The Portland daily press., 1888-10-09
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

After fifteen years search for On estate
in Washleman county, Mich, one has been
found in England, woman. who is cousin
OF the. deceased owner This should be
some slight encouragement to the thousands
OF heirs In this country who have SO long
been looking for estates on the other side.
The naming Of one of the largest steel
cruisers now being built for the United
States Navy after the city Of Baltimore has
prompted the Messrs. A. S. Abel & Co.,
proprietors Of the Baltimore Sun, to give the
great war ship well selected library for the
use q It's omcers and men, and the proffer
has been accepted by the secretary of the
navy.
The eastern Maine lumbermen say that the
fall rains have cost them thousands Of dol
lars and that the wood roads will be in the
worst possible condition for the rest of the
fall They win remain SO muddy that it will
be next to impossible to take supplies in over
them. The lumbermen usually have good
| yarding at this season, and expecta long and
reasonably dry Indian summer. This year
1t Is rain, rain, rain, and the swamps are full
and the valleys are swamps. All the lumber
| operations are retarded.
A Judge in England was recently called
upon to decide as to what was necessary"
The rents from certain valuable lands are
held in trust for the necessary occasions"
Of parish church. 1t lately built beauti-
full spire, and the trustees demurred to pay
ing for 1t, on the ground that In was unnec-
essary. The judge decided that though the
salaries Of the organist the organ blower,
the bell ringer, and the singers were not
necessary, the salaries Of the sexton. the
yerger. and the tuner Of the organ were, and
usual to hang the bells, should be consid-
cred necessary" and accordingly the
money should be paid from the trust.
| Cyclists who have toured in Italy this sum-
mer complain very bitterly of the inhospita-
Die reception they have met with in that
country. At the frontier every kind of yex-
alton and delay known to custom house Off
Gals is said to be experienced, the worst
form of it being the exaction of deposit"
OF two or three pounds, which invariably
requires an expenditure of good deal more
than TWO or three pounds worth of trouble
IN order to recover it. In Milan there are
only two or three streets where cycling is
allowed. and as there is no means Of know
| Ing which streets these are, cyclist rides
there at his peril.
According to an English paper, "the only
place in which amber in paying quantities
has been found is the Baltic Sea, and the
vein extends from western Russia to Den
mark. Norway and Sweden, Formerly the
supply depended on the storms, which tore
up the amber lying at the bottom of the sea
and threw 1t on shore, but for twenty-five
years past various appliances have been
used for obtaining it cheaply and quickly
The most profitable strata have been found
in the vicinity Of Memel and there are
twenty large dredging boats constantly at
work day and night for eight months Of the
year. Farther to the west the amber is OBJ
around his neck. and peculiar hook, with
which he pulls up the sand, and every piece
Of amber that he finds is thrown into the
bag. Amber Is also mined, for the stratum
OF green sand In which il is found extends
about thirty miles inland"