The Portland daily press., 1886-01-19

Third Pride has some very queer freaks.
An English journal remarks that zone of
the crazes of the present day. and one of its
immoralities, is its desire to have things
cheaper than is fair to the trader or honest
to the producer
Connecticut has always felt rather sore be-
cause the biographies gave her no noun
tains, and correspondent points out that
the Bear Mountain in Salisbury is 1884 feet
above sea level, which, for small mountain,
is doing very well.
Bismarck is no longer what Germans call
"a chain smoker" that is, one who lights
fresh cigar from the one in use when it is
burned down to stump: He IS now COM
PEELED to count out his daily ratlonS OF To-
bacco.
The largest price by the square inch ever
paid for a painting was lately given by the
Due d'Aumale for the 'Three Graces, by
Raphael, from Lord Dudley's gallery: The
price was $125,0oO, or, as the picture is only
seven inches square, $4,000 per inch
Figaro says that Yankee maker OF sew
ing machines has offered Nine. Patti $1,000
for each appearance, in addition to her reg
ular salary, if she will sit at one of his sew
ing machines, instead of at the spinning
wheel, while singing the king of Thule"
Miss Mary Endicott, daughter of the Sec
rotary of War, wears a close fitting suit of
blue flannel with cap to match, and drives
drag with London tiger on the front
seat. This is Jeffersonian simplicity with
'quite English" attachment.
James R. Keene, who came from the Pa
cifc coast to New York few years ago. to
show the New York fellows how to run
CORNERS" in stocks and produce, declared in
q iI,AO ont emit of Y0rk Thursday bndU
he owned nothing and had no income puI
lived on his wife's funds
Whenever it is necessary to display storm
signals at night at the signal service statloh
in Boston, the lanterns are lighted by cleo
trio lights, which make them REMARKABLY bril-
liant. This is the only station IN the eoun-
try at which electric lights are USED 1or the
signals.
Schaefer the billiardist, when playing
wears full evening dress. He has fine dia-
mond stud in his shirt. Vignaux also wears
full dress suit. His diamond stud is worn
in his shirt collar Schaefer carries his cues
in a green sack and piece of chalk in one
of his vest pockets. VlgnauX carries
iointed cue in leather case
The Knights of Labor have an unwritten
law that habitual users of intoxicating
liquors shall not join the order. Grand Mas
ter Workman Powderly says that one tenn
perate man, who reads newspapers, is worth
more to the order than a hundred men who
drink liquor and get their information in the
bar room.
The hazards of miners life are ominous-
Iy set forth in the report of Mine Inspector
Williams for 1885. From this document it
appears that in the Luzerne district last
year there were 483 mine accidents, in which
III I-sl I1cIx1 ifairl
and 172 slightly hurt. By these accidents &c
wives were made widows and 10 children
left fatherless.
The laws giving pensions to the widows OF
dead soldiers provide that these pensions
shall cease when the widow is remarked. In
casting about for methods to increase the
pension list it has occurred to somebody to
propose that if the second husband also dies,
and the widow thus becomes doubly wild,
owed, she shall be able to revert to her old
pension-draWing capacity, as if only the rel
let of her first husband. This scheme, IN.
geniously amended to include also the loss OF
the second husband by divorce as well as
death, is now before Congress in the shape
of bill.
The Sultan's gifts to Gen. Lew Wallace
have recently arrived at Charlottesville, Ind,
and are objects of great local interest. Among
Iublll Is tIl6 liup6Ildl pluCl VI bAO 4uOAJAoAS
with the Sultan's name engraved on it, sol
id gold cigarette case set with diamonds,
photograph of the Sultan, an Oriental dag
ger and piece of Turkish embroidery. Mrs.
Wallace received a diamond breastpin and
the Nishan ell Shepkat or Order OF Good
Works, necklace of gold with pendant star
set with diamonds. The center, of red and
green enamel, contains the Sultan's mono
gram and text from the Koran. The same
has recently been conferred on the Queen OF
the Netherlands, the Crown Princess OF Aus
tria, the Countess of Dufferin and several
others.
The Congo Free State has entered the pos.
tai union. A list of postal rates ranging
from five to fifty centimes has been adopted,
and five different postage stamps issued, all
bearing the profile of King Leopold and the
words sEtat Independent du Congo" The
business of the new State is transacted in
Brussels by four Ministers, who preside
over the Departments of Justice, Finance,
Foreign Affairs and Commerce, and the In
terror and Police. The State is divided into
four administrative districts, each having a
Governor, and all being under the charge OF
Col De Winton, the Administrator General
The four Governors have had several years
experience on the Congo, and were among
! the most trusted and enthusiastic OF Stan
| ley's lieutenants.