The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The young emperor at Berlin puts on his
cards in plain Gothic letters, "Wilhelm,
German Emperor and King Of Prussia.
Ex-senator Sawyer of Alabama row earns
his daily bread as second class clerk in the
war department at Washington.
Ouida has earned more money than any
woman of the century with the exception of
Nine. Patti. She uses scent on her hair and
on her eyebrows that costs thirty dollars an
ounce.
1t is said that Mr.. Tiffany, the millionaire
jeweler, never wears diamond, although he
has thousands of the finest gems in the
world to select from. His favorite gem is
the opal.
Senator Evarts' living expenses are esti-
mated at 100000 year. He has three
houses which he keeps open all the time
ore at New York, one at Washington, and
one at Windsor, vt.
Minnie Hank has purchased the Villa
Friebschen, near Lucerne, where Richard
Wagner lived for several years, and where
he wrote "Gotterdammerung," the "Meister-
Jeremiah Clark, oganist of st Paurs, enter
ed a field intending to either hang or drown
himself. He tossed penny to decide. 1t
stuck sideways In the mud. Mr.. Clark went
home and shot himself.
Sparrow heads are legal tender among
Michigan youngsters in lots of ten. 1t takes
one lot to buy fishpole and two will pur-
chase a base. ball, when they have been
cashed in at the recorders office.
An Ohio railway company is preparing
mileage tickets which will be good for fares
ON ID distinct lines. The great Baltimore &
Ohio systems mileage tickets are now inter-
changeable with some connecting lines.
forp oh ha -
his farm by means of meteor. The celes-
tial visitor happened to be of considerable
value as meteorological specimen, and was
eagerly purchased by college at $1,000
Omaha Republican.
A colored dentist in Macon Ga, uses no
instruments except his fingers in extracting
teeth. By means of long practice his fin
gers have become as strong as fOrcepS, and
he claims that he can pull teeth faster than
any dentist with instruments.
There is man in southern Illinois who
laughs at the idea that marriage is a failure.
He has just married his sixth wife. Each
successive spouse brought him farm. and
ne Is now one OF the largest land owners In
that part Of the country.
The people of the United States during
1889 smoked 1856, 955, 773. 772 CIGARS which, at
five cents each, cost the consumers $167,7S8..
6061o.. This sum. at $4,000 a mile. would
have built $685. miles OF railroad, and at
$4,000 each would have purchased 20,973 loco
motives.
During the summer holidays of each year
the immensely wealthy Duke of Westmin-
ster takes in about $4,000 In sixpence and
shillings, paid by sightseers for admission to
his country seat, Eaton hail. He gives every
penny Of It to charitable institutions.
There is nothing like rising to the necces-
stiles of the hour. The prices of cattle
being low, the Western Rural tells of man
who has gone to raising skunks. The skin
is worth more than that of a fat steer while
the oil Is worth four dollars gallon. Alto
gether the business is far ahead of raising
beef.
Near Jarnac an ancient cemetery of early
Frankish times has been slowly excavated
by M. Philippe Delamain, until about 300
tombs have been laid bare. Pixies, axes, and
other weapons, drinking glasses, vases. and
glass beads, metal buttons, and other things
too many for mention, have been found
Rings of gold, Ornamented with enamel are
particularly admired for their artistic beauty.
Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson has been visit
Ing Molokai, and, as result of personal in-
vestigation, he has published couple of let
tiers defending the fame of Father Damien
against the attacks that have been made on
It, Mr.. Stevenson's conclusion Is that, while
Damien was not free from faults and imper-
fectlons, these were as nothing to the heroic
virtues which his assailants have altogether
ignored.
In some experiments lately made in Eng
land to test the merit of electric welding,
1Oa-inch iron bar was welded both by
means Of electricity and by hand. The for
mer stood a strain of 91.9 per cent. of the
strength of the metal itself and the latter 49,
per cent. The electric weld, however,
showed cracks when bent cold at an angle of
60 deg, whereas the handmade joints stood
1888 deg, of bend.
Besides being the author Of Lorna Doone,'
Mr.. r. d. Rlackm0re is a scientific garden
err, and as such recently took part in news
paper controversy on some horticulture topic.
The editor of the Fruit and Farm Review has
made all England smile by saying in refer
ence to this "We are told that Mr.. Black.
more is an author. We have never heard OF
him as such before, but If 1t is so we advise
him to keep to what he understands. But
NAV be he failed even as an author"
Some strange judicial proceedings are re-
ported from Queensland, Australia. The
presiding Judge was in hurry to get away,
and tried cases continuously for Sc hours. At
one stage all the available jurors were occu-
pied in considering verdicts, and, not to lose
time. the judge ordered the doors of the
court room to be locked, and then impounded
every person in the audience qualified to
serve. Many of the jurors were so exhausted
Dy continuous service that they fell asleep in
their seats but the the trials went on.
Springfield, Vt, may have its bloated
silver barons yet. Frank w. Davis of that
town has discovered an extensive deposit of
galena ore, containing apparently large
proportion of silver. Specimens are being
analysed, and If the ore pans out well, plenty
of capital will be put into the mine. Would
the estat lishment of silver-lead smelling in
Vermont console the free traders for the