The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-08-12
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Mr. IT Aldrich will visit Russia before
he returns to this country
Joaquin Miller has assumed the eaitorsnlp
of the Colder Era, magazine published at
San Francisco.
The Bishop of London, who manages
Fresh Air Fund similar to that estapilsneo
by the New York Tribune in this country,
sent $500 London children into the country
for vacations last year.
Poor Richards Almanac has been trans
lated into Chinese. 1t was done at the sug-
gestion of Mr.. John Russell Young, while inc
latter was American minister at Pekin. Inc
President lof the Pekin College supervised
the work.
A Georgia man says that it is easy enough
to have watermelons of any flavor you
choose. All you have to do is to have
watermelon PATCH and before the melon
ripens. cut slit in the stem and pour IN
drop or two of your favorite flavor every
morning.
The early closing movement was carried
little too far in Guelph, Canada, the other
evening" when lady customer was acciden-
tally locked in by the clerks at six o'clock
She stood at an open window imploring' to
be let out, and was liberated alter ABOUT
an hours imprisonment.
Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood, who was
in. Portland at the Grand Army reunion last
year, is described as a thorough journalist,
alive, keen and possessed of marked ability.
She has done the chief part of the editorial
work on her husbands paper, the Toledo
Sunday Journal for many years.
Major John w. Graham, who has just been
nominated to Congress from Orange county
in North Carolina, upon the 211th ballot, and
after very severe fight, is son of William
A. Graham, who ran for Vice President with
Scott in 1852 and who was secretary of the
navy under Fillmore. Major Graham has
been prominent member of both branches
of the LEGISLATURE.
Excepting only Harvard, William and Ma
| ry, in Virginia, founded in 1893, is the old
| est college in America. 1t can now boast
| of not single student, and the last dollar of
| its endowment will soon have been spent.
| This grand old institution owes its downfall
| to the war of the Rebellion, and finally to
| two destructive fires.
| A railway tie nursery is curiosity in the
| industries of Kansas. 1t is situated near
| the town of Farrinston, in the southern part
| of the State. 1t is the largest artificial plan
| tation of forest trees in North America and
numbers about 100000 trees. One-fourth
| is planted with the aliantus, the rest with
| the catalpa and few of white ash. Those
| first planted, six years ago, are now about
| twenty-five feet in height. These trees were
| set out four feet apart each way, but will be
| thinned out for fence posts.
The reports of the serious illness of Pope
| Leo Kill are again assuming positive and
| alarming character. The Pope has for a
long time been in a state of precarious heath,
| and has become emaciated to a skeleton,
| while many signs of the increasing feebleness
of age have been developed, His vigorous
| mind and indomitable will have so far sus-
| tanned his failing body, but it is apparent
| that it cannot long resist the inroads of dis
| ease.
The Rev. DIR. Moses d. Hoge of Richmond,
Va, sailed for England last week under far
| different circumstances from those of one of
his former visits to that country. Itwas in
| 1868 that he went out as a blockade runner,
| and brought back in the same risky way
about $4,000 worth of bibles and religious
| works. obtained from the British and For
| eign Bible Society, for distribution among
| the rebel soldiers. He has on several other
| occasions visited the Old World and tray-
| elled widely there, and has preached in
| America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
| The tables have at last been turned, and a
| titled English woman has married an Amer
lean gentleman. Mr.. James Baltic Hamil-
| ton, of Massachusetts, was married Tuesday,
| in Westminster Abbey, to Lady Evelyn, the
| the fourth daughter of the Duke of Argyll.
| Mr. Hamilton is well known in New York
and Boston. The ceremony was witnessed
| by large assembly of distinguished per-
sons Among them were the Duke of Aagyl
and family, the Marquis of Lorne, the Mar
| quis of Salisbury and his wife, the Earl and
Countess Percy, the Duke and Duchess OF
Buccleuch, Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone, United
States Minister Phelps, James Russell Low
ell, the Duke and Duchess of Northumber-
land, the Earl Of Shelborne, Canon Liddon,
Lord and Lady George Hammerton and the
bishops Of st. Adams and Southwell. Mr.:
| George Smyth Boden-Powell, member OF
Parliament for Liverpool, acted as the
| groom's best man. One feature of the ser
| vice was the substitution for the organ Of
the vocation invented by Mr.. Hamilton, and
which was played with fine effect.