The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-26
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The various fires caused by the crossing Of
electric wires has stimulated inventive
genius to produce preventive. The new
invention is said to be an absolute protec-
ton from excessive electrical currents enter
ing buildings by telephone and other wires,
and insurance men are looking for just that
sort of thing.
Prince Bismarck repeats his accusations
against Sir Robert Morier. He declares that
Sir Robert conspired in 1860 with the Crown
Princess Victoria, now the Empress Frede-
rick to ruin him. The Liberal press retort
by saying that If the PRINCE knows anything
to the detriment of the Empress Frederick,
he would do well to say so openly, as the
Empress is quite able to defend herself.
DO not commit the common blunder Of
thinking that there is some special virtue in
beginning at the foot of the ladder" On
no subject is there more tiresome twaddle
talked. The office boy in bank stands the
poorest chance Of anyone in the concern of
becoming its president, unless favored by
VERY unusual ability and extraSrdlnary NOR
plenty of room at the top, but there is a fel-
low with club on every landing, and If you
have to enter by the basement door there is
simply another chance of your being
knocked in the head.-Electrical World.
A ST. Louis policeman says that il people
were only taught half as much about the way
to avoid mad dogs as they are sunstroke, hy-
drophobia would not be so often heard Of.
A mad dog never turns aside from the course
he is running to bite anybody. Therefore it
Is only necessary to get out of his way. IL
that is impossible one should stand perfectly
still and face the dog. He will turn aside
tnen himself and run in different direction,
while II the person in front Of him screams
ana runs away, as nine out OF ten will do,
the dog Will overtake and bite the victim.
Scientists are beginning to object to the
exposure of mummies to the public gaze
and to feel that, after all, these old Kings
were human beings, and that exposing their
bodies, not for scientific reasons, but TO sat
isfy mere curiosity, is, even after so many
thousand years. a desecration of the dead.
1t is proposed that after mummes have been
photographed, studied and measured Scien-
tifically, they shall be wrapped up again,
Theoretically sealed in leaden cofins and
walled up in one of the chambers OF the
Great Pyramids For public use casts would
90 just as well.
A correspondent of the the ST.. John Tele-
graph, whose letter was for the time un-
noticed through an accident, writes second
time saying, "See ii Peter Iii aud L." If the
readers are as well acquainted with the goo99
book as the Telegraph man VINO receIteut
the message they will know In nnoinehhe nei az
how the passage referred to reads id roL 'he he
benefit of those other readers VINO Moulu e .bo po
forced to refer to the book in ORDER 10 See tno
point made by the correspondent, | may
State that the paragraph reads as IonoMs; S,s:
This second epsIe HelPyte;d t; NOW nowr wGTe nnTe
unto you, in both which SUI W Soui pure
minds by way of remembrance.
n Is related that when the United States
chin Petrol was launched the young woman
who broke the bottle of champagne over her
bows pronounced the name with long Sc"
in the first syllable. The commander of the
vessel insists upon the short "e" but the sail
ors habitually pronounced the name Of the
bird for which she is named with long Sc"
and in such matters Jacks opinion has con
siderable weight. He calls the Kearsarge
"Keersage," accents Powhattan on the see
ond syllable and utterly rejects the classical
| final ''e" in Amphitrite.