The Portland daily press., 1890-06-13
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Cincinnati woman enraged at her hus-
band determined to ruin him financially She
"shopped" all day, and piled up bills to his
account to the amount of $1,000.
A western Massachusetts dentist is said TO
have small boy sit in his Office and yell at
the top of his lungs occasionally. It lends
an air of business to the establishment
The Chicago News claims to have given
the appellation "Signed-Cat State" to Mon
tana, and explains it as follows: SIN natur-
al history 'singed cat is an animal which is
not necessarily beautiful, but is smarter than
1t looks. 1t Is the same way with the Monta-
ma man."
The Press Censors at st. Petersburg have
given orders that the newspapers of that
city shall neither send nor receive kilograms
between the hours OF p. m. and 8 a M, as
the officials OF the bureau object to remain
on duty In the night
Stumm is the iron king of Germany. He
owns enormous foundries at Neunkirchen.
where over 5000 men are employed. None
OF his .workmen may get married, change
their place OF residence or join a society
without his permission.
boy at Plainfeld, N. j., was attacked by
large eagle and severely lacerated about
the chest Although much frightened, he
grasped the bird and choked it, and then
throwing 1t on the ground broke its wing by
jumping on It, The eagle was then secured
alive and afterward exhibited in store win
dow.
Patti gets $500 night. In 1921 the entire
fees paid to vocalists for season at the Lon
were es6S6, while eiO,ooc went for the ballet ballet
The only singer who got more than a thous-
ana pounds Tor season was CampOrese
Two ballet dancers received el7S5 and al537
respectively.
whenever darkey dies suddenly all the
rest of the darkies think be was "pizened."
colored preacher died suddenly In Con-
cord, N. z. last week and his flock made a
great to-do about 1t but the doctor found
that death had resulted from the parson hay-
M swaliowed whole parcel of greens"
without having chewed them.
A passenger on the Iroquois. one of the
steamers for Florida. tied the lead line over
his waist and jumped overheard for swim,
while the boat was going at the rate of thir
Teen seed,,, miles an hour. He said when the
steamer was stopped and he was hauled up.
that he wanted to take an ocean dip, and he
thought he could keep up with the ship.
The French postofice department is ex-
aiming new and original system for dis
tributing newspapers through the mails.
Every publication is to provide the central
postoffice with the list of its subscribers
ana every number is to be sent to the sub
scrlDers without wrappers or printed ad-
dress-Paper Trade Journal.
DelmonicG's chef is valuable being. His
work consists in ordering the supplies, form
ing the menus and pronouncing Judgment
upon every dish served He samples the
soups, sauces ana salads, often seasoning
them In person. BY tasting the most minute
particle he can discover exactly the ingredi-
ents lacking and the amount needed 10 in
sure perfection. His salary is $4,000 wear
A New Zealand paper reports something
entirely new in the sporting line. At
horse race the course lay across the sands at
Okarca bay, and through delay, the tide rose
SO nlgn tnat the horses had to swim some dis
lance before the winning post was reached.
Inc result was that one of the animals
which would otherwise have been beaten
came off victorious, on account of superior
natat0rlal powers.
@The deposits lin the Post Office Savings
Bank, OF Canada, for the month of April
were $685. while the Withdrawals for the
month were $SS6,696. being 1915. 446 in ex-
cess of the deposits. The total balance on
Both April was $21, 549,080. This. added to
the sum or SIS, 695, 065, the balance on deposit
In the Government Savings Banke on 10th
April last, makes the total amount of saw.
ings deposited with the government on that
499,3S2 on Both April, 1889.
The latest society pet In England is a pig.
A short time ago gentleman, Oh entering
the house OF young and ardent sportsman
In the shires, was surprised to find the draw
ing-room In the possession of small but
comedy specimen of the Tamworth or Leices-
tersnlre breed OF pigs. A single blue ribbon.
twisted carelessly round the animals neck
gave an appearance of coquettish skittishness
t 70 the quadruped. Inc pigs proprietor stated
well-conducted member of his household.
The Pope's resident physician follows His
Holiness about almost like his shadow and
is forever going to and fro with tbermom-
eter In his hand, looking out for the slight
est breath of an intrusive draught that might
venture to blow rudely near the head of the
church. Sometimes these precantions arc
carried to an absurd pitch. When Leo
Al1l: was to officiate during the winter at
the Sistlne Chapel, the doctor had huge hra'
zlers OF charcoal set burning there ali night
beforehand, and when the morning arrived
the ladies had to leave the chapel faintina
while mass was being read, and the Pope
himself got such violent headache that he
could scarcely get through the service. and
was quite i'll all the rest of the day from it.
dead pike weighing twenty pounds
was found in the lake at Ewhurst Park, the
country seat of Lord Alexander Russell,
which had apparently met its death in vain
attempt to swallow one of its own species
weighing nine pounds: Pike have died in
this manner before. The Pail Mall Gazette
"As an undOubted instance of
pikeish yoracity there is an unusually well. |
record of pike Of two pounds |
first swallowing a trout of one pound and |
shortly afterward, while the tail Of the trout |
was still In Its throat, selling an artificial |
bait three and half inches in length
pair of brass field pieces used in Perth |
ont. ON the Queens birthday. have quite a
history. The cannons were manufactured in
y Holland, In 1776, taken from the Dutch a
lew lew years after by the Duke of York
brought to America, and on the surrender of
! D51oaagoyne army to the revolted colonists in
d ~ II. passed INTO the possession of the army
81 the United States. They accompan rd
sne army Oh General HAMPTON in the inya-
Great Britain and the United States in ISL
10, and at the disastrous defeat of the invad
ing army In 1914 were recaptured bv the
British, and have remained the propertv Of