The Portland daily press., 1889-03-23
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR


They are talking of running John s..
Harrison, the Presidents brother, as the
Democratic candidate for mayor of Kansas
City.
Washington despatch says: Not only
is Mr. Elkins constant and welcomed visi-
tor at the White House, but ex-senator
Henry G. Davis of West Virginia, who is
the Democratic leader in that State, is going
there good deal. The Harrisons and Dav-
ises have always been intimate friends, and
particularly the young people of the two
families, and there Is where Mr.. Elkins
comes in, his wife being the daughter of Mr.
Davis. The Davises were at the White
House to luncheon to-day, and Mr.. Davis
will be invited to spend week or ten days
there as soon as some of the present COM
pany leave"
A Bangor lumberman says that the COM
mercial value of ton of sawdust, is now es-
timated at S12, although it does not follow
that ton of sawdust can be sold for that.
the fact is the reverse, and sawdust is today
a drug on the m arket. But If all the value
OF the dust from the saw could be extracted,
every ton would yield about twice as much
value as ton OF coal. For instance, there
are the wood alcohol. the pyroligenous acids,
the bases for the anilines, many new COM
pounds used in medicine, etc, all of which
modern science Is extracting from the dry
sawdust. A good deal of 1t Is baled and
pressed for fuel. The day is coming when
sawdust, now blown into the rivers Of Maine
SO destructively, will be treasured as one of
the richest products of the saw-mill.
The death of Sidney Bartlett, Boston's
Oldest practising lawyer, and q man of re-
markable grasp and vigor for his age. follows
closely upon the recent announcement or his
ninetieth birthday. which occurred February
18th. He was survivor of the period of
Webster, Choate, and other great lawyers
His practice Melted him over 100000 year,
1t is estimated, and for over thirty years he
was acknowledged to be the leader Of the bar
in the United States Supreme Court. He
was one OF the counsel employed in the
solution of the Presidential question before
the Electoral Commission in 1877. Henry w.
in Boston now, although i'll health has in
capacitated him from work.
A Washington correspondent writes that
1t is amusing how many people have their
mails sent in care of Benjamin Harrison,
fourth of the Hoosier ofice-seekers who
come to Washington tell their friends to
Just send my mail in care of Ben," and so
great packages of 'the Cross Roads Index
1.-THE Weekly Item" and letters and postal
cards are assorted from the Presidents mail
at the White House every day. Most of the
mail Is to people personally known to the
President. but many pieces come every day
to men who are entire strangers to Gen.
Harrison. There have several times been
baskets full OF letters and papers sent to the
postoffice after they have remained at the
executive mansion some time and have not
been called for.
At the sale of Erwin Davis's collection of
paintings. which has been going on In New
York for several days, the highest price was
brought by Bastien LIE Pages "Joan of Arc"
which was knocked down to a Boston buyer
for 1884 One nights sale footed up $685.
3l5, and the night previous $685. 45. total OF
$2i3, $50 for 143 paintings. The second best
price l$l7,500) was paid for Troyon's
'.Pasturage in Normandy" and the third
l$11, 800 for Delacroix's 'fhe Lion Hunt"
Some of the other sales were as follows:
J: +. Millet's 1.-THE Hay Maker" $500; e.
Manet's boy with Sword" 5000; Jules
Dupre's landscape and cattle, $500; j. b.
Corot's ..The Sword" $1,000; q. Courbet's
Chickens" $500; Theo Rousseau's "Sun-
set" $500; ). b. G. Corot's "In the Woods
&C Marcouesis," $500; Delacroix's Milton
Debating Paradise Lost to his Daughters"