The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-03-22
THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR,

Edward Belamy has made $4,000 by
Looking Backward This is better than
Lots wife, who merely earned her salt.
An Australian town has given its streets
chemical names, such as Argent, Beryl, CO.
bait. Kaolin, Iodide, Oxide, Bromide, and
Sulphide.
Friends and acquaintances of ii. Rider
Haggard, are curious as to his whereabouts
He has quietly disappeared, and while some
think he has gone to the Orient others claim
to have seen him in Scotland recently.
An English travelling harpist has been
discovered cheating the railroads by carry
ing his little girl done up in the green bag
with his harp. He has travelled so all about
England, and has paid no fare for the child
About half Of the electric clocks in Dan
bury, Conn.,, stopped morning or two since.
Investigation showed that the circuit had
been destroyed by man who cut off piece
OF the wire to tie up his stovepipe.
q DR.. Amelia B. Edwards. while staying in
Columbus, Ohio, recently, fell and broke her
arm. With remarkable pluck she had the
arm set and Immediately afterwards deliver
ed her lecture.
Beman Brockway, editor Of The Water
town On. ~ Times, is now the oldest editor
in continuous service in the United States,
having completed fifty five years of active
editorial work, most of it on daily newspa-
perS.
A fashion note says that natural butterflies
and caterpillars are to appear upon the hats
of the ladies this spring, and are also to be
used as ornaments for the hair. There is
some curiosity to see who will be the first
woman to appear in public with a stuffed
caterpillar prowling in her bang.
James Shaw, an Ohio farmer, planted a
hickory post deep into the ground, tied a
straw man to it, and then turned fierce bull
into the Enclosure. The bull made bt e line
for the hay figure, struck the post plum in
the centre, and was killed so dead that he
didn't even kick after falling over.
1t is said that the rigid enforcement of the
game laws in the state of Massachusetts will
at no late day result in restocking the nearly
devasted forests, which especially In the re-
glon from Plymouth to the cape are magnif-
cent. Already deer are seen stalking about
near Sandwich, and in few seasons quail
and small game will again be plentiful.
Snowflakes the size of the human hand fell
over small area in Carson City, New, dur
ing the recent cold spell. They didn't. how
ever. come from the heavens, but from fac
tory's steam pipes, whence they emerged in
the shape of steam, being converted into
snow by contact with the cold air.
A man in Chillicothe, Mo-, has laid abed for
twenty-five years because of hallucination
that he would die of heart disease if he at
tempted to stand up or raise his head above
certain level. Lately he raised himself above
the danger line without injury and he is now
performing day labor about his farm and
wondering at his foolishness.
Foot ball may be very fascinating game,
but according to the London Lancet it has its
outs, as appers from following statistics of
casualties from all over the world during the
past year Deaths, 13; fractures of leg, 10; of
arms, 4; of collar bones IL; serious injuries
to spine, 3; to nose, 1; to knee, ) to ankle,1
to cheek,1.
A young lady of Walker received present
from New York friend of an elaborate
silken, lace. trimmed robe. girdled with rib
bons, in which she soon made her debut at
an evening party and received many compli-
ments upon her attire. She tainted upon
hearing from her New York friend that the
exquisite costume was nightgown.
Professor E. 5. Morse delivered lecture
on evolution in Chicago recently, with off
hand blackboard illustrations in his inimit-
able style. Next morning one of the local
great dailies" described it as humorous
lecture which kept the audience in a roar"
IL will take lots of evolution to make the
Windy City by the lake know scientific dis
course when it hears one.
The enormous number of 3S72,0Oo letters
were carried free in Canada last year. Of
tawa is responsible for most of these. Whe-
tner every citizen mas a ranking stamp or
not, Few pay postage. The averay e civil SER
yant, when going to his office in the morn
Ing, Is said to take the family letters, and
any MS acqualntances may give him on the
way, put his initials ON each, and then the |
Thanking stamp finishes the transaction.
When man says he has a new typewriter |
it is hard to determine whether he has got a |
new machine, or employed pretty new
woman to play on it.; hence two new words |
qave been invented; "typoscript," to signify |
type" to signify the machine-that is, the |
passive machine; the active machine retains |
the typewriter" sobriquet
A singular woman suffrage petition, is in |
preparation in England. 1t is to be signed |
by the survivors, Of the 1,499 persons who
signed the first suffrage petition presented in |
Parliament DO John Stuart Mill in 1860. |
About 100 OF these are known to be still liv- |
ing. Many cannot be traced, and few, like |
Mrs. E. Linn Linton, have gone over to the |
enemy. Among the signers to the historic |
petition were Mary Someryille and two of |
her daughters. |
A minister in Berkshire the other Sunday |
thought he might help his Sunday school
teachers and pupils in their study of the In
ternational Lessons by giving them some
idea of the gospel of Luke, its writer, char
acter and intent. In his discourse he allud- |
ed lncldentaiiy 10 It's marks Of originality |
and independence What was his astonish- |
mept to see in the local paper a day or two
later that the Rev. Mr.. Blank last SUNDAY
evening defended Luke against charge Of |
plagiarism.
Mrs Hoxie, formerly Winnie Ream. still
models for the love of 1t. often using her
beautiful babies as models. Her drawing
room is hung all about with fishnets EN-.
broidered by herself, with pattern of star
fish The harp is her favorite musical in
strument, and she plays it WELL Mrs. Hoxie
rides and drives a great deal, and is looked
upon by those who know her as perfect
pattern of happy womanhood. This sculp-
tress of Lincoln is of pure Southern blood.
The London correspondent of an English
paper alleges that the Prince of Wales has
instituted the custom of weighing both the
coming and the parting guest at Sandring-
ham palace At the first opportunity after
his arrival the guest is weighed, and his
weight is recorded in book kept for the
purpose, and he is weighed again on the
cord made, accompanied by the autograph of
the guest One of the latest signatures in
the book is that of Salisbury, and his weight
is put at IS stone plump.
The subject Of sunken treasure reminds
one of the heaps of gold carried in the GAL
Icons of the past. In 1869 ship of war from
Lisbon had on board 100000 of crusades in
diamonds and about 100000 "crown turnoiso
in piastres, making the whole %. 05O, 900 iiYres
turnois. In IVA two Spanish ships from
Vera Cruz and HAVANA arrived with %, OOO.-
900 of crowns, exclusive Of merchandise val
ued roundly at q, GOO, 900 crowns. OF the car
go of an English Indiaman in 1771, one item
alone-a diamond in the rough-was valued
at 100000.
Some girls in Hudson River town formed
an association and adopted the following:
I'VE will not notice nor receive attentions
from any man who is not intelligent, honest
Industrious, good natured, clearly in person
and apnarel healthy sober. and a total ~