The Portland daily press., 1897-04-05
Complete House Furnishers.

last century France represented 81 per
cent of the population of the great Euro
pean powers, and her language was the
one most spoken throughout the world.
Today asFrencn book could have 46, Co.,
COO readers, but the same book written
in German could have more than 81, 600
900 readers, and If in English it w Id
be read by more than 1l5, 000. 600 people
Paris is making a sanitary record of
every building in that city. A municipal
reference register will he completed by
1900, in which will lie included full
hygienic description of each houses drain
age, plumbing and location. together
with complete record CT the deaths
which have occurred during recent
period within its walls,
Robert Bonner mentions the striking
fact that when he bought his first trot-
ting horse in 1856 only 10 horses living
and dead had trotted mile III $50. Now
there are more than Is. 900 in the list.
1t was DR.. Samuel Gridley Howe, of
Boston, who many years ago uttered the
prophecy: 'sThe Sultan must go across
the Hellespont. Commenting on
his part In the story of
modern Greece, The Boston Transcript
tells how, inspired by the example of
Byron, the gallant young man, fresh
from bis studies in Brown University,
and with his new Harvard degree Of NJ.
D., set forth to fight for Greece. In
1896 he took part in an invasion of Crete
and afterward, in this country, raised
| money for the Greek cause.
Albert w. Lundon, who has just died
| In Chicago, was the man who broke up
the practice of allowing cattle to stand
in the stock yards from Saturday to
Monday without water.
Francisco Guarboa, who died recently
in Peru, at the age Of ninety-fve years,
| was at one time the confidential secre-
tary Of General Simon Bolivar.
Charles Reade's youngest daughter,
Miss Ayme Reade, who recently wit
! messed the Carnival spectacle in New
Orleans, says that she composed COM
plete story at the age of TO UT years. She
became known on this side of the ocean
| by her interest In circus children and
their hard lot, which led her to write the
book entitled "Ruby," of which 10000
copies were sold in two weeks.
| Daniel T. Church. whom the Demo-
GRATIS of Rhode Island have nominated
for Governor, Is the Oldest of seven
brothers, of whom six are alive. They
are all engaged in the men haden fisheries
/ and tine steamer Seven Brothers Is the
| largest of their numerous fleet. The
| Providence journal says that the nomi-
nee is the pest authority in the United
| States on all matters pertaining to fish
| cries.
| The Storthing, or Parliament, of Nor
way has unanimously voted special
professorship for Nanen in the UniseFsit1
of Christiana.
| The Philadelphia Record says:
ssWilliam Jennings Bryan was travelling
from Washington to this city not very
long aao. When the tr in arrived at
Wilmington, newly married couple
hastily boarded the train, amid a shower
of rice and old shoes. MIR. Bryan, recog-
pizing in the groom an old friend, at the
first opportunity approached him and
offered COMMUNICATIONS. Naturally, be
was introduced to the young mans newly
made spousa and in the course Of CONVEX
sation remaI ked: You certainly are a
very pIuoky won an to get married dur
ing this Administration. He did not
calculate that this young lady had not
cen married long enough to have had
her politics changed, and was rather
taken back by her reply: ii it were not
| for the present Administration, we
would not have been able to get married
| aS all. ~