The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-12
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR,

The vounp emperor of China is reported
sick with consumption
There is a house in Connecticut town on
which there has been $50 mortgage for
eighty-one years, and the annual interest on
it has been regularly pald.
Laura Bridgman the dear, dumb and blind
woman, is passing the summer Win her
mother at the old homestead in Hanover
n. ii.
The cornerstone of the new wing.of the
Garfield Hospital in Washington is to be lald
July 18th, with Masonic ceremonies. Inc
cost is $4,000.
The statement is again very positively
made that Mr.. Cox will soon resign the mis-
sion to Turkey and return to run for Con-
gress
Russian proverbs upon married life Illus
trate the condition of the wife, Among 9TH
ers is the curious saying, ITO love wite,is
to strike herupon every suitable occasion,
The Garfield home in Cleveland, where
Mrs. Garfield has lived since President Gar
fields death, is empty and for sale, Mrs.
Garfield and her family have gone to live at
the Mentor farm, Grandma Garfield Is now
living with the family at Mentor.
Abdurahman Khan Amer of Afghanis-
much so that he has been obliged to give up
the holding of public durbars. He wishes
Sarwar Khan, his son by slave girl, to sue
coed him in the event of his death.
The list of living War Governors, revised
and corrected to date, includes Curtin, of
Pennsylvania, Kirkwood, of Iowa, Ramsey,
of Minnesota, Sprague, of Rhode Island,
Berry, of New Hampshire, Blair, of Michi-
nf cir
and Smith, of Vermont.
1t is said on good authority that Annie
Pixley will retire from the stage. The cause
is the loss of her only child, a boy 10 years of
age, who died a week ago. She has often
said that if she lost this child she would new
er have cause to act again, as she was work
ing to make her child independent when it
came OF age.
The new law extending the hour for mar
riages from IL at noon to 8 in the afternoon has
come into operation in England, and Satur-
day at or in the afternoon has become
popular time for marriages among the wor
ing classes, as the Saturday half holiday
gives them the opportunity of being married
without loss of extra time.
The late mad king of Bavaria ill-treated
his servants. For whole year he made his
valet wear a black mask as a punishment for
some imaginary offence. Another servant
was compelled to go about with black mark
on his forehead to indicate that his brain
was out of order. On one occasion the poor
bedlamite declared war against the king of
Saxony, and professors of chemistry were
sent for from Munich to transform one of
the Hohenschwangu mountains into volca-
no.
At Petersburg KY, an excavation for
new building has brought to light curious
Indian grave, walled with stone and clay,
formed into a kind of cement. The vault is
about three feet in height, and fully nine in
length. Within this rude vault lay giant
human skeleton that measured seven feet
two inches in length. The bones were all Of
large proportions, and the monstrous skull,
with the teeth perfect and intact, was more
than half an inca thick at the base. A num-
Der of copper pieces, evidently worn for or
naments, a stone pike and quantity of ar
rowheads were found with the decaying
bones.