The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-10-21
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A statue of Christopher Columbus has
been unveiled in ST. Louis
Prof. A. L. Perry of Williams College is
one of the Democratic campaign speakers
in Massachusetts.
Harrison, the coored body servant of Gen
eral Grant, is earning living as compost
tor in the Government Printing House at
Washington.
Gen. Sheridan complains that there are not
more than four Of the present brigadier gem
erals of our army, who could sit in the saddle
for two consecutive days.
Of General Grants sons, Col Fred d. is
assistant treasurer of the New York Steam
Heating Company, Ulysses is on his farm
| and Jesse is on his way to Mexico seeking tc
enter the railroad business there.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the Tribune. has
purchased Henry Wizards magnificent
house in New York city. The price paid by
Mr. Reid is said to be 100000, half what
the house cost Willard.
1t is said that when Miss May Alcott is
writing book she works IA hours in d. At
such times she leaves her home in Concord,
goes to Boston, hires a quiet room, shuts her
self up and waits for IAN east WIND OF lnspl-
ration which never fails" In month or so
the book is done. She never copies, and sell
dom correetS.
The last graduating class Of Amherst Col
| lege expended during its college course about
| 100000. The average yearly expenditure
per man was 1852. The greatest total expen-
diture of any one member Of the class was
| $3.50; for one year, 81 800. The least total
expenditure of any one member was 1878
for one year, $780,
The widow of Sargent S. Prentiss, the ell
oquent Mississippian from Maine, who died
thirty-six years ago, publishes in the New
Orleans papers an open letter to Rev. w. Ill
Milburn. in remnns STRANGE against that lee
turer's treatment of her husbands charac-
ter in recent addresses. Mr.. Mllburn has
been called to account before for calumniat-
ing Prentiss.
General Patrick A. Collins will hereafter
practice law in Boston and New York, re-
tanning his residence in Boston. He has
formed partnership with ex-Congressman
Eppa Hunton of Virginia, Jeff Chandler,
formerly of Missouri, and Charles Thomp-
son of Washington. Hunton and Chandler
will attend to the business Of the firm in
Washington, and Collins and Thompson will
represent it in Boston and New York.
The sultan of Morocco is fond of tricycling.
but being too lazy to work the pedals him
self, he has had gorgeous machine con-
structed, propelled by slave labor. He sits
cross-legged upon an embossed couch, cur
| tanned and canopied with silk and silver and
| gold. At his right hand is clock and at his
| left compass, in ord er that when beyond
the reach of the mueZZinS call the faithful
MOhammedan may observe the exact hour
of prayer and the exact direction in which
his prisons are to be addressed.
The New Orleans States Says that the late
Senator David Levy Yulee was originally
named David Yulee Levy, but when he was
a young man he had row with his father
about money matters, and when he ran for
Congress as delegate from the Territory OF
Florida, his father took the stump against
him and maligned and villiied him outra-
geously. After the campaign the young man
applied to the Legislature to have his name
turned about using his mothers name, Yu-
lee, as his patronymic, for he vowed that ne
would not bear even a nominal family re-
semblance ito such hog" as his father.
There will be many of Harvard's distin-
gushed sons present at the coming celebra-
ton of the 25Oth anniversary. Among the
delegates already appointed to represent va
rious institutions of learning are President
Robinson of Brown, President Barnard OF
| Columbia, President Adams of Cornell, Pres
ident Gilman of Johns Hopkins, President
Seelye of Amherst, President Carter of Will
liams, President Dwight of Yale, President
McCosh of Princeton, President Pepper,
of Colby and the President of Tufts. and the
rector of the University of Virginia. From
the University of Pennsylvania will come
the distinguished professor of anatomy, Jo-
seph Leidy, and from Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, Eng, Professor Creighton, edi-
tor of the new Historical Review, and pro-
fessor of ecclesiastical history.