The Portland daily press., 1888-01-27
COAL AND THE TARIFF
IBoston Transcript
PERSONAL ANo PECULIAR.

Henry Ward Beecher's life, by his son and
son-in-law, assisted by Mrs. Beecher, will
probably be published next month. It seems
that Beecher had prepared brief outline oi
his life and had begun the first chapter
This will be used, together with Mrs Beech.
er's "reminiscences OF her early married life
in the West important letters and sermons
Mr. Pierre 4. Barlow Of New York is the
fortunate owner of Lord Byron's signei
ring. This ring, which now decorates Mr.
Barlow's finger is long oval in shape, and
has tie crests Of the houses of Noel, Gordon
and Byron cut into it. 1t is the ring thai
Byron gave his friend and publisher, join
Murray.
Nine. Judic, on the eve of starting on
tour in Alsace, had her attention called tt
the fact that in "Mam'zelle Nitouche'' the
French uniform is treated in ridiculous
manner. which would give the Germans in
the captured province peculiar delight. Thai
was enough for the patriotic French woman
who at once crossed the vaudeville from heI
list of pieces to be played on the tour.
A London despatch says that Charles
Dickens has quarrelled with his agent, G.
w. Appleton, and now refuses to pay him
any commission upon the engagements made
by Mr.. Appleton for him in America. Mr..
Appleton will sue Mr.. Dickens when he re-
turns. The latter has sent word home that
he will clear $4,000 from his American
tour.
A religious paper boasts of a lady in a GER
tain church who saves the congregation
where she worshps $4,000 year. A wom-
an of wealth and of high social culture and
position, she makes it her rule and the FASH
ion to dress for church in so plain and mex
pensive a manner AS to throw the whole So
cial influence of the congregation against ex-
travagance in dress.
Though not believer in evolution, it Is
said the Rev. Robert Collyer tells an amusing
story of trained troupe of monkeys he once
saw in London on stage. They had been
drilled carefully to go through a series of
military exercises in uniform, and were max
ing fine display of their attachments when
a man in the gallery threw a handful of nuts
on the stage. and the simian s0ldiery at once
broke ranks, threw down their guns, and
scrambled for the hard-shelled dainties.
That moment" says DIR. Collyer, ''the hand
on the dial of time was turned back tLous-
and years!'
In the lobby of the Capitol at Washington
has hung for years crayon portrait that
could not be identified. About year ago
two women recognizedit as picture of John
w. Taylor of New York State, who was in
Congress for twenty consecutive years.
Taylor was Speaker of the Sixteenth Con-
gress, after Henry Clay left the chair to con-
struct the Missouri Compromise bill. He
was also Speaker of the Nineteenth Con-
gress. For generation past, however, his
face has hung in the lobby and no one rec
ognized it. Even his nephew, Congressman
5. S. Cox, could not identify the crayon.
At the last meeting of the Nova Scotia His
torical society the president brought to the
notice of the members certain papers that
had been sent him in connection with place
called French Cross on the shore of the Bay
of Funay within the limits of the present
township of Aylesford. The attempt to ar
rest the Acadians in 1755 was not so success
full at Annapolis as 1t was at Minas and PIT
quid Horton and Windsor. Many OF the
Acadians escaped to the woods. A large
party of them fled up the Annapolis river
beyond what is now the western line OF
Aylesford. and there encamped. After a
short stay they crossed the mountain and
spent the winter on the shore of the bay at
the place since known as French Cross, from
a cross which they erected on the edge Of a
bluff. The cross stood from 1853 till after
1920. In August last new cross was erect
ed on the shore as near as possible TO where
the old one stood.
Henri Rocnef0rt compares gambling on tne
stock exchange with roulette and rouge ct
noir, to the manifest disadvantage of the
former, so far as business is concerned. For
instance, if player puts his 20f on IL. and
loses it, or the louis he has bet on the red or
the black is raked in by the croupier, there's
an end to the business. which, gains or losses.
is settled on the spot. But at the Bourse
(the name of this Institution Is Incomplete
according to Rochefort; it should be 'sYour
bourse [pursel or your life'), that is, ON the
stock exchange, you never know in advance
the possible extent of your losses. Your
hundred dollars. deposited for margin"
may be insufficient to cover hundredth
part Of the losses that the turn of the market
may make you suffer. Altogether, Roche
fort is unable to explain to himself why the
government should forbid gambling with
cards, dice wheels and permit it within the
walls of the Grecian temple called la
Bourse." And his impartiality he insists is
complete as he knows little about any kind
of playing with chance and never fools with
shares or cards.