The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-31
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Mrs. Cleveland, is remarked, has an ex-
cellent memory of names.
Mrs. Langtry will sail for this country
from Liverpool by Cunard Line steamer on
Sept. Is.
w. d. Howells, the author, is expected to
spend the month of August at Long Pond,
Mount Desert, Me.
Rev. e. P Roe begins in the Boston Globe
tomorrow, a story entitled "The Young Hor-
nets" Mr.. Roe's stories are always widely
read and enjoyed
The first female clerk employed by the
Government was Miss Jennie Douglass, APP
pointed to the Treasury Department by
Treasurer Spinner in 1862,
The London Truth says that the Oldest
daughter of the Prince of Wales is common
ly spoken of as ''the worst-dressed girl in
London"
1t is said that Rev. Phillips Brooks, of
Boston, pays to Trinity Church annually the
sum of $500 or upwarCs to secure certain free
seats for poor people
Miss Lynsdale, young American actress
who recently made her been with Miss Gene
We've Ward in England, is said to give indica-
tions of great promise.
The ex-Confederates of Galveston, Tex,
have just learned that Gen. Polignac is alive
and living in Paris. For many months it
has been believed that he was dead
The last heard from Martin Irons, the
Western Knight of Labor, is that he has
lately been detected in an attempt to swindle
his step-daughter.
Senator Mcpherson of NewEJersey, pro-
nounces Lake Kennebago and vicinity, in
Franklin county, Maine, the finest fishing
ground in the world. He proposes to return
in August with Wade Hampton and others.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew Arnold have re-
turned to Lenox, Mass, where they are
spending the summer near their daughter,
Mrs. Whittredge. They have been visiting
Charles Eliot Norton and George William
Curtis at Ashfield.
President Cleveland, Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs.
Folsom, and very select party consisting of
three or four others, will leave Albany on
the 18th or 10th of August for the Adiron-
dacks. Plattsburg will be the point Of ap
proach and departure, and the trip will coy
er from four to six weeks.
Prince Sardansrri Fushimi, one of the four
princes of Japan, and next in rank to the
mikado, has arrived in this country, from
Europe with several other Japanese digni-
taries. The prince left Japan year ago on
voyage around the world, and has already
flDlICu bHV IulOpCdA NOuibllCos 1lC 10
thirty-two years of age.
The Washington correspondent Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial says that Sena-
tor Payne of Ohio has habit of putting his
arm around people when he talks with them.
He usually puts his left arm around their
necks, and if the conversation is of light
character, he punches his victim airily in the
stomach with the forefinger of his right
baud.
The Rev. Charles II. A. Dali, whose death
at Calcutta has been announced, began his
missionary labors in st. Louis, where he
worked with and lived in the family of the
Rev. Dr. Eliot. One day the Eliots had just
sat down to dinner when Dali rushed in,
exclaimed, "The worst case yetp snatched
the dish of roast meat from the table and
rushed away again to give it to poor fami-
1y he had discovered.
Julian Hawthorne, the novelist, who has
summer residence at Sag Harbor, Long
Island, has decided to remove from that
place because some persons unknown to him
are maliciously prosecuting him. The fence
his promises has been torn
down a number of times, and his cattle have
been driven into his gardens; and, not being
able to discover the perpetrators of the out
RACES, Mr.. Hawthorne has made up his mind
to find a residence elsewhere.
Justin Mccarthy pays this tribute to Sir
Charles Dille's abilities as statesman:
"His fall is like that of tower. He stood
high above every other rising English states
man, and but for what has happened he
must have been prime minister after Glad
stone. He would have had hardly even a
for the dosition. He had made
his whole life one of training for political
success. He had sought experience of the
most varied kind, had travelled all over the
world and knew most European countries as
well as he knew his own; He had worn the
Geneva cross on many a battlefield in order
to see something of battle and campaign. He
was intimately acquainted with the politics
of public men in Europe, America, Australia
and the East He knew Russia as well as
Turkey, India and China, and vas to all APP
actually cut out for the part of a
prime minister, who was also secretary for