The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-14
PERSONAL and PECULIAR.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
Mr.. George Bancroft, the aged historian,
with his granddaughter, arrived in Newport
last week.
Mrs. Lucille Yseult Dudley, who shot
O'Donoyan Rosa last year, has been trans
ferred to the Asylum for Insane Criminals
at Auburn.
The new novel which Miss Cleveland has
written, entitled "The Long Row" is in the
hands of Detroit publisher, and will be on
the market very soon.
A sword handle, set with gold and precious
stones, was sold in London, recently, for
$1,150. 1t once belonged to Murat, Napole-
on's general Of cavalry.
The friends Of Erastus Wiman, of New
York, give him the credit for securing the
right to bridge the Arthur Kill, and thereby
gain an entrance to New York city for the
Baltimore d Ohio railroad.
The German infantry regiments at Frank
fort-on-the-A Main are drilled to the use of
bicycles and trieycles for military purposes.
The men ride the machines in marching or
der.
The late Prof. Leopold Won Ranke was
married to an Irish lady, Miss Graves. His
only daughter is the Baroness Won Kotze,
and his two sons are respectively pastor at
Potsdam and an officer in the German army.
The alumni of Dartmouth college resident
at Concord, N. H., have made great prepare
tons to receive their brethren from abroad
on the occasion of unyeling the Webster
statue on June II.
Rev. George Baker Jewett, d. D., who
died at his residence in Salem, Mass, on
| Wednesday, was born in Lebanon, Me-,
Sept. IL, 1918, and was the son Of Rev. Paul
and Eleanor (Punchard) Jewett.
Now that Yale has a president, the great
question is as to who shall succeed William
Walter Phelps as an alumni member of the
corporation. Mr.. Phelps has been re-nomi-
mated for another term of six years. and four
other gentlemen are also in the field.
The cities and towns in America which
have arrived at the dignity of celebrating
their 2Ooth anniversary are not very numer
Gus. Albany's bi-centennial comes the 18th
of next July, and the ancient Dutch borough
proposes that it shall be a great day.
Fifty years ago the sardine fishery was ex-
cellent on the coast of France. 1t is now
diminishing rapidly. Scientists attribute the
result to the ''tricks of the Gulf Stream, and
the ishermen's wives s'to the existence of
the republic"
The Caucasian manufacturers of cigars in
San Francisco use white label to enable
the public to distinguish between cigars made
by White and by yellow labor The Chinese
now purchase the white labor labels at SO
per hundred and affix them to their boxes.
Queen Victoria had narrow escape on the
river Mersey the other day Just as she left
the steamer gilt iron crown fell heavily
from the top of the flag staff which she had
passed. Ii the accident had happened mo-
ment earlier she would have been knocked
down and severely injured.
A rural couple were viewing panorama of
the battle of Waterloo at San Francisco The
lady was much puzzled, and whispered audi
bly, to her husband, as she waved her hand
around the apparently expansive view: "But
what can't make out, John, is how they got
this big piece Of land right here in the mid
die of the city!'
President Cleveland, even in the days
when he seemed to be confirmed bachelor,
had sympathy for the trials of young lovers
James Bayard, son of Secretary Bayard,
agreed to marry a pretty and poor Maryland
girl, and his father cast him off. The Presi-
dent however gave him an Office in AriZo-
ma. Recently the stern father has relented,
and he will attend their wedding this week.
NJ. Floquet, President of the French Cham
Der of Deputies, while visiting London re-
Gently, wac ordered out of the lobby of the
House of Commons by policeman who took
him to be a suspicious person. AS M. Flo
quet cannot speak English, he would have
been driven out had not a member whom he
knew come to the rescue.
The trustees of Columbia college have
opened it to women, not only in the regular
four years course, but in special and par
tial courses. Graduates of both sexes will
be given the degree Of b. A. for equal work
But there will be no co-educatiOn. The
women must pursue their studies at home
receiving their degrees on examinations
James Dacey, once a noted ward politician
Of Chicago, now under sentence of death for
murder, was examined day or two ago on a
plea of insanity made by his counsel. One
of the doctors was asked whether scar up
on the prisoners head might not be cause
and evidence of brain trouble. "Oh," he re-
piled, there are such scars upon the heads
of two-thirds Of our Chicago politicians who
run primary elections"
The English House of Lords still refuses
to repeal the law against marriage with de-
ceased wife's sister. The practical hardship
of the present state of things is very great.
These marriages are legal in most of the
colonies, and the consequences are that a
woman who is an honored wife in Canada or
Australia would not be recognized as such
should she have to return home with her
husband to Britain.
cousin Ben" Folsom, who has lapsed into
obscurity since the Presidents wedding, is
known among his intimates at Buffalo as
"Bence de Quizby." He spends much of his
time at the clubs, has an indolent carriage,
and speaks in a drawing tone He wears
a scarf-pin as big as silver half dollar
which bears upon its face most gaudy like
ness of 4 rampant rooster With red and green
feathers.
Temperance work is more and more com
handing the attention of the British
churches On the second Sunday in May
Temperance sermons were preached in hun
dreds of Episcopal pulpits. The Wesleyans
are especially active, and are preparing to
eunnort a visiting and organizing secretary,
who will give his whole time to temperance
work.
Sir Sidney Waterlow and his lady are
among the notables at Washington. Lady
Waterlow was a California girl, daughter OF
George Hamilton, and when she met Sir Sid
new she was occupying the position OF socle-
ty editor of the San Francisco Examiner.