The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-12
THE MAINE STATE PRESS.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Sparrows, by eating the buds, have done
great deal of harm to the young trees in Gen.
trail Park, New York, which have been very
susceptible 20 the warm weather
An English baroness has established a
home for cats, where disabled and decrepit
felines are cared for by her kind purr-
mission.
The price of ice for the season has BEEN
fixed at 81 hundred weight. AS coal is
only abont % cents per 100 pounds, it looks
as if it might be much cheaper just to stay
warm than to try and keep cool. ~
The largest saw mill In the world is located
at Clinton Ia. 1t cost 100000 and is capa-
BILE OF saving 100000 feet of lumber in eight
hours. 1t has seven band and three gang
saws and two batteries of 10 boilers each.
A Mt. Clemens, Mich, man lost his pocket
book containing $40 on Tuesday. Every
body saw the purse on the sidewalk, but
supposed it was an April fool joke, and the
loser got around in time to recoverit
Helen Allingham, widow of William
Allingham, the poet, has received great
compliment. She is the first of her sex to
be elected a member of the English Royal
Society of Painters in Water Colors.
With forty-four. instead of forty-two.
states in the Union. all the new flags will
soon be out of date. The bunting business
is subjected to almost as frequent changes in
styles nowadays as Is that Of a fashionable
mlliner.
The Speaker Of the British House of Com
mons declares that there is no law TO proven
a women reporter from going into the press
gallery, but he adds Immediately that there
Is no law TO admit her. This seems to leave
it substantially at her own discretion.
At recent banquet OF the Undertaker's
Association of San Francisco the menus
were printed on card board cut in the shape
of coffin, and among the dishes were chick
en- dressed a la broad, smells on stretcher,
and stewed tomatoes la grippe.
The most accomplished equestrienne in
Philadelphia says the only time she doesn't
envy tie men is when she rides horseback.
A Side-saddle, she says, gives one frmer
seat than mans saddle, and is so much
more graceful. Alb, there, Miss Jenness!
The other day a; Minnesota clergyman
travelled thi rty miles, made six calls, visited
two schools, an afternoon lecture and shot
sewn jack rabbits, all between sunrise and
sunset, and he said it wasn't a good day for
pastor al work either.
Mrs. Payne, better known as Amber
whose articles have appeared on so vast a
number of subjects. and in so great an array
of papers, is said to be SO eccentric that she
does not recognize her best friends on the
street, where she appears in most marvel
Gus attire.
Talk about your long sermons. here is one
that leads the procession. In tho ca tbedrai
notices for Holy Week Of 1.-The Oxford Do
cesar Gazette" appears the following Tin
not will hp said at m
and sermon preached from Monday till
Friday, inclusive.
A pair of bantam chickens were sold at
the London Crystal Palace for $500, which
was almost exactly twice their weight in
gold. This is believed to be the highest
price ever paid for single pair of fowls
since the days Of eXtravagant and luxurious
Rome.
When Lee, Deane and Franklin were in
Paris as peace commits sioners, Franklin then
being the only American with an interna-
tional reputation, a cake was sent in by adj
miring friends, inscribed lie Digne Frank
lin." The philosopher insisted on sharing it
with his friends, claiming that the French,
in their ignorance Of English spelling, had
undertaken to say: Lee. Deare, franklin
A plumber recently rendered bill to
customer for whom he had done some
work. and among the items was the fol-
lowing: Looking for a smell, 50 cents"
Of course he saw it. as no plumber would be
guilty Of charging for services unperformed,
but the insignificant charge for the service
is what, puzzles enc. The sight must have
so paralyZed him as to cause him to forget
what plumbers were here for.
jeanette Glider, editor of the Critic, is
described as a strange compound of mascu-
line and feminine traits. In winter she dons
an ulster reaching to her feet; the waist of
her dress is close fitting sack coat with
mans pockets; under this is mans vest
holding her watch and chain; her standing
collar and cravat are entirely masculine
Even her face has strong masculine cast,
brother. the editor Of the Century.
A kindly-faced man at Kansas City street
crossing tapped passing gentleman and
asked him II he had lost $40 gold piece.
The gentleman looked at him and said he
had. The old man drew out note book
and took the name and address of the loser
and turned away. We'll" said the other,
dd ySu nd one sa AZ the ad
man, but 1t struck me that in large city
like this there must be great deal of money
lost. and upon inquiry find that you are
the 31st man who has lost $40 gold piece
this morning.
The Empress of Austria has caused her
wedding dress to be cut up and made into
set of vestments for the Church of St. Mat
thew, in Pesth. The dress was of white
brocade. with silver threads, embroidered all
over with beautiful garlands Of roses in
silver Her bridal wealth encircles on en-
broidered picture of the Virgin, which is to
be hung up in the Loretto Chapel of the
same church, which the Empress selects for
her devotions. The vestments will be used
for the service in honor of the Virgin Mary
in May.
The ex Queen of Naples has stables in the
Champs Elysees and at Chantilly, and runs
horses under an assumed name. The King.
her spouse, is of gentle disposition, ana
goes in for dolce far niente." They don't
exactly board around" but live in an
ordinary hotel. Nothing, the Queen saws
is SO like royal life in palace as royal life
in a hotel. Her illustrious spouse has found
"a corner Of Naples" in Paris. 1t is the
confectioner's shop in the Rue Septembre
where Neapolitan confectionery is sold.
Hail, rain or snow, he walks there daily to
have an ice and eat some cakes, which are
only to be found there, and then saunters