The Portland daily press., 1886-06-19
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Matthew Arnold says that in Saxony, in
| Germany, at least two-eniius VI Ule WORKING
| people are Socialists.
The wife and daughters of Gen. Sherman
will spend the summer at Burlington, VT,
| Mrs Sherman being mucn lhSeiesDeu III the
| Summer school of languages
Among DIR. O. W. Holiness pleasures
abroad is visit to Tennyson at the Isle
of Wight The Autoerat will return to Bos-
ton in September.
The white members of the high school at
Vincennes, Indiana, refused to graduate this
wear because a negro girl would occupy the
same platform with them. Nothing was
urged against the girl, except her color.
The manufacture Of Greek antiques is
regular industry at Naples, Italy' Ihls ls
not craft of decep tion, but Of h9ness ana IN.
genuine imitation, carried on openly oh 1ne
quays of the city.
A peculiar suit has just begun in chicago.
Tive beer sellers of Iowa have DEMANDED
$4,000 damages of the Chicago and North
western Railroad Company because OF US
refusal to transport 5000 barrels ioI peeI nv
Iowa. The State law of Iowa makes s ~ d
penal offense for railway to transports peei'
Mr. Archibald Forbes, the English war
correspondent, has had twelve of the medals
bestowed upon him by European princes Ior
distinguished valor, strung together WIN
gold chain. This necklace is for Miss melssi
the daughter of the American general, anu
his future wife.
Mrs. Rosa Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote
"Curfew must not ring tonight" when but
a girl seventeen years old, lives in San
Antonio. Texas, during the winter, and
spends her summers in Michigan, her naive
State. The poem was written upon heI
slate in odd moments at school.
OF the "War Governors" who are living,
Edward Solomon, of Wisconsin, is q promi-
nent citizen of New York city; Andrew G.
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, is in Congress;
Austin Blair of Michigan, is a regent OF
Michigan University and county attorney;
the others are Kirkwood, OF Iowa Ramsey
of Minnesota; Sprague, OF Rhode Island
and Berry, of New Hampshire.
Within the past two months Duke Charles
Theodore of Bavaria, assisted by his wife,
has treated more than 1000 patients affected
with diseases of the eye, and performed 132
surgical operations. The Duke is relative
of the unfortunate monarch who has just
committed suicide; and the Duchess who as
sists him in his successful medical and surgi-
cal practice is an Infanta Of Portugal.
A monument is to be built in Brooklyn,
Conn, of the memory of Israel Putnam, the
Revolutionary hero. The bones Of General
Putnam will be removed from the cemetery
and placed beneath the monument. The
stone which now marks the grave has been
badly mutilated The site of the monument
will be place where Putnam and his de-
scendants have spent many happy hours.
The Chinese Six Companies, which have
been charged with the wholesale importation
of Chinese cheap labor to California, con-
template starting great colony Of Chinese
in South America. They propose to buy
large territory in Peru and Chilli, where the
climate is suitable to the Chinese, and the
soil is highly productive, and divert emlgra-
ton from this country. One result expected
is the employment of American capital in
Chilian and Peruvian enterprises.
President Cieveland's salary is paid to him
in monthly installments-$4 1866 on the
last day of each month-and the Treasurer
makes it point to send him notes of the
latest issue. Mr.. Cleveland has an economi-
cal disposition, and no luxurious tastes.
Before he entered public life, he was making
from $4,000 to $4,000 year by his practice,
and could have lived like lord. His ex-
penses,ft is said, were never more than $1,000
a year, and he enjoyed himself as much as
most men do.
Among the men hired in Toronto recently
L
the mountains of the Far West, was per-
son who appeared to be boy about eigh-
teen years of age, and who found employ
ment in the cooking establishment. 1t was
soon discovered, however, that the supposed
boy was female. She assumed her proper
clething without hesitation, and announced
herself member of the Salvation Army.
In addition to retaining her place and dis
charging her usual duties, she now conducts
Salvation Army services in the evenings.
NJ Clemenceau, the leader of the French
Democracy, lived in this country from 1866
to 1870. During the last three years Of
his sojourn he was teacher Of French
in girls school at Greenwich, tConn.,
and it was while there that he fell in
love with one Of his pupils, Miss Mary Z.
Plummer. After considerable trouble, dur
ing which young Clemenceau crossed the
ocean twice, the relatives on both sides
agreed to the match. The couple will visit
this country to attend the dedication Of the
BarthOldi statue.