The Portland daily press., 1883-08-17
Notes About Notable People,


Princess Louise, according to Labouchere,
owes her rheumatism to the Queens extra
ordinary love of cold rooms and open car
riages. AT Balmoral especially the Royal
carriage frequently returns 70 the Castle
long after dark, amidst drenching Scotch
mists, or perhaps in a sharp snow storm,
with the occupants not only unsheltered,
but without even an adequate supply of
wraps.
Among the various accomplishments of
Cardinal Newman the ability to write plays
| is numbered. His Eminense has been en-
gagged in adapting the "Pincerna" of Ter
ence, and an amended and very much ex-
purgated version of that play was performed
| by the students of the Birmingham Oratory.
The Cardinal was present at the representa-
ton and was loudly cheered at the fall Of
the curtain.
Mrs. Pyrke, the wife of a worklng-man,
and the daughter of Robert Burns's eldest
son, Robert, is receiving help from the Lon
| don Scottish Corporation on account of her
| poverty.
The Baron John Henry Schroeder, who
| died lately, was called the German Peabody
| on account of his charities. He was ninety
1 nine, and the head of the banking-house of
| Schroeder & Co.
The Princess of Wales lends a set of Irish
| lace, which was given her on her marriage
| twenty years ago, to the exhibition of Irish
| lace in London, and Madame Goldschmidt
| Jennie Lind) exhibits full skirt of the
| lace of intricate design.
Miss Flood, the California heiress, says
| London Truth, has inspired Lord Beaumont,
| first in the list of English viscounts, and
| Catholic, with the tender passion. He had
| previously been inspired in the same way by
| another heiress there, Miss Hattie Crocker.
The Rev. Phebe A. Hannaford was thrown
from carriage at Nantasket Beach, Boston
harbor, one day last week, and somewhat
painfully injured.
| The late Prince Gortschakoff always wore
| a ring given to him by Queen Hortense in
| 1919, when she was compelled, at the in
stance of the Tuscan government, TO make
| rapid retreat from Florence, and he, acting
as Count Fesen for Marie Antoinette,
mounted the box and drove her carriage
| horses.
Mr. Kingsley, Secretary Chandler's broth
er-in-law, is the survivor of once large
family, in which sudden death has been the
rule. Out of nine who have died not one
was i'll an entire week preceding death. One
of the parents was killed by an accident,
and the other dropped dead with heart dis
ease without moments warning. Four OF
the children died within few days of scar
| let fever, two others were burned to death
on the steamer Henry Clay, and another was
thrown from carriage.
A gentleman who was intimate with the
late Montgomery Blair, says that in money
| matters he had rather peculiar arrange
ment He and Mrs. Blair stood on the same
foot. Instead of his acting family treasurer
| he had his check-book and Mrs. Blair had
| hers, and the money was placed in the bank
| to the credit of both, so that whenever she
wanted any for her use she drew at will.
The present czar of Russia is six feet high
| and is deep-chesled and broad-shouldered.
| His light grey eyes resemble those OF his
mothers relations at Hesse Darmstadt more
| than his father, the late emperor's, who had
dark blue eyes (such as the French call blue
black which are to be seen in the pictures
of Alexander l., Paul aud Peter the Great.
In figure and style he is also like his uncle,
the late grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt.
The shape of his head, which is above the
average size, like most of the family, is rath-
er peculiar. His forehead is high. A small
mouth with extremely good teeth, which he
| only shows when he laughs, is his best fea-
| ture. His hair is auburn, and his complex
| ion very fair In st. Petersburg he is always
attired in uniform. but when on holiday
| he wears the black and white shepherds
| plaid, such a favorite with English noble
| men, black tie, white hat, but no gloves
| Though he carries them), ring or watch.
| That he has been no carpet soldier is evil
! dent from the marks of frost bites on the
third and fourth fingers on his left hand,
and scar on his temple where Turkish
bullet grazed his head.
Susan B. -Nathony is in Scotland, the
guest, near Edinburgh, of Mrs. E. P. Mich
| OILS.
The officers of the suite of Emperor Will
liam will present him in October, on the oc-
| cason of the twenty-fifth anniversary OF his
| accession to the regency, with huge bronze
| shield, embossed with the portraits of the
| princes and generals who fought for and un-
| der him in the French campaign.
The Rev. Robert Laird Collier, d. D., for
merly of Boston, has accepted call to the
| Free Christian Church in Kentsh-town,
| England.
According to Mr.. John Bright, in the city
of Glasgow, Scotland. forty-one families out
of every 100 families live in homes having
only one room, and an additional 81 per
cent in homes of only two rooms. Yet, ac.
cording to Mr.. Bret Harte, American consul
at Glasgow, "There is less destituton, less
absolute deprivation, less misery and want
in Glasgow than in her sister cities"
The home of Senator Edmunds at Burling-
ton, VT, is a spacious, old-fashioned man.
sion, which has recently been remodeied and
refurnished on the inside. Spacious and
well-kept grounds surround it, which the
Senator delights in improving He is neat
and plain in his dress. To those unacuuaint-
ed with him he appears cold and distant,
but his intimate friends know him to be So
cial and possessed of fund of pleasantly
and anecdotes.