The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-02-19

The manager OF the Carrollton, Nc,
opera house advertises as a special IN
ducemsnt to theatre-Roers that he will
keep them warm CT refund t! cir money.
"Father Danforth," of Springfield. O..
drives his COWS in harness. He u,cs
them Mt tho same time for dairy purpos
Glasgow, Mo-, has enacted an ordin, CO
that front yard gatss shall not iIg
outward Lovers must no longar i t. :
fere with travel.
When the Duke of Monmouth was ex-
ecuted in the reign of James II. for
treason his Duohess ordered every oak in
the park to be cut on the fateful morn
ing. The new growth, belonging to Lord
Ebry, is one of the fine ct forests in
Britain.
1t is not generally known that by an
act Of the English Parliament passed in
must be of standard goll, the enactment
being intended more to raiss The amount
of gold duties than to protect the public
from limitations
When the Aberdeen Journal celebrated
its 150th anniversary recently it declared
that it was founded by fellow appren-
tice Of Benjamin Franklin. TIE first
number contained all ACCOUNT OF the
battle of Culloden.
Miss Eva Dorsey Anderson. of New
Orleans, has a unique souvenir in the
shape of an album of leaves pluoked
from historical trees. Among than are
leaves from the Daniel Webster tref,
PLANTED near th soldiers home in Wash
iugton, and leaves from the tomb of
George Washington and his wife, Martha,
and Mary, his mother.
Beethoven could play from memory all
the preludes and fugues contained in
Bach's Well-Tempered Claviohord. y
There are 4s preludes and the same
number of fngues. and as each is in the
most abstruse style of counterpoint, the
difficulty of this performance will be az
preciated by every musician.
Liszt was the most wonderful pianist
in musical history, He had prodiglous
strength of arm and wrist, which en-
abled him to achieve astounding results,
but his delicacy of touch was very re-
markable. When learning the piano. he
wins often known to PRACTICE from IA to
IS hours day.
The first mention of the Huns in his
tory is in China B. G. 210. They con-
quered that country and were afterward
driven out by the Celestials and marched
clear across Asia, penetrating the country
now known as Hungary, in 376 A. ID.
For time they threatened to Overrun
the whole of the contin g MT, but were de-
feated in the heart of France and driven
back to the banks of the Danube.
The Danes, OF NoIthmen, first became
prominent in European history in 1888,
when thsy Logan to ravage the north
cuast of France. aud southern shores of
Great Britain. The daring of these
hardy sealneu was remarkable, for in
their small ships they even penetrated
the Mediterranean and became terrors
to the seaboard population of Italy,
Sicily and Greece The first king of Den
mark is said to have been Skiold, 80 b.
G.
Distilling sweet potatoes for alcohol
and whiskey is a new industry in the
South.
The United States consumed last year
m ore than 1000, oo0 punches of Jamaica
bananas.
A man in South Carolina has about
forty acres CT land under cultivation de-
voted to tea lants. His shrubs are about
three feet .,igh and planted in rows six
feet apart.
Foreign lemons are being shipped into
New York and sold in such quantities
that the California growers of lemons
have abandoned the Eastern market.