The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-31
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR


The value of the grounds and build.
ings devoted to education in the United
States is 500, $40. 6s1.
OF the so, 900 breweries estimated to be
in the world &C. 600 are in Germany.
The number of public houses in Lon
don is 5, 1O4, in addition to 9,245 beer
houses. ais hotels 100 clubs and 219 res
taurants, making total of Z, 904 licensed
hous en-.
1t takes each year 200, 600 acres of forest
the United States. 1t takes Is, 600, 900
ties to supply the demand, for which the
contractors get on an average 30 cents
apiece. making in the aggregate 50, $780,
900.
One hundred and twenty firemen are
required to fesd the furnaces Of first
| class Atlantic steamer.
A Matchmaking machine produces as
many nails in given time as were
formerly made by LOCO men.
The largest orchard in Great Britain
is at Tott1nguon, in the county of
Gloucester. 1t is 500 acres in extent and
in some seasons yields its owner, Lord
Sudley, a profit OF $4,000 The tress are
chiefly apples and plums.
Official estimate of the worlds raw
sugar product for this year is as follows:
Beet, 4, $50, 600 tons; cane, Q, 655, 900 tons.
Stock on hand, 1, $50. 600 tons; total 8, 1866
900 tons. Estimated consumption for
ensuing.year 1850, 600 tons.
A dressmakes of London recently sued
vicar of a church Of that city for the
| recovery of sovereign which she had
placed on the plate at morning serviceIin
what she called 1T of mental alteration.
years but finally attended an early COM
nunion service where she carelessly de-
posted the piece Of money in the con-
| tribution box. The judge, however, de-
| cided in favor of the church.
placard over Georgia bridge reads
as follows: ANY person driving over
| this bridge faster than d. walk shall, If
white man, be fined S5, and, II q negro.
receive twonty Il We lashss-nalf. the pen-
atty to be bestowed on the informer.
| NJ Zola is going to keep on trying to
get into the Frenoh Academy. Perhaps
he will break the record of Laujon,
| the song writer, who was a persistent
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finally elected at the age of 80, because,
they said, che would soon 60 to heaven,
and 1t was we'll that he should 90 thtther
by way of the academy."
Lord Crewe, of England, is pronounced
by good many women who are supposed
to know as the most beautiful earl in the
| world, with "the eyes of seraph, and
the manners of an arohangel."
| Only three ladies of royal rank survive
who have lived In the Tuileries. They
are the Empress Eugene. the Princess
de JOinyille and the aged daughter of
Louis Philippe, the Princess Clementine
of Saxe-Coburg
Mrs. 4. II. Elliot, of Minneapolis, is
the teacher of fourteen whist clubs in
Minneapolis and st. Paul. She is the
champion player there, and teaches
number IF other classes composed of
both men and women. She also gives
private lessons
Grand Duke Paul of Russia, Is so tall
that no hotel bed Is long enough for his
comfort, and he has one built in Sec
tions, which he carries with his luggage
every whore. The bed is put up by a
special mechanic, under the superinten-
dence OF the royal valet, wherever the
Grand Duke goes.
Tx Postmaster General William l..
Wilson is to be inauaurated as president
Of Washington and Lee University, Lex
ington, Va, onsTuesday, September IA.
Miss Carolinne Shillaber, daughter OF
the late Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber,
of Chelsea, Mass, the genial shumorist
whose sayings of Mrs. Partington'
were very popular come years ago, Bis to
enter the lecture field in New England.
She Intends TO give "reminiscences OF her
| fathers life and readings from his Part
ington sayings.
| Miss Pauline Woodward is one of the
few women who have made great sue.
CESS of Horticulture. Not many years age
she borrowed sufficient money to equip
herself for this purpose. She owns o
plot of land near Poughkeepsie, where
she raises violets exclusively for certain
New York florist Her income from the
sale of thes, flowers was 49, 900 last year r.
According to L Echo des Mines, OF
Paris, the longest suspended wire in the
world is in Switzerland. The wire has
just been bridRed across the Wallenstadt
lake, in the Canton of St Gall, by the
Swiss Telephone Admins tration. This
wire is suspen ded from two iron piers
erected for the purpose. The distance
between these supports is o 400 msters, at
tho lowest point $40 meters above the
water The wire is Of steel Of the best
quality, and two millimeters in diane
ter.
Joseph Parke, of Kansas City, whose
death is announced, was one Of the
pioneer settlers of that city and did
much to promote its growth and develop
ment. He was loyal Republican and a
staunch member of the Presby teriar
Church.
Court Toistoi is at present staying in
st. Petersburg. At the recent celebra
tion of the founding of the University OF
st. Petersburg, body of about hun
dred students happened to meet him OIL
the street. They at once recognized him,
and gave vent to the most demonstrative
Indications of their regard for him, ISIS
ing his. hands and his garments, and
| would have carried him in triumph
through the city had he not decisively
protested.
4 -Postmaster-Ge General William L.
Wilson will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa
grafton next June at Harvard. Ths
poem will he read by DR.. e. W. Emer