The Portland daily press., 1890-07-12
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The jockey who rides Salvador is a colored
fellow. He is in the very midst of trace"
war
Lord Aberdeen is not stuck up. He could
not get a cab at a railway station the other
morning, so he chartered passing milk
wagon, and drove up to the door of his club
In 1t, much to the amazement of the flunkies.
South Carolina Oakley recently hitched
his mule, with bale of hay on its back, near
a neighbours bee hive, which he knew was
about to swarm. AS he expected, the swarm
settled on the bale of hay, after which he
led the mule home and hiyed the swarm.
A curious trap at the patent office is an
imitation rat that has piece of toasted
cheese stuck on the end of little spear that
projects from his nose short distance
When real rat comes up to nibble at the
cheese the spear jumps out about six inches
and impales the unfortunate.
A men in Denver who was overturned into
cactus patch with his carriage when driv.
ing newly broken colt says his mishap
was predicted by fortune teller before his
marriage. Such an individual informed his
wife that she would marry man who would
be all battered up by horse. He believes
now in both predestination and fortune
tellers.
Down in New Orleans the people have be-
come so demoralized because of the lottery
business that they have begun to gamble on
the weather and adopt the novel way of hay-
ing $40 gold pieces frozen into cakes of arti-
hcial Ice and then brought around to the ex-
change by boy. The cakes are placed in
the sun, and the last gold piece to melt out
takes all the others.
1t any one wants a cool summer-iob let
him seek employment Oh the Central Pacific
road in the Siefras, where in the midst of
OF TINS lot season some of the side tracks
are covered with snow. and where the rotary
snow plow Is still clearing off hard-packed
drifts When this is all done, and later in
the. season, II 1T Is still desirable to keep
cool, one may seek delights in the gulches
along the road where recent reports place
the snow at so to 60 feet deep.
The practice Of churches of insuring the
lives of young men in their congregations in
order to provide sinking fund from which
to cancel the churches Indebtedness is said
to prevail in Brooklyn and New York to
large extent and DR.. Henry Conklin of
Brooklyn, the examiner for one of the larg-
est of the New York life insurance compa-
MES, c0rroborates this statement He said
the other day that he had just examined six
young men whose lives were to be insured
for sums ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 and
whose policies We're made out in favor of the
church.
"It's lucky that nothing serious resulted
from that trouble Chauncey M. Depew had
with his leg while ago." said friend of
the president of the New York Central re-
Gently, "for verify believe that had such a
thing as amrutation been necessary, Depew
would never have been able to make another
speech"
= What has his leg to do with his ability TO
make speech?" asked a gentleman who
overheard the remark.
TITS got just this to do with it, that If De-
pew were to lose his left leg his speech
making days would be over. I've heard
him make hundred speeches, and have
watched him closely, and I've reached the
conclusion that his grinds his speeches cut of
his left leg. Have you ever watched him
sitting on platform waiting for his turn to
come? No? Well, you should at the next
opportunity.
Just as soon as Mr.. DepeW sits down he
will cross the left foot over the right knee
and begin to wiggle it. He puts It through
all the gestures of an orator, bows to the an
dience, moves it to the right and left. and
then swings it vigorously. He watches il ali
the time intently and seems to be conyersing
with it. If you ask him question then he
won't answer you. for ten chances to one he
don't hear you. He is getting his inspira-
ton, and he's drawing it from his left foot.
L tell you, II it was cut off [ don't believe he
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