The Portland daily press., 1889-03-26
PERSONAL AMo PECULIAR.

Hyde, Nebraska farmers have organized
hail insurance company.
The widow Of Richard A. Proctor the as
tronomer, now living in Florida, has beer
granted civil pension of $500 a year b.
! Queen Victoria.
Mrs. Harrison has had new grand plan,
placed In her private parlor. The instrumen
is finished in Circassian walnut and the FIRE
work OF the front Is lined with yellow satin
Perhaps Miss Pauncefote, daughter of til,
new British minister to this country, ma,
carry off All American husband. and so re
verse the order of the last decade. She is ,.
! years old, graceful dancer and moreover /
!, handsome young woman.
Miss Susie Hale, sister of Edward Everett
Hale, was successful teacher and painter
In water colors before she became an author
She was friend of the late TON, Apple
! ton, and edited his life and letters. She has
gone With a party Of Boston friends to ioin
the yacht Gitania in the Mediterranean.
New York harbor pilots have made a good
record for the past year. They steered 40.
| 100000 people, and not one death was caused
by collision. Out Ola total loss of life in the
United States waters of 2O2 persons. ONLY
twelve deaths occurred on New York boats
| While they carried four-fifths of all the pas.
sengers il, the United States
Miss Kate Field is beginning crusade in
In favor of high license bya lecture on the
the "lntemperance of Prohibition" Miss
Field gives history of sumptuary legislation
in all prohibition States, and claims that
they encourage authorizations and educate
the people in hypocrisy. She will soon enter
the field ia Massachusetts for high license.
The $20,0OO,000 Capitol at Albany is des-
tined to be perpetual source of revenue for
somebody. Tie ceiling job is not yet settled
and now the state board of health wants an
appropriation of $4,000 to improve the ven
tllation and sewerage of the building. The
Capit0l commissioner says that the building
can De completed for $500, 600, but that does
NOT include the correction of bad Jobs which
are constantly turning up.
Farmers who want to set up business in
the glorious climate of Nicaragua have an
excellent inducement in the offer of the
Niearaguan government to import 100 fam
ilies OF agriculturists per year. Each family
Is offered from twenty-five to 100 acres of
land, SlO0 In cash and fifty dollars worth of
farming implements. One inducement is
freedom from the burdens of general and
local taxation. Living in Nicaragua is easy
AFTER You get used to IL, and people who can
resist the propensity to become law and
shftless can make money there.
Since the reports of the extraordinary re-
ceipts of 'The Old Homestead" at the
New York Academy have been so widely
published, Denman Thompson has become
mark for all the cranks and begging letter
writer's to aim at. One day a telegram adj
dressed to him from Washington was receiy-
ed at the box office, and the G. .. ID. charges.
o. q &C cents, thereon were duly paid. The mes
Thompson, read; Have been robbed. Am
In great distress Wire me $40. MIR.
thompson answered G. o. D.: Il, too. have
been robbed of 81 cents by your telegram"
President Harrison is getting the reputa-
ton, among the office-seekers who swarm
about the White House, of being something
OF sphinx. One head of a DELEGATION
who visited him a few days ago came back
TO his hotel in state of boiling wrath. His
followers gathered about him. "Well. thav
exclaimed. have you fixed the slate?'' Il
1on Know" he answered savagely. "Whv.
him" Didn't he give you chance to ' ex.
plain the situation ?'' "Yes. he gave me- a
chance" And you improved it?" aOf
course did. But tell you, boys, he's one
OF those Internal listeners"
Corporal Tanner, the new Pension Com
mmlsssspsr Asla sRBsesitjGn in the New York
there came an addition Corporal Tanners
family. The father having taken deem i'm
terest in the election of HAYES. and the sinh
sequent proceedings which gave him his seat
decided In moment Of patriotic feryor To
call the child Rutherford b. The name
was, therefore, fixed fact, aud the how
Waxed lat and grew apace for several weeks.
Az tile end OF few weeks after Hayes's in
ductl0n into Office Tanner, the 'legiess ora
tor. was summarily removed from his
positlon In the custom house to make room
LOT a less active politician. Thereupon he
. leu 70 ms nome, and, having assembled
the family, instantly declared off ali nre-
ylous announcements as to name and record
, Inc boy was then reehristened with a less
name. 'o''
women are to vote on certain municipal
questions in Detroit, Mich, for the first time
This spring. Registration began Friday
morning. Mrs. Mary T. aioreley was the
lrst woman to register. 1t was curious to
see the effect OF woman's presence in the
saloons, where many of them were con,pelled |
10 register. Some of the saloons were dec. |
lraied and none made any attempt to sell |
iquor while women were present One |
iealer was unable to stand the sight of |
Somen N his saloon and moved the office of |
eglstration next door. In the home circles |
friday evening the one topic of conversation |
vas TIE new experience of the women |
Many man who opposes woman suffrage |
md supposed his wife did, was astonished TO |
ee her name IN the newspaper lists of the |
eglstered Minister L. W. Palmer lust an |
pointed as Minister TO Spain, sent to one Of |
ne woman suffragists of Detroit this des
Patch: Il send you congratulations: let |
very woman register and vote; it means
, ,,a CONSIDERATION for the affiuent better
wages for the struggling, better laws. better
,ncers and a better state. The morning
lght is breaking, the darkness disappears