The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-04-19
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Mr.. Chamberlain says that all domestic
animals had an instructive fondness for John
Bright.
Oskaloosa, Kan, is now counting upon
real estate boom, because of the advertise
ment it is receiving by the reelection of its
woman mayor and city council.
Mrs. Bruce, wife of B. X. Rruce, the negro
ex-senator Of Mississippi, is one Of the hand
soonest and best dressed ladies in Washing
ton, and one would never imagine that she
or her fine looking boy had any colored blood
In their veins
A wagon passed through Kansas City the
other day bearing the following inscription
on its canvas cover: "Chintz Buged in Illi-
nois, Sicloned in Newbraska, White Capped
in Indiana, Bald Knobbed In Missouri, Pro-
hibited In Kansas. Oklahoma or bust"
At the recent Southern "Chautauqua," at
Albany, Ga, the State superintendent Of
public instruction expressed the conviction
that Georgia will soon make provision for
six months schooling in the public schools,
per year, instead OF three months as at pres
ent. This win be gain Of 100 per cent.
The St Louis Globe Democrat says of the
Maine soldier who died recently in the West
"In the death of Gen. Edward Hatch the
army loses one of the most gallant and pop
ular officers. He rendered splendid service
during the rebellion, and afterward on the
frontier; and there is something peculiarly
pathetic in the fact that he passed safely
through many battles to die at last by an or.
binary accident"
The Finnish language has been held In
contempt for centuries, and when the first
translation Of the Bible into Finnish was
made In the sixteenth century, the translator
prefaced it by saying: II believe that God
Almighty Understands Finnish" At last the
Swedish language is to be banished from
Finnland, and the people are happy at the
thought OF being allowed to use their own
language.
Edison believes that the time is coming
when transportation through the air will be
as common as terrestrial carriage. There
will be railroad lines in the sky-or steam
ship lines more properly-trains of convoy
crossing the continent. He sees but one
drawback to the adoption of the practice, and
that Is the ease 1t will afford criminals to es-
cape from any point where they have COM
mltted crime. 1t will not then be possible
70 intercept them with wires as now. He
thinks we shall then see more crime.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette took stroll
on Pennsylvania Avenue the other day, and
tells whom he saw: 1.-THE Presidents fam
lily were walking, and constantly responding
TO the recOgnltions and salutations of the
people In their carriages and fellow pedes-
TRANS. In coming down the avenue / saw
Mr.. Blaine stepping briskly and looking de-
bonair In tall hat, white scarf, Prince AL
bert coat, tan-c0lored overcoat, terra Gotta
gloves, silver-headed umbrella, and yellow
over-gaiters and patent leather shoes. He is
very white OF hair and face; in fact. the
| wniteness OF his face is remarkable, but he
L N Onn hno t~f4o
a distinguished physician of New York
tens OIL recent case in his practice that has
certain features of interest. In a household
Oh New York city there was n how of 10
"n' posSesseu many excellent qualities, be-
along the street one day piece NJ hoard co
from the second story Of a house that wos
being built and struck him, infiictne q vyompS
on his head. After time the wound b moInI
| afterward appeared that the boy mad unSer
| gone an unaccountable change Of character
He had become liar and thief and wa.
almost brute in his nature. At last the par.
| ents consulted the physician to whom W,
have referred, and who made study of the
case. He finally suggested that the DO,
should be trephined, in order to ascertain il
any injury had been done to the brain wheI
the skull was struck. When the operati OF
had been performed in the vicinity of tn
side of the skull had pierced the brain. Al
ter the splint had been carefully removed
and the wound properly dressed, the. DO.
| rapidly recovered. To the delight OF hi
| parents it was then made apparent that tn
evil traits which had been brought into play
| by some unknown means had disappeared
He was changed again. and was once NOR
| the amiable, truthful and upright boy tha
he had been before he was wounded. "Thi
case,' said the distinguished physician VIII
able if the medical books were not full o
| similar cases."