The Portland daily press., 1893-10-03
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


The sheriffs of London annually pay
into the British exchequer six horseshoes
with the proper number of nails as rent
for piece of ground in the parish of
st. Clements. In 1884 this lot was rented
from the crown by blacksmith to build
a shop on, aud afterwards the property
came into the hands of the city corpora
ton at the same rental. The horsehoes
and nails have been annually paid ever
since the date mentioned.
Every Chinese temple is provided with
one or more sacred drums, the sound
of which is supposed to soothe and keep
quiet the great dragon that upholds the
earth Whenever there is moment in
which all of these drums are silent the
dragon begins to, move uneasily and
there is an earthquake The first tremor
is, therefore, instantly followed by. uni
versal drumming such as is never heard
in China on any other occasion, and the
pandemonium continues until the dragon
becomes quiet.
Ex-Speaker Reel is in Chicago, and
spent his first day at the fair out of doors
looking at the buildings and statuary,
the lagoon and the lake. Talking to a
friend in the evening he said | stood
this afternoon to the right of the central
fountain in the court of honor and looked
toward the great gold figure, through
the peristyle beyond and around at the
architectural beauties on either SIDE ana
above me. I thought if all that were
marble it would be the grandest sight
ever mortal looked upon. Greece had
nothing like it, Rome had nothing like
it, and doubt if it's like will ever be
seen again"
The daughter of Rev. DR.. Charles A..
Briggs has entered school for deacon
esses under the management of the Epis-
copal church. The action is taken with
the full approval of d ',riggs, and the
young lady is classed as a special student
1t is suggested that the step may have
something to do with DR.. Briggs al
legged desire that the order Of deaconesses
be established in the Presbyterian
church
Louis Roth of Brooklyn values part
of his jawbone at $4,000. The part in
question was torn out by dentist who
did not want it, but was merely trying to
extract a tooth. !. Mr.. Roth in bringing
suit places his damage at the sum above
mentioned.
When the Rev. DIR. A. L. Banks, the
Prohibition candidate for. Governor in
Massachusetts, lived on the Pacific coast
he was just as determined an enemy of
the.liquor traffic as he. is today. After
one of his vehement speeches a saloon
keeper threatened to shoot the clergy
man on sight The two men met few
days afterwards, and the saloon keeper
drew revolver with the intention of
carrying out his threat. Mr.. Banks
grappled with the fellow, and in the
struggle the weapon went off, lodged the
ball in the clergyman's leg. The next
Sunday, with his wounded limb band
aged, he was lifted into his pulpit, where
he made a fiercer onslaught than ever on
the liquor traffic.
There is curious quarrel among the
faculty of the Chicago College of Physi-
clans. and DIR. Leonard st. John has petit
toned the Circuit Court to restrain DR..
S.B. Buckmaster from longer holding
the chair of physiology on. the ground
that he does not own and refuses to pur-
chase 20 shares OF the capital stock OF the
college, which the charter provides the
professor of physiology shall hold. DR..
St. John says he himself owns 10 shares,
as required of him.
Great preparations are being made in
Saxony for the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the entrance of the king
into the army, which occurs on Oct. "a.
Every court in Europe will send repre-
sentatives to Dresden to congratulate
the venerable monarch. The young
Crown Prince of Germany will then pre-
sent himself to the king in the uniform
of the Saxon regiment Of which be was
recently an honorable officer.
The Empress Eugene is going to day
her usual autumnal visit to the chateau
at Arenenberg, charmingly situated on
the Untersee, or inferior lake, which
forms continuation of the lake of Con-
stance. The chateau, which is:on the brow
of a.hill sloping down toward the lake,
offers splendid:view of the Black Ia, forest
and fertile districts of the "Thurgua.
1t was formerly the favorite residence
Of Queen Hortense, and much favored
by her son, the Emperor Napoleon, who
visited the place after his release from
Wilhelmshohe in 1871.