The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-25
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


Fl. S. FHrber. Jr., is yonng man not yet
2c-who is preparing to found a great uni
yersity in Chicago after that of Heidelberg.
He will devote ST. 100000 as an inducement
for other citizens to join in the movement.
He is a graduate Of the late Chicago Uni
versity and is now in Berlin studying.
Frederick Ellison, who was appointed con-
sui to the island of st. Helena by President
Cleveland, is in Washington to hand in his
resignation of the position, and will soon
return to his home in indianapolis. Ind. He
says that st. Helena is so dismal that he
wonders that Napoleon survived so long as
he did his exile on that dreary rock. Mr. Ellis
ON landed on the island at night Had he
reached it in the daytime, he says he never
would have gone ashore.
Willard Fillmore Brown, aged one month,
is the most conspicuous person at Lynn,
Mass, at the present time. he weighs one
pound and seven ounces, and Is called the
Smallest specimen of humanity on EARTH
Physicians said he could not live, but he
has defied them and is doing more than his
share in the support of the family. AS MS
parents are not rich, bank is placed on a
shelf, and visitors make deposits suited to
their own inclinations.
W. M. Gibson, ex-prime minister Of the
Hawaiian Islands under King Kalakaua who
died in San Francisco on Saturday evening
of consumption, had a rather strange career.
In 1852 he was arrested in New York for
irving to violate our neutrality laws by TAX
ing arms into Venezuela. Escaping IN
small schooner, he sailed for Brazil. From
that country he went to Sumatra. There he
stirred up the native chiefs to rebel against
the Dutch Government One OF his letters
was captured and he was arrested by the
Dutch authorities. tried and condemned to
death. He escaped after eighteen months
imprisonment, reached Liverpool ana made
tie acquaintance of Hawthorne, who was
then consul at that port, and who records IN
his Notebook" his impressions OF this curl
GUS and agreeable man. In the end Gibson
borrowed Of him, but never repaid, money
enough to bring him to the United STATES.
He made a claim for indemnity agalnsI UT tne
Marcy, secretary of State, urged Mr. Bel
mont, minister at the Hague, to press It vlg'
| orously The Dutch Government hesltateo
| and Mr.. Marcy directed Mr.. Belmont TO lnti
| mate that unless the money was PAID az once
war would be declared. The Dutch Govern
ment finally sent to Washington the treason
able letter which Gibson had despatched U
| the native chiefs of Sumatra The letter
| mysteriously disappeared, and shortly aItel
| the claim against Holland was dropped
| Gibson soon put himself in communicates
with Brigham Young, and urged him to taxi
| the Mormons to some of the islands Of tn,
| Pacific, where they would not be molested
| Reinp encouraged by Young, Gibson lett 1ol
| the Hawaiian Islands in 1860, where ne sool
| became leader of the Mormons Inc klne
| made him prime minister, and he more tnai
| answered the kings expectations. ~
| proved INSCRIPTIONS, active, suggestive ant
| industrious. But the whites always mis-
trusted him, and believed that he contrlye'
many. of the foolish measures which the KIM
adopted.