The Portland daily press., 1890-07-08
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The widow Of Senator Riddleberger has
taken editorial charge of the Shenandoah
Herald.
The days of the Irish National League in
America draw near their end. Mr.. Parnell
and his colleagues do not want any conven-
tlon held, and the Boston Pilot advises that
the League be allowed to die.
The latest table custom in New YORK Is
to eat pepper on strawberries. Inc practice
was introduced by gentleman from the
Orange Free State, and it has come rapidly
into fashion.
A diver, who was working at the foUnda-
tion of railroad bridge near Boise City,
Idaho, gave a signal to be hoisted quickly
When he got to the surface he held fast to
&c pound salmon that he had caught by the
gills.
Foster l.. Backus, lawyer of Brooklyn,
n. T., is favorite with the inmates of the
jails in Kings county. He has rich bari
tone voice, we'll cultivated, and sings in one
or the other of the jailS every Sunday, be-
cause he likes to contribute something to the
enjoyment of the prisoners.
A Missouri farmer rugged his corn planter
and proceede to plant 20 acres of land with
corn. He worked right briskly, but, after
going over several acres, discovered that he
had forgotten to put the corn into the ma
chine aid was obliged to go over the ground
a second time.
William Martin has curiosity in tie
shape of gosling at his home in Eaton
township. near Tunkhannock. The little
farm Bird" about one month old. has two
feet, but one of them iSa perfect chickens
| foot; the other is natural "web' foot, and
when placed on the water it goes around
much like top.
Prince Albert Victor has twice already re-
ceiyed the title of duke, and he is probably
not averse to following the illustrious pre-
cedent set by his grandmother, who is
queen, an empress, seven generals, forty
two colonies, seventeen cOuntesses and
| thousand and one minor persons rolled into
one.
| A Paris dealer sold violin this spring to
Hall e. Son of London for $1O,Cc0. 1t is a
| Stradiyarius called THE Messiah" and was
shown in 1872 at the South Kensington Mu-
| scum, when its estimated value was So, 900.
Musical instruments are beginning to rival
pictures as costly objects to look at, for such
| pieces are rarely used.
Isaac Murphy, who rode Salvador, the win
ming horse in Tuesdays Suburban, is young
colored man who was raised in the household
of Mrs. Hunt Reynolds, in Lexington, Ky,
where he lives with his wife, and owns about
$4,000 worth of real estate. His salary as a
rider for j. b. Haggin, Salvatore owner, is
stated at $15,Co0 year.
A farmer near St. Louis has a nest of owls
in his barn, and they keep it free from rats
| and mice. The birds lay up provisions at
night for the next day. The farmer marked
| the bodies of the mice he found by cutting
off one foot with a pair of scissors. All
night all the marked mice would be gone.
and the next morning there would be fresh
| supply.
AT this season of the year," writes the
Funiak Fla) correspondent of the Jackson
vile Times-Union, "the tuItles lay so many
| eggs along the shore that the hens have all
| gone to setting or resting up for the winter,
as no one cares to eat common hens eggs
when he can 60 out before breakfast and dig
| up two hundred fresh turtle eggs out of one
nest"
A railroad postal clerk who runs on the
Union Pacific day or two ago found among
the mail passing through his hands mail
carriers hat, which had been mailed at
Butte, Mont. Attached to it was a card on
which was written: Round the world to
beat George Francis Train" The carrier
passed 1t along to San Francisco, and saws
that as the hat will not have to stop to eat or
make speeches it will probably beat Trains
record
One of the members of Boston fishing
party returDe nme with two blueish, one
inst aSae we out of the vstar -