The Portland daily press., 1888-05-10
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The Rev. E. E. Hale has been obliged by
poor health to withdraw from the staff of
preachers for Harvard College.
1t was noticed that the Chicago newspa-
pers spoke with evident pride of the fact that
Melville w. Fuller, nominated for Chief JUS
tice of the United States. enjoyed practice
worth $30,O00a year. The New York pa
pers declare that to many New York law
yers such a practice is insignificant.
Mrs. Virginia Thompson, postmistress of
Louisville, KY, is having hard fight with
the Democratic spoilsmen of the region, who
insist that the Republican employees of the
post office shall be dismissed. She has even
been summoned to Washington in the course
of the fight. AT present the battle is in sus-
pense.
The Memphis Avalanche is advocating the
formation of new State by cutting off
slices from West Tennessee, East Arkansas,
North Alabama and North Mississippi. And
it wants to have the new State named "Ten-
narklamiss," which is barbarous combina-
tion of the first syllables in the names Of
these four States.
The committee appointed by the national
encampment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public to cooperate with the Army Of the
Tennessee in erecting monument to Gen.
John A. Logan, consists of Gen. r. A. AL
ger of Detroit, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin of
Bangor, Me-, Gen. James A. Beaver of Har-
risburg, Pa, Gen. John M. Palmer of Spring
field, H., and II. II. Thomas of Chicago.
During the deadlock in Congress Repre-
sentative Taulbee, of Kentucky was the vic
tim of practical joke which gave him a
severe cold. One night he fell asleep in the
House, in big chair near window. Some
wicked colleagues found him there, took off
one of his shoes and placed his bare foot on
the window sill. A few hours afterward he
awoke, and found his shoe hanging on gas
bracket at the other side of the chamber,
while he had caught cold through the ex-
posed foot.
queer incident happened at Cincinnati
last week. A broker named Hummel, be-
coming discouraged, shot himself, though
not fatally After surgeon had dressed his
wounds a Newfoundland dog pushed his
way into the bedroom and mounted guard
over his master. No one dared enter so
fiercely faithful was the dog to his trust for
a long time, and when Mrs. Hummel finally
attempted to 60 to her husband she was
badly bitten and driven back. A policeman
was finally called in to shoot the dog
A Washington correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Telegram writes: II was talking
with a physician the other day about the
Kaiser's throat. In that connection he told
me of serious effect it is having in this
country. He said that the constant publica-
ton concerning the Emperor's trouble, COM
ing after all the talk the illness of Gen.
Grant provoked, has caused general fear
among public men, who do much talking,
that they may have the same trouble. He
told me that since this matter has been so
much agitated he has had a score of men,
bers of Congress and Senators come to him
to have their throats examined for caLcer.
None have actually been threatened with
that dread disease, but he has had difficulty
to convince some of them that they were not
already beyond cure. Some have stopped
smoking for fear that might produce the
disease, and they consult the doctor very
often. AS matter of fact, throat trouble is
very common among the orators in Congress,
but it is not of cancerous character"