The Portland daily press., 1888-11-15

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


Some time ago Professors Morse and
Sweet of South Chicago, agreed to eat crow
If Harrison was elected, provided Messrs.
Smiley and Kendall. two prominent citizens
Of the place, would do the same upon the
election OF Cleveland. Monday the losers
each ate crow nicely toasted, and declared
the dish was equally as good as duck. Each
mouthful was washed down with good
gulp of wine.
General Harrison now receives his mail in
an express wagon. Mondays grst included
fifteen hundred letters and four bags of
newspapers, to say nothing of hundred
telegrams. The General requests the press
to announce that he would like very much to
formally, at least, acknowledge every COM
munlcation sent him, but that there are now
seven thousand unanswered epistles on his
hands, and he must abandon the attempt
Chauncey M. Depew will deliver the ora
tion at the centennial celebration of Wash
iington's inauguration in New York April 30
next. DIR. storrs will offer prayer, Whittier
will read poem, Archbishop Corrigan will
pronounce the benediction and the President
OF the United States will speak. Foreign
dlgnltarles and American notables will take
part There will be grand parade. 1t is
proposed to raise $4,000 for the expenses of
When Governor HIPS second elective term
expires January /, 1892, he will have held the
Office for seven yearsa longer period than
any New York Governor since Daniel d.
TOmpkins, who occupied it for ten years
from 1907 to 1917. The only other incunl-
bency in the history of the State which has
been longer than Hills will be was that of
George Clinton, whose amazing popularity
kept him In the governors chair the eighteen
years from 1777, beginning under the Con-
RECREATION, TO 1875. William Marcy had six
years, which was two terms then, and De
Witt Clinton, the father of the Erie Canal.
had six months less. Seward had only four
years and Sillas Wright but two
Alaska sealskins," said fur dealer on
Broadway the other day. fare dressed and
dyed in London for this market. They are
considered superior to Victoria, Lobus, and
Copper Islands skins or China and japan
products. Some manufacturers here grade
the Alaska skins and use the cheaper grades
for caps, gloves, lap robes. and small goods.
Experts can tell frst-class grades by touch.
Inferior skins do not hold the dive and after
a comparatively short time turn red and
moth eaten. 1t Is almost impossible to reno
yate them. 1t is really cheaper, therefore. to
get genuine first-class sealskin garment at
Ialf price. win proper care frst-class
sealskin should be useful for seven or ten
years."
Every white man who has served under
the explorer Stanley speaks of his remarka-
BILE tacitnrnity. In the years he was found
ing the Congo state stations he kept all his
plans to himself, and his assistants seldom
got an inkling of them until they were
ordered to carry them out. Lieut.. Coquilhat
gives curious instance of this characters
nc. Quite contrary to his usual custom
Stanley one day offered Coquilhat his choice
In the dictatorship of one of two proposed
stations that were TO be started at Luanga
and Ba- Ngala. He told the lieutenant that
Lulanga was the center of large and
friendly popnlace, while the Ba-Ngala,
though the most powerful tribe on the river
were audacious and irritable, and his life
would oe IN danger among them unless he
acted with great discretion. CoQuilhat told
his leader to put him where he could be most
useful Stanley said nothing more, but
orders Up the river they started on their
little steamer, and though Coquilhat won
dered greatly what station he was to take in
charge. Stanley did not drop the slightest
hint. IL was not until after several days
travelling the steamer passed Lulanga with
out stopping that CoQuilhat knew that his
Ngala.
1t is reported that the approaching mar
rage of Joseph Chamberlain and Miss Mary
Endicott is unpopular on both sides of the
water. In addition to stepson old enough
to go round making political speeches in the
absence of his father, the young bride will
have to take charge of handsome STEP
daughter about twenty years old. fond of
society and very much displeased at the pros
pect of being deposed from the social leader
ship of her fathers household For nearly
three years this young lady has practically
her fathers magnificent house at
and has made herself very pop
ular. 1t is pretty well settled that Mr..
Chamberlain Is to be made member of the
new Cabinet on its approaching reoganiza-
ton, and Miss Chamberlain had some hopes
OF reigning over her fathers establishment
In London next season. This does not
promise peaceful reign for the new bride.
Beacon street blue blood In Boston is all up
In opposition to the union also. A society
leader who lives ON Commonwealth avenue
~ the modern Athens, and whose family has
peen IN society almost since the first Puritan
landed ON Plymouth Rock, speaks in the fol-
lowing language of the Wedding: .sWe do
not like 1t. Neither does the Fndicott fam
lily. mary Endicott could have married
much DetteI without sending abroad for a
husband. Her blood Is much bluer than Mr..
Chamberlain's, too, Then he has had two
wives already and has six children. the cid.
est year older than the BRIDE"