The Portland daily press., 1886-11-29
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

1t is said that Cape Cod is slowly washing
and blowing away, losing some two feet
every year.
During the present year there have been
seven embellishments in Boston, which ag-
gregated 81, 90, 400. That of William Gray,
Jr., reached the sum of S500,000
The descendants of the Acadians who mi
grated to Louisiana, still live in that State.
They look with distrust upon their English
neighbors, and dislike to see any one coming
within their border.
The king and queen of Corea, according to
the Berlin Borsen-Co Courier, have dismissed
their native physicians and intrusted them
selves respectively to the care of DR.. Allen
and Miss Ellen, the latter a lady who studied
in Boston,
Mr.. Holt, Lincoln's judge Advocate Gener-
al, still lives at Washington. He is white
haired and bent with age, but his eyes are as
bright and his mind as active as ever. He
| lives much alone, drives out great deal, and
| reads the classics
The Shaker society, while over a century
ed, is said to number only II societies, aver
aging from 100 to 200 members each. Maine,
| New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecti-
cut. New York, Ohio and Kentucky are the
States in which they exist, and their num-
1
General Francis A. Walker says that not
less than 70 per cent. of the men in this
country who own houses, factories stocks,
pay wages, control railways, develop mines
and deposit in banks, began life without a
| penny, and that no other country in the
world than the United States can make such
a showing.
Miss Amy Hewitt, daughter of the Mayor
elect of New York, has married Mr.. James
.. Green, son Of the president of the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Company. The SPLEEN
dor of the ceremony is said to have been
such as would have edited exceedingly Hem
ry George or his followers, had any of them
been present.
Gen. B. +. Butler has been lecturing in
Lowell on the early days of the Rebellion.
He claims that he went to Annapolis and
saved the frigate Constitution without orders
from Governor Andrew. From the lecture,
also, one would gain the impression that to
b. f. Butler and not to John A. Andrew be-
longs the credit of getting Massachusetts
ready for the conflict
Senator Ingalls, believes that his son, if he
lives, will see railway running from Chi
cago, or perhaps Duluth, straight south
through the Mississippi Valley, then through
Mexico. Central America and South Ameri-
ca, branching in the southern confinement to
Rlo Janeiro on the east and Valparaiso on
the west, and that passengers can be ticket
ed and freight billed through
The managing committee of the American
school of classical studies at Athens was
held at New York Friday. The school is
nearly five years old and has six students.
1t is now directed by Prof. Martin l.. d.
Page, of the Michigan University, and Prof.
Merriam of Columbia will go out next year.
L 10 frih fad nv
American colleges A new building is being
erected ON a site given by the Greek govern
ment. The managers will try To raise an en-
dowment fund of 100000.
Recent statistical reports from German
source fix the average duration of life for the
different vocations as follows, viz: 80 years
for day laborers and job working men, Il
Years for stonecutters, sculptors, compost
tors and photographers; A years for shoe
makers and tailors; AZ years for locksmiths,
blacksmiths and joiners; 40 years for car
penters, masens and house painters; "a years
Tor bakers, beer brewers and butchers; 5s
years for gardeners, sailors and fishermen.
Lucy Parsons, the Anarchist, who is be-
ginning to merit the title of the American
Louise Michel, had a farewell 'levee" at
Herr Schlag's beer saloon at New York Fri
day, before she departed for Baltimore.
There were many men and women of many
nationalties and the conversation suggest
ed the scene at the tower of Babel. There
was much Rhine wine, too, and the reporter
noticed that though the wife of the man who
is awaiting death on the scaff0ld at Chicago
maintained her spirited demeanor she looked
tired and haggard
One must be careful how he jokes when in
Germany. An innkeeper near Berlin, named
Adam, adopted the suggestion of a newspa-
per man and called his place Paradise"
The journalist wrote for the tavern sign a
short poem in which Adam is made to say
that the Lord turned a former Adam out of
Paradise, but as the election had brought
misery upon the human race, the Lord had
been pleased to provide another garden and
another Adam to take care Of it. The poem
had no sooner been displayed than the POI
ice ordered 1t removed as a blasphemy.
Nathan Ripley Cobb of Boston, one of
l those merchants of the earlier days, was gem
| erous hearted and conscientious in the high
: est degree. I'm November, 1921, he drew mp
the following remarkable document: "By
the grace of God will never be worth more
than $4,000. By the grace of God l will
give one-fourth of the net profits of my bust
ness to charitable and religious uses. If
am ever worth $4,000 | will give one-half
of my net profits and if / am ever worth
$4,000 will give three-fourths, and the
| whole after my fftieth thousand. So help
me God, or give TO more faithful steward
| and set me aside" The Boston Transcript
says he adhered to this covenant with the
strictest fidelity.
The resignation of Prof. Torrey, of Har-
ward, recalls the fact that when he was APP
pointed to the Chair of History there was
a strong rival candidate for the place, whose
claims were pressed with considerable force,
and who was good deal disappointed that
hey were not successful. This was young
nan who had entered Harvard at the age of
thirteen, and though he did not attain high
college rank, gave evidence of an ability
which the future abundantly attested. His
taste for study was afterward shown at the
universities OF Berlin and Gottingen, and one
of the fruits of his life at the latter seat of
learning and duellng was an intimate ae-
QNalntance with the future colossus of Euro
pean politics, Bismarck. The young man
was John Lothrop Motley.
Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia, whom Rus
STA would put on the Bulgarian throne, is the
man who welded the daughter of Count Ad-
leberg The lady in question had few claims
on admit alton, She had for years been a
sort of 'Katisha," from whom the objects Of
!, her fancy fled in CONSERVATION, and it was
considered 'happy dispatch" when the
young savage from the Caucasus agreed, in
consideration of round sum of ready cash,
to make her his wife and not seek to be di-
vorced from her for year. The bargain
was contaminated, but the year had not
been long elapsed when the couple separated
forever. Now he has squandered all the
marriage portion-more properly, bribe-and
all the $4,000 for which he sold his alleged
Princeship, and is now head over heels in
debt
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