The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-11
Notes About Notable People.

Jay Gould will not go to Europe in his
| yacht for another year.
| Victoria Woodruff is suing her latest En-
| glish husband for divorce.
Lord Lorne has shipped two buffalees
| from the plains to his place in Scotland
Colonel Plnckney Starke of South Carroll
ma is writing life of John G. Calhoun.
Worth, the Paris man-dressmaker. is fat,
bald-headed and fifty-fye years DID,
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale conducts
temporarily the chapel services at Harvard.
Hon. Mark Napier, who defended Arab
Pacha in Egypt, is in Salem, the guest of
Robert S. Rantoul.
Henry Ward Beecher and his wife are in
Texas, and they intend making tour of
the state.
Gen. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Car
DINA, has obtained patent for an electric
light.
Professor Gneist, one of Germany's most
eminent jurists, is the guest of Mr.. George
Bancroft, the historian, at Newport.
Mr.. Mackay, the bonanza man, is said to
have taken fancy to Colonel Tom Ochil-
tree, and they are seeing the elephant to-
gethei in Paris.
Senator Sabin, of Minnesota is a stout
man, with black eyes and a heavy black
mustache. He is forty years old, good-na-
tured, shrewd, and millionaire.
Mrs. CORVALLIS West, the English beauty,
is about to visit her brother-in-law, the
British minister at Washington.
Bismarck is superstitious. He will take
no important step on Friday; believes in as
trology, and has predicted the day and hour
of his own death.
Mr.. Gladstone, during the recent session
of parliament, fell asleep like a child the in
slant his head touched the pillow on his re-
turn home from the house.
Miss Maud Banks, daughter of Gen. N.
P. Banks, has been studying in Europe, and
goes upon the platform this season as an ell
ocutonist.
DR.. Elizabeth J. French auspiciously ter
minated her vacation this season by driving
from Winter Harbor, Maine, to Washington,
D. G.
The beautiful ruins of Melrose Abbey
have been carefully restored during the last
few weeks by the Duke of Buccleuch, to
whom they belong.
The Marquis of Lorne, governor general
of Canada, has given q $500 purse to the
Dominion Rifle Association for provincial
competition, the conditions to be settled by
him.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson explains to her
southern friends that when in Massachu-
sets she was the guest of the Common
wealth, and ''did not cross the threshold of
General Butler.'
Queen Victoria's health is greatly i'm
proved. She takes long walks daily, and
her cheerfulness has returned. She will re-
main at Balmoral until November, and has
ceased to require medical advice.
Lieut.. Greely's wife is q very beautiful
woman, being tall and well made, with the
complexion of a tea rose, black hair, and
deep blue eyes with long lashes. She is very
cultivated, and, though a Californian, be-
longs to the New England Nesmiths.
Lawyer PomeIson of Philadelphia is in
Scotland for the twelfth time in the interest
of the American heirs to the AMMAN estate,
valued al $40. 100000. So far the heirs have
not received cent, but the lawyer has re-
ceived $4,000 for his services.
Calvin Fisk, late of Wilmot, N. B., by will
bequeathed an annual income of $500 to
the Congregational society of that town for
the support OF preaching, $3.50 to Wilmot
for the purchase Of a hearse, and the residue
of his estate for the support of select school
at Fisk Hall, Wilmot Centre.
Mr.. W. d. Howells writes a legible, free,
running hand, with plenty Of space between
the lines. He works at whatever novel he
may have in hand from a. m. to l p. M,
and covers about twelve pages of CONNER
cial nose-paper IN that time. The rest of
the day he is aman of leisure. He does
great deal of rewriting, revising and cor
recting.
The Empress Eugene has been recently
making herself quite popular at Aldershot
Her estate at Marlborough is conveniently
near the southern camp, and she has not
only taken interest in regimental buildings,
and devoted some little time to their in
spection, but has also been at the railway
station to see off regiments which were or
dered on foreign service.
John Du Bois, of Du Bots, Clearfield Coun-
ty, Pa, is said to be worth $14O00,000 Six
hundred men are employed in his lumber
mills, 900 get the timber from the woods,
and. 600 are mining coal for him. He offers
to erect courthouse and public buildings
If a new county is made of parts of Clear
field, Elk, and Jefferson counties, and
called Du Bots.
Rev. Mr.. Wordsworth and Rev. W. H. Rob
ertson of Washington, Durham County,
England, are in New York to lecture and
collect money for the erection Of memorial
tower to General Washington for a church
now being erected in Durham. They came
at the suggestion of the bishop of Durham,
and have deed of property in Washington,
made in 1857, by q certain William de Wash
ington. who is claimed to be one of George
Washington's ancestors.