The Portland daily press., 1888-05-04
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Each of the eight daughters of the Maine
born man who is to be Chief Justice Fuller
has her own parlor and her own piano.
Among prominent society girls of Wash
ington who have become nuns within COM
paratively recent period are Miss Febiger,
daughter of Rear Admiral Febiger; Miss
Constance Edgar, Col. Bonaparte's step
daughter; Miss Bertha Gerolt, daughter of a
former German Minister, and Miss Sands,
daughter of Rear Admiral Sands
A London paper prints story that Chief
Justice Waite. left his family in poverty, and
contrasts the salaries paid to judges in
America and England! where the Lord
American Chief Justice for less work and
for less responsibility. Yet nobody here
thinks the English judges overpaid. The
word applied to the American treatment of
the bench is ''beggarly."
Ex-senator Powell Clayton, of Arkansas,
just chosen as delegate at large to Chicago,
is only little over so years of age, but he
looks older, for he dresses good deal like a
Western granger now, and is not the careful
natty and elegant man he was when he
served his term in the United States Senate
some twelve years ago. He was Pennsyl-
vania boy and wandered out to Kansas in
his early life. When the war broke out he
went into the first regiment raised there, and
when the strife was over he was a Brigadier
General, and without $40 in the world. He
rented an abandoned and half ruined plan
tation in Arkansas, and in less than ten
years he was millionaire and Governor of
the State.
Books in Cuba are few and costly. There
are not as much news and miscellany in any
single issue of an Havana newspaper as are
given in three columns Of any American
daily. But the intellectual hunger must be
satisfied, and there have grown out of these
conditions large number of lectors or read
ers These go from one shop to another and
often from house to house among the lowly
and read and comment upon the insignifi-
cant worlds news which the lifeless papers
occasionally print. They are we'll paid for
as they must roar like mad bulls in their
readings so that the 500 or 1000 hands in a
great cigar factory can all catch the precious
words they soon lose their voices altogether.
In the full tide of his prosperity or certain
decay the Cuban lector is as stern and POM
pOus as the American actor.
The life and death of Mr.. Arnold have a
lesson of hope and warning for the large
number who suffer from heart disease, says
the British Medical Times. Twenty-Five
Clark, and was told that he had valvular
disease of the heart, but was advised that if
he exercised care it need not interfere with
his career. For many years he rigidly adj
hered to the recommendations as to regimen
and exertlon given to him, and it is interest
ing and encouraging for patients having
heart disease to recall that nearly all his
serious work in criticism, education and
theology was done within the last twenty
five years. Such life is striking proof
that heart disease, even of type generally
accounted serious-for Mr.. Arnold had dis
ease of the mitral and aortic yaves-need
not interfere with the labor or enjoyment of
a successful career, provided only the limita-
tions and moderate restrictions to which
the individual must submit are frankly rec
ognized. Emboldened by impunity, patients
are disposed to believe that the precautions
have been unnecessary and to relax their
vigilance at the very time when the approach
of old age renders all liable to weakness Of
the heart.