The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-10-12
Personal AND PECULIAR.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the author of "Rob-
ert Elsmere," illustrates beredity-being a
niece of Matthew Arnold and granddaughter
OF Thomas Arnold.
Miss Edna Lyall devoted the profits of her
most popular novel to the purchase of peal
of bells for the village church at Eastbourne,
England.
There is brother of ex-Marshal Bazaine
still living in Franco. he is an engineer.
and his two sons are promising young Off
GERS in the French army. They have OBJ
tanned the authorization of the chancellerie
70 tack on their mothers surname to the
family patronymic, and their name is given
as Bazaine-Hayter in the army list.
The daughter Of the King of Shov has re-
Gently married the eldest son of King John
Of Abyssinia with splendor unparalleled in
modern ceremonies. The crown worn by
the bride is regarded as the one which
aecked the head Of the Queen Of Sheba.
according TO the native records, il has been
IN the possession Of the Ethiopian kings for
rs centuries.
MISS MILDLY Morgan, the live stock re-
porter of the New York Times, and ''the best
judge Of cattle in America" is thus de-
scribed by recent observer: Every after
noon Miss Morgan may be seen vending her
way through the crowd on Park Row,
dressed in a costume resembling the uniform
OF the Salvation Army in everything but the
distinctive col0rs of that eccentric garb.
Archbishop Corrigan is the youngest Of
the Roman Catholic bishops and presides
over the largest See. He is tall and well
built and has the step of an athlete and the
manner Of courtier. He seldom uses a
coach, and when he cannot walk. rides in a
horsecar. In his dress he is altogether un-
assuming also. Bishop Corrigan was born
In little white frame house on Market
street, Newark, N. j., used since as saloon,
and later as newspaper officc.
Mrs. Hemenway, who has contributed vast
resources to archaeological researches in New
Mexico and Arizona, and Lieut.. Frank Cush-
ing, who is in charge of the excavations
being made there, have sent a carload of
objects to Boston, from long-buried civiliza-
tions, and these curious relics, amounting to
some ten tons, are now stored In ware
house. To accommodate and preserve these
Mrs. Hemenway is about to build museum,
which will be known as the "School of
American Antiquities" and on the plans of
which architects are now engaged. 1t will
be located on little cape iutting out from
salem, across the bay from Salem, across the
bay from that historic old city. Prof. Edward
5. Morse will be one of the corps of instruc-
tors, which, 1t is thought, will also include
the celebrated Dutch ethnologist. Mr.. Ten
Kate, and other eminent psychologists. 1t
will be the first institution of this kind in
America.
1t has been alleged, writes Henry Labou-
chere in the London World, that John Bun
yam was aplagiarist. and that 1.-THE Pilgrim S
Progress" is literal translation from the
French of work entitled "Ye Pilgrimage OF
We Sowle." by Guillaume de Guleville, a
monk of the 18th century, a translation Of
which was printed by Caxton in 1S43. 1t is
believed that copy OF the original French
manuscript is to be found either in the
British Museum or in the Bodleian, and il
might be worth while to search for IL. in
order that the question may be decided. II
bunyan's originality had been doubted while
Lord Macaulay was alive, he would very
quickly nave taken steps TO ascertain the
sIusn bunyan was undoubtedly accused Of
plasialism Dy his contemporaries, but mod
eIn reviewers and biographers have ignored
THESE charges. His Holy War" appears to
have been anticipated by st. Bernard, the
translation OF Whose Spiritual Combat" is
TO be found In book now in the British
Museum, entitled "A Hive of Sacred Homie
Combes," which was printed at "Doway'' in
1851.