The Portland daily press., 1886-06-08
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Several young ladies of bingham. Mass,
propose to make tour through New Eng
land on foot during the approaching summer
vacation.
A women's school of journalism has been
opened in Detrsit. The girls are to be
taught type-setting, shorthand, revision OF
manuscript and proof-reading.
A French microscopist has studied the ac-
ton of the various condiments on the It's
sues of the oyster, and recommends lemon
juice as the most valuable, as it destroys the
animalcula infestlng the stomach OF tne NOR
iusk.
In order to keep an engagement in Wash
ington, Mrs F. B. Thurber travelled last
week from Pittsburgh to Washington by
minutes. The distance between the two cit
les is three hundred and four miles. The
run was the fastest on record.
Miss Anne Whitney's portrait statue of
Harriet Martineau is to be given to Welles-
lev College. 1t is of heroic size, and repre-
sents the great English woman and author
as seated in garden chair. 1t has been
characterized as one of the great works of
modern art, and was projected by Mrs. Ma
rie Weston Chapman, at a cost OF $4,000.
DR.. Valentine Mott has made several very
successful experiments with incubation for
hydrophobia, and is now convinced that M.
Pasteur has made one Of the great discov--
cries of the age. He is beginning to treat
cases, and is hopeful that hospital for pa
tients will soon be established in this cOun-
try.
Mr.. Martin Farquhar protests, in the pref
ace to his autobiography, that he is modest
man: that praise, if consciously undeserved,
only depresses him; that one of his unfver.
sally recognized defects is a dislike to any
assumption of dignity; and that if he is not
true, simple and sincere, he is worse than he
hopes he is.
An athletic clergyman speaks of the late
Rev. DIR. E. N. Kirk, the CongregationaliSt
divine, as, almost to the last weeks of his
life, an enthusiastic boxer, who believed that
the use of the gloves was a better exercise
even than fencing. His habit was to give
his strength freely to the sport; and on one
occasion his friend saw him laughing with
the blood streaming down his face.
In recent address of welcome to the Gar
and Czarina of Russia at Moscow, the Gov
ernor of that city expressed the hope that
'tChrists cross will soon shine from st. So
phia." The church referred to is the Agia
Sofia at Constantinople, and has been looked
upon as the cradle of the Greek Church. 1t
was founded by the Roman Emperor Con-
stantine, and has been frequently rebuilt or
renovated. 1t was transformed into a
mosque by Mohammed /.
In view of the large number of criminal
cases in which lawyers plead for their clients
alcoholic dementia, the French government
has instructed all the projects in France to
report on the effects Of drunkenness in incit-
ing to crime; and the French War Minister
has instituted an inquiry into the action OF
liquor in reducing the height of young men,
and debilitating them SO as to render them
unfit for military service.
Miss Kate Stoneman, the first woman ever
admitted to practice in the courts of New
York State, is the sister of Judge Stoneman,
of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and OF
Governor Stoneman, of California, and the
sister-in-law of ex-senator Williams, OF But
falo. She is only thirty-three, and ha3 had
long public career as an advocate of woman
suffrage. Her presence is prepossessing,
and her social gifts are rare. She has been
studying for three years in lawyers ofilce.
The Chinese have the following legend
about the invention Of the fan: "The beauti-
full Kau ST, daughter of powerful manda-
rim, was assisting at the feast Of lanterns,
when she became overpOwered by tho heat.
She was compelled to take OF her mask. But,
as it was illegal to expose her face, she held
her mask before it, and gently f1uttersd 1t to
cool herself. The court ladies present no
tieed it, and in an instant a hundred other
hands were waving their masks. This was
the birth of the fan, which to-day takes the
place of the mask in China"
The Archbishop of Canterbury presided at
a meeting of the bishops of the Church Of
England when the Dean of Lincoln present
ed petition setting forth that excess in
mourning attire, funeral paraphernalia, and
floral decorations was no real indication OF
affection or respect, and urging that burials
should be conducted in the simplest possible
form, in speedily perishable collins. in earth
sufficient and suitable for the resolution Of
the body into its ultimate elements, with
only such accessories as are in accordance
with the Christian principles OF faith, hope
and love"
Minister S. S. Cox, representative of the
United States at Constantinople, has sent to
his nephew, who is chief clerk of the Ma
tional Museum at Washington, an extraor-
dnary souvenir in the shape OF remaTka-
bly, well preserved Egyptian mummy. The
linen bandages in which it was originally
swathed have never been broken, and the
mask and painted cartoons placed about the
bandaged body are perfect. The mummy
case is carved out of logs of acacia wood, the
interior being followed out with an adze,
forming a receptacle into which the mum
my exactly fits. Upon the case is carved and
painted face with a long pointed beard,
evidently meant to be a likeness of the de-
ceased gentleman inside