The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-25
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

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Detroit.
1t is said that Rutgers College is now free
from debt for the first time in its history.
Lieutenant Greedy and family will spend
the summer at Newburyport
ST. Louis is making an effort to have the
annual encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic in 1887.
1t is asserted that Land Commissioner
Sparks is one of the wealthiest men holding
Office under this administration.
Saloon men are putting up buildings to be
devoted to their traffic close to the Rhode
Island line in all the large towns which Dor
der on the little State.
Of the Chicago policemen hurt at the So
eialistic riot seven are dead, four are yet In a
critical condition, and So are still suffering.
1t is now thought that the bomb may have
been poisoned.
1t is rumored that new Savanarola has
arisen in Pisa; that poor Franciscan monk
known as Brother Agostino di Montefeltro
is preaching discOurses that shake tho entlre
city to its centre.
Father Hyacinthe Loyson says he is as
tonished to see French legislators thinking
of nothing but the expulsion of the princes,
when far greater peril lies in the ideas Of
Socialism, lmpleGY ana moral uiSvluel bnat
are simmering in the public MIND
Under a recent law of France, making
sketches of drawings or plans in the vicinity
of fortress or naval station, scaling pail
sades, entering military enclosures, mount
ing earthworks or parapets, or even cues
tioning the natives as to State defenceS, are
made dlSdemeanOrS punishable by me anu
Imprisonment.
The late Hobart Pasha, commander of the
Turkish navy, is said to have borne rather
remarkable resemblance to James G. Blaine.
The likeness was heightened by the style
and color of beard. He had the same ner--
yOuS energy and the same happy faculty Oh
making himself the conspicuous, magnetic
center of any company that he happened to
find himself in.
One of the senators says that he once saw
Mr.. Edmunds bend pin and put 1t In the
chair that Mr.. Conkling habitually used in
the cloak room. Conkling came in and sat
down on the pin, but after the first twinge
of pain he never budged. He told stories in
his best humor and EdInunds laughed up
roarously. But when Edmunds went out
Conkling swore savagely.
Prince Napoleon Louis Jerome Boneparte,
oneof the banished royalists of France, has
been,expected at Washington this week. Sin
gularly the Bonaparte mansion, occupied by
Col. Jerome Bonaparte, of the Baltimore
branch Of the family, was constructed With
out guest chambers, so that it should be I'm.
possible for the colonel to entertain any OF
his imperial relations. So the prince Will
have to go to hotel.
Twenty mounted police have been sent by
the Dominion authorities to keep whiskey
peddlers out of the crew of between 5000 and
1000 men now at work on the Canadian Pa
cifc railroad in the Northwestern noun
tains. But the British Columbia govern
ment have licensed the different liquor deal
ers along the railway, and the Provincial
police and stipendiarieS are averSe TO the In
reference of the Dominion forces. Ihere
was good deaf of trouble last year between
the two bodies of cfficialss and 1t is expected
there will be more this year.
A New York society woman has been
found plucky and sensible enough to snub
an English lord. This is Mrs. Beach-Grant,
the mother of Adele Grant, who was, but is
not, engaged to Earl Cairns, the young Eng
lisbman. who earned his disrepute as Lord
Garmoyle Earl Cairns, so the story goes,
tried to borrow money of his rich mother-ln-
laW-elect, was politely but firmly refused,
lost his temper and his manners and was dis
missed from the family.
The Supreme court of North Carolina will
soon be called upon to define the status of
the turtle as deadly weapon. negro in
Raleigh hit another over the head with
underground turtle. The assailant was
charged with committing an assault with a
deadly weapon. An exception was taken,
and the Supreme court must settle the ques-
ton. The same tribunal has already decided
that a bulldog is deadly weapon within the
meaning of the statutes.
When the question Of granting pension to
Mrs. Prudence Crandall-Philleo was broug h
before the Connecticut legislature, negro
soldier in the far West wrote to the Freeman
of New York suggesting that eolored men
contribute to a fund to aid the old lady who
has always been SO firm a friend to the ne
gro The response was not very encourage
ing: but the Freeman recently sent her
S3S. 70. and received hearty letter of thanks
from the venerable abolitionist
DR.. Anna. Kingsford, the author of ''The
Perfect Way" a book that has excited
much interest from theosophical readers or
inquirers, has just completed another work,
entitled Health, Beauty and the Toilet;
Letters to Women by Woman Physician"
which is in press in London. DR.. Kings
ford's belief is that beauty is within the pos
sibilities of every one; that the soul controls
and shapes the body, and that the means by
which this control may be acquired by the
individual is truth which may be reduced