The Portland daily press., 1897-05-20
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Birmingham exports 1 400 900 steel pens
weekly.
By vote of GA to 25 the Berlin author
tiles decided on April Is to convert all
the local horse car lines into electric lines.
A Leipsic publisher issues a monthly
called Deutscher Buhnen- Spielplan, which
contains accurate lists of the repertoires
OF 100 German theaters.
The railway companies of Great Britain
carried $50, 100000 passengers in 1895, of
whom 1856 were killed. During the same
year in the city of London alone, $50 per-
sons were killed by falling from buildings
or out of windows.
The Indian guard of honor for the
queen in June to be drawn from the i'm
perial se,yice troops and native cavalry
regiments, has now been definitely fixed
at a minimum of forty officers. They are
to be absent for three or four months.
Competition for the honor has been keen,
but regiments have been selected which
have not hitherto been privileged to send
representatives to Britain.
Sir James Crichton Browen, the expert
on brain diseases, holds that insomonia is
not attended with such disastrous conse-
quences as is commonly supposed. 1t is
not as dangerous as the solicitude of the
sufferer. He suggests that the brains of
literary men, who are the most frequent
victims, acquire the trick of the heart,
which takes a dozen of a fraction of a sec
ond after each beat and SO manages to get
six hours rest in twenty-four. Some
brains, in cases of insomnia, sleep in sec
tions, different brain centres going off
duty in meteorological Journal
Earl de Grey holds the championship
among the world S hunters for the guam
tity of game killed by one man. He is
now 80 years old, and during the past
twenty years he has averaged % 900 head
shot at fifty pheasants in three minutes
and killed all but one of them. He has
killed eleven tigers, number OF ele-
plants and rhinoceroses, bears and lions.
Queen Victoria has ordered that in the
future the tails of her horses shall not be
locked, and the Prince of Wales has sec
AS this mutilation of the noble horse is
not even English any more, it is liable to
subside.
President Mckinley attended lectures
at the Albany Law School before he was
admitted to the bar.
Katuxo Hatoyama. a graduate of Yale,
in the class of '7s, has been elected speak
er of the Japanese Parliament.
Prince Ranjiitsinhji the Hindoo
prince, who headed the English batting
lists at cricket last year, has written a
book on the game.
R. L. Stevenson, Prof. Henry Drum
mond and Elan Maclaren" were class
mates at the Edinburgh University, and
not one of the three won distinction as a
student.
There is BARRIERS chair in Houlton,
Me-, in which Hannibal Hamlin, Fred
Dou glass, Blaine, Garfield, Theodore
Tilton and President Mckinley have, it
is said, sat.
Mrs. Mckinley presented to each of the
young ladies in her party who attended
the inaugural ball a handsome fan and
lace handkerchief as a souvenir of her
regard
Mrs. John Sherman is exceedingly well
read and deeply interested in current
events. Next year she and Secretary Sher-
man will be able to celebrate their golden
wedding.
King Leopold, of Belgium, is very fond
of going about incognito. Whenever he
finds it possible to go England unaccom-
panied he strolls around the streets like
an humble tourist.
Swinburne is quoted as saying flames
I. was knave, fool, a tyrant, a liar
and coward, but l love him because he
slit the throat of that blackguard Raj
eigh who invented smoking"
Herr Cuffey a German expert sent to
Bombay by Emperor William, has ar
ranged for an animal hospital for the pur-
pose of studying the plague poison. He
intends making extensive experiments
lola, busy as he is supposed to be,
works only three hours day, and the
first hour hardly counts. 1t is usually
between 10 and 1 in the day that he
writes. He is growing stout, his voice
is weak and high