The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-09-14
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

New York city's public scool children reg
istered number 15OOOO-many more than
there are teachers and schoolrooms for.
The condition of Robert Garrett is gradu-
ally becoming worse. The late gloomy
weather has depressed him considerably,
and his physicians express small hopes of
his recovery.
President Henry Bergh Of the Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, grows
more and more like his uncle, the originator
of the society, every day. The resemblance
is said to be startling.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is collecting money
to finish the American church in Berlin. One
man in Kansas City, S. NJ. Simpson, one of
the original John Brown men, has given
$1,000 for the purpose
The present fashion for ladies to carry
cats about with them came straight from
Queen Victoria. She recently took num-
Der of her favorite cats from Windsor to Os-
borne. The Guelph folks are all rather fond
of cats. Princess Louise brought an assort-
ment with her to Ottawa when she came as
governess general.
said to be about $1,000 ton, which would
make 57-ton gun cost $4,000. The giant
gnns, like human giants, are early affected
with consumptiye tendencies. Some officers
estimate the vitality of giant gun at two
hundred discharges, while Others say it is
setting it too high. Assuming that 57-ton
gun is practically used up after Two hundred
discharges, the cost of depreciation per dis
charge is therefore 1926, in addition to ex-
pensive projectiles and cartridges.
A Philadelphia paper has been making
little collection of Senator Evarts's with
cisms 1t says that Eyarts once remarked
of Rhode Island that sit was settled by the
Dutch; the Yankees settled the Dutch;"
and of certain Christians who landed in New
England. They praised God and fell upon
their knees-then they fell upon the aborigi-
nese." The ex-secretary also sent to Ban
croft this letter
Dear Bancroft am very glad to send you two
products of my pen to-day-a barrel of picked pig
pork and my eulogy on Chief Justice Chase.
Yours, EvARTs
The Charleston News and Courier, noting
the addition of the names of thirty-seven
Revolutionary widows to the pension rolls
during the last fiscal year, says: sit is a Pc
cularity with the men who won our indie
pendence that they began fighting early and
kept up marrying late Born in 1854, they
did not leave this world until they lived out
their threescore and ten, and sometimes
more than that; and before l,aving they
married girls about sixteen or seventeen,
who now at the age of seventy, have discov-
cred that they are entitled to pensions. 1t is
probable that it will be ten years yet before
the last Revolutionary widow is heard from.
AS for those Of the Mexican war, they will
be turning up for the next fifty years. SAM
tary science has done something to lengthen
the term of lite in this country, but our lib
eral pension laws have done much more"
The death of Lester Wallack may be said
to close an era in the history of the theatre
in this country, and the transfer to Mr..
Palmer's hands of the play house that so
long bore the name seems to emphasize the
fact that the Wallack race has run its course.
writes correspondent of the Boston Tran
script. The dead comedians son, Arthur,
never appeared upon the stage. He seemed
to inherit none of the family aptitude for the
footlights. He tried his hand at managing
the theatre, but i'll luck seemed to attend his
efforts, and he has now gone into other
business. One looks around in vain for any
one who is to fill the place that Wallack
occupied for so many years to the delight of
| tens OF thousands. Who has his fine ply
sique. his gallant, dashing bearing, his cool
| assurance, his devil-may-care air, his ease of
manner, his perfect self-possession Who,
| In a word, is to take his place as the juvenile
| hero, admired of the ladies of comedy? So
| lar as one can see, the place will long remain
untitled. Probably the most popular come
dian we now have is young Sothern, but his
| style is very different from Wallack's, and if
| he comes to fill as high place in the estima-
| ton of the public as did WallacK, it will be
| an altogether different place. We shall have
to wait. am afraid, for Wallack's successor
| to be born. .isE ecssta