The Portland daily press., 1886-06-24
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Ex-Governor John P. st. John, of Kansas,
addressed very small and select audience of
about "a person in Burlington, t., last week.
Prof Richard A. Proctor, the English as
tronomer, announces his intention of staying
in this country, provided he can stand the
dry climate. -
1t is said that the bodily infirmities of Mrs.
Della I. S. Parnel, mother of Charles Stew
art Parnell are increasing daily. She is
now in Trinity hospital, New York,
The widow of Ezekiel Webster, the brother
of Daniel Webster, who died in 1S49 is still
living and was an attendant upon the exer
cises dedicatOry of the Daniel WEBSTER,
statue at Concord last Thursday
The e-year-old grandson of Senator Joe
Brown of Georgia seems to have been much
impressed with President Cleveland on the
occasion of visit the other day. On the
way home he said, "He's as big as whale!
Messages to several personal friends in
New York city have been received from Mr..
Beecher by means Of carrier pigeons. The
birds were liberated from the Etruria 100
miles from Sandy Hook.
Edmund II. Pendleton, a brother of Minis
ter Pendleton and author of "a Centennial
Bohemian, is said to be putting the finish
ing touches to another society novel at Bar
Harbor.
Twenty thousand dollars would be good
deal to give for a hat Yet that's what Arch
bishop Gibbons will have to pay out merely
for his beretta. To obtain genuine Cardi-
NAILS hat would be even more expensive.
According to Gen. W. S. Rosecrans, regis
ter of the United States treasury at Wash
ington, the United States government paid
c.fs I,a of tI1a of4
Revolution. S115. 600, 900 for the War of 1912,
$135, 100000 forthe Mexican War, and $780,
$780, ,905 for the War Of the Rebellion
The Great Eastern, which is moored in the
Sloyne not far from the training ships in the
Mersey, is used for variety show. Boats
are run to the vessel every half-hour from
Liverpool, and the arrangements are so COM
plete that visitors may remain on board sew
eral hours.
Paul Phillippoteaux, the French scenic
painter, has been engaged by Buffalo capital
lists to paint cyclorama of Niagara Fallss
Last week he made a thorough inspection of
the falls and points of interest on the river,
and has agreed to furnish the painting com
plete within one year. 1t will cover 10000
yards oi canvas and cost $60,C00.
Thomas Nelson Page, the Virginian whose
pathetic stories. MARS Chan" and 'MIeh
Lady published in the Century, have at
tracted attention, is a Hanover County law
yer. He met William D. IIowelis about the
time of the Yorktown centennial, and the
latter induced him to send Mars Cham to
the Century.
Governor Hill thinks Friday is a lucky
day. He called to the mind Of the Bay State
Club, with whom he dined in Boston on Fri
day, that Mr.. Cleveland and be We're nomi-
mated in 1882 on Friday, that Mr.. Cleveland
was nominated for President on Friday, and
that he was nominated last year for govern
or on Friday
Captain Godfrey, Lieutenant Slocum, Sur
geon Porter, and other survivors of the Gus
ter expedition will go to the battlefield next
week to properly observe the tenth anniyer-
sary of the massacre. Chief Gaul, now at
the Standing Rock agency, who was in COM
mand Of the Indians in the fight, and who
has hitherto refused to talk on the details of
the battle, has consented to go with the par
ty and show where the massacre occurred.
Miss Brewer, the colored girl who gradu-
ated alone from the Vincennes Qnd) high
school because the eight white girls in the
class ''wouldn't graduate with Niger" is
the heroine Of the day in her town. Her es-
say was on 1.-THE education of colored
YOUTH the hall was crowded, and when she
finished little white girls passed among the
audience and collected huge baskets of flow
erS, q silk badge was sent her from the
women's sutfragist association at Richmond,
Ind, and Principal Taylor, who carried
through the exercises as though the class
were of the usual SIZE has received many
congratulations from near and far.