The Portland daily press., 1885-02-20
THERE is BUT ONE KIND.
lSt. Louis Glohe-Demncrat.l
Personal Paragraphs.

Margaret Mather and Mary Anderson will
play in New York city next fall at the same
time and in adjoining theatres.
A son of Brigham Young, graduate at
West Points an officer 10 the Engineer
Corps. He is married to one wife only.
Mrs. Wendell Phillips is still living quiet
ly in the house which was her husbands last
home, in the southern part of Boston.
The residence of Clara Schumann, the
pianiste, at Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main, was
robbed on Monday night. The thieves took
jewelry and other valuables.
Mr.. Terriss while playing Romeo in Lon
don with Miss Mary Anderson on Friday,
January 30. fell ON his dagger in the last
scene and nearly made the piteous ending of
the tragedy reality.
The 'Father of FreemasonrY'' has Just
died in England in the person of William
Eliot, who attained the ripe old age of nine
ty-one years. He was the Oldest Freemason
in Europe, if not in the world.
President Arthur is packing up. He
leaves the White House in perfect order and
with $4,000 in the treasury to be spent on
the building and grounds as the next Presi-
dent pieases.
Nine. Ristori had an odd experience at
Athens, Ga. The local orchestra played
"Billy in the low grounds" during the ex-
ecution of the earl of Essex, while Queen
Elizabeth yielded up the CHEST to the tune of
"Dixie"
Camp meeting John Allen was in Lewis
ton the other day. He was met by the MEM
bers of the "SalvatiOn Army" eyes" saws
Mr.. Allen, Il belong to the Salvation Army:
but am member of the Methodist corps"
He says if he lives three weeks more, he will
be ninety years old.
There is an Episcopal clergyman not far
from New York city, nearly all OF whose
parishioners have telephone in their houses.
He also has telephone in the rectory and
IL is his custom on stormy evenings for
which service is appointed to call up his
parishers by telephone and inform them that
there will be no service.
Senator Edmunds is confessedly the ablest
civil lawyer in the Senate, but his voice is &c
weak that the reporters can with difficulty
catch bis words; his delivery resembles
that of a schoolbOy, aud the closest observer
can seldom detect change in his i'm
mobile face, no matter what may be the
tenor of his remraks.
Mr.. Edwin Booth has been elected to
membership in three of Boston's leading
clubs, but he seldom visits any Of them,
although his daughter often urges him to do
so. But" she says, "all that papa seems
to wish to do is TO stay at home with his
daughter, and all that his daughter wishes
to do is to stay at home with papa"
The late Comte A. de Liesville was proba-
bly, the most successful collector of relics of
the first French Revolution. One of the
most interesting as an accurate model of
the Bastille, carved out of Que of the stones
of that edifice. he had 10000 books and
papers, and coins, medals, pottery, arms,
ETC., ,innumerable, connected with that revo-
luton and with those of 1880, 184S and
1870
The Right Honorable Joseph Chamber
lain, the member of Mr.. Gladstone's Cabinet
who breaches Socialism for votes only and
practices monopoly for profit, wants mem
bers of Parliament to be paid salaries, and
favors the creation of class of professional
politicians" who shall have no other bust
ness than ofice-holdiug and thus grow rich
in their country's service.
1t was Lord Barrymore who, at Newman
ket, among vast crowd of the sporting
world, mounted himself on chair, and
having made signal for silence, said aloud:
'Who wants horse that can gallop 20 miles
an hour, trot II, and walk sixP' OF course
vociferatons of 81 do, l do,' were not want
ing, to which the facetious nobleman replied,
"Well, gentlemen, when meet with such
one will let you know"
NJ. Jules Louis Joseph Wales, the Social.
istic journalist, was buried in Paris. Forty
thousand persons attended the funeral,
While going to the grave the German So
cialists in the procession were attacked bv
large number of Frenchmen. The mon
strous offense of carrying German flag i'm
mediately behind the coffin and aroused the
wrath of French spectators. This feeling
finally extended to French Socialists in the
procession, and free fight followed, in fact
several of them, but there was no general
demonstration.
''The other day." says World (London)
writer, ST was amusing myself over port
folio of prints in a famous Partisan bric-a-
brac shop, when the wife of an illustrous
novelist entered, and began to bargain for a
certain object. She was severe and i'm
perious, and the amiable old lady who keeps
the shop was given to understand that it
was no small honor to count the illustrious
novelsts among her customers. and that a
very considerable diminution in the price
must therefore be made. Finally the bar
gain was concluded, and the old lady, rather