The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-14
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

In free for all race at Lexington,
KY, this week the stallion Directum
won in the following time: 2,o91-4;
2, 0S 10 and 2.OS. Pixley, by Jay Gould,
took one heat in 20S IA. Directum is
son of Director, and one of the greatest
horses of the age.
Key-winding watches have been so
thoroughly out of date for nearly ten
years past that it is now difficult to sell
them for tenth of their original cost,
no matter how well they may be made.
Watch dealers will allow for them in
exchange little more than the value of
the gold or silver in the case, not with
the idea of selling the works, but rather
to keep them on hand for lending to GUS
toners while their own watches are
mending.
Mrs. Angelina Aliens new bicycle suit
has created a great sensation at Asbury
Park, Nj. The suit is thus described:
"Her costume consisted of corduroy trou-
sers., which fitted her legs loosely to the
knees Below them were CATERS, which
covered trim patent leather shoes. The
upper part of her figure was set OIL by a
highly polished bosom. At the waist a
yellow belt covered the band of her
breeches. Over her shirt fitted a pretty
little zouave jacket, and on her head was
perched jaunty cap of the polo variety.
The work of blowing up derelicts
along this coast is progressing well. The
wreck of the tug Panther was blown up
off Long Island Wednesday, by dynamite
The explosion was a great one, and was
hear long distance.
In one of his remarkable lectures, Tesla
states that most scientific men now
look upon the various forms of NANTES
tations OF energy, which are generally
designated electric as energy manifes-
tations Of the same nature as those of
radiant heat and light. The phenomena
of light and heat, and others besides,
may therefore be called electrical phe-
nomena, and thus it is that electrical
science has become the mother science
of all and it's study all important. s ~ The
day when we shall know exactly what
electricity is will chronicle an event
probably greater and of more moment
than any other recorded in the history of
the human race.
The highestslakes in the world are the
Himalayas in Thibet. where there are
some bodies of water as high as 10000
feetsabove the level of the sea. . r -. -
Another Arctic expedition is to start
from the United States next year. 1t is
to be under the leadership of Robert
Stein of the geographical survey, and it's
objects the exploration of the territory
to the north of Baffin's Bay and the west
of Smiths Sound. Eight men will form
the party,a nd will go by steamer to
Jones's Sound, where a supply station
will be erected From that point the
party will explore as far as possible to
the North and West
There are at present747 oil tank steam
ers afioat, varying in size from 666 to 4134
tons gross, while II more are building at
European yards.
Virginia and half of the States in the
union combined show no more cities of
over 90, 900 inha bitants than are to be
found in Massachusetts.
John Adams, general superintendent
of the Fitch burg railroad, has resigned
after serving the road since 1858.
A German E Psychologist endeavors to
prove that Benjamin Franklin was not
the deyiser,- but merely the re-discov erer
of the lightning eonductor as he claims
that he has abundant testimony that the
ancient Egyptians used form of this
useful instrument for protecting their
temples against discharges of atmospheric
electricity.
Lord Mayor Shanks, of London, is in
great disfavor in Chicago on accout of an
injudicious speech made there the other
day.