The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-18
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

| Rents are SO scarce in Hartland that
| families are living in tents This is a pain.
| ful evidence of business prosperity.
Max O'Rell Is to return to America to lee
ture next season. He will make his first ap-
pearance in January In Boston under the
auspices of the Press Club.
President Harrison has been invited TO
attend the dedication OF the Faith monu-
ment, concentrating the landing of the
rilgrlms, which Is to occur August l.
Two members cf the Boston bar have
betaken themselves to the town of Orono.
hung out the shingle OF their firm, Talbot &,
McDonald, and will apply for admission to
the PenobscOt Bar.
1hey are not yet through disinfecting that
raimyra church from which the body of the
diphtheria patient was buried A local
paper. reports that the last dose the old
church gets Is Fifteen pounds of the
strongest kind Of sulphur"
The Bangor Daily News, having claimed
that one OF its Sunday issues was the first
twelve-page paper ever printed In Maine, the
Falrneld journal claims for its own holiday
issue OF year ago this honor. The Maine
state iress Is twelve-page paper every
week In the year; and evers page is a
treasure OF Interesting reading to its patrons.
Poker is the predominant game at Bar
Harbor. The Bangor Commercial says that
the married women at the cottages are the
hercest players, and that they don't always
take the good luck of their opponents
phllosophically. In one instance a promi-
h h hgure In philadelphia society has been
poycot,ed from the games. Her good luck
was TOO scientifically recurrent to escape
suspicion. N"po
FRANK Z. Tibado, OF East Corlnth. sur
passes any man in Maine in various and
grotesque misfortune. The Dexter Gazette
relates that short time ago a friskv indi-
vIuuai turned somersault and happened to
strike Mr. Tibado in the face, breaking the
i ia, nose and otherwise injuring him.
linen the East Corinth fire wiped out Mr..
I10ado's dwelling house.
how many words can be written on DOS.
tai card? There has just been competi.
tion among the stenographers to decide this
question, and Sylvanus Jones of Richmond.
va, has taken the prize which was offered
for the largest number of words by writing
upon card 36,764 words. Mr.. Jones is a
shorthand writer employed by the Bright
nope hallway Company of Richmond.
The new Maine ''peddler's law" is Great
Ing somewhat of a stir in the communities,
A large party of Jews, driven out by the
law, embarked from Bangor Tuesday for
Boston. A party Of their Bangor brethren
were at the boat to see them leave. and the
pairing parting was touching one. This law will
pIoDapiy Iali harder upon the Jews than
upon any other class; and perhaps the
Maine legislature may therefore claim thai
they are helping fulfil the scripturai
prophecies.
Miss Emma Hayden Eames, the prlma
donna, was not born In Boston as Mr..
theodore Child relates in his letter to
harpers Weekly, but in Shanghai, China.
where her father had a position as consul.
MISS Eames when child lived in Portland
ABOUT SIX years. coming here about 1873.
She has sung in Portland once or twice in
Stockbridge concerts. Portland people who
knew her In her childhood DAYS Remember |
ner as a natural actress even then. She
used to dress herself in tissue paper gowns
ana an give eve presentations of Mother Goose
Eames's mother, who was when here yerv
good singer, and who gave the future prima
lonna her first lessons is native Of Bath.
her maiden name being Hayden. Miss
Eames's father died in the Maine General
liospital this summer. She has brother.
Hayden Eames, who is an officer in the
United States Navy.
La the war OF 1872, while the English were
n Castine, commanded by General Goslin.
Capt. John Allen, famous Maine man of
he time, had occasion to visit that town.
lie was accompanied by his wife Sally. On
he road near the neck he met the general
ut on sleigh-ride. With customary ar
ogance, the general kept the middle Uf the
Dad, expecting Capt. John to turn out. But
ur redoubtable captain only gave the
visionary half and when they met there
vas halt. After a moments pause,
, aa ira Goslin commanded him to turn out
~ M iet MN pass, saying, "Do you know
v yW,,il am q, = No" Numbered Capt. John,
VEL WI. ne replied, 81 am General Goslin."
Ge shSt cant: Johns ire reached fever heat.
eat he drew the sword. Unsheatbing Il. he he
vaV IL ad50if, and said he, "Do You know
e saW s Gen So% s0s,In surprised at what
Well" said he, II am Capt. John Alien.
M ia ia am n going TO have half the roadIs