The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-10-12
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The City of Chicago is about to put in
operation the largest and best equipped
arc lighting plant in the west.
Ex-Congressman Breckenridge has
taken hand in the election Of precinct
committeeman and his friends claims a
majority in the Congressional district.
This probably means that Breckin-
ridge intends to return to congress.
When Emile lola comes to this country
on his long heralded trip he will bring
in his baggage suit of clothes that will
pass the custom house authorities with
out murmur. 1t is a bicycle suit for
lola is cyclist Of most ardent type
The Christian era was suggested or de-
vised by Dionysius Exiguus, a Roman
monk who in 527 began its use, and pro-
posed that all public and private docu
ments should be dated sin the Year of
eral use in France until the eighth CEN
fury, nor in England until July, 816; in
Spain it was not adopted until the
eleventh century; in Portugal 1t was
made legal in 1415; in the Empire of the
East it was established by royal edict in
1853, few weeks before the fall of Con
stantinople.
Miss Florence Carlyle, who will show
several paintings at the forthcoming ex-
hibition in Paris, is styled Gan American
Artist" Though grand niece Of Thorn
as Carlyle, she was born in Canada, and
has passed most of her life in Woodstock,
a small town in Ontario.
Father Wager, of St. Joseph, Mo. ar
rested recently for the abduction of Maud
Seidel, has married the girl He is now
locked up for embezzelment of church
funds.
Miss Cleora Eugenia Cooke, aged II
years, OF Talbot County, Maryland, has
issued a challenge to Senator German for
a joint debate. Miss Cooke is the daugh-
ter of Mr.. D. A. Cooke, the Peoples
party candidate for sheriff OF Talbot
County. She is a graduate of the Easton
HighISchool, has made special study OF
elocution, and has been using her abili-
ties in that line on the stump in Talbot
County during the past two weeks. She
has addressed meetings in halls and out
of doors.
One Of the Oldest trees in England is a
chestnut tree at Forworth, near Bristol.
1t measures fifty feet in circumference,
and is supposed to be thousand years
old.
When reading man usually gets
through 400 words a minute
German papers assert that gas pipes
made of paper are a success. Manila
paper strips are passed through molten
asphaltum and then nodded under heavy
pressure. After cooling, the pipes. which
may be of any desired length, receive
water proof coating.
An unusual discovery WAS made in
Warren, Ohio, the othor day while several
bodies were being exhumed from an old
cemetery for removal to new one. The
bodies were inferred many years ago,
and when exposed to view were found to
be petrifed. One body, that of Mr..
Parsons, buried over forty years ago, was
SO we'll preserved that it could almost be
1t was extremely heavy, four
men being required to lift it.
Coils p. Huntington, the railroad
says that he promotes no man
in his employment. The man must pro-
mote himself MI. Huntington does not
deny newspaper stories about himself.
81 am reminded" he says, ''of the cam
Many of the papers asserted that FIRE.
mont was Catholic. Fremont said moth
ing, and finally soDle hOt-headed editor
called upon him to deny 1t. The Roches-
ter Democrat put new light upon the
question by saying Buchanan is an ass.
II he is not an ASS, then let him come
forward and deny it, | am somewhat
in a s milar position when ii comes to
newspaper reports. -