The Portland daily press., 1886-01-29
HARD TASK FOR COMING GENERATIONS.
Macon telegraph
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Miss Kate Field is buying Washington real
estate.
DR.. Edward Warren writes from Paris to
the Baltimore Sun that NJ. Pasteur will treat
all bitten Americans without charge
A Meriden, Conn, church society took
literal view Of their watch meeting on New
Years Eve by presenting their pastor with
gold timepiece.
Over $4,000 worth of feathers have been
sold from the q grown ostriches at the Ana
helm ostrich farm, Los Angeles, Cal, during
the past seven months.
Princess Isabeau, who recently inherited
100000 from her mother, keeps 20 dogs
and 20 cats in her Partisan palace. She is to
found a home for the aged and INDECENT dogs
and cats.
There is mountain on the head of Big
Machias, branch of the Aroostook river,
says the Calais Times, which, in the remem-
brance Of his home in the far off Highlands
of Scotland, Sir Archibald Campbell, the
hero of Rang0On and conqueror of Burmah,
when governor of New Brunswick, named
''Schihallion." This name it still retains
Huxley and Tyndall, says the manager of
literary syndicate, will never write any
thing for publication unless they have some
ellAhS W ody. udNc tIlCQ bncIll lldllt q ullLCs
and with good offers of money, too, but always
unsuccessfully. They care too much for
their fame. But when they anything to say
they are ready to say it, and to charge for it.
too"
Frank S. Billings, who figures in the pa
pers as NJ Pasteur's American aio-de-camp
in the current anti-canine campaign, isl not
an NJ. d., but d. Y. Ma veterinary sur
geon. He was a Boston boy, born forty
years ago, and he sailed the seas over as a
Supercargo before a keen interest in the mi
croscope led him into special lines of study
at Munich and Berlin
A pretty little correspondence is Mr..
Gladstones. Three thousand letters
month, thirty-six thousand year, one hum
bred day, is not bad for one man, exclusive,
it would appear, of indefinite quantities of
newspapers, circulars, post cards and the
like. He ought to have special postman,
with special Gladstone bag, to totter back
ward and forward with all this huge load of
ink-stained paper.
When Canon Farrar got back to old st.
Margaret's, under the shadow of Westmin-
ster Abbey, he took part in queer ceremo-
n.y. After the sermon a basket was brought
out containing nineteen loayes of bread and
nineteen old people received a loaf and six
pence each. The loaves were done up in new
handkerchiefs The quaint custom has been
carried on at st. Margarets for more than
800 years.
One marked popularity about NJ. Worth,
the Paris man milliner, is his great dislike
to perfume in any shape. His work-women
are prohibited from using scents and even
from wearing flowers during their working
hours. When woman sends him her cost
o. n no
all odorous from long soJourning In pelfumed
satchels, the first thing that he does is to
cause them to be thoroughly aired.
The Senators of the nation sit at desks old
er than the honorable graybeards themselves.
The deaks are of mahogany, and, though
made seventy-fve years ago, they are as
sound as dollar-a great deal sounder than
Bland dollar. Once statesman from Col
orado made his mark in the Senate by
scraping his desk with solitaire diamond.
Captain BaSsett Outwitted Mr.. Tabor, how
ever, by plugging up the holes SO deftly that
no trace of them remains
President Cleveland, while averse to large
parties, is exceedingly hospitable and fond
of entertaining his friends in a quiet man
ner. There is scarcely day that he does
not have two or three guests to dinner. Mr..
Cleveland makes delightful host. While
dignified he is affable, and seems sincerely
DESTROYS to make all feel at their ease. No
business appertaining to the Presidential Of
fee is ever mentioned, but the topics dis
cussed are similar to those that would be al
luded to at any private gentleman's table.
Mr.. Cleveland is very well posted in the lit
erature of the day, and seems to take delight
in throwing off official anxietieS by the peruS-
aliof our best authors.
The recent appearance of a new island in
one of the Pacific Ocean groups illustrates
the fact that hundreds of geographers and
surveyors have all they can do to keep their
work abreast of the never-ending physical
changes of the earth's surface Great Brit
ain employs ten ships and 900 men in its Ad-
miralty surveys, and much of their work
consists in making new charts of waters that
were carefully surveyed from ten to thirty
years ago. New surveys along the east and
west coasts of England last year showed that
important changes in depths and other fea-
lures have occurred since the previous sur
yeys. Navigation charts are likely after ten
or twelve years to be as valueless for pur-
poses of present information as last
months newspaper. In addition to the
natural causes of shifting river courses, adj
RANGING or receding coast lines, and rising
or sinking ocean beds. such artificial intu-
snces as garbage dumping in New YORK har-
Dor will help to make our Coast and Geodetlc
Survey permanent INSTITUTION, WIN lts
Gy1ic