The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-07-31
Notes About Notable People.

Notes About Notable People.
Minister Aston makes his public addresses
in the Italian tongue.
Judge Albion w. Tourgee lectured at
Chautauqua on "Give Us Rest"
Mary Crowell won the literary essay prize
at the Vanderbilt University over 121 young
men.
w. w Bush, of Lockport, New York, was
the first enrolled volunteer under Lincoln S
first call for $4,000 men.
Henry L. Dawes, Jr., of Massachusetts, a
son of Senator Dawes, has joined the geo
logical survey in Montana.
Rev. DR.. Kittredge, of Chicago, believes
that in fifty years there will be 10000, 900
converts an China, Japan and Persia.
Professor Painter, of Roanoke College,
Virginia, joins the crusade against Greek
and Latin.
Bishop Kane, of Richmond, has sent home
stone from Mt. Olivet, to become the cor
ner-stone of the new Richmond cathedral
Hungarian visitors at the recent national
fetes in Paris said that in passing through
Turin they saw Kossuth, who at the age of
81 years was remarkably well.
The son of Gen. Booth of the Salvation
army, is about to marry Miss Charlesworty,
the heiress, whose fortune in her own right
is estimated at $4,000
Chief Justice Waite owns Washington
building lot and would build a house, but
his wife has strange fancy that before the
house could be finished he would die.
Frank Hurd always says to hotel clerk
waiter registering: ST wish you'd have sent
up Immediately pitcher of ice water, a
couple of cocktails, and shorthand report
er of one of the dailies."
s A. Bronson Acott suffers from a sort of
aphasia, such as Emerson had in the last
year of his life, and cannot find the words
he wishes to use. He is fond of sitting I'M
der apple trees which Thoreau planted.
Mr.. Shinichiro Saito, the japanese official
who has become secretary to Gen. Foote,
United States minister to Corea, is we'll
known at Boston. He bears the degree of
LID. obtained at Harvard.
Secretary Lincoln, with his daughters Ma
ry and Jessie and his son Abraham. went on
a fishing excursion, the other morning, from
Atlantic City, and Miss Jessie caught a
shark weighing 80 pounds.
NJ. Michelet is about to publish a volume
of recollections of his childhood and youth.
One of his friends, M. Monod, who has read
the MS. declares that its contents are ''truly
edifying, and make one love their author.n
A Boston clergyman claims to have found
in the Bible prophetic reference to Gov.
Buffers capacity for muddling things
"And Benjamin's mess was five times as
much as any of theirs"
Ex-Colector Thomas Murphy, of New
York, gave dinner to General Grant. At
torney-General Brewster, United States SEN
ator Sewell, and number of other promi-
nent gentlemen, at his cottage, near Deal
Beach recently.
The Rev. A. E. Winship. for nine years
pastor of the Prospect Hill Church, Somer-
vile, Mass, has resigned his charge to be-
come secretary of the New West Education
Commission for New York and New Eng
land.
Lord Garmoyle, the eldest son of Earl
Cairns, is about to marry Miss Nellie Fortes-
cue, the favorite actress of the Savoy The
atre, London. Lord Cairns began life as a
lawyer, and Lady Cairns is the daughter OF
country gentleman.
In 1857 M. Renan wrote, 81 am proud Of
my pessimism." In 1883 he writes, "In
bidding adieu to life shall only have to
thank the source of all Good for the delight
ful passage through reality which | have
been permitted to accomplish
Ex-Empress Eugene Is thus pictured by
one who saw her recently: "A rather state
ly looking woman, in deep black, not a bit
OF color anywhere, about her eyes the twink
ling ripples that the years MAKE, around her
moath the deeper drawn lines OF sorrow. a
saiiow face, hair with gray in it."
The death Of Captain Webb recalls the
fate of Sam Patch, the great diver and swim
mer of forty years ago. He was most IA
nous for his leaps into the water from great
heights, but finally lost his life by a Jump at
the falls in Rochester, N. Y, when too
much intoxicated to use the caution reouis-
lite for such feat.
Mr.. Richard Watson Glider, editor of the
Century, received, as has been announced,
the degree of LII. ID. from Dickinson Col
lege at its last Commencement. Twenty
years before, almost to a day, Mr.. Glider
visited Carlisle--not as student, but as one
of the troops hastily gathered to oppose the
advance Of Fitzhugh Lee.
Ex-Editor Hurlbert of the New York
World is having a fine time in England. He
has been visiting at the country seat of the
Duke of Sutherland, where he has had for
company the Prince of LeiHingen, the Coun-
tess Spencer, the Duke and Duchess of West
minister, Lady Grosvenor, the Earl and
Countess of Dufferin, and the ex-Khedive of
Egypt.
Mr.. Whittier, in his Fourth Of July poem,
took in the whole scope of reforms in one
stanZa:s
Redress the red mans grievance break
The Circean cup which shamss and kills
And Labor full requital make;
Alone 30 su h as fit y bear
Thy civic honors bid them fall
And call by daughters forth to share
The rights and duties pledged to ALL"
The other day friend called upon Mr..
T. B. Aldrich, editor Of the Atlantic Month
ly, at his Office in Boston, which oyerlooks
the Old Granary burying- ground, and made
a casual remark on the pleasant surround
ings. Eyes" said Mr.. Aldrich, glancjne
out of the window at the moss-covered tomb.
stones in the graveyard; 81 have excellent
neighbors; they never send in any manu-
script"
The Queen reads largely, and there is
hardly notable work which appears which
her majesty does not look through. OF the
newspapers the Queen is supposed to read
only such passages as have been marked for
her by the lady-in-w waiting. The Queen is