The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-08-22
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The present heroine at Lisbon, Portugal,
is Fraulein Johanna Maestrick, German
girl Of marked beauty, who has Just made
her debut as bull fighter.
Wagner Is the great German composer;
Verdi, the great Italian composer; Sullivan,
the great English composer, but bromide Is
the great universal composer.
A census taker at Danbury, Ct, en-
eountered the wife Of hodcarrier. who tried
to conceal her husbands humble occupation
by stating that he was an ''ascender and de-
SENDER"
A Stratford pedagogue, who teaches a
township school and drives to and from the
seat Of learning each day, figures that he
travelled about 5000 miles In that way dur
ing the past year.
The Boston Herald says The popular
notion that women don't understand figures
is dispelled again. They certainly under
stand figures well enough to falsify their
own In a manner calculated to deceive any
Of the other sex, except male dressmakers
John Ericsson, whose remains will be con
veyed aboard the Baltimore on Saturday for
transportation to Sweden, probably had
more titles and decorations bestowed upon
him during his lifetime than any other man
of his generation. He never displayed these
titles and ribbons, however, and was es-
pecially proud only OF his title Of captain
and his degree Of LII. ID.
In the Government of Podol the peasants
have no scruples about selling their children.
Instances Of revolving nature are reported
in Moscow daily. One peasant sold his
daughter, a girl Of eight years, to travelling
mendlcantS Tor the sum OF six T0ubleS. an
other one brought two girls TO the town Of
Granova, where he sold the older, child Of
seven years, for five roubles, and the younger,
three years old, for three r1ubles.
This year the French and Italian artillery
manmuvres took place near the boundary Of
the two countries, in Savoy The officers
met and fraternlsed, but, as neither, had
leave to depart from his country, they de-
signed dinner at which the long table stood
one-half In Italy, one-half in France, and
red cord which ran across the middle de-
signated the division. They had a jolly
time, each in his own country, and a good
dinner.
In Mr.. Gladstone's library Of 5000
volumes are two which were given 10 him
in 1915, when the future statesman and bib
llophile celebrated his fifth birthday. one Of
| the two shabby little booklets being the gift
| Of the admirable Mrs. Hannah More-his
| ''hOly Hannah" as Horace Walpole used TO
| call her-then already 20 years OF age, but
| taking great delight In clever children. in
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stone was conspicuous.
The amount of patronage with which the
picture Of the Battle Of Gettysburg" was
favored last week was enormous. says the
Boston Herald The greater portion Of the
visitors were Grand Army men, and to hear
| their comments on the picture was quite
/ interesting Everyone present VINO particl-
/ nated In that battle recognized at once the
| exact position in which they were locatad,
| and the company in which they fought One
could not fail to be impressed with the fact
that the picture must be perfect one, to
arouse the enthusiasm 1t did in the old vet
erans when their eyes first fell on the scene
presented. They recognized every land
mark.
1T Is frequent experience with me-"
said an insurance agent, shat prepare to
salute friend whom 1 think is approaching
me in the street. A nearer view shows that
| am in error and the person Is a stranger.
Almost always l meet few hundred feet
further the person whom / had thought
saw. And so with insurance; sometimes
loss telegram has come In, and reading 10
hurriedly 1 mistake the agency from which
1t comes. OF course l correct myself a
moment later at second glance, but usually
another telegram Will report a loss that day
from the agency which had mOmentarlly
supposed the first had come from. This has
happened number OF times
Miss Lillian Blanche Fearing, the only
woman graduating this year at the Union
College OF Law, Chicago, and author of that
striking poem, "Blvouac of Sherman's
Army" in the August number Of the New
England Magazine, is entirely blind. Dur
ing the course, her mother was her constant
companion, and read from the books to her
Miss Fearing was one Of four students
whose records were so nearly equal that fine
committee appointed to award the schoiaT'
ship prize Of $50, decide to divide IL eanaIIv
among the four. The blind student has
the Supreme Court at Springfield. and glves
promise OF making brilliant mark In her
profession. ~ D0A