The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-16
PERSONAL AND PEcuLiAR

Will every employe down u me lowest
coolie.
The sale of Charles Dickens works Is said
to have fallen off greatly in London book
stores of late years.
A. M. Bisbee, who arrived in Washington
a few days since as delegate from China to
the International Maritime Congress, is a
transplanted Yankee from Cape Cod.
Newspaper pride creeps out everywhere.
The Pekin Gazette BOUNDED 1000 years ago.
boasts that 1900 of its editors have been be-
| headed.
| Andrew Carnegie has appointed commit
tee of prominent Pittsburg citizens to select
a suitable site in that city that lie may buy
1t and erect thereon free library, which is
to cost $4,000. The building it is said, will
eclipse anything of the kind IN America.
Girls are not to be admitted to Georgia
University An old moss-backed Senator
stopped the project in short order. Take
logarithr," said he. "Think of logarithms
for woman! Why, l never saw woman
in my life that would look at a logarirhm."
This argument was conclusive.
A. 0aky Hall, mayor of New York at tie
time of the Tweed Rings operations, and
now London correspondent of q New York
paper, has brought libel suit against Pro-
lessor Bryce for damages alleged from the
account which the latter gives OF the Tweed
Ring in his American Commonwealth"
An electric drill is in operation on the
frame of the warship Maine. at the Brooklyn
navy yard. Instead OF the slow paul and
ratchet hand-drill in common use, this one is
set a-whirling by an electrical current sent
| through carefully insulated wires. A three
| quarter-inch hole in a three quarter-inch
| plate can be drilled in less than minute.
| Laborers digging sewer in one of the
principal streets of the village Of Ticonderoga
| N. Y, the other day, unearthed the tomb
stone and coffin of Lord George Augustus
| Howe, who was killed while leading his
| forces against the French in a battle at
| Ticonderoga July 8, 1885, The skull of the
body was intact, but the rest of the bones
| were disjointed and considerably decayed.
| The oak coffin was In fair state of presrva-
| tlon.
| The following curious fusion of news ap-
peared In New York cablegram to the
Liverpool Post: "A married woman, named
| Hamilton, has been sentenced to two years
| imprisonment for fraudulent issue Of LOuisi-
| millions Of dollars" The baby farm scandal
| of New York and the baby bond scandal of
| Louisiana form the groundwork of this
| dispatch.
| The colored people in two adjacent counties
| In Kentucky and Tennessee have organized
| stock company with capital of $4,000 for
| the purpose of holding county fair, at which
the products of their industry are to be put
ON exhibition, in the second week of October.
All the stockholders and officers are colored !;
only colored people can compete for premiums
aud preparations are made for 10000 colored
visitors visitors at the Guthrie Park fair
| grounds.
| 1t was thought that there was not in the
| United States any memorial of Christopher
Columbus. One, however, has been found
The Consul General of France at Baltimore
in 1884 erected column, which bears the
| name of the discoYerer. He placed it in an
obscure place on his grounds, and when
streets were laid out There remained, hidden
from sight by trees and shrubs. 1t was
| almost forgotten till recently, when it was
| brought to light Time has dealt harshly
with the monument but it can be restored.
Is marriage faiiure9" asks this couple
| In November J. F. Tanning and Lydia A.
Lavener made adjacent homestead entries
In the Niobrara country, Neb., and in the
| following April they were married and
erected house on the dividing line between
the farms. Lydia declares she was careful
| TO occupy the end of the house located on
| her entry, but Secretary Noble has decided
| that husband and wife cannot prove up on
| adjacent tracts of land, even though they
maintain separate residences for the re-
| CURED time.
There is one singnlarity about the faces
of men which want to MENTION" said a
prominent New York photographer recently.
SIN 90 out CT hundred men l have found
the left side of the face better in every way
than the right. You will notice that men
are almost Invariably photographed with the
left side of the face showing. Most people
| fancy that the hair being parted on that side
Is the reason for this, whereas that has moth
ing to do with 1t. 1t is more delicate in out
line and shows more force and individuality
than the right. But only in men. AS a
general thing l have found the faces of
women evenly proportional and both sides
equally good"
When the Vanderbilts have gone through
Portland with their palace cars for them
selves and their special cars for their fine
horses, on their way to Bar Harbor, they
have always created something of seDsa-
ton. 1t is interesting to learn that after
they get to Bar Harbor, they do not devote
themselves solely to pleasure. The Bar Har-
Dor Record says that secretly they have been
at work providing for the wants of the poor.
In one store alone they have spent at least
| $50 per week for clothing for the needy. The
| ploye at the Vanderbilt cottage. A case is
reported where these philanthrophists
bought and presented to a certain destitute
family lot of furniture Soon afterwards
the donors had occasion to look in on the
family and great was their surprise to find
that the furniture had been disposed of to
obtain cash.
Acting Rear-Admiral John q. Walker who
has Just been ordered to command the
Squadron of Evolutions," with the new
cruiser Chicago as his flagship. is man of
| cfrikinO Ha 10 10
In height, with broad shoulders and erect
form, and wears long side whiskers The
Chicago is the first sea-going ship that he has
been an officer of since August, 1881, he
having been Chief of the Bureau of Navga-
tion of the Navy Department for about eight
| years, or two terms. He was EMPLOYED in
active service throug bout the Civil War,
being in command of the gunboat Winona Of
farraguts squadron, in the passage of Forts
Jackson and st; Phillip on the Mississippi
command of the iron-clad Baron De Kalb,
In the Mississippi squadron, which was en-
gagged 10 operations against Vicksburg and
up the Yazoo River. In the siege against
Eicksburg, by General Grant, Lieutenant
Commander Walker commanded the naval
battery In the Fifteenth Army Corps.
If a sculptor should in these days desire to
make portrait statue or bust of the great
| 4NoPoieou, Day lHc lUlIdUeipUld lUQulTeT, lie
would be largely aided to faithfuness in his
work by study of the features of Charles
Joseph Bonaparte, the granddaughter of the
emperor. OF all the living Bonapartes there
Is no one so like him in countenance as this
Baltimore lawyer. Mr.. Bonaparte is the
grandson of the Jerome Bonaparte brother
of the emperor. whose marriage to the lovely
Elizabeth Patterson in Baltimore in 1904 and
the subsequent annulment of their union
| make deeply interesting page Ut the history
of the century. Madame Patterson-Bona-
parties only son, who as also Jerome by
| given name, was not strongly marked in
| facial characteristics as a B0naparte. nor is
his oldest son, the Jerome Napoleon Bona
| parte, who married the granddaughter of
| Daniel Webster, and shines in society AT
| Washington, Newport, New York and Bos
| ton, lacks much of likeness of his Corsican
| ancestor. But in Charles Joseph Bonaparte
| there is remarkable reproduction of the
head of the man that fell at Waterloo aud
| died on st. Helena The oval face the firm.
| strong jaw, the aggressive chin, the over.
| hanging forehead and the piercing eyes are
all there, and the resemblance is increased
| by. Mr.. Bonaparte's fashion of bringing his
hair down to something like bang on his
brow, which Is familiar in the portraits of
| his granduncle. This Baltimore Bonaparte