The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-04-03
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Scientists assert that the newly discovered
cities Of Arizona are the same as sought by
Cortez and the early Spanish adyenturers In
their expeditions after gold. The cities are
seven in number, and show evidences OF for
mer civilization and wealth.
For some time past builders in Germany
have resorted to the use Of composition Of
cork, sand and lime. moulded into bricks
for the construction Of light partition walls.
This is said to exclude sound better than or
dinary brick work, while being light and
good n0n-c0nduct0r Of heat.
In Paris the substitution Of glass flooring
for boards continues to increase, this being
especially the case in those business struc-
lures In which he cellars are used as Offices.
In one of these the whole Of the ground in
front is paved with large squares Of rough
sned glass lmbedded in a strong iron frame,
and In the cellars beneath there is sufficient
light without gas for business purposes.
Though the first csst of glass Is much great
er, its almost unlimited durability Is greatly
In its favor.
An Englishman who recently took with
him to Irkutsk a toy telephone as an inter
esting present to friend living there, was
much surprised to find that his friend had
the latest improved instrument in constant
use in his Office. Another astonished En-
glishman was wealthy gentleman who ex-
pressed doubts the other day to certain sea
captain that field for trade could be found
in Siberia, and was informed by that old
salt that he would undertake to sell grand
pianos at good profit in that country. Inc
captain Is the sailor who has made several
trips to the Yenesei River through the ice-
covered Kara Sea, and who has so impressed
some capitalists with the value OF his sea
route that they have formed company to
trade between Europe and Yenesei, tugging
towns in big barge that Is now building at
Yeniseisk, and sending back wheat, salt,
leather, wool, and other products for ship
ment to England.
A well known Paris scientist, DR.. Delau-
nay, has made some curious discoveries
which show the connection between little
and great things. To ascertain the qualities
of an applicant cook. he says 1t is sufficient
to give her plate to clean, sauce to make,
and watch how she moves her hand in either
act. If she moves it from left to right, or in
the direction of the hands Of watch, you
may trust her; II the other way, she Is GER
tain to be stupid and incapable. The intelli-
gence of people may also be gauged, the
doctor further says, by asking them to make
circle on paper with pencil and noting in
which direction the hand Is moved. The
good students In mathematical class draw
circles from left to right. The inferi0riry Of
the softer sex, as well as the male ounces, Is
shown by their drawing from right to left.
Asylum patients to the same. In word,
says the doctor, centrifugal movements are
characteristic of intelligence and higher de-
velopment; eentripetal are mark OF incom-
plete evolution. A person, as his faculties
are developed, may even come to draw cir
cles in a different way from what he did In
his youth.
A short time ago Chief Bradley Of the
Pamunky tribe. Powhattan's successor in
cffice, paid his annual visit to the Governor
Of Virginia, presented the tribes yearly
offering of game and fish, and then handed
him letter to be transmitted to the Presi-
dent and the Congress Of the United States
In this letter, the chief sets forth that his
tribe, 100000 strong in Powhattan's day
has -dwindled down to remnant Of 120.
squaws and papooses included, living ON a
little reservation on the Pamunky River,
opposite to the White House farm, in New
Kent County, Va, where the great, good and
most illustrious great white chief, General
George Washington. met and married his
most beautiful squaw OF the pale.faee
nation" and substituting on the flesh Of the
muskrat and the yield of the herring and ale
wive fishery. Further, that the men OF the
tribe take no part in politics. but are always
ready to fight if the government of the
United States needs their services in that
line. Then Chief Bradley comes to the
point as follows: "We would humbly pray
and importune you. great and good chief Of
the pale-faces, sitting around your council
fire in the great city Of Washington and
smoking your pipe Of peace, that you would
enact and pass suitable laws which would
allow us, the last remnant Of the great Chief
Powhattan, living in the county of King VIII
liam, Va, that we may send and have edu-
Gated, free Of cost to us, the children of our
tribe, to that great and good school known
as the Hampton Normal School,"