The Portland daily press., 1894-08-10

ture's sitting, while ex-Goy. Long got
SO, 500.
| The Wyoming Republicans have nomi-
mated on their State ticket Miss Estelle
| Keel of Laramie as candidate tor State
superintendent of public nstruction.
The celebration of the centennial of the
town of Stowe. Vermont, recalls the cur
lous fact that the first marriage in town
was published at a barn raising in 1898,
when James Hulburt, the town clerk,
standing OH one of the pilates" of the
structure, cried; Hear ye! hear ye!
Marriage is intended between Noah
Churchill and Polly Marshall both oil
THIS town; God save the people"
A paper read before the recent Whist
Congress, and published in "Whist," ad
vocates the establishment of chairs in
universities and colleges for instruction
IN whist, on the general ground that
such instruction would have educational
value, as it wofld exercise and strength
en- the mental faculties.
Capt. Rassett, the Senate door-keeper,
has charge of the senatorial snuff box.
lie sits by the side of the Vice Presi-
DENTS desk. Below and close by him
there is a niche in the wall in which the
snuff box is placed. He takes pinch OF
the snuff occasionally himself, out none
OF the Senators use it. The snuff box
is survival of ancient custom, coming
down from the snuff-takiug days. The
last snuff taker in the Senate was Thur
man, who always carried two bandanna
handkerchiefs-o to blow his nose and
the other to administer the final polish.
Is frog fish? This is the problem
which the officials of the Canadian
fishery department. have recently had to
consider. Petitions were forwarded to
the department. from the inhabitants of
Northumberland, Ontario, praying for
close season for frogs. A lucrative
trade in the shipment of frogs legsshad
been done in that county but it was
discovered that the very time when the
frogs are spawning is one when the
greatest havoc is wrought amongst them
Possibly a change will he made in the
fishery laws SO as to embrace frogs. The
officers say in their embryotic stage frogs
are certainly fishes. but later on they take
an amphibious character.
OF the fifty-fve Afro-An1erican clerks
in the Record and Pension division of
the War Department at Washi 1gton,
thirty-five were discharged under the
recent order of Secretary Lamont, and
the salaries of all but three of the four
teen in the sub-office in the Ford build
ing reduced to $1,000 per annum. A like
sweeping reduction of this class OF clerks
has also been made in the Census Office,
and in the mechanical departments of
the government printing Office
Bismarck believes that Anarch lists
should be kept in pens, as pigs are.
The latest idea for sthree day ship"
is to have the propellers placed at the
sides. The shafts run from side to side,
and each shaft has propeller at each
end. The suggestion is to have these
shafts hundred feet apart, so that a
ship COG feet long would have five pro-
claimed for the system are that each
propeller has free water in which to act,
that if shaft is broken the other pro-
pellers are not disa bled, so that the ves-
sci can proceed at nearly full speed, and
that the unpleasant and sometimes dan.
gerous racing" of a propeller as the stern
lifts out of the water in a heavy sea is
avoided.
Mr.. Lease and Governor Llewellyn of
Kansas, have made up, and now Mrs.
Lease IN her public addresses refers to the
matter thus took him into the court
and licked him." she said "Since that
time he has been as good as pie"
Says DR.. Simon Baruch, famous ply
stefan of New York: More cold bath
ing, more fresh ai-, less meat, tea and
coffee, and more milk, cream, cheese.
bread and butter, with easy fitting
clothing, will rejuvenate and be the sal
Walton of our working women"
Private George Walker of Chicago
militia company and Miss Julia Coleman
were to be married at certain hour.
But just before that hour arrived he
was put on guard duty on the Panhandle
tracks. He could not procure fur
Tough. SO he sent for Miss Coleman
and minister and the wedding took
place on the railroad where he was doing
duty.
Connecticut has a law that every owner
or possessor of lands shall cut down all
wild carrots and Canada thistle growing
thereon. or in the highway adjoining, SO
often as to prevent their going to seed.
Failure to do this is punishable by fine.
The people of Australia cannot remem-
Der when Sir Henry Parkes was not a
factor in political life, and it would be
difficult to persuade many that he was
not there when Cook discovered the con-
tinent. AS matter Of fact, he has been
leading figure in no fewer than 35
elections and he has sat for 42 years in
Parliament. His name has always been
before the electors, and those who are
senior members in the House today en-
tered it when Sir Henry's best work was
done.
A fireman on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road was up the other day for promo
tion as an engineer. After inq uiring as
to his time of service and knowledge of
the mechanism of the engine, his Dues
toner asked what is steam?n "Steam
is smoke from hot water" replied the
man.
Bicylists will be interested in the fact
that an establishment In Chicago deals
Il