The Portland daily press., 1886-06-11
Personal AND PECULIAR.

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The news comes indirectly from Berlin
that Emperor William is failing with alarm
ing rapidity. Such might be expected of
man eighty-nine years of age.
China is the place for invalids who think
that they must see the doctor at least once
week, the fee there for medical attendance
being from five to ten cents a visit
Maine and Missouri were both admitted in
to the Union in 1920. Maine at that time was
entitled to eight Representatives in Congress,
and Missouri one. Though no one who reads
the d0ings of Congress would suspect 1t, MIS-
souri, now has fourteen and Maine Dut 1our.
The United States troops who have been
guarding the tomb of the late President Car
field will be withdrawn next week. The
commander says if the tomb is left without
a guard relic hunters will carry it away In
a month.
A queer story is going the rounds that the
Prince of Wales is one of party OF English
sporting men who are trying to arrange a
match between John L. Sullivan and Jem
Smith. 1t is safe to say that his mother does
not know 1t.
Alexander of Bulgaria, wants wife; but
instead of strengthening his administration
by taking damsel of his own land, as our
magistrate has done, he starts out over Eu-
rope, proposing to go until he finds lady to
suit him.
President Cleveland has asked the asses
sors of Buffalo to exempt him from personal
taxes, as he never again expects to reside in
Buffalo. The Albany Journal claims that
Albany will be his home when he retires
from public life.
New York society is just now troubled to
know how London society will receive Miss
Marion Langdon, an American beauty much
admired at home. The success of Miss
Adele Grant, who is to wed the Earl of
Cairns, is already assured.
It must be that some Ohio farmers are
stupid The Bohemian Dat Swindle has been
worked all over that State and several times,
too; but farmers who live in sight of the
Capitol at Columbus, are duped this year as
badly as ever.
The Cheyennes who dwell in the region of
Miles City, Mont, have gone to Tongue riv-
er, where, at the mouth of Cook Creek. they
are engaged in the babarous and bloody or
gies of the sun dance, in which noyitiates
become warriors and braves by the ordeal of
torture.
Mr.. William Black, the English novelist,
has set out an interesting journey in COM
pany with well known artist. They have
embarked in a boat expressly adapted to a
canal voyage, and after traversing the
Thames as far as Oxford intend to journey
westward through the canals to the Severn.
1t is said that W. FL. Glider, brother of
the editor of the Century, will start out on
an Arctic expedition this summer. He will
take the trace of Lieutenant Lockwood En-
gineer Perry, of the United States navy, will
also make an attempt to cross Greenland in
the direction of Francis Joseph Ford
Captain Walter Bicker said to be the last
surviving officer of the regular army who
took part in the war of 1872, died on Thurs
day, at Far Rockaway, Long Island, at the
age of 90 years. He was a native of New
York city, and entered the army as a second
lieutenant when II years old.
There is a colored preacher in Norfolk,
Va, whose size must be something wonder
full Conductor Knapp, of the Maine Cen
trail, has come into possession of pair of
slippers which were made to order for this
divine. They are actually 211 inches long,
by u wide, and on the taps is stamped in
gold letters, mo. 81"
In crossing the Grand river with detach-
ment of soldiers near Moab, Colorado, Mon
day, Captain Murdoch, of theSixth Infantry
was drowned. The soldiers were going to
the Blue mountain country to establish a
post, and while endeavoring to cross the riy-
er ON a ferry boat, the cable broke, and Cap
tain Murdoch, expecting the beat to go on
the rocks in the canon, chung to the wire ca
Bile and was drowned.
The French government has appointed a
new governor to the islands of Miquelow
and st. Pierre, off the coast of Newfound-
Tbo IN fhncn 1oct no
sions of France in the New World is young
journalist M. Henry de Lamothe, cheyalier
of the Legion of Honor and foreign editor of
LIE Temps. He is the author of charming
book on Canada Lies Francois au Canada"
and has travelled extensively in this coun-
try in company with NJ. Ernst Won Hesse
Wartegg and Count A. Steenbock, now aide
de-camp of the emperor of Russia.
Mr.. Joseph w. Drexell wishes to give the
cottage in which General Grant died to the
national government, but the prospect that
Congress will accept the gift is not good Mr..
West introduced a bill to accept it in the
House of Representatives, more than two
months ago, and it was referred to the COM
mittee on public buildings; the chairman of
that committee gave the bill to Hon. Berlah
Wilkins, a Democratic Congressman from
Ohio. That worthy has put the bill in his
pocket and gone home to Ohio to look after
his fences. He explains his conduct by say
ing that the Democratic leaders oppose the
bill.
This is one Of the stories about President
Cleveland's selection of Deer Park as the
place to take his bride: While Miss Folsom
and her mother were at Naples, during their
recent European trip, they met Miss Jennie
Davis, daughter of ex-senator Davis, and
the three spent much of their time together,
the two girls becoming fast friends. When
the news of the engagement reached Naples,
Miss Davis then and there made her friend
promise that if she married the President
she would go to Deer Park for the honey
moon. Miss Folsom promised, and so the
President did for once as some one wanted
him to.
There seems to be no doubt among the
friends of Secretary Manning that after a
visit of several weeks at the Hot Springs he
will return to Albany during the bi-centen-
NAL week, and spend the rest of the summer
at Watch Hill, Conn.,, as has been his GUS
tom. 1t is further believed that in the fall
he will close up his affairs at Washington
and from political life. In this case he
would resume the presidency Of the Com
mercial National Bank, which he resigned
on going to Washington, and which has re-
manned vacant in his absence.
The first woman lawyer to practice in the
courts of New York city is likely to be Miss
Rhona Alice Fields, distant relative of the
late William M. Tweed. She is a decidedly
enterprising young woman. One of her
plans, however, willnot work. She planned
to form the firm of Cleveland & Fields, COM
posed Of Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland and
herself She wrote to the Presidents sister,
proposing that, though Miss Cleveland could
not at once gain admission to the bar, her
ability and fame would make her valuable in
the office part of their business. But Miss
Cleveland CURLY wrote in response: 'Your
plan does not recommend itself to me. 1t is
preposterous."
A Critic Criticised.
To the Editor of the Press:
The notice of George Eliot and Her Hero
ines which find inserted in your issue of