The Portland daily press., 1889-03-22

The New York Legislature has passed a
bill apr ropriating $4,000 for monument to
John Ericsson
Joseph Cook puts the prohibition Question
as follows; "Shall we tolerate class who
are az once robbers and rulers?"
Mr. Abbey estimates that the canceling OF
MISS Anderson's engagements for the re-
malncer OF the season will makes difference
Oh S4o,oOo or $4,000 in the net receipts.
MISS stuart Mosby, daughter of guerilla
Mosby, is accounted a belle in Washington
s'citty. She is almost as successful in steal
M hehits AS her papa was in straiing horses
The demand for horse meat is said to be
assuming enormous proportions in London.
Inc demand is mostly in the foreign quarters
nut meat vendors find il necessary to keep a
supply OF the equine flesh constantly on hand
III Is taken in the form of roasts and FLEETS,
ana consumers are enthusiastic in its praise.
President Harrison will probably name
three new justices of the supreme conrt.
Justice Field is seventy-fye years of age and
Justices Miller and Bradley are each
seventy-two years old. These are now en-
titled TO retire, and Justice Blatchford also
will reach the retirement age before the ex-
plratlon OF President Harrison's term.
movement has started in Norway to fit
out an expedition to start next year for the
North Pole, by way of Franz Josef Land.
This is the only route that has never been
tried, and it is possible that route
may be found along the west coast of these
islands, known as Franz Josef Land, which
can be reached in four summers out of five.
The leadership of the party will be offered
to DIR. hansen who recently crossed Green
land.
Tho m % haraiah nhuloan Ctnoh IL o,a 90
the stars Of New York fashionable society
at present. he Is pensioned prince, son of
the famous RnDieet Singh, and lately made
a sensation by disp0sing of his English es-
tate and going back to India, where he
showed disposition to make trouble, re-
ceived hint that his room was more desira-
BILE than his company, and started on tour
of the world. As he has lived in England
most OF fifty years, he is considerably mod
flied Hindu. ssSfs
A very pleasant triumph for the women is
the increased power exercised by their books.
Woman in literature is sure to be more gem
orally felt. 'The Duties of Women" by
Frances Power Cobbe, has recently been
translated into Japanese. This is the
opinion of the ST. Louis Globe Democrat:
Miss Cobbe is the spiciest writer English
among the ladies, and none the less enter
tanning for her gallant and persistent fight
with Darwinism. OF American writers
Gail Hamilton" Is nearly as spicy and
strong as any masculine writer. while Miss
Murfree Is easily at the head of our living
nOvelists,"
John p. Illsley, an expert who was sent by
a syndicate of New York and Philadelphia
capitalists to Western Pennsylvania to in
vestigate the natural gas question, has made
thorough survey of the gas fields, reports
that wherever the drills nave encountered
gas in first entering the sand rock and from
the great pressure cannot be driven lower,
there seems every reason to expect an album
dant supply for many years. In some wells
where the conditions are different, the sup.
ply has become exhausted, but in the high
pressure wells there are no signs of diminu-
ton. Nature seems to be manufacturing the
gas as it's wanted. and even faster, for now
a vast amount is wasted by manufacturers.
Mr.. lllsley believes that the gas will be used
to much greater extent than at present.
The country home of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, situated just south of the High
lands of thelHudson, and named "Boscobel,"
has been sold to C. Il. Butler. of a large i'm
porting firm of New York. Mr.. Beecher
bought the place in 1859, and for twenty
years occupied the cottage that was on the
ground, but in 1873, be built the present
house at a cost of $4,000. 1t contains TWEEN
ty-three rooms. and is supplied with all
where Mr.. Beecher delighted to use the
hammer and saw. The park surrounding
the house contains rare collection of trees
and shrubs, surpassed in this country only
by that Of the Smithsonian institution at
Washington. There ale COCO ornamental
trees and shrubs and more than 1000 fruit
trees and vines. For many of these Mr.
Beecher was indebted to his missionary
friends, who sent specimens from China,
Ceylon, India. the Pacific islands, Africa,
Europe and other parts of the world Mr.
Butler paid 5000 for the place, which cost
Mr.. Beecher about $3.50, 900 first and last.