The Portland daily press., 1883-10-23
Notes About Notable paonlf

Mililonalre Flood, OF California, is gong
to ship brown stone all the way frop New
York for bis San Francisco palace.
Prince Bismarck has large jaterests in
timber, and still larger in disR1lery, which
turns out 10000 litres of eau desie monthly.
The society column of the Atchison Globe
announces the return of Mr. Hattie North,
1l5 years old, who had bees visiting friends
near Topeka.
The Rev. DIR. James 4. Mason Knox has
accepted the Presidency Of Lafayette Col
lege. Ex-President Cattell will soon sail
for Europe with his amiy.
The husband OF the late Mrs. Fanny
Sprague, of Rhod. Island, mother of the
Ex-Governor, was murdered in 1913, and
John Gorton was hanged for participation in
the crime.
Robert Browning is in excellent health
and spirits snd has been spending the sum.
mer at secluded retreat in an Alpine pass
only to bereached by mules. He soon goes
to Venice.
President Arthur is credited Oh the slate
of The West Island Club House, Newport.
with having caught bass weighing eighty
pounds, the largest caught in that vicinity
for years.
Rev. Ireneus Prime, senior editor of the
New York Observer, is the oldest in service
OF all the editors of papers, religious or sec
ular, in New York City. His connection
with the Observer began in 1910.
Mr.. Gladstone ioes not always read the
lessons on Sundays in Hawarden Church. of
which Rev. Stephen Gladstone is rector He
only does SO when his assistance is needed,
and strangers coming from a distance are
often disappointed.
DR.. Gustav Oppert, Professor of Sanskrit
at the Presidency College, Madras--who
will soon return to his duties In India-has
been invited by Professors Virchow and
Bastian to deliver at Berlin lecture on his
new system of classification of languages.
Ex- Governor Boutwell, has given up his
law office in Boston, and will hereafter live
at Washington. He gets salary of about
$4,000 year as counsel for the United
States before the French-American Claims
Commission, and can make perhaps as much
more outside.
Professor j. Lawrence Smith, the sayant
who was recently buried at st. Louis, by his
will forbade any of his friends to act a pail
bearers, because two citizens had died from
strains received while bearing a coffin Six
men from marble yard attended the funer-
al in their blouses and bore the coffin.
One of the letters of introduction Miss
Kate Field brought to Denver was from Sir
Charles Dixie to Judge McCurdy. She sent
note to the Windsor Hotel office asking
where the Judge could be found The an
swer came back, .Don't know; he's been
dead eight years."
The Rev. 81. Root, bank president at
Valley City, Dakota, sued the Times of that
place for S117 900 damages for charging him
with perjury, enlightenment, and stealing
Sunday school coppers. The jury awarded
him six cents, as the Times failed to prove
the copper-stealing charge as it did all the
others.
Rev. Phillips Brooks allows none of his
photographs to be sold, and it is even said
that there are none in existence. There is a
story that photographer once obtained
negative, from which he had printed several
copies, and that Mr.. Brooks visited him al d
asked for what he would sell the plate and
the whole collection. The man told him
800, which the preacher paid and pat the
lot out of existence in short order.
Lord Coleridge said at Chicago: 1.-THE
one person to whom I owe everything, and
may perhaps pain and trouble people over
and over again by saying that l do so, is the
illustrious person who is now Prime Minis
ter of England. He was my friend from
early youth, and all that l have in public
owe to him. My professional success, such
as it was, did not owe to him; but all of
public distinction, such as it is, that has
ever fallen to my lot is entirely owing to the
persevering and the undue kindness of Mr.,
Gladstone for me.'
The extreme effort made to support the
Mikado's authority in Japan is shown by the
following story: There is law against de-
facing any picture of the Mikado. A teacher
In one of the Kobe schools within year was
troubled by some of his unruly scholars look
ing at a card and passing it from one to an
other. He made several attempts to get
possession of that card, and after he had be-
come somewhat excited he succeeded in
seizing it, and at once tore it in pieces. One
of the boys exclaimed that it was picture
of his Majesty. The teacher saw at glance
that he had committed horrible crime. He
Immediately ran away, but in due time was
taken, tried, and sentenced to Imprisonment.
An old schoolmate of the late VIM. Lloyd
Garrison, writing to the Rockland Opinion,
recalls the following anecdote of the anti
slavery war-horse: Garrison had some
trouble with pompous young lawyer, and
the teacher was brother of this same law
yer. The next day, as his class was reading
lesson from Pope's Essay on Man, when
Garrison's turn came to read the line, ga
little learning is a dangerous thing" he
roared out in an unusually loud voice, ga
little lawyer is dangerous thing" This
produced an explosion throughout the school
room, while Lloyd continued reading as if
nothing had happened and looked surprised
at the bursts of laughter which filled the
house.
"Prince Bismarcks medical advisers"
says the London Globe. "are anything but
elatsd at the prospect of the renewal of their
patients arduous work They would like
him to abstain from all over-exertion, and
especially shun the least cause for nervous
excitement. DR.. Schwenninger, the now
famous medical practitioner in Munich, who
enjoys Prince Bismarck's unbounded conf
dence, is known to advocate an almost COM
plete abstention from the Chancellor's oner.
GUS duties, and urges him to make radical
change in his mode of living, now more or
less Influenced by his manifold vacations.
Those who had the privilege OF meeting the
Chancellor on his recent passage through
Berlin describe him as being in good health,
but his looks show that age is telling on him
rapidly. He has upquestionably become
thinner and more agile in his movements,
but his face, encircled by full white beard,
has tired expression, which one is only
wont to find in men much older in years
than the Chancellor Prince Bismarck's
friends quite openly assert that his stay in
Office will only last during the Emperor's
reign, and that he would resign much earli-
er if his respect for the venerable monarch
did not prevent him from realizing his in
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