The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-08-14
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
New York Tribune.1
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The pope has given Archbishop Corrigan,
OF New York, two of his jubilee presents
chalice and ciborium-both of which are
OF gold, while the chalice is studded with
amethysts and rubies.
Mrs. Annie Smith applied last week for
admission to the Virginia bar. The learned
but embarrassed Judge Aiken of Danville
said he couldn't find in the statutes law
enough to warrant him to grant Mrs. Smiths
request Annie Is going to the court of
appeals. who. with one exception, are single
men, and accredited with shamefaced
desire to do anything rather than oppose a
member Of sex they regard with respectful
awe. t-I-t oln
Prof. Edward S. Morse's extensive and
rare collection to Japanese art-pottery is
to be deposited in the new annex to the
Boston Art Museum building the present
fall. An arrangement has been made where
by the collection is to be loaned to the
Museum for, two years, 1t will thus be
displayed to far greater advantage under the
conditions OF ample room and studied
arrangements such as have been hardly
possible in the private galleries built for It
by the owner. and the public will be given
superior accommodations for its examination
and study.
Cardinal Newman, who is now in his
yCut, LOluldlly I6CblttS alQGTl-
can visitors whenever his health permits.
He is simple to degree in his habits, getting
up till quite lately. even il he does not do so
still, between five and six In the morning,
both in summer and winter. He then says
mass in chapel adjoining his bedroom, and
afterwards takes his breakfast, and during
the day presidss over the meals OF the fathers
at one o'clock and at six. On great feast
nc hot of L.
founded the congregation. or of Saints Peter
and Paul, the cardinal conducts the service
OF benedictiOn for the boys in the school
chapel. but even this light effort has been
more than he could frequently undertake
during the last TWO or three years.
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop is spending the
summer in New London. Mrs. Lathrop has
red hair, large grey eyes, a husband, four
children, and a talent for literature. Miss
Edith Thomas is also in New London for the
season. Miss Lizette Woodwork Reese is
called the Baltimore oriole. from her ''tiny,
Dlrd-,ikc ways. petite figure. and dark hair
and eyes" Mr.. Stednlan and Mr.. Howells
greatly admires her poems. The former
saidof her first hook of verses, "a Branch of
May that he had read it through and
found no poem that had not certain ex-
quisitness." Mr.. Stedman, OF course, knows
his Emerson who says that the adjective
exquisite can properly be used perhaps once
by q fortunate man In his lifetime, so this is
high praise. Miss Reese's new book is
called "a Handful of Lavender"
The Shah announced ON his arrival in
England that he had with him magnificent
set Of jewels, and everybody. of course,
supposed they were to be the Princess
Louise's bridal present The jewels have
not yet been presented to anybody, and the
Shah is chuckling- over the discontinue of
his royal cousins. In Paris, the other day.
ne was urged and almost threatened, till
they succeeded in getting him to mount
forty feet Of the Eiffel Tower Then he
chung to the railing, and all the blandish-
ments OF M. Berger could get him no further.
1t is probable that he would have scent the
remainder of his reign in this position but
the people below began to howl III a peur,"
which slightly revived his courage, SO that
finally he descended as he came. So saws
Mr.. Edmund Yates, than whom there is no
better authority as to the doings of royalty.