The Portland daily press., 1891-07-11
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The son of Gen. Isidro Urtecho, command
er in chief of the Nicaraguan army, is the
only foreign cadet at West Point. He is a
young man OF ~, tall and active, with
swarthy skin and flashing black ewes.
1t would take all the Lancashire cotton
factories 400 years to spin thread long
enough to reach the nearest star lat the
600 miles per day. N''
King Kalakaua's effects have been sold at
auction. The queen bought his boat.house at
Sl.e9l, while s. M. Damon. her husband,
bought the dead kings arm chair, paying
$40 for It. The total proceeds of the sale
were only little more than 49,
A small boy in Kentucky. while driving
the cows to pasture one morning, tied the
tail OF one of the gentlest of the herd around
his neck. The cow ran. dragging the how
over the field, and at last accounts there was
life. 0 'ouns'se' .
Perhaps the most remarkable Waterloo
survivor is Philip George d'Epinois, who
was born in 1874, and still discharges the
duties Of Burgomaster in his native village
OF Epinoisles Binche. The Chevalier d'Epin-
OILS was one OF the Civic guards who well
coined Leopold |. to Belgium go years ago.
Henry George is hard at work on the
Pope's recent encyclical dealing with the
land question and socialism. Mr.. Georges
answer will probably make considerable
pamphlet, or possibly small book. 1t will
probably be translated into French and
Italian. 1t will be expressed in terms re-
spectful to the Pope and will urge anew the
argument, contained in progress and
Poverty"
A wonderful old man is "Pop" Morley, the
trainer and coach of st. Paul School cricket
team. now on lite annual tour to Philadelphia
Although rs years old, he is as active as any
Of the boys under his charge. bowling and
batting like a younsster Of 16. He usually
goes to bat first, and very often carries bis
bat through the entire inning. His face is
covered with snOw-white beard, and what
little OF the skin is visible is wrinkled and
tanned like piece of leather. He has never
known day Of sickness.
The fog from the Pacific was SO thick
Thursday that millions of wild geese became
bewildered and lit in Bartle's meadow,
where they were caught by the sackful, says
the McCloud River Pioneer. The fog was
so thick mans hand could not be seen be-
fore his face, but everybody caught large
numbers of geese. being attracted to them
by the painting of the exhausted birds. By
evening cold snap occurred, and the next
morning the geese were found in vast GUAM
titles, their feet frozen to fences, trees, etc.
on which they had lit. 1t was estimated
that nine miles of rail fencing were broken
down by the weight of the geese.
Hannibal Hamlin's first trip to Washing
ton in 1912 was noticeable for the varied
character of the conveyances in which 1t was
accomplished. From his home Mr.. Hamlp
travelled to Portland by atage-coach, from
Portland he went to Boston by boat, then to
Norwich by rail, from the latter place he
crossed the Sound to Greenport, from there
took the Long Island railroad to New York.
from the latter place he again took the rail-
way to Philadelphia, from that point made
the best OF his way by boat and stage coach
to Baltimore, and from the Monumental
City at last reached the capital by rail. Ar
irving in Washington after this tedions
Journey, be found it to be struggling, diIap-
ldated and overgrown village Of less than
10000 inhabitants. The streets of magnif-
cent houses which now accommodate the
two hundred and odd thousand residents of
the place were then utilized as cow pastures.