The Portland daily press., 1886-12-23
CLEvELAND's STANDING AT HOME.
New York World
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Secretary Lamar 5 rumored marriage seems
to have vanished into thin air.
Mr.. William M. Singerly, of the Philadel
phia Record, offers to build at his own cost a
toboggan slide in Paramount Park, for free
public use.
1t will take somewhat over million to
pay the outstanding claims against the
Freedmen's bank Good lawyers say it is q
valid claim against the United States.
Jay Gould's daughter Helen has become
interested in the Presbyterian church OF
Forty-Second street near Fifth Avenue
whose pastor is Rev. Dr. John r. Paxton
and Mr. Gould has just taken pew at $751;
600 year, and goes to church there.
The quarrel over the Battenberg baby.
cradle is stirring English society. The
Prince Of Wales hates his brother-in-law
Princess Beatrices husband is soldier o.
approved courage, courteous and amiable
gentleman, and he is SO much better looking
than the princes of the royal house of Eng
land that his presence makes them very un
comfortable; hence their hatred.
Samuel J. Tilden was not the only distin
guished lawyer whose will has stood in dan
ger of cancellation because of yagueness
The author of standard work ON wills
Lord st. Leonards, high chancellor of Eng
land, left a testament in his own writing
that was contested and set aside for lega
reasons.
Colonel George Northrup, one of the best
known railroad men in the South, and the
drill master who developed the invinciblt
De Molay Commandery Knights Templal
of Louisville has been adiudged insane II
the Circuit Court. He is about forty-sever
years old. has been prominent Mason fol
years, and is known all over the country.
Prof. Pliny Earle Chase, whose death has
just been announced, was ono of the most
accomplished linguists in the country. He
could readily converse in eight different Ian.
guages, and he could with little difficulty
read and write a hundred more But he did
not give all his attention to philology. He
excelled as scientist and received the Ma
gellan medal for a scholarly paper on mag
netism and gravity.
The notorious ex-Alderman Walsh is said
to be the choice of the New York board of
charities for warden of the Tombs prison.
Mr.. Walsh was candidate for alderman in
1884, but was beaten o., q close vote by Kirk
of Doodle notoriety. What a narrow esca De
/ hadv was his comment on recent develop
ments concerning members of that famous
board.
The Duke OF Marlboro, who has gained an
unenviable notoriety in the Colin Campbell
divorce suit, its middle-szed, slight and sal
low, with Uranium which has entirely
grown through his hair, and he has the spe-
eies of badness of a tonsured monk He
has, withal, somewhat of an aristocratic air.
But there is no family likeness between him
and his more illustrious brother, Lord Ran
dolph Churchill.
DIR. McGlynn, the Catholic priest of New
York, who has been summoned to Rome to
explain his activity in behalf of Henry
George, is described as a man having a
pleasant face, with the square jaw and thin
lips of resolution and determination. His
oratory is fluent and convincing, and is gen.
orally interspersed from fund of humor
and mimicry on which he can call at will.
There is not much doubt that if he had been
less aggressive as a politician and more of a
conservative student he would long ago have
been bishop, and maybe now, the arch
bishop of New York.