The Portland daily press., 1888-05-16

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Four years ago the body of s. o. Gillette
was buried in the City Cemetery of Augusta,
Ga. The other day it was disinterred to be
placed in another part of the cemetery.
Then it was found that the body had been
completely petrifed. The face was a trife
shrunken and a shade or so darker than in
life and when one of the workmen accident
ally struck it, it gave out metallic sound.
A feature of the coming centennial exhibit
ton at Cincinnati will be the house in which
General Grant was born. 1t will be f0ated
down the river intact, then put on wheels
and taken to the exhibition grounds, where
the curious will be able to see it for SO much
head. This ingenious scheme is worth the
attention of the Grant monument committee
of New York. Perhaps they might increase
their funds by initiating it.
Representative Allen of Massachusetts is
devoting great deal of his time in Washing
ton to amateur photography. Recently
poor widow in Lowell wrote to him saying
that her husband, private in Massaclu-
sets regiment. lay buried somewhere in the
National cemetery on Arlington hill. She
had long wished To see his grave, but has al
ways been too poor to make the journey to
the capital. Mr.. Allen thereupon seized his
camera, found the grave, and made clever
photograph of the spot.
1t has been observed that society women
in New York are more thoroughly realizing
the Importance of good health, and are even
much stronger and healthier, as a rule, than
the men are. A few minutes on Broadway, be-
tween Fourteenth street and Thirty-second;
ON the west side of the street, of Saturday
afternoon, will demonstrate the truth of this
assertion. The women, as rule, are fresh
F. t...f- he d. rrnlI
poised and their arms well rounded. Their
figures are trim and they walk along with
strong and regular stride. The men, on the
other hand, are too often sallow and loose
jointed, fat-chested and hOllow-eyed, as a
result Of too many cigarettes and too much
strong drink.
A Washington despatch says that Con-
gresham John d. Long contemplates retir-
ing to private life. 1t is said that he finds
his fiftieth birthday coming in the very next
October, and 50 much of life gone, with no
opportunities for accommodating much prop
erty. He has been in State offices since 1876,
and a public career, as he has known
1t, is not money-making occupation The
young lawyer from bingham got into the
Massachusetts General Court in 1875, and
stayed four terms, being Speaker for three.
Then he was Observation-Disclosures year
and Governor for three years, appointing
commissioners, attending cattle shows, and
translating Virgil. His smile and his men,
DRY for faces got to be tradition from Grey
lock to Gosnold. Then he began running for
Congress from the Second district, and has
been elected three times. Henry Cabot
Lodge and the young men ran him for Sena-
tor little over year ago, but Treasurer
Beard elected Mr. Dawes. That Imay have
been the first thing that set the Governors
ind ann .Sta ALL 81 h olf - A
rate the Routine of the House does not seem
to inspire him with any desire to come back
to it. His old law partners, Allen & Hemen-
way, will be glad to take him back again.
Many persons who view the Capital at
Washington from the east express surprise
that the pediment of the porticos of the
Senate wing and the main or middle entrance
are ornamented with statuafy, while that of
the House partico is not so embeilished.
The latter is entirely plain. This difference
grows out of the fact that the Senate wing
was completed before the war and the House
wing during the war. Plans were all pre-
pared for bronze doors for the House wing,
ornamented with historical work, as the
Senate has, butno appropriation has ever
been made to pay for them. The models are
in possession of Architect Clark. The mod
els contemplate six panels, one the battle of
Lexington, one the sentence of Col. Hayne
at Charleston, one the Declaration of INDIE
pendence, one the signing of the treaty of
Paris, and the sixth Washington surrender
ing his commission. One of the medallions
represents war in the death of Montgomery,
and the other peace, showing Franklin in his
study. An early movement looking to an
appropriation for completing the House
wing in accordance with the original designs
is contemplated. The statuary for the pedi-
ment of the portico will be historical, and
the bronze doors will be like those of the
Senate wing, with the chronological repre-
SentatiOnS as contained in the models.