The Portland daily press., 1883-07-17
Notes About Notable People.

Simon Cameron is S4 and in good health.
Oscar Wilde is lecturing in England about
America.
Mr.. W. w. Story, sculptor and poet, is in
England.
Martin Millmore, the Boz .culptor, is
seriously i'll.
Mrs. Lang. ..er cottage is palace
"a palace car.
M. P. Handy of the Philadelphia Press is
going to Europe.
Carl Formes, once good singer, now
lives in Chicago.
General Grants mother left an estate ap-
praised at $4,000
Lillian Russell is playing the professional
beauty in London.
Assss. W. K. Vanderbilt will take twenty
horses to Newport.
Allan Arthur, the Presidents son, drives
four-in-hand skillfully.
Edgar Fawcett's new story is entitled
IAN Ambitious Woman"
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid has gone to California
to remain until September.
Queen Victoria will go to Italy in the au-
tumn if she is well enough.
P. T. Barnum is at Block Island, and he
still sighs for white elephant.
John L. Stoddard, the lecturer, is writing
book to be illustrated with photographs.
Mr.. E. G. Stedman, poet, critic and brok-
er, is building cottage at Newcastle, N. q.
Mrs. Ole Bull was the guest of Rev. DIR.
Bartol at Manchester-by-the-Sea last week.
General W. T. Sherman is expected to join
his family at Bar Harbor before the season
ends.
Rev. Phillips Brooks dined recently with
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her hus.
band.
John Boyle O'Reilly, editor and poet, is
canoeing on the upper waters of the Connec-
ticut
Joseph Pulitzer, having created a new
World, will go to the Old World for his own
recreation.
Ex-Governor Long of Massach usetts has
placed beautiful window in the new Epis-
copal church at bingham.
Mr.. Henry James is the author of whom
the Nation says "when he is not defaming
his native country he writes well.''
William NJ. Evarts, Joseph Fl. Choate ard
Governor Butler are of counsel in a case
to be tried at Newport this week.
Mr.. W. Ell. Mallock, who asked the ques-
tion SIS Life worth Living?" is to be a con-
servative candidate for parliament.
Queen Victoria has been great-grand
mother since last Saturday. The child is
grandson to the next Emperor and Empress
of Germany.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of England is
expected in America in September. Ar
rangem ents are already making for number
ress good dinners.
The Hon. Chauncey NJ. Depew nightly en-
tertains select party of friends at the West
End, Long Branch, by his wit and droll an
ecdotes.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes will deliver
the address at the dedication of the
new Harvard medical school in Boston
October Is.
Ex-Vice President Wheeler has so far re-
gained his health that he is now able to
spend several hours each day in his office at
Malone.
Senator Palmer Of Michigan is said to re-
semble in appearance Gen. Francis A.
Walker, and it will be well for the country if
he is as capable man.
Bret Harte's father married girl out of
his own mill and then educated her; she
eventually became one of the most refined
society ladies in Hudson.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, who is at the head of
the great newspaper business established by
her late husband, is being entertained by
distinguished people in England
Mr.. Elliott f. Shepard of New York pre-
sents the city of New York with Carrara
marble drinking fountain, monument to
the memory of his father.
The Emperor William of Hermany will un-
veil great national monument in memory
of the war of 1870 on the 9th of September
The memorial is On the edge Of the Nieder-
wald near Bingenbruck.
President Fairchild of the College, Ex-
Governor J. D. Cox OF Ohio, Rev. Antoi-
nette Brown Blackwell and Mrs. Lucy Stone
are among the distinguished graduates of
oberlin College, which celebrated its semi
centennial this year. Its first building was
Slab Hall in wilderness. Last year 1t had
more than 1400 students.
The Princess of Wales wore "loyely and
becoming" dress at recent wedding In
London. 1t was of pure white satin, fitting
like glove her exquisite figure. The skirt
had three flounces, each edged with coffee
colored lace OF finest texture. Over the bod
ice was a short sleeveless jacket of coffee
colored lace. Her bonnet was a very small
white straw one, trimmed with the same
lace, with bunch of deep pink carnations
at the side. She carried white satin para
sol with gold Eaadle.