The Portland daily press., 1890-09-22
A PERMANENT REVOLUTION.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


Miss Harriet Hosmer has been commits
stoned to execute life-size statue of Queen
Isabella of CASTLE. for which special pa
viion will be erected in the Woman's De-
partment Of the Chicago Fair of 1898.
Measurements of 81 900 children in Saxony
show that the boys are small fraction of
an inch taller than the girls up to the
eleventh year but that the girls then become
taller until the sixteenth year, when the
boys again surpass the girls In height.
The English sparrow is blamed for chang
ing the California live oak into dead oak.
Formerly little native bird ate an insect
which preyed on trees. Since the sparrows
have come the native birds have been driven
away, the insects have increased, and the
live oak trees are dying
The following headline appeared In the
Philadelphia Bulletin recently: "Juoddss 7
and Ends" 1t isn't volapuk, nor Russian,
Hungarian nor Japanese. It's simply print
and heads q department. The ends got
mixed, and the line is more odd than was
intended.
Utica, N. Y, Is the fortunate city to Sc
cure the Masonic Home. to be erected by
that State. The building will be of brick
and terra Gotta, and probably about four
stories high. The architect Is VIM. III. Hume
of On. W Utica's citizens are proud of Sc
curing this building. The corner stone will
probably be laid next spring.
A copy of the Boston Herald blew to the
top of Lynn church steeple and got tan
up with the vane, so that it couldn't turn.
From this fact the Herald claims the highest
circulation, 1t Is noticeable, however, that
contact with the Herald demeralized the
vane so that 1t couldn't tell the truth.-Lynn
Bee.
President Carter of Williams college is
very practical prohibitionist. The town
authorized the granting of two licenses, but
time passed on and no places for the sale of
liquor were opened. Investigation showed
that President Carter had quietly bought the
TWO licenses, and thus prevented the legal
sale of liquor in the town.
The Germon Emperor's surprise" visits
to the various barracks are becoming so
frequent as seriously to damage his popu-
larity. A few days ago he came on a guard
unattended by the necessary bugler. who
was absent for few seconds, and visited
the breach of discipline with the immediate
dismissal of the colonel of the regiment and
other severe penalties.
A hotelkeeper at Hamburg named Sacht
for furnishing dishes composed of horse
flesh to his customers, without their knowl-
edge or consent. 1t was shown at the trial
that he had supplied 1000 pounds of equine
meat to his guests In the form of ragOuts.
furnished with names taken from the menus
OF French restaurants
The following advertisement is taken from
the Liverpool Daily Post: "Will the lady
wearing spectacles, who, on Thursday even
ing, the It'll inst, drove dark pony and
four wheeled phRton, with groom behind,
along lakewood road, and injured valuable
saddle horse by not taking her side of the
road. kindly get better pair of glasses and
take driving lessons before she ventures out
again?"
There was novel display by the colored
people of Ellicott City. Md, few days ago.
1t was called an umbrella parade, and con-
sisted of line Of men, dressed in dark
clothes with white caps, carrying tri-colored
umbrellas, and followed by two gaily dec
Grated chariots containing children and Ia
dies dressed In white. the whole headed by a
band. While marching the umbrellas were
esQue scene.
Although Rev. Sam Small is aD. d. and
the president of University, he can't get
certificate of church membership. He lost
bis membership in the Methodist church
when he Joined the Episcopal church and
teen ne lost his membership in the Episcopal
church when he went back to the Methodist
church. Consequently he has no papers of
any kind to show and may have to ioin the
local Methodist church in Ogden, Utah, on
probation.
curious matrimonial custom prevails In
Brittany. On certain fete days the young
ladies appear in red .petticoats, with white
or yellow borders around them. The num-
Der Of orders signifies the portion the
father Is willing to give his daughter. Each
white band, representing silver, denotes a
nundred francs per annum; and each yellow
band indicates gold and betokens thous-
and francs year. Thus, a young man who
sees face that pleases him has only to
glance at the trimmings of the petticoats to
learn the amount which will dover the
wearer.
j. M. Spencer, an attorney of Cincinnati,
an old time telegraph operator and friend of
the inventor Edison, commenting on the
Price Currents article concerning the fire.
quency of fires in barns containing newly
cut hay, says: "The cause seems to us not
far to seek. From every mass of green hay
tnere probably rises column of humid air
attractive to the electric fluid, as moisture is
an excellent conductor of the same" This
the frequency with which Ice houses are
struck by ightning.-Cincinnati Price Cur
rent. S"A-
The salary Of President Mcleod, of the
Reading railroad, is said to have been in
creased to $4,000. which places It within
$4,000 of the annual salary of President
Depew, of the New York Central, who re-
ceiVes the same wages as the President of
the United States, without having half the
trouble with able statesmen and importunate
ONCE seekers. Mr.. Depew's hardest work ia
perhaps In maintaining his reputation as the
speaking champion of the
world. This dinner business is a great drain
on the powers OF the Lord Mayor Of london.
who receives the same yearly allowance as
does Mr.. Depew, and 1t is also a great drain
On his salary, the annual reception taking
half of It, "e
Ii 1t Is true, as announced, says the New
York Sun, that an audacious company of
spectators is to build summer hotel ON
s sSon TOP ,, Of Mount Olympus, our ticket is
,n TSt head clerk and lord of the Register
E EO rrDeli.boys--Mercury and Ganymede.
Tor matron-Juno.
Eor nnnnaa.nDermaids- Diana and Vesta.
For borS er and bouncer-Hercules.
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1t would he wgndIrl.nsVenus Verticordia
pr0fane New York nano .uiL eHcurSlou, the
pus, to hear JOve's awful voina nkss, 10 Oiym;
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