The Portland daily press., 1897-06-10

chosen for his summer home. The farm
is seven miles from Washington.
A tropical leather back turtle, weigh
ing 1856 pounds, got astray into Chesa.
peake Bay few days ago and was cap.
tured by some stout fishermen. 1t is 6
feet 5 inches long and feet inches
broad. The shell Is black and rather soft,
like leather, and seven longitudin al ridg-
es run down the back from head to tail.
The captors are keeping 1T for some
museum or aquarium
The Massachusetts, House of Represen-
tatives has rejected the Senate resolution
to appropriate $40, 900 for the celebration
of the centennial of the launching of the
United States trigate Constitution. The
design was to have Old Ironsides towed
around to Boston from the navy yard at
Portsmouth, N. H., and one member OF
the House said she was in no condition to
make the trip.
In England, of 1000 persons, 6s are
named Mary, 66 William, 60 John, 81
Eliza, 80 Thomas, 36 George, 30 Sarah, ~
Anne, 81 James, and % Charles.
Sheffield's mayor is the Duke of Nor
folk. On the occasion of Queen Victo-
ria's visit he gave feast to 5000 school
children and their 1 800 teachers at his
country house near by, where he subse-
quently gave tea to 5000 persons over %
years of age.
Bishop Talbot of Rochester, England,
startled the borough of Southwark by
walking through it's streets early one
week day morning in full vestments,
with inter and cope. He had to open a
church, and he preferred to walk into it
from the house where he had dressed
rather than take cab.
An Atchison (Kan. woman goes once
month to court and takes out judgments
for $40 each against her two sons, the
money being due according to an agree
ment the consideration named in which
is that the mother shall refrain from an
noy1ng the sons by her presence or talk.
She says that the sons have defaulted in
payments since last fall.
Isaac Mason, colored, of Worcester,
Mass, celebrated his 10Th birthday re-
Gently. He was slave, and came to Wor-
cester in 1850 by the Underground rail
way For many years he has been one
OF the most respected citizens of Worcester,
and some of the most prominent people
OF the city congratulated him on his
birthday.
Kate Greenaway is almost as well known
in America as in England for her work of
bringing about reform in the dress of
little children, yet comparatively little is
known of her private life. She worked
for long time unknown until the publ
alton of Under the Windows collec-
ton of sketches of children in the quaint,
old-fashioned fashions of centuries ago
brought her fame. She lives in pictur-
esdue old house near Hampstead Heath,
London, and has her studio on the tor
floor. 1t has long windows opening on to
balcony, where on pleasant days she
spends much of her time.
Sig. Cipriani, whose company of italian
was recently disbanded, is one of the
most extraordinary characters in contem.
porary italian life. In spite of his being
in prison, he was elected no fewer than
six consecutive times by overwhelming
majorities to represent his native city of
whereupon the King, on the recommen-
dation of his then Prime Minister, Sig.
Crispi, issued pardon to the man, in
the hope of conciliating the people of the
northeastern provinces, always notorious
for their disaffection to the throne and
for their revolutionary tendencies.
A Swiss tourist, M. Seippel, has very
poor opinion of travellers from England
and America. The former, he says, are
too much impressed by their own superb
GRITTY ito be impressed by anything else,
while the latter are too fond of pleasure
to see the countries they visit. He seems
to have judged us wholesale by two
young obe-trotters from Chicago whom
he saw in Japan. "They literally spent
their whole time in the billiard-r room.
playing pool and drinking cocktails It
is cruel that a great nation should have
to stand or fall with two young men from
Chicago. -Springfeld, (Mass.) Republi-
can.