The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-05-09
PERSONAL AND PEcUL lar.

The private in the German army is
paid $3.50 per month, or eight cents a.
day, out of which three cents is deduct
ed for mess expenses.
Joseph Murphy is put down as the
richest of actors. He is said to be worth
$3.50, 900, most of which represents the
savings from his annual income.
The engagement of Count Herbert Bis
marek and the Countess Margaret Hoyos
is announced. Countess Hoyos is a
inventor of the torpedo.
Tolstoi's manuscript is full of inter
lineations and erasWes and the hand
writing is small, fine and hard to read,
The countess transcribes it for the prin-
ter, and one year, 1t is said, she made Is
copies of one of her husbands books.
The marriage of 1860 persons were
solemnized in London during 1891, the
proportion to the population being high
er than in any year since 1883. The
births numbered 1874, O03, or 31.S per 1000
the lowest on record, with the exception
of the year 1890. The excess of births
over deaths, however, was 1871.
Prof Michael Mahon of Dundas, Mimi,
has flying machine that resembles
Chinese bark. On the top and sides are
two air wheels that are used to lift and
steer the machine. 1t is said that the
model has carried two and a half times
its weight.
There comes from Sweden news of the
construction at Christianstad of what is
| called locomotive steamboat. 1t was
built for use on chain of small lakes in
| Sweden which are separated by water
falls, and to get around these the steam
boat has been fitted with wheels like
those of locomotive, and on leaving
| the water runs smoothly along on the
land on tracks built for its accommo-
dalton.
DR.. Emile Kempin, who founded in
New York the courses of law study for
women, which developed into the Wom-
ans Law School and were finally abb
sorbed into the university of the city of
New York, DR.. Kempin herself becoming
a lecturer in that institution, has been
installed assistant professor at the Uni
versity of Zurich Her lectures will be
upon Roman, English and American law.
Save in the mercantile department, Eng,
fish and American law have not been
taught in a German university.
Miss Lena Woodland of Thorn Greek,
Washington, sowed the seed from one
head of barley four years ago. She har-
vested the crop with pair of shears and
sowed the amount received the next year
again harvesting it with her shears. The
third crop her father cut with grass
scythe, getting enough barley from this
crop to sow 40 acres last spring, which
threshed, making total yield of 1000
bushels from one head of barley in four
years.
An ingenious resident of Bridgeport
has worked out an invention which
should become great boon to unfortu-
mates afflicted with deafness. 1t is the
same to the ears as glasses to the eyes
and consists of Ia soft rubber disk and
spring, so shaped that when inserted in
the ear 1T will focus the waves of sound
on the natural drum of the ear with such
intensity that the afflicted person re-
ceives impressions from the outside that
nature had seemingly desired to with
hold.
The Ames Manufacturing Company,
Chicopee, has received the contract for
large bronze statue of Christopher Co
lumbus to be erected at ancient Isabella,
on the island of San Domingo, where
Columbus made his first settlement. The
idea was conceived by Thomas H. Cum
mings of Boston, and has been carried
through by the Sacred Heart Review,
Catholic newspaper. The statue was
made from designs of R. Andrew, of the
State Normal Art School, and the model
was prepared by Alois Buyens, of Client
The figure is eight feet and two inches
high, and will be mounted on pyramid
of coral and limestone twelve feet high,
which will be crowned with a capstone of
dressed granite. The people in charge
OF the monument have been given the
land necessary for the foundation of the
monument, and the Republic of San Do
mingo has agreed to allow the importa-
ton OF the statue and foundation free of
duty and to care for the memorial as
public property.