The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-12-31
Personal AND PECULIAR.

Col. William E. Earle of Washington has
presented the State OF South Carolina with
the seal Of the confederate States of Amer
lea, The seal was made in England and
reached Richmond. Va. just before the close
of the war. tell into the hands of Col
Earle after the evacuation of Richmond.
President Carnot and Queen Ranavalo of
Madagascar have been exchanging photo
graphs and presents lately at a rate which
would give gossips much food for talk were
not M. Darnot very sedate family man. 1t
seems that M. Carnot's gentle but firm look
aud black beard. to say nothirg of his brilliant
decoration as an officer of the Legion of Honor
captivated the Swarthy queen What i'm
preston her majesty's portrait made on the
president is not reported. As a testimony of
her regard, the queen sent to the president a
piece Of shell work, and M. Carnot, not to be
outdone, retaliated with diamond bracelet.
This set the queen wild, and as evidence of
the depth of her admiration, she sent back
monkey to her good friend. Nine. Carnot
now came on the scene and acknowledged
this gift with neatly turned compliment
and pair of earrings.
All through the autumn there has been an
army of workmen in the Grants new house,
on Seyenty-third street New York city which
was purchased with the proceeds of the Gen.
erals book, and cost complete something
like 100000. 1t is big house, with room
enough i9g Mrs. saEse.Is ans Der ehlarse
there in the future. The sons. too, will be
there with their families from time to time,
as Mrs. Grant means the house to be the
home and centre of the entire family. The
first guest in the new house will be the wife
of President-elect Harrison, who Is an old
friend of Mrs. Grant, and even before her
husband was nominated, promised to come
to the new house for long visit as soon as it
was done Originally the Intention was SIM
ply reunion of two quiet, elderly friends,
but as matters now stand Mrs. Grant will
probably throw open her doors and invite
the land. Mrs. Levi 7. Morton, who has a
handsome home on Fifth avenue, three doors
from the one that was occupied through the
campaign by the Republican National COM
be her guest during portion of her stay.
Twodomestic servants, who were hauled up
before Police Justice in Boston the other
day, charged with creating rumpus, indig-
nantly denied having been drunk. They
said that they had been somewhat under the
influence of tea, which was responsible Tor
their eccentric behavior. "But," remarked
the Judge. Il never knew that any one could
become really intoxicated from drinking
tea" mo more they can, yer honor" was
the reply; I'VE ate it." 1t Is becoming quite
a popular vice in Boston, and presumably
elsewhere, this tesa Ga writes CORE
And, curiously enough, its victims are mostly
found among the "help," who, having the
household tea caddy always accessible, get
accustomed to helping themselves from it, a
pinch at time of the dry leaves. These
they chew, thus extracting the alkaloid,
which is toxic agent of most powerful de-
scription. Its first effect is an agreeable
exhilaration. Ultimately it induces sleep
lessness and an abnormal condition of mind,
with strange visions and delirium. l. is an
amusing fact, by the way, that when tea was
first brought TO England, about the year 1865,
IL was served experimentaily for eating, in a
bowl, like spinach. For long time after
that 1t was regarded as deadly drug, and
people who sold it were considered dlsre-
putable.
Colorow, the old chief of the Utes, has just
died in his camp at Ouray agency in Utah,
where he took refuge when the detestable
raid Of Colorado white men drove him from
his reservation, and the white men tried to
scare the country into believing that he was
beginning an Indian war, when nothing was
further from his thought. Colorow was the
leader in the cruel Minnesota massacres of
25 years ago, but he had suffered great
wrongs before, and since he has become a
peaceaDle farming Indian. He went by a
nickname; bis real name was "Tss-p-weets"
"a rock, and indicated his character He
was about rs years old and is wildly mourned
by his people. When it was told them he
was dying of pneumonia. they were in a
fever of excitement, and the squaws cut off
their hair in token that the earth had be-
come uninteresting to them. just a few
minutes before he died, the old chief called
Gus, his son to him aud asked to be taken
out to the bank of the White river, where he
was laid on his blankets and died among
the willows of the stream upon which he had
passed the most of his years. Immediately
upon his death, as is the custom, some of the
younger members of the band mounted their
ponies and rode to the ranges, where some
80 or 40 of the best horses were shot, the
Indian belief being that the spirits of the
horses would accompany the spirit of the
chief to the happy hunting grounds.