The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-10-18

Vanderbilts have bought great tracts OF lano
their investments footing up $4,000. You
can buy whole counties in some sections IN
the South for $4,000.
Professor Behrend, an English medical
authority, who anticipated the discovery OF
Kock, points out that in the course of prac-
| tice of 30 years largely among Hebrew
| patients, he has not met a single case OF
| phthlsis in the members of that faith, their
immunity from its attacks being undoubtedly
due to the Jewish method Of examining and
Strengthening cattle.
Shorthand has fourished more or less for
200 years. CicerO's famous writer, Trio, is
known to have had rivals in his own time.
and Caesars feats in debating several letters
simultaneously while travelling still remain
unequalled. But shorthand as now under-
stood, is the product of the present century.
IT'S computed that the literature relating
70 the subject would fill no fewer than 49,
600 volumes and England alone has given
blrlh to 3O1 different systems
Professor Tyndall has returned to England
much improved by his sojourn among the
Alps. he has suffered greatly from insomnia.
Professor Tyndall is a pretty lively climber
.ul d niau OF ms years. He is in his 10th
year: bis first exploration Of the Swiss
gIaclers was made thirty-three years ago,
Dut not Tor love of adventure it was for love
Of science. His object was to determine
giaclal motion and he found, as he expected,
that 1t was on the move-in fact, very fast.
There is probably no city in the world in
the world in which the police business is so
precisely attended to as in Berlin. A little
girl cannot get into the town without being
reported to the police, even if she is in the
care of her mother, and once week there is
known with exactness the number of per-
rlN0 ha.. Al s.I H.
into. and departed from the city. Aud in
this way the whole population is accounted
Tor by careful weekly comparisons. The
latest enumeration we heard of Berliners
they lacked just seventeen of being mil
lion and half.
Prince Bismarck is in appearance now a
feeble old gentleman" London correspon-
dent writes. Measured by that of some of
his great contemporaries, he is not so very
advanced in age. He will not be seventy-five
until next April FOOLS Day, which means
that be Is nearly fifteen years younger than
Count Won Moltke, who is still hale and
vigorous. Bismarck, too, is six years younger
than Gladstone, seven younger than Cardinal
Manning, i've younger than Leo Kill, and
ten years younger than Prince Gortchokoff
was when he died. But he is not robust at
all, ana believe that he frets a great deal
over the lear that he may not last much
longer. His face is waxen and fabby, and
his hands arc those of very old man-yel-
low and swollen in the joints and marked
with unLaturally big blue veins. lie is once
more becoming very fat abdominally, and DR..
Schweninger is at his wits end to keep this
flesh down this time, for Bismarck is no
longer able 10 walk much"
Philadelphia PAPER prints this extract
from letter said to have been written by
Charles Dickens TO Wilkie Collins under date
Of To- n
day, took 1t into my head to go over the
Medical School and survey the holes and
corners in which that extraordinary murder
was done by Webster. There was the fur
mace and all the grim spouts and sinks and
chemical appliances and what not. At din
ner afterward Longfel0w told me a terrific
story. He dined with Webster within year
OF the murder, one of party Of ten or twelve.
AS they sat at their wine Webster suddenly
ordered the lights turned out and bowl OF
some burning material to be placed on the
table. that the guests might see how ghOstly
It made them look. As each man stared at
the rest in the weird light all were horror
| stricken to see Webster with rope round
his neck, holding it up oyer the bowl, with
his head Jerked on one side and his tongue
lolled out, representing man being hanged y
Twenty years ago there roamed over the
plains and mountains of the far West nearly
100000 buffaloes. To-day there are less
than 800 head of the animals in existence.
There are but eighty-fye head of wild buff
faloes, 3O4 alive in captivity, and about 200
under the protection of the Government in
Yellowstone Park. There is also said t. be
about $50 heads in the British possessions,
north Of Montana, but this is a rumor. Ofthe
eighty-hve head of wild buffaloes which are
known to exist twenty-five years in Texas,
twenty in Colorado, twenty-six in Wyoming
ten In Montana, and four in Dakota The
statistics have been carefully gathered by
the officials of the Smithsonian institution.
and it is absolutely known that the number
stated comprise all the wild buffaloes of the
world. The skeletons of the numerous
herds of a score of years ago are bleaching
on the Western plains, a tribute to the Prov
ess of the American Nimrod.