The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-07-27
Notes About Notable People

Mrs. Langtry has gone home-that is to
say to the land where she once had home.
The luncheon parties given by Miss Ere
linghuysen, daughter of the Secretary, are
famous at Newport.
All You, the prettiest Chinese girl ever
brought to America, has married an Eng
lishman in Ban Francisco.
The late Duke of Marlborough gave a
large dinner party almost on the eve of his
death.
The late Professor Ed wards's valuable law
library has been presented by his family to
the Albany Law School.
Rosa Bonheur, in the 61st year Of her age,
paints necessarily and still dresses in male
attire.
Mr.. Sargent, the American minister to
Germany, will return home some time dur
ing September.
Two male descendants of Martin Luther
are now living in an obscure little village in
Thuringia. One is a carpenter and the 9TH
er theological student.
Bishop Beckwith, of Georgia, believes
that high taxes ON liquors are better as tenn
perance measures than prohibitory legisla-
ton.
recent letter from Mr.. F. A. Ober, In
Mexico, informs his friends that he has
nearly completed the collection of material
for his forthcoming book.
DR.. Hollands monument, just erected
over his grave at Springfield, Mass, has
bronze bas-relief portrait in bronze and the
inscription, ITO Devote Life to TRUTH
Erastus Brooks has seen more than 120
journals live and die in the city of New
York alone, and believes that over $40, OO0,-
600 has been spent on the city newspapers
since 1885,
The plan for celebrating Rev. DR.. Stephen
II. Tyng's golden wedding anniversary at
New York has been given up. The mind of
the venerable ex-preacher, now SO years
old, is much impaired.
Miss Lovey Lee, daughter of the late VIII
liam P. Lee of New York, who last winter
was declared to be the prettiest unmarried
woman in Rome, has been betrothed to Mr..
DenisoD, wealthy London banker.
Ernest Longfellow, the poets son, has
made selection of twenty of his fathers
poems, which he will illustrate. The SUBJ
jects are mostly landscapes, and the pictures
will be made of the scenes themselves.
The ripest fruitage of the thought of Rev.
j. M. Manning, ID. Do, the late pastor of the
Old South Church, Boston, is promised in
the last work of his hands, mot of Man,
but of Cod book soon to be published.
Rev. Alexander Mckenzie, D. D., who is
one of the most instructive and entertaining
of American preachers, will soon publish
selection of bis latest pulpit efforts, under
title of Cambridge Sermons"
Miss Kate Field will have in the August
Manhattan portion of her "Diary in the
Engadine," disclosing some incidents in her
life known hitherto to few only OF her init
mate friends.
Professor Remsen of the John Hopkins
Laboratory deems the study of chemistry as
bracing for the morals as for the mind. II
believe" he says, "that frequent practice in
qualitative and quantitative analysis has a
tendency to develop honesty"
Ruskn says: "There is in every animals
eye dim image and CLEAN of humanity,
fash of strange light, through which their
life looks out and up to our great mystery Of
command over them, and claims the fellow
ship of the creature If not of the SOUL"