The Portland daily press., 1889-05-30
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The German government, among other
socialistlc and paternalistic functions as
sumed, Is now engaged in the business of in
surfing old and invalid workmen. This Is by
recent act of the Reichstag, adopted by the
small majority of 20.
The Shah is to stay at Buckingham Palace
as the guest of the Queen during his visit to
London. When the Shah was quartered at
Buckingham Palace in 1873 the cost of clean
ing and redecorating the apartments which
were occupied by him and his male and
female encourage was $4,000.
Bishop Keane's proposed wholesale impor-
tation of foreign professors for the pew
Roman Catholic university at Washington
will invite an application of the alien con-
tract labor law. If an imported Episcopal
clergyman is amenable to that law, the Cath
Ollie professors can hardly escape, and the
American Catholic clergy who are disturbed
that the bishop should pass them by. can
here find defense for home labor and the
home market.
Cardinal Manning, who recently sang the
praises Of John Wesley in an address in
London, is the most popular Catholic clergy
man in England. He is highly democratic
in his notions, and expresses them freely.
Inc Cardinal is fit to rank beside the Grand
ga Man 10 point of robust intellect and good
physical condition at eighty. The secret Of
his green old age is temperance. AT the
Royal Academy dinner the other evening he
ate crust OF bread and drank q glass of
water, while the other social, literary.
political and artistic magnates went through
the twenty courses and the dozen wines.
The three electrical machines with which
the state of New York will execute the
murderers will cost $780, They will do
their work very expeditiously, inasmuch as
the death stroke is administered in the 150th
part OF second, too soon for man to know
what killed him or to feel any pain. A
current OF 1000 volts will be used. which is
just five times as many as are required.
ana although 1t takes only the 150th part of
second for the current to kill man. il
will be kept on from fifteen to thirty seconds.
to do the work absolutely beyond per-
adventure and to prevent reflex action.
which follows the rigidity resulting from
flrst application of the electric current
Funeral street cars for railway at
Buenos Ayres have lately been made by a
Philadelphia firm. They are first, second,
and third class. The body of the irst-class
car is painted a rich black. toned with pur-
pie, awith passion flowers painted on the
sides. The windows are of French plate
glass The seats, folding up against the
sides, are upholstered in black plush and the
window curtains are of black cloth trimmed
with gold cord. In the forward end of the
car is an alter. with silver cross and candle
labra, while on either side of the alter are
stained glass windows The interior of the
car is finished in white and gold. The metal
work Is ,nickle-plated. On the roof nine
large sable, plumes are placed. The other
cars are simpler and palmer in design. the
third-class car having merely a row of
shelves for the collins. The cars are in
tended to convey bodies, with the mourners.
to the different cemeteries. This practice is
cities of Central America. The only paral-
lei among northern nations is said to be the
dead" train which leaves the Care du Nord
in Paris, at 5 O'Clock every morning, carry,
ing the bodies. of paupers and unrecognized
persons from tine morgue