The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-07-25
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PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The etymology Of Wimodaughsis, the new
woman's club of Washington, has been re-
vealed. The word is compounded of parts
OF the following words Wife, mother,
daughter, sister.
According to the Concord Monitor Saw
telle's ghost, it is said, is often seen floating
In the air at Lebanon, Me-. and people are
hunting over their old Boston Globes to see
where the story originated.
Margaret Deland. author of "John Ward,
Preacher" is recalled as slender young
woman plunging through the snow drifts of
Beacon street with a market basket on her
arm and her big dog at her side. 1t was sew
eral years ago, when the now famous author
was an economical young housewife.
A Delaware justice of the peace sent a
man to jail for sixty days for saying to a
shoemaker; "Old man. l will yet live to spit
upon your gravel' A lawyer got the man
liberated, and the justice paid $500 to settle
the case. BE said he supposed the Delaware
statutes included everything on earth.
An inventive genius is said to have about
perfected device for catching passengers
for express trains in the same manner as
they scoop up water or take in mail bags
when going at full speed. The luckless
traveller is to be in long trough between
the rails upon curved iron bed. From the
bottom of the train movable piece of steel
comes down which catches occupant and bed
and throws them in. This is Every good
scheme-if it works."
Probably the must valuable dog eyer i'm
ported to this country. arrived at Boston
Sunday on the Scythia. The dog was the
handsome rough-coated st. Bernard Alton,
and the price paid for him abroad was $3.50,
or $4250 of our money. Alton is owned by
G. III. Moore of Melr0se, and has won first
prize in every show in which he has been
entered abroad. He is three years old,
weighs 20S pounds and stands within an inch
and half Of three feet high at the shoulders.
He Is by champion Plinlimmon and cham
pion Queen Jura.
A st. Louis drummer says he has found by
experience that small diamond worn in the
necktie-not in the shirt front-served as a
badge of responsibility wherever he went.
If he went into restaurant and found that
he had forgotten his pocket-book, he was
never asked to leave his watch until he could
pay his bill, and he was never asked to pay
In advance by hotel clerk If he went to the
hotel without baggage. In short, wherever
he went that little $50 diamond proclaimed
that there was man that was not pressed
for money and who could be trusted.
Describing Christine Nilsson, a gentleman
who has aecently returned from Paris says ::
my call on the Swedish nightingale was not
social one. 1t hinged on favor which a
firm of piano makers wished to get from the
former prima donna, and was politely re-
ceived. | found Nine. Nilsson-she will
never be known by any other name to US
to be quite deaf, and to have gone off physi-
sally at rate that was astonishing. Obesity
has marked her fer its own, and the distinc-
tion Of carriage, including her lofty and Sc
rene manner of holding her head with the
chin well up in the air, has all disappeared
She does not resemble the Nilsson of old
physically In any particular except the eyes.
They still retain their tranquil beauty"