The Portland daily press., 1883-08-14
Notes About Notable People

Paul d. Carpenter is writing biography
of his father, the late Senator Carpenter.
Evangelist Moody drives afass horse when
ever he can.
Senator Fair intends new marriage on
his return from Europe
Ex-President Hayes spends much time in
temperance work in Ohio.
Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, s'the American
Baroness Burdett- Coutts, . is building half
million dollar residence at Newport.
Captain James B. Eads has received from
the government s4,sO0,OO0 for his work at
the mouth of the Mississippi.
Senator Edmunds will urge his postal tele-
graph scheme upon the Senate again next
winter. He says it will be accepted sooner
or later.
Prof Morse in 1874 offered to sell out the
whole telegraph business and his line from
Washington to New York to the government
for 100000
Mrs. Aanadibai Jothee, Brahmin of good
social position, has embarked at Calcutta.
In company with several missionary women.
Tor America, with the purpose of entering
the Philadelphia Women's Medical College,
The Duke of Con naught, better known in
this country as Prince Arthur. recently act
ed as bartender at charity entertainment.
and sold mixed drinks to distinguished
drinkers at high prices.
Herr Pollini has offered Wagner's widow
the sum of 1 1000, 900 marks for the exclusive
right of 'sParsifal," which, however, she has
declined. The reason of her refusal does
not transpire.
Lady Frederick Cavendish PRAYED for for
giveness to Ireland when her husband was
assassinaied, and now her father-in-law, the
Duke OF Devonshire, gives e100 for the cree
tlon OF a Catholic chapel in Lismar.
Professor Baird, director of the Smithso-
MAN institution and president of the fish
commission, while he rarely fails to recog-
nize species of fish or any scientific speci
men on sight, is often at loss to cali his
best enown acquaintance by name when he
meets them casually.
Thomas Mast finds himself at forty-three
years OF age living happy life. When
correspondent visited him at Morristown.
N. j., few days ago, he saw the caricatur-
lst galloping on handsome gray horse to-
ward the Mast mansion.
For many years Dr. Holmes has been
regular attendant at Kings Chapel. one of
the oldest of Boston churches, dating back
beyond the Revolution. The September AT
lantc Will contain poem by him, suggest
ed by the memorial tablets on its walls. es
pecially by those bearing the names of the
men who went forth from Kings Chapel to
fight for the Union and did not return.
General Cable, who spoke at recent gath
erlng OF Confederate soldiers at Mckinley,
Texas, declared that England and America
could never have more than unnatural
friendship, and that he hoped to live long
enough to lead ex-Confederates under the
Stars and Stripes in a contest against Eng
land.
The last oldest woman to die is Mrs. Mary
Lynch of Scranton, Pa, who was in her
10th year. She was born in Sussex county.
N. j., in March, 1774. She was married In
1900 to James Lynch, who became soldier
In the war OF 1872. She was the mother of
eight children, the youngest of whom is rs
years old. Mrs. Lynch retained her facul-
ties to the last moment. She was constantly
sewing and knitting, but never used glasses.
The Fink brothers are all connected with
railroad interests. There are three brothers
Albert, Henry and Rudolph. They are
Germans and engineers, and their combined
salaries exceed those paid to any family in
the United States. These three brothers get
about 100000 a year. Albert Fink has
lines in the South. Henry Fink is with one
Of the largest Southern systems. Rudolph
Fink is building the main line of railroad In
to Mexico for the Boston men.
Baron Ferstel, the Leading architect of
Austria, is dead. The capital of Austria
owes most of its modern architectural beau
ties to bis genius. The first great work ac-
compllshed by him was the magnificent
church built by the Inflated Macmillan TO
commemorate the escape of the emperor
from assassination in 1858, which took
twenty-three years to complete, and was
opened with great ceremony at the celebra-
ton of the imperial silver wedding. His
masterpieces were the museum and the uni
yersity, and not only did be put all his heart
and soul into the work, but it was chiefly
through his fundamentally that they were
built at all.
DR.. Frederick L. Roehrig, Professor OF
Sanscrit in the Cornell University, who is
SAID to be acquainted thoroughly with more
languages than any other scholar in Ameri-
ca, makes some interesting statements with
regard to the Irish language, to the study OF
which he has been devoting several years.
AT recent gathering of members OF the So
clety Tor the Preservation of the Irish
Language, he said that with the excer-
ton of Sanscrit and Greek he considered
Gaelic to be the most interesting. most phil
osophical and most picturesque language he
had ever studied, and that the general indf-
ference about it among the Irish people was
to him one OF the strangest and most inex-
plicable facts he had ever observed in con-
nection with any nationality.
An exchange prints several items under the
head OF True Fish Stories" 1t might hap