The Portland daily press., 1886-06-28
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

General Grants book has been translated
into the Japanese.
The poem entitled "An Ode to Daniel
Webster" read at the dedication of the Web
ster statue at Concord, N. H., was written
by a Sophomore of Colby University named
Sheppard.
In the opinion of the Springfield Union,
the prospect that sponges may be success
fully grown in Long Island Sound opens up
the possibility of an absorbing occupation
for the nutmeggers
The London World says: So the pretty
Welsh matron has driven the American
maiden off the field. So much the better.
The Yankees have enjoyed too long a run of
popular and royal favor.
Of ex-President Hayes's children, Webb is
trunk maker at Cleveland, Burchard is
practicing law at Toledo, Rutherford is pay
ing teller of little savings bank at Fremont,
and Fannie and Scott are at school,
Roswell P. Flower, of New York, says: 81
think that money should be eliminated from
campaigns, and l shall certainly take mine
out" He refused to run for lieutenant-gov-
ernor he declares, because the Democrats
wanted to run him for his pocket-bOok.
There were but 143 lives lost in the past
year in the entire fleet of American steam
vessels. This includes all the navigable
lakes, bays, sounds, rivers and oceans. The
railroads of the little State of New Jersey
killed POI persons and injured 526.
AS the line of guests filed along at the last
reception given by the President and Mrs.
Cleveland, one woman, when urged to move
on, said in regretful tone and with an I'M
happy expression of countenance. "Oh, if 1
could only see how the front of her dress is
made ~
Congressman Patrick A. Collins and John
O'Reilly have sent to the proprietor of United
Ireland this despatch: Receive Rev. Hen
ry Ward Beecher with hospitable attention,
as most gifted and warm-hearted friend of
Ireland in her appeal for constitutional
rights"
A peculiar freak of nature is presented in
the result that attended the experiments of
stocking Lake Ontario with shad seven
years ago. Millions of them were Matched,
but they are dwarfs. None of them grow to
be over seven inches long and they are not
fit to eat.
Jay Gould's son George is described as
good-looking, well-built young fellow, who
grew up without ever knowing what it was
to be young. That period when most young
men are sowing their wild oats was taken
out of his life, and the responsibilities of
brokers' office put in its place.
Henry Couillard, of Charlemont, Mass,
who did such good service to the wounded in
the Fitchburg Railroad disaster, was on the
train as convict on his way TO jail He has
been pardoncd by Governor Robinson, and
has furthermore received $1,000 from the
railroad for his injuries
The syndicates which rushed to Pekin
some months ago to compete for China's
railroad patronage have not only been sadly
disappointed, but were given bit of protec-
ton talk by the viceroy, who said that China
would build railways when she was able to
manufacture the materials needed in their
construction within her own dominions.
A curious petition has beeu presented to
Congress. Mrs Baldwin, the wife of mis-
sionary to China, and now resident of Chel-
sea, Mass, asks what she says would be I'M
necessary in any other country of the world,
monarchial, republican or pagan, that she be
permitted to import servant from China.
The petition has been referred to the Foreign
Relations Committee of the Senate
A movement has begun to erect monument
to the memory of Nathan l. Hale, the young
American soldier, who was captured and
hanged as a spy by the British. The
Franklin Society of Brooklyn has under
taken the collection of the subscriptions, it
being the intention to erect the shaft or me-
mortal in Prospect Park, the site of Hale's
hazardous mission.
The royal princes of France had taken
wise precautions against unforeseen events
The Due de Charities had secured a mort
gage upon his property in Paris of $4,000
francs The Count de Paris had borrowed
100000 francs upon his land at Eu. The
Due d'Aumale had raised 12,250,o0O francs
upon his landed estates, and the amount,
more than three millions of dollars, is sup
posed to be invested in England and the
United States
Mr.. Chas. L. Webster, of the firm publish
ing Gen. Grants book, has sailed for Eu-
rope to make arrangements on the Continent
and elsewhere for the more extensive sale of
the Grant volumes Mr.. Webster says that
the edition of 1916, Goo of the Grant volumes is
now so nearly exhausted that new edition
of %, 600 is about to be published. The next
check to Mrs. Grant of profits on the work
viii be paid on Mr.. Webster's return, and it
is stated that it will probably amount to
S25O.OOO It's estimated that within two
Years from the appearance of the work Mrs.
Grant will realize fully half million from
the sale in this country alone.