The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-31
Notes About Notable People.

Daughters of Garfield and Hayes are
sehoolmates at Cleveland.
The first American employed in Japan in
a civil capacity by the Mikado Government
was Mr.. William Bigelow.
It is announced in Paris that Sarah Bern
hardt intends to come to this country in the
autumn to play Fedora for 100 nights. She
has given up her two Paris theatres.
The venerable mother of the late Bishop
Gilbert Haven. advanced in years, lies help
less from stroke of paralysis, tenderly
watched over by her children and grand
children.
The Teck sa lie troubles the English snobs
Not many goods brought high prices. and
that made it worse still. 1t don't appear as
if they were anxious TO buy up the cast-off
goods of impecunieus royalty
Governor Butler lavishes the warmest af-
lection upon his daughter, Mrs Governor
Ames, and her children. Mrs. Ames and
her son Paul are the only remaining mem
bers of Governor Buffers immediate family
D. o. Mills has resigned from the board of
the University of California, and member
of the board, with clear conception of the
ordinary qualifications of a college trustee,
Mr.. Mills's successor.
A London Society writer says he has seen
Victoria tramping about on the Shaw Wind
sor farm in the mud and rain to inspect the
cattle just before a cattle sale, and showing
as much interest as any ordinary farmers
wife, and no more afraid of the weather.
Miss Finney, alias Fortesque, left the Sa-
voy Theatre in London previous to her mar
riage with Garmoyle. Her friends are indig-
naut at the illusions to the wedding, which
involves degradation, pointing out that Gar
moyle's grandfather was butler and his
mother the daughter of land agent.
Fred Archer, the English jockey, with an
income of quarter of million a year, and
large invested property, in order to keep
his riding weight down, has to live princi-
pally on tea and toast, with a Siedlitz pow
der by way of dessert.
ALeipzig paper says that the orchestra
for the New York Metropolitan Opera
House, which is now being engaged in Ber-
lin by Mr.. Abbey, will consist principally of
musicians belonging to Bilsa's orchestra,
and that which formed part of Neumann's
"Nibeling' company.
At the Vienna opera house 300 perform
ances were given during the past season. OF
buce6 ~ were ueFGIcU 10 mty6rDeer, Al 10
Wagner, 81 TO Verdi. % to Mozart, 81 to
Gounod, 10 to Donizetti, Is TO Adam, IA to
Boito, 10 to Gluck, 9 to Weber, 2 to Beetho-
ven, etc.
Mr.. Smaley, in his cable letter to the N.
Y. Tribune, hints that Mrs. Langtry was
coldly received on her return to London,
and that she is looking i'll. She has begun
her provincial tour, he says, but will shortly
visit Paris to replenish her wardrobe. In
the intervals of this fascinating exercise she
will study under Regnier. She will go to
Montreal October 20.
Among the stories of the Count de Cham
bord's last sickness related by Vienna cor
respondents is one to the effect that his pas
sion for hunting remained so strong that he
recently had his couch wheeled out into
the park, that he might there, propped up
with pillows aud his gun steadied by an at
tendant, shoot stag which was caught and
led up to him for the purpose.
Judge Albion w. Tourgee is familiar
figure at Chataqua. His summer residence
is at the head of the lake. about four miles
from Chataqua. The house is three-story
cottage, surrounded with trees, shrubs and
flowers, and commands fine view of the
lake. "The Crowley" as the judges
study is called, is a one-story, ead-colored
structure, occupying 'front.' corner OF the
yard, several rods from the house. The oc-
cupants of Judge Tourgee's home, besides
himself and wife, are his wife's two sisters,
the Misses Kilburn.
The home of Mr.. Alcott in Concord is
thus described: "a rustic fence surrounds
it, and there are many little paths leading to
the woods beyond, one of which, more steep
and worn, leads up to the Hillside Chapel,
toward which the genial philosopher 80 Of
ten has turned to enjoy communion with
kindred spirits--a queer, original structure,
all implanted, the steps leading to the porch
worn with th footprints of the sages. Near
by is the Lovers PATH winding its way be-
tween Hillside and Hawthorne's home, up
steep little hills and between green, shady
trees, whose overhangiDg bonghs meet
above our heads.''
Two dwarfs are sooR to be married in
Louisville. They are John Smeiriz, better
known as 'Major Mike" and Miss Mary
Lhil, two of the smallest people in the world.
The Major is forty-two inches in height,
while Mary is but thirty-one inches They
clam to be the smallest people in the world.
The Major says that Tom Thumb was al
most head taller than he, while Mary saws
that Minnie Warren over-topped her by half
head. The Major was born in Moscow,
Russia, In 1858, and has been in America
about ten years. In 1870 he travelled with