The Portland daily press., 1900-07-14
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

presidential candidates have, in their
time, been lawyers
Waldoboro is the great hen town OF
Maine. At the last count OF the asses
sors there were $500 people in the town
and the hen population was 81 600. The
town supplies the Boston market largely.
In accepting the resignation of Rev.
DR.. Pepper, professor of Biblical Litera-
ture at Colby, the trustees placed on their
record book minute expressing their APP
probation Of his fidelity, strength of in
tellect and kindness and largeness of
heart.
The Democrats have nominated Cor
nelius Murphy, of o ldtown, as candidate
for sheriff of Penobscot county, and as
opponent of Charles r. Brown, the
present Republican sheriff.
Lord Strathcona S horse took with them
from Canada, four red Indians nominal
~ as servants, in reality to test their
qualities as scouts in South Africa. The
Kaffir reads the veldt like an open book,
and the Canadians hold that the sight
and hearing of their Indians are even
keener.
Mrs. Charles d. Jameson, of Bangor,
has received a letter written to her May
81 from Pekin by her son Charles Jane
son, civil engineer. who has been in
China for five years. Mr.. Jameson was
then staying with y. S. Minister Con-
ger. That night Mr.. Jameson left Pekin
with two white men and q force of 20
natives, for trip up the Grand Canal to
visit some mines.
Sand for human being seems a curl
Gus idea, but it has been recommended by
doctor. What we all need, according to
his theory, is grit-the real grit that is
furnished by the silica in the sand To
get that we must swallow a little clean
sand evsry day with our meals. The
presence of the grit will assist in the
grinding process, and our food instead of
distressing US, viii nOurish and cheer US.
Six fye-grain capsules of pure sand
should be taken With each meal.
A party of botanists are encamped at
Katahdin Basin, near Patten, and are
collecting. specimens of the flora of that
part of Maine. The party are: Dr.
George A. Kennedy, Milton. Mass. Hon
Joseph Il. Churchill, Boston; Merritt L.
Fernald, from Gray Herbarium of Har-
ward University; Prof. J. Franklin Col
Inns of Brown University, Providence, r.
l.; Emile +. Williams, secretary of N. e.
Botanical club, BOstOn-au mem bers
of N. E. Botanical club. Merritt L.
Fernald, who is managing the party, is
son Of Prof. M. 9. Fernald of . niVer-
sity of Maine.
Celia Thaxter, that enthusiastic lover
of flowers, had 100 vases-hardly one of
them in any way adapted to the placing
or holding of flowers. They simply held
water and that was all. Each one had
been given her by. some one who admired
AS who could help admiring ?-the ex-
quisite gra 1atiOn Of CO Tor which she ar
ranged with them, as she crowded them
along the chimney place or upon the low
bookcases, until they had the effect of
many -colOred flame, white blushing into
rose color, rose color deepening gradually
into deepest crimson and crimson into
purple, and purple tightening into blue
and blue fading into white, says Harper's
Bazaar. All of these things were possible
to her because she was a born cOlOrist.
but the thing she did not do and might
have done was to make a proper back
ground for the masses.
In London Jonathan Hutchinson read a
paper on the leper question in which he
takes advanced ground in favor Of a more
rational view OF the disease. He insists
it is not contagious disease. Ii Ieprosy
is contagious disease, why did it totally
disappear from the British islands and
from inland Europe? The true cause of
leprOsy, he asserts, is the eating of I'M
cooked sailed fish containing the bacillus
The fact that it is dotted here and there
all over South Africa, a few cases occur
ring here and a few there show that it is
not contagious. No such thing as a vic
lent outbreak has ever been recorded.
There were no records of leprosy in South
Africa before the Dutch introduced a
number of Malay slaves to found factory
for drying fish. Leprosy is prevalent
kT1~ TI~Ak @A~A-- L
does not affect the various Kaffir tribes,
ZuIus, BantOs and Basutos, who do not.
A sketch of Internal Revenue Collector
Charles H. Treat in New York paper,
recalls the old numbering firm of Bath,
in which Colonel Thomas S. Lang. of
Vassalboro, was partner with Treat
Col. Lang ran for Congress against
James g. Blaine, and the latter said of
him in speech: I'm almost sure that
Lang's title OF Colonel is spurious He
was never in the army or the state mill
tia, and a search Of the records of the
governors office fails to disclose any
staff appointment to a Lang. 1t may be-
however, that he is on the staff of Gen.
Knox" Blaine's alIusiOn was to the
famous trOtting and breeding stallion
Gen. Knox, long the property of Tom
Lang, and horse and owner were always
after that referred to as 1.-THE GeneraI''
and 1.-THE Colonel"
''The Krupps beat the world in making
light field artillery" said one of the
English officers in New Orleans looking
aftexstock shipments to a newspaper
man of that city. II don't know any
good treason why 1.-THE Germans should
surpass the English or American Inechan-
les in that respect he continued, ''but
the fact remains that they have set the
pace ever since the modern light, quick
firing gun was developed. The very
latest piece they have turned out is a
wonder. 1t is an inch and a half calibre
field gun, built on the take down prin-
ciple. When q bolt is drawn it comes to
pieces and makes a load for three mules
one carrying the gun proper, one the
wheels and one the trail and recoil cylin-
ders The piece can be reassembIed
without tools in less than two minutes.
The breech mechanism is extremely in
geniOus. One jerk of a lever throws il