The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-08-04
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Many parents are apt to consider their
daughters worth their weight in gold, but
Scotch gentleman estimated his two daught-
queathing to each her weight in 81 notes.
The elder seems to have been Simmer than
her sister, for she got only 251, 200, while
the younger received e57, 344.
Why "fakir," gentlemen; why not "fa
ker"P A fakir is sort of Hindoo dervish
or medicant monk. You don't mean him;
you mean a faker, one who fakes, as the
slang goes that is, cheats. swindles, steals,
as in mix, my dolly pals, fake away. Tor
onto Globe.
Louisyille's rich men are thrifty witha,.
A Louisville reporter, as the result of in
vestigation, declares that not rich man
in that city, including those worth their hun
dreds Of thousands. spends, .$lo.oool q
that amount. Louisville's rich men are SEN
sible.
A young man who has lived for several
years, as ledger, In q west side house, in
Detroit was recently approached by an in
surance agent who had taken rooms with the
same family, and bored to death to take
policy. He found that his life would be a
burden unless he surrendered or scared off
the agent, and SO, inviting the latter to take
u Walk OuC cNcnluk, uc obdE SckCu III dI ltUdR-
mary faint into the man of risks and ex-
planned the episode by saying that he was sub
Ject to attacks of heart disease. He may
have ruined his physical credit, but the man
has not talked insurance to him since.
Professor" Baldwin. who gained so
much notoriety by his parachute descents. is
living quietly In this country on the fortune
he made in England, which is reckoned at
Sl5O,000 At the Alexandra Palace be re-
ceived e100 for every ascent he made. This
was always paid to him in solid cash, and he
never went up until the two stout bags con-
tanning it had been brought into his tent on
the ground, where Mrs. Baldwin divided her
thoughts between them and her nervous
anxiety for the fate of her husband. Bald
win himself never experienced tremor in
making his perilo1s aerial journeys. On the
evening after his last ascent he tore his bal
| loon and parachute to tatters, gave q cham
| payne supper to his friends and resolved tc
| risk his life no more.
"In Sketches by Boz there Is a picture of
| the old Arches Court as it sat in Doctors
Commons, and it would require the pen Of a
Dickens" says the London World, "to de-
scribe the solemn farce enacted there on
Saturday afternoon, when the public were
unceremoniously elected to enable Lord PEN
Zance to sit In a small dark room barely ca
pable of holding 20 persons. An octogenari-
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church wardens Of Wool Lavington in Sus-
| SEX, and then two eminent counsel humbly
prayed Lord PenZance to reverse the deciS-
| lon OF the chancellor of Chichester, which he
| 0bligingly did In some twenty words. There
had been already two adjournments, and the
most curious part of the business is that
| each of these Arches sittings brings the
| Judge about $500.
Rev. Mr.. Wakefield, of Warren, Ohio, who
| has recently been elected to a professership
in Hiram College, has secured the home
formerly occupied by the Garfelds as resi-
dence. Among the memorable things there
| In is bullet hole in the wainscOt in the
library. The story thereof is that home on
furlOugh, Garfield was writing late at
night, when he went to his wife's bed and
asked, "Crete, are you awaken" She said
she was, and he told her not to be frightened
when she heard the report of pistol, for he
was going to fire at confounded rat that
was worrying him by gnawing away at the
woodwork at his feet.
In Atlanta, Ga, a reporter said last night
when he came back from trip through the
South, there is an old business man. with
snow white beard and hair, when every body
calls "Old Exception" When Sherman
army invested Atlanta Sherman issued an
order that all non- combative Confederates
should leave the city within twenty-four
hours. This man. who was founder. called
at Sherman's headquarters. II want" he
said, ito remain In Atlanta. i am BUSH
dess man. and had no hand in the HOSTILE
ties" Didn't you cast guns for the rebels
| In your f0undry?" General Sherman in
CURED. Yes was the reply, II did, but
had to do It,. | have large interests here,
General, and | wish you would make me an
exception; I'd like to stay to look after my
Property" Yes" said Sherman, grimly,
"I'll make an exception in your case" the
Atlanta mans face frightened, and he
| started to tell a story. 'Orderly." General
Sherman called, 1--WE concluded to make an
exception in this mans case. The orders are
| that all citizens shall leave Atlanta within
| twenty-four hours. This man must leave
here within an hour. If he doesn't. shoot
him." Ever since the war this old man has
been called "Old Exception" and the re-
porter said that 1t was perilous thing to
ask him what he thought of Geaeral Sher-
man.
Members of the railroad police squad and
other officers attached to the police force of
Boston have bedn interested every few days
in the iainting fits of man about As years of
age. They have come across the man every
few days for months past. and have been
obliged to take care of him. 1t is his GUS
tom, or rather unfortunate habit, to have his
faintiDg fits on the street, and they have
been forced to carry him into some store
and bring him to, He calls for small vial
in one of his pockets as soon as he revives,
pours few drops of the liquid into glass
Of water, drinks 1t, and then RECEIVERS. Mon
day they came across him twice. Some time
ago they took care of him four times in one
day de claims that he was once hurt in a
railroad accident, and that that occasions
his fainting spells.