The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-05-01
Concord Monitor.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
rabi Pacha is teaching school.

Arab Pacna is JeacnlnS SCHOOL.
Senator Logan works on his Forthcoming
book from seven to eleven.
A counterfeit of the $4,000 peach-blow
porcelain vase is sold in New York for
$2.07, with stand thrown in.
The London Times published an account
of the burning of the Pemberton Mill, Law
renee, under the caption of Fire at Massa-
chusetts," the despatch being dated "Mas-
sachusett, April II"
The Norristown Herald is responsible for
the story that Western man had applied
jured by a rebel ram during the war The
facts are that while he was a suttler he was
violently butted through a rail fence by an
aged, but vigorous, male sheep, owned by an
officer of the Confederate army.
Soon after entering the seminary to make
final preparations for ordination to the Ro-
man Catholic priesthood. ex-Congressman
Hurd met with an accident which has made
him lame for life. According to the rules of
that church, no man who is. physically disa-
bled or deformed can become priest. Hurd
was therefore obliged to give up his theolog-
ical studies.
''Mrs. Mary L. Booth" says New York
writer, ''has edited Harper's Bazaar for more
years than it is polite to talk about, but no
one seeing her on the street would suspect
her of even a remote familiarity with a
fashion plate She may be seen on Frank
lin square almost any evening about O'Clock
in particularly shabby, old-fashi0ned seal7
skin jacket, a nondescript hat and ser
viceable' dark cloth skirt decidedly the
worse for wear.
The false teeth that are responsible for the
peculiar expression seen in portraits of
George Washington are in the Baltimore Col
lege of Dentistry. The lower plate is carved
out Of one piece of ivory, as near like plas-
ter cast of the mouth as possible, and the
teeth, also of ivory, were riveted on. The
upper plate split. after it had been worn
while, and the pieces were fastened together
by two thin strips of iron riveted on the
plate.
Capt. Todd, of the steamer Sarah Ann,
which recently arrived at Galway after
stormy Atlantic voyage, reports an expert
ment with oil which greatly relieved the
strain on his ship. In communication to
the United States photographic Office he
states that when his decks were about to be
swept by very heavy seas oil bags were put
over each side of the ship, and the differ
ence made by the oil on the force of the
waves was at once perceptible, the water
coming on deck being not more than one
third the quantity previously observed.
A curious case came up before the Supreme
court the past week, says the Raleigh News.
1t involves the question whether poker is
game of chance. The attorney general said
that former court had disclaimed any
knowledge of the game. At this remark the
court protested its ignorance also. The at
torney general thereupon asked the question:
'.Is poker game of chance?" A prominent
member of the Raleigh bar rose and re-
marked: "If you have straight flush 1t is
not" The attorney general smiled and
everybody else followed suit.
Mr.. n. G. Adams of Camden owns Ma
sonic jewel, which is valuable and very in
teresting object 1t is of solid gold about
two and one half inches in diameter and is
in the form of a seven pointed star. On each
of the points are beautiful jewels. The CEN
tire of the whole object is depressed and holds
representations of every Masonic emblem, the
whole being covered with glass. The exact
age of the jewel is not known, but it can be
traced back almost two hundred years. Its
workmanship is very fine and especially
well constructed are the various emblemS.
Mr.. Adams has been offered large sum for
the jewel, but very naturally refuses to part
with so unique and ancient an object.
The ambition to produce the biggest
thing on earth" is supposed to be particular
ly American. But the project the artistic
Parisians have in hand to build a tower 1000
feet high for their next Worlds Fair out
scars any American conception. The high
est structure hereabout is the iron tower
which carries the electric light at Hallett's
Point. That edifice, however, is made so
high for purely utilitarian purposes, whereas
the Partisan structure will be of compare
light at the top, and must be considered as
monument. In that point of view it is mat
ter for congratulation to us that Sh nd be
proposed in France and not in Aa.9ri. !. In
asmuch as it is to be composed Of the I'M
disturb the pre-eminence of the Washington
Monument as the tallest structure of mason
ry eXtant.