The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-11-14
Notas about Notable People.


Pere Hyacinthe will lecture in French, as
he is unable to speak English.
Colonel "Bob'' Ingersoll has moved into
his new house in Washington, next door to
Senator Sherman's.
A Mrs. Breckenfeldt who claims to be q
niece of Richard Wagner, the composer,
lives in dingy New York tenament house.
The charges against Mrs. Belva Lockwood,
the Washington lawyer, in connection with
the pension business, have been Withdrawn
Benjamin Hill, son of the late senator, is
petitioned by the citizens of the sixth ward
of Atlanta to become an alderman.
The Chevalier Wikoff, who is we'll known
in this country, is reported by the English
papers to have been stricken with paralysis,
and his case is regarded as a very serious
one.
Nine. Jenny Lind still suffers much from
neuralgia affection of her throat and chest
the same which years ago used to cause her
an agonizing headache after every appear
ance on the stage.
Rev. Dr. S. G. Jennings, the new editor
of the Presbyterian Banner, is the Oldest
editor, religious or secular, In the United
States, he having commenced his editorial
service iu 1929.
The Princess of Wales and her sisters
were photograph during their recent visit
home. standing beneath tree in their old
play ground, the garden of Castle Bernstoff.
This photograph has been chromographed
and gone all over the land.
Just before Lord Coleridge left America
he sent the following note to every one with
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close of my visit TO America, take this
method of expressing my thanks to my
friends for their kindness, and to you per-
sonally as one of that number"
Matthew Arnold, to those unfamiliar with
his portraits, betokens on first sight any
thing but traditional savant. BE is tall,
well formed, with old-fashioned mutton chop
whiskers; but his face is not 'sickied Ger
with the pale cast of thought"
Ex-Secretary Windom's palatial mansion
in Washington, the circulation of a photo
graph of which during his senatorial can
Vass in Minnesota was said to have caused
his defeat, is to be occupied by senator
Palmer of Michigan.
William Henry Harrison, ninth president
of the United States, sleeps peacefully in the
quiet little village churchyard of North
Bend, Ohio. His grave is marked by a sim
pie tombstone and bas been so long neglect
ed that it bids fair to be soon unrecogniz-
able.
The artist, Albert Hendschel, whose
charming delineations of childhood are ad-
mired throughout the world, died recentlv
in Frankfort-ou-the-M Main, at the age of for
ty-nine. Strange TO say, the author of the
"Bkizzenbuch," ;" which is pervaded bv such
genial humor, was in his private life re-
served and retiring almost to the point of
misanthropy.
William "a. Vanderbilt, the millionaire, 10
remembered by an old-timer who lived years
ago near the ''Raritan House, c. Wander
derbilt, Proprietor" as chubby-faced little
boy who used to deliver to customers the
shad his father bought in the city"
Young William never carried basket, but
always strung his fish on a willow or hickory
"withe''
Senator Don Cameron, who is now in
Paris, writes that he is going to Germany,
| italy and Spain before returning. he adds
that he will not be back until Congress has
finished its President making. This is con-
strued to mean that he will return next
summer, Senator NJ. G. Butler will main
tain his pair with Cameron except on pclit-
ical questions, and Senator Malone is to de-
eide what ars political questions.