The Portland daily press., 1889-05-17
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Miss Alice B. Sanger, the Presidents
stenographer, the first woman ever employed
In any such capacity at the White House, is
q native Of a suburb of Boston and was IA
nous for her attainments at school. She Is
related to General N. p. Banks and to Elias
Howe.
/ Some surprise has been expressed because
Mrs. Harrison. wife of the President, has
figured to such small degree in newspaper
gossip. The fact is that Mrs. Harrison has
personally requested Washington CORE
spondents to refer to her as seldom as pos
sible. They have treated her, therefore, with
the courtesy her retiring disposition Graves
A citizen Of Carthage. No., has in his pos
session an original price list of slaves, the
property of JEFF Davis's brother before the
war. The list embraces LOG names OF both
sexes. Babies are quoted at 500, children
of 70 wears 5000, able bodied women $500
and thrifty farm hands at S1100. A man 40
years of age was worth $60S, while an old
blind woman was set down at zero.
S. r. Miles is now sending an advertise
lment of the celebrated Bon Marche of Paris
to all the principal cities of the United
States. This is very suggestive fact to all
business men. After having regularly ad-
yertised many years. they have more than
doubled the appropriation for this season.
The preprietors OF this enterprising store
ishow.that it pays to advertise, and the intelli-
gent manner in which Mr. Niles has con-
Quoted the business has abundanty pro-
duced the best results in this country.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale writes in favor
of making life insurance compulsory for
Everybody. The plan for men and women
alike as soon as they are able to work for a
living, to begin to pay to the State an annual
insurance fee. The payment would be con-
tinued up to the time the payer was sixty-fve
years old, then he could retire on his pension
and live without work the rest Of his days. If
his payments had been large enough. At any
rate, he would receive a regular fixed amount
which would prevent his becoming public
burden. The State would invest the funds
paid In, and get returns from them, as private
insurance companies do at present There
is In Germany law requiring the insurance
OF the lives Of factory operatives. There is
also a compulsory accident insurance, in
which all Germans are included. These
laws were fav0rite measures with Bismarck.
General Harvey, who died at Orlando,
Fla, the other day was SO years old and the
patriarch of the army, having been COM
missioned officers before Grant or Sherman
were born. For seyenty-one years his name
has been on the army list, and he passed
forty-five years in active and often arduous
service. He was dragon officer of the old
school and greatly distinguished himself in
Florida and In Mexico. Tn the opening up of
the great West he bore most important
part, breaking the power of the great Sioux
nation. In the course of the battle of the
Sand Hills some of the dragons killed
squaws. The squaws fought side by side
with the braves, and the soldiers having to
choose between killing or being killed, killed
But the sentiment of the country, solid as it
was then in favor of Strengthening Indians in
general, was shocked at the bare idea of
Staying women in battle, and in burst of
unreasoning indignation General Harvey
was nicknamed '.Squawkiller Harvey"
The gallant old soldier, who could point to
laurels wen at Cerro Gordo and on other
fields. where he had been first of the foremost
felt the reproach keenly, and Indignantly re-
PEELED it. Early in the war in the tangle of
politics and soldiership, General Harvey was
thought to have failed to rise to the occasion
and was shelyed to the retired list.