The Portland daily press., 1891-09-18

s4ere were 2055 marriages in Scotland, in
MAY tnere were but 1908, while in June the
nunper Jumped to 4148-twice as Imany mar
Iiages In April as In May and four times as
mahy in June.
After an existence of two years the Eng-
fish Society for the Protection:of Birds mum
bers $50 members. The Duchess Oh fortianu
is the President The organization, mi mas at only
this one rule: THAT members VIII refrain
from wearing the feathers OF any Dird unless
killed for food. the ostrich only excepted"
The Old Town correspondent of the Ban
| eor Commercial has unearthed an interest
| ing relic In the shape of Longfellow's study
| chair. 1t was bought by Miss Mary knight.
| when Longfellow left Brunswick for Cam.
| bridge about 1882. 1t Is an old fashioned
rocker with high back and short rockers.
Two men In boat were fishing at DAYTON.
Fla. last week One of the men hooked a
big tarpon, and having very small line. was
compelled to humor him In his maanderinps
wnicn lasted seven hours. After the tarpon
had lowed the boat containing the two men
up anu aown IN front of the town from 10 In
the morning until In the afternoon thew
succeedet In shooting him and then pnilinS
MN ashore. When weighed he tipped the
scale at rs pounds. '"o
Wnen Judge Cooley began to read law in
Michigan he really didn't look like man
tnat would become one Of the. most famous
OF American lurists. His preceptor one day
REMARKED: Ihomas, you have worked dill.
gently, and have watched you carefully for
year. l am convinced that you will never
make make lawyer, and l advise you to go to
work at something else"
Inc great moral question of the hour in
the Illinois town of Springfield is, "What is
a jelly cake?" A merchant there offered a
$500 plano as prize for the best jelly cake,
the offer brought out 900 contestants, the
prize was awarded to Mrs Samuel Wiletts.
and trouble came over the discovery that the
winner did not build her cakei in the ordinary
way, but constructed some thin layers Of
angel 1000 and simply laid them up with
strata Oh Jelly interspersed. This combina-
tion caught the palates of the judges, but the
cake was not rolled up in the usual form and
could not be rolled, and mighty protest
went up AT last there was an appeal to
that cake with jelly was Jelly cake, al
though the structure described was extraor-
binary. The defeated contestants are not in
clfned, however. to accept his decision.
As illustrating the. meekness, not .to say
timidity Of that great barrister, Rufus Choate
some one tells the. Boston Courier this story
about him: Riding in stage coach in Yer
mont one day, in company with the late Jo-
seph Bell, Mr.. Choate remarked, "What
fine wall surrounds that house." In the
same vehicle sat burly Englishmap, some-
what the worse for liquor, and extensively
pugnacious. THAT Is not a wall, sir, it is
fence" said he. Mr.. Choate modestly re-
piled, u call 1t a wall, stone wall" 81
say, sir, 1t Is fence, and Insist upon it,"
This was said In such bellIgerent tone that
for the sake of peace, Mr.. Choate was pro-
ceeding to admit that it was fence, when
Mr.. Bell jumped up and thus addressed the
Englishman: II say, sir, that it is stone
wall, and II you again call it fence will
throw you out OF this coach!" As Mr.. Bell
threat proved effective, and the argument
ceased right there.