The Portland daily press., 1886-06-03
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Mary Mapes Dodge who edits the St.
Nicholas, has gone abroad for the summer
A lock of Schiller's hair and Goethe's sig
net ring and cup were sold for a mere baga-
telle in Germany not long since.
Mrs. W. II. Vanderbilt has given thirty
five gold eagles to buy wooden legs for seven
boys at the Boys Lodging House in New
York.
1t is now reported that Miss Murfree
Charles Egbert Craddock) will be married
next month to DIR. Henry c. Hanchett, a
practising physician in New York.
Mosquitoes are even now making New
Jersey almost uninhabitable In Newark
and Jersey City services in many of the
churches have been shortened on account of
the annoyance caused by them.
Mr. Julian Hawthorne has accepted the
literary editorship of the New York World.
His brother-in-law, Mr.. George Parsons
Lathrop, will occupy similar position on
the Star.
Chennevieres, a French author regards 'qui'
and que as the ''tyrants and yermin' of
his native language, and has written book
called "Contes sans quf on que," in which
neither word, whether as relative or c0nJunc-
ton, is used at all.
Miss Jane Andrews gets praise in high
quarters for her latest book, ''Ten Boys who
Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now"
Whittier says, sit is the best child's book
have ever read" James Parton described
Miss Andrews as the best teacher in the
world.
Andrew Carnegie, in his, Triumphant
Democracy says: America is the only
country which spends more money upon ed
ucation than on war or the preparation for
war. Great Britain does not spend one
third as much; France not One-ninth; or
Russia one twenty-ninth on education as on
the army"
A volume is offered for sale in London
which possesses an interest of certain
kind. 1t is manuscript in parchment, a
''Book of Hours belonging to the close of
the fifteenth century, and on the back of the
first page are some words in the handwriting
of Queen Mary of England, written probably
before her accession to the throne.
AT meeting in Chicago the other day Rev.
C. NJ. Wilcox, missionary to China, said that
since 1860 Christianity has made great prog
ress in China. AT that time there were in
the Protestant missions but 400 stations, $50
native preachers and 10000 converts. Now
there were $4,000 converts and correspond
ing increase in stations and preachers. 1t
has been estimated that by 1900 there will
be 100000 Protestant converts in China.
Mrs. Joshee, the Hindoo lady who lately
graduated from the Woman's Medical Col
lege of Pennsylvania, has carefully pre-
served her caste since coming to this coun-
try, since, if she lost it, she could not be of
professional use in high caste families in In
dia on her return home. Every particle of
her daily food she has cooked for herself,
and has served herself at table.
At the recent commencement of London
University thirty girls were made bachelors.
Several of them took high honors, Miss Mary
Madeline Adamson taking first honor as
bachelor of science over her male competi-
tors. One young women who took prize in
medicine is described as looking ''as if sur
gerry in her hands would need no anasthet-
les"
In Moravian graveyard at Greensboro,
n. c., the married women are buried in one
square, the married men in another; in still
another square the maiden ladies, while to-
gether rest the unmarried men. Then in
two other squares are found on one side the
boys and on the other the girls. At the
head of each grave is plain, white marble
slab and the same care and attention Is CIV
en- to each.