OF compulsory attendance came up there in
small way some years ago. When Rev. DR..
Charles Howard Malcolm was freshman in
that institution although the son Of one of
the most eminent Baptist divines in the
country, he became, strange to say, tired of
prayers, and absented himself. His absence
was duly noted and reported, and he was at
last summoned into the awful presence of
President Wayland. Young man, what
have you to say for yourself for this contin-
ued absence from chapel serviee?" said the
president only this, sir, responded the
youth Of Baptist training, sit is a matter of
my individual conscience sir. | hold with
Roger Williams" Enough said. Young
man" interrupted President Wayland, ''you
are excused" The doctor says that there
after there was no more question concerning
his attendance at prayers. In Roger VIII |
Hams he found an impregnable defence.