The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-21
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

There is strong movement to make
Miss Louise Imogene.G Quincy, the author
ess. postmi stress at Auburndale, Mass.
The Worlds Fair Commissioners
still have about 81, 500, 600 in the souvenir
half dollars. They will be recoined into
the standard halves.
Steamers coming into Baltimore report
that the sea has in the recent storms
dashed over the cemetery at Solomon's
Island, topping over the monuments
and washing out and breaking the
collins.
A Washington real estate holder says
| that times were never sduller in his city.
There are 10, COO vacant houses in Wash
ington, and land values are not rising a
cent.
AS Major Isaac B. Brown, of Harris
| burg, Pa, was going through the Chica-
ago Exposition the other day he saw a
Confederate flag flying over the old loco
motive used in the famous Andrews
raids during the war. He promptly tore
the flag down.
Centreboards were adopted by the Brit
ish admiralty as early as 174, through
the advice of Admiral John Schank, and
used on the American lakes during the
war of the Revolution. But they were
SO little known that when Salem Wines,
an old New York boat builder, put one
into boat he was thought crazy.
Marie Antoinette's guillotining had its
centennial last Sunday, and there were
religious ceremonies in Vienna. They
have in a church there a number of gold
embroidered priests vestments made out
of the martyred queens wedding robe,
and these were solemnly exposed to view.
In Paris nobody celebrates this ami
versary.
James Gordon Bennett is still confined
| to his room from the effects of the acct
| dent which he met with while driving
coach four months ago, but an effort
will be made to move him this week to
the Riviera His friends, however, are
| very apprehensive that he will never
| make full recovery.
The census of 1890 includes among arid
regions portions OF Arizona, California,
Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New
Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and the parts
Of. Oregon and Washington east of the
Cascade range 1t gives the total area
| irrigated as 1851, 1881 acres, owned by
| 4, lOt pofSOuS, WulCu Is dill average VI
| 81 acres to each owner. The two great
| fields of the system are California, with
| ], 600, 233 acres owned by IS, 732, persons,
| and Colorado, with $50, 1856 acres owned
| by 9, 500 persons. 1t will be seen that
| fully half the irrigated land was, at that
date, in these two States, and most of
| the remainder was in the Rocky Noun
| tain region.
Mr.. Blaine's grave at Washington is
visited by hundreds. The Blaine tomb is
| a little green plot in q quiet corner of
| Georgetown's famous cemetery. At the
foot of this ravine winds shallow but
rocky little stream: the hill above is
covered with shining marble ,nonu-
ments, and just where the autumn sun
| shines brightest is a level grave, marked
only by footstone bearing the initials
| JOB. On one side is the grave of Mr..
| Blaine's daughter, Mrs. Coppinger,
| marked by large gray Irish cross,
erected by her husband, and bearing a
crest and coat-of-arms on its face. Next
| is the body of Walker Blaine, the dead
| secretary's favorite son.
DIR. Bowdler Sharpe, the well known
ornithologist of the the. British museum.
| has delivered a lecture on 1.-The lost con-
| tinent.n DR.. Sharpe first illustrated the
| zoo-ge geographical regions of the world,
with their peculiar forms Of bird life,
and explained the occurrence of isolated
forms in different portions of the globe
| by the existence of a former land con-
| nection now vanished beneath the sea.
| The idea of an ancient tropical continent
at the south pole uniting South Ameri-
ca, Madagascar and Australia is arousine
| considerable discussion in scientific circles
at the present time, chiefly going to the
support which it has received from the
of H. o. Forbes, the well known Ma1avan
traveller. The lecturer in conclusi0n
dealt with some problems Of the geog-