The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-29
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Justin Mccarthy is coming to this country
| on lecturing tour.
| 1t is rumored that Statehood" army is
| forming in South Dakota, with Gen. Hugh
| j. Campbell as Commander-in-chief
A Brooklyn clothier advertises his bust
ness by sending round in wagon a stuffed
| figure representing a corpse with a placard
inscribed Dropped Dead"
Gen. Kilpatrick's war horse ''Old Spot"
which is 81 years old, is to be the central fig
ure in great 4th Of July celebration at Port
Jervis, N. Y.
The Harvard annex has two graduates this
year,-Miss Lucy Anna BuShee of Woon-
socket r. l., and Miss Kate Bird Runkle Of
Brighton, Mass.
Fred Douglass intends to go to Europe as
soon as his successor is confirmed. Mrs
Douglass is anxious to go, As she has never
been abroad he wishes to go more for her
sake than for his own.
Rev. Sam Jones' Rev. Sam Small, Sol
Smith Russell and John L. Swift are all an
nounced to speak from the same temperance
platform at Walden Pond, Concord, Mass,
on the 9Th of July.
Alexander Shaler, formerly major-general
in the New York State National Guard, and
soldiers of the State, has been formally re-
moved by Mayor Grace from his position as
president of the New York city board of
health The action was taken because Of
the charges of bribery made against Gen.
Shaler.
A private letter from the Sandwich Islands
says that there is little romance connected
with the recent trip of the missionary steam
TOW 10 tIa ic1o
DR.. Wetmore, an old missionary Of Hilo,
went down to Micronesia on the Star to visit
some of the missionaries who were i'll. His
daughter Lucy went with him to care for
him. During the trip the engineer fell in
love with Lucy and on the vessels return to
Honolulu their engagement was announced
1t seems to be settled that Christine Nils
son is to marry the Count de Miranda, a
Spanish politician, and intimate friend of
Senior Canoyas. The count being a Catholic
and Miss Nilsson a Protestant, the former
has applied to the pope for a diSpensation.
Queen Victoria has sent her beautiful pOr
trait. The couple will settle down in Madrid
and Americans will never have an oppOrtu-
nifty to hear the great singer again.
Men who were born when Lee surrendered
in 1865 will vote, by tens of thousands, in
the elections for members of Congress in
1886. More than a million men, 81, %, %
years of age, who were not born until after
the end of the civil war, will vote for PreSi-
dent in 1883. On the other hand, the young
est participant in the election of 1888 who
voted when Abraham Lincoln was elected
in 1860 will then be within year of 30.
The London World has reproduced this
description of Sir John Gladstone, father of
the English statesman. 1t is said to have
been written by one who knew the old baro-
net well: ga man who to the sagacity and
massive strength of the elephant added the
feline activity, sudden, treacherous spring
and ruthless ferocity of the tiger. The fe
line qualities taking the predominance when
ever his passions and plans were thWarted."
An English consul states that the POrtu-
guese workingman never tastes, even as lux
uries, roast meat, wheaton bread, butter, tea
or coffee. His bread is made from maize or
rye flour. His meat is invariably converted
into soup and eaten with rice, cabbage beans
and other vegetables. For a beverage he
has the rough red wine of the country. He
varies this diet with dried Goldfish and sar-
dimes, which latter are caught on the coast
the year round, and are almost a necessity of
life to all classes.
The Boston Traveller is quite right in say
ing that the State of Maine is becoming ia
nous for its literary women. There are
Miss Thicker, Miss Blanche Willis Howard,
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, Mrs. Julia G. R.
Dorr, Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen, Mrs.
Frances l.. Mace, "Kate Vannah," Mrs. Alb
ba Goold Woolson and others that might be
named A new star is now added to this
galaxy, Mrs. Hamlin of New York, formerly
Miss Sawyer of Bangor, whose first work,
novel entitled "a Politicians Daughter is
about to appear from the press of D. Apple
ton & Co. Miss Constance Fenimore Wool
son is a native of New Hampshire.
Not long ago remarkable and unaccounta-
BILE appearances were discovered on the sur
face of the planet Mars. The discover took
them for canals; but NJ. Lespiault, the
French astronomer, refuses to believe in
canals a thousand miles long, and fifty
broad in Mars or any other planet. The
mathematical regularity of the outlines for
bids regarding them as natural phenomena,
however; and his conjecture is that they are
vast strips of forest created to remedy the in
convenience to which the people Of the plan
ct found themselves exposed after having de-
nuded the surface of their globe of the pro-
vision made by nature for their defence
against the fury of the elements.