The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-05-15
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


Mr. Leonard SWEET is esteemed the great
est horseback rider of Chicago.
Lord Rosebery leads the movement for
introducing fast trotting horses into the
realm OF English sport.
Mrs. Frances Hedgsdon Burnett, Profess
sor Maria Mitchell and Mr.. I. b. Aldrich
will be among the summer residents OF
Lynn, Mass.
Chauncey NJ. Depew has lately purchased
for himself the fine four-story brick house at
No. 40 w. 54th ST., New York city. He paid
$4,000 for it.
Nelson's old flagship, the Victory, will
again float in Portsmouth Harbor. The
Lords of the Admiralty have voted 900
toward making her hull watertight, and the
work has been commenced.
In cemetery at Sacramento, Cal, lie the
remains of son of Alexander Hamilton,
first secretary of the United States treasury.
Colonel Hamilton was a man of rowing dispo-
sition, He commanded regiment of Illi-
nois volunteers in the Black Hawk war.
The Prussian Crown of 1701 can no longer
be worn. 1t was fitted at the time to be
worn over long wig, and therefore it is far
too large. The Emperor William ON the
occasion of his coronation had new crown
made for himself. When the Court jeweler
delivered it, he requested the King to try it
Oil, but the King declined, saying that he
could not possibly consent to try on a
crown, which he was first to place upon his
head on so solemn an occasion as a corona
ton.
English biologists are much interested in a
discovery near Yeovil, in South Somerset
shire, of truly magnificent fossil of an
ichthyosaurus % feet in lfngth, with jaw
of feet, furnished with large conical teeth.
1t fell to pieces when the surrounding clay
was loosened, but can be restored. What is
notable about the find Is that all previous
English specimens of this fish reptile were
found in seaclffs in Dorset. whereas this
was excavated about midway between the
Bristol and English Channels. 25 miles from
either.
| All the base there is for the annual hon.
| age in England to the memory of the late
| Lord Beaconsfeld on Primrose Day is a
phrase in letter from Victoria, sent with a
bunch of primroses to be placed on Beacons-
fields bier, s'The primrose that he loved so
we'll" 1t has since been explained that she"
! was q pr0n0un for Prince Albert, but the
| stanch Tories will not believe it. Nor Will
! they listen to those who point out that
| Disraeli expressed liking for the primrose
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| excellent salad.
An enterprising carpet dealer in Boston
put coupon advertisement in every Boston
paper for one week. The coupon was good
| for 81 in buying rug, and bore the name of
the paper so that it could be counted. The
sale was great success, the coupons were
| all counted in the presence of Representatives
| of the different papers. and sworn state
mauf mq0a Of the rpSnlt THE R0CTnN
DAILY GLOBE came out ahead, selling 1923
| per cent the Herald 26.5S per cent. and the
Journal 1917 per cent and the other papers
dividing the remainder. 1t was a great vic
| tory for The GLOBE, which offers reward
| of $1,000 to any man who can prove that il
has not the largest circulation of any Boston
| newspaper.
/ The New York Worlds Washington cor
| respondent tells good story respecting the
date of the Republican National Convention.
Senator Bowen of Colorado, wanting to
know the exact day of its assembling, asked
Senators Allison, Hawley and Sherman, and
neither of them could recollect the day.
Allison is reported to have said, HIN, let
me see; think it is some time early in
June, but the exact date has slipped my
memory" Hawley responded, "Why--oh,
| yes-why, it is funny / do not recall the
| along about the middle of June. Seems to
me it's the 18th or 16th-perhaps a little
| earlier" Sherman responded, why, in
| June, along the latter part somewhere
/ about the 18th, l think-may be the 18th.
| Queer should forget the exact date" A
bright clerk was then Intercepted, who in
| stantly replied, June 10TH" On being
asked how he knew, he answered, because
have read it a hundred times to-day, as
| have just finished sending off lot OF circu-
lars for Senator Sherman, reminding friends
| of his of the exact date"
Edward Rowland, who was notable
figure among the rollicking literary Bohe-
mians Of New York thirty years ago, when
he lost his money in that satirical organ,
| the Saturday Press, but who has long lived
In the retirement Of New Jersey village,
was seen by his old-time friends last week
as he was taking his departure for his native
land. Mr. Rowland and his wife, who is
| known as a novelist are now on their way
| to Mexico, where they will begin new life
as members of the curious American social
ist colony at Topolabampo, in the State of
| Sinaloa. They have been promoters of this
| scheme for years past, and have now determ-
| ined to join their fortunes with those of the
| 40 pioneers who are encamped there, and
| prosecuting the industries necessary to their
| existence. The Topolabampo colony, in
which President Dfaz of Mexico takes en-
| interest, was recently visited by Commander
| Leary of the naval vessel Iroquois, by order
| of the Navy Department at Washington,
| and he has made an official report of his
| visit, in which he says he found the colo
nists not only cheerful and contented, but
| enthusiastic over their prospects of success
When it we proposed to substitute modern
desks for the venerable, rickety frames at
| which Rugby school boys study, all England
rose up in protest. The desks hau no ntrin-
sic value but on them was carved the ''Dulce
| Domunl" of many homesick boy of the last
| century, and it was an easy task to find on
| them cut in boyish fashion the initials OF
many warrior, statesman and scholar
whose achievements the world has since
| hOnored. The march of progress is stirring
| up similar sentiment at Y ale College. A
| friend of the institution has donated funds
| with which to erect a recitation hall to cost
$4,000; unfortunately specifying thar the
| site shall be the corner now grit by THE
| Yale fence" This ancient institution con-
| sists of nothing but three weather-beaten
| bars, but on them generations of collegians
| have sat and smoked and sung the happy
hours of youth away. Each class has its
| section, and no encroachment by a member
/, of one class upon the part assigned by tradi-
| tion to the class above him is tolerated The
| college boys are holding mass meetings and
the. graduates are petitioning in protest
| against the removal of this time-honored
institution, even in return for magnificent
building. 1t Is th0uget the donor may be
| induced to withdraw his provision that the
building shall occupy this sacred corner of