The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The peach crop promises to be one OF
the largest ever gathered.
The once favorite actress, Sara Jewett,
has picturesque bit of a cottage at
Pigeon Cove, Mass.
The first stained-glass window ever
designed by woman is in Grace church
New York city.
Ex-Vice- President Levi P. Morton and
his family will sail for Europe on Au-
gust 10, to remain abroad for an indef-
mite period.
Worth, it is said, abhors tailor made
gowns, calling them stable clothes,
and turning his artistic eye in another
direction when they are in view.
If all the telegraph lines of the world
were combined and stretched in one
straight line, they would reach sS1, DOC
miles, or enough to enclrcle the earth
thirty three times.
Mr. Henri Marteau, the French violin
list, sails for America per steamship
Champagne August 20, accompanied by
his father, Charles M. Marteau, presi-
dent of the Philharmonic Society OF
Reims, France, the birthplace of young
Marteau.
Killing aimless dogs and cats is the
very latest use to which the scientific
Chief of Police of Hartford, Conn.,, is
putting electricity In the rear of the
station house he has had a cage rugged
up with electrical connections. The cage
is just large enough for dog to stand
in. The fore feet Of the animal rest upon
one electrode and his hind feet upon
another. When he is in position an cleo
trio currents is switched on.
Professor Bell of telephone fame is
promulgating a new idea in airships.
The proper method, according to him,
is to propel the ship by kind of trolley
method in which the rod would hang
down to the feed instead of extending
upward as it usually does. He thinks
the time occupied by inventors in work
ing out the porblem of aerial navigation
by the usual gas-bag method is time
wasted.
The plan that Founder James A.
Bradley of Asbury Park has conceived
for getting rid of the Illicit lager beer
peddlers who run their arks" in Asbury
Park is a novel one. These peddlers sell
enormous quantities of bottled beer to
the mechanics employed about the town.
They solicit the trade of the workingmen
especially, and sell to them from one to
twenty-four bottles of beer upon each
call Every morning hundreds of empty
beer bottles are picked up in the streets
and taken to Mr.. Bradley's office. 1t is
unlawful to retain the bottles belonging
to the beer bottlers Therefore Mr.. Brad
ley sorts them over every day and returns
them to their owners Before sending
them back, however, he has his clerks
paste on each bottle label shaped like
a beer bottle, on which is printed short
sermon on temperance.
The wholesale miIliners are getting
their Autumn stocks in readiness for in
spection by "the trade" Among the
new felt hats are sailors of broad brim
and low crown. Cream tan, and other
pretty brown shades, are noted, bound
and banded with brown, generally in
darker tint than the hat. Alpines of hid
eous hues are in store. Straw sailors are
being banded about the high crowns by
| rows of velvet baby ribbon, or narrow
folds of velvet, each row or fold meeting
| at one side in a very small bow. A no,
ticeable black turban is coiled round
with a thick rope of black and green
stems. Derby gloves of channels have the
biggest of red buttons and are bound in
red Other chamois gloves have shirred
gauntlets like the dog skins. Silk gloves
have long wrists of hillock waving
Children's white silk gloves come with
round gauntlets of white, plaided with
blue or other color.