The Portland daily press., 1886-06-17

| class The principal now thinks it time to
| interfere. and declares that hereafter all
! class meetings shall be held under his super
vision
United States Minister Fearn, at Athens,
writes to friends in New Orleans that the
men of Greece are the handsomest he has
ever seen, tall, graceful. with white teeth
and black, flashing eyes, but there does not
seem to be so much beauty among the
| women.
| The aged ex-Treasurer of the United
| States, General F. E. Spinner, now in his
| eighty-sixth year, is living at Pablo Beach,
Fla. For the last nine months he has occu-
pied tent facing the ocean. When his
| strength permits he devotes much OF his
time to fishing, his favorite sport.
The Wahabees are the Prohibitionists OF
Central Arabia. They are strict construc-
tonists of the Koran, and tobacco is regard
ed by them as not less accursed than intoxi-
| eating drink. 1t seems, however, that
mankind cannot be temperate all round for
these total abstainers abuse the coffee habit
| terribly.
The marriage of Justice Stanley Matthews
| of the Supreme Court of the United States to
Mrs Mary X. Theaker, widow of eX-Judge
! T. C. Theaker of Ohio, will take place in
| New York city on Wednesday, June 90, JUS
| tice and Mrs. Matthews will sail on the same
day for Europe, where they will remain I'M
| til October.
Ben Perley Poore says of Mr.. Matthews,
| the Albany negro who has been appointed
| to succeed Frederick Douglass as register Of
deeds in the District of Columbia with
his olive complexion, long, soft hair and
black moustache, he bears less resemblance
to the negro race than several OF the South
American diplomats who are mere.
A Prussian officer gives this account Of
Carl Schurz as boy II first met Carl
Schurz back in the thirties at Bhon. He
was a bright, restless, ambitious, but essen
tall moodish OF changeable young fellow,
the son of an innkeeper who kept a sort of
dance hall full of pretty yellow-haired girls.
We looked on Carl without any comparison
with his father, and valued him, In fact, for
his own high qualities, and they were many.
We lost sight of him after the fasco of '4S,
and the next | heard of him was as politi-
cal leader in America
There are but three Cinnamon in Glouces-
ter, Mass, and the small boys of the city
have made their lives miserable. But last
Sunday the Celestials determined to stand it
no longer. As they entered a street car on
which were several of the boys, one of the
IdbL6r Y6lleu TdJS OUe OulIidlldl uICW u
revolver and another knife, and the third
passed the cartridges to the one holding the
revolver. The boys left the car in the best
and quickest way they could. One of them
tainted and fell in the street
A tramp calling himself FL. p. Maynard,
who was arrested last week at Parkersbury,
Pa, told to the judge before whom he was
arraigned, story of remarkable adventures.
When 10 years old he ran away from his
home in Wheeling, w. Va. He drifted into
the Mexican war and when the rebellion be-
gan joined the Union army. He was cap
tured by the Confederates and imprisoned at
Fort Worth, Texas. Escaping into Mexico,
he fell into the hands of bandits, who kept
him in virtual slavery for three years. Els
Gaping to the United States he joined the
navy, but deserted in Russia. From Russia
he wandered south through Turkey and Per-
STA into India. From India he went to Bur
nah andljoined King Thebaus army, where
he remained until captured by the British
last winter. He was by them sent to England
and then came to America. When arrested
he said he was going home to Wheeling.