The Portland daily press., 1891-04-14
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The twenty-ninth International convention
of the Young Mems Christian Association of
North America will be held In Kansas City,
Mo, May Clio, 1891.
Mrs. Leland Stanford gives 5000, 900 year
to charitable objects and keeps number of
women employed In making pretty decora-
tions for her Washington and California
homes.
One German school child in every 100 is a
sufferer. The boys are more liable to this
defect than girls. Ernst Keil, who has col
lected statistics from all German schools,
finds that there are $685. suffering boys to
2,233 suffering girls.
Meat has become so scarce and dear In
Germany under the operation of the laws
| excluding American pork and discriminat-
ing against foreign cattle, that the butchers
are largely importing Russian reindeer for
the German market
The "Heroes of Waterloo are now few
and faRbetween, but the Earl of Albemarle,
who is now in his 92d year. still ansx ers the
roll call OF June IL, and can remember when
he had the honor of being one of the guests
at the historic Brussels ball.
The committee Of the Palestine Explora-
ton Fund has obtained from the Sultan & re-
newal of the firman to excavate In the Holy
Land, and Mr.. +. j. Bliss. son of the presi-
dent of the American College at Beyrout,
will continue the work of Mr.. Petrie at Tel
Hesy.
A number of ladies lately organized Po-
litical Culture Club in Bayonne, N. j. The
young men of the place, 1t is said, have met
and decided to withdraw all social attentions
an interest in politics. The girls, however,
are unterrifed by the boycott.
For long time Philadelphia was blessed
with an Autonomous donor of many thou
sands of dollars for charity. who always
signed his named "Hez." Upon his death
the other day it became known that "Hez"
was Henry Lisle Vain, a venerable member
OF the Society of Friends. As "HeZ" he had
distributed many thousands of dollars in
charity.
Lord Stanley. of Preston, the governor
general of Canada, is an enthusiastic admir-
er Of football and used to howl himself wild
with delight when his own club, the old
North Ends. was winning game. And even
now, he would sooner be captain OF the
Blackburn Rovers than bother himself with
diplomatic correspondence or reciprocity
matters.
For long time the story has been told of
the Rev. DR.. Wayland that upon attempting
to get out of his pocket handkerchief, at
Brown University, when his father was
president, he pulled out pack OF cards that
scattered in all directions, and whereup0n
calmly remarked, amid the laughter of the
students, that he had by mistake got on his
fathers coat. In recent editorial DR.. Way
land denies the truth of the story in toto.
A feature in the "Allegory of the War in
Song" which is to be given for the benefit
of the Grant monument fund at the Madison
Square Garden Amphitheatre May 2, will be
fhQ nradpatiop with a lornQ orahQctra mill
tary band, and monster chorus OF 1000
singers, of the Centennial Anniversary
Overture" by S. G. Pratt, composed and
dedicated to General Grant and performed
In his honor at the Crystal Palace upon the
occasion of his visit there in 1877.
The Portia Club, of Boston, composed of
lady lawyers, had 'gentlemen's night"
lately. the guests of especial honor being Mr..
and Mrs. George Howard Fall, of Maiden,
in celebration of Mrs. Falls recent admss-
ion to the Suffolk Bar The other members
were all accompanied by husbands or
friends. For after-dinner exercises, instead
toasts and speeches, there was mock OF bar
examination, and Miss Greene, of Provi-
dence. r. l., who presided. was especially
happy as chlef-justice and examiner.
A Berlin telegram conveys the news that
a New York comic newspaper called "Puck"
has been tried by the authorities of Berlin
for the crime of lese majestes, in holding up
the ruler of Germany to the ridicule and con-
tempt of his subjects by caricatures. The
paper named has been found guilty of the
crime charged, and as the publishers are not
within reach of the secret police, it has been
decreed that, as the only punishment posi-
BILE under the circumstances. Puck shall be
excluded from circulation in Germany, and
all copies found in the empire are to be des-
troyed. Two citizens in Dresden, who were
detected with the paper, grinning at the OBJ
jectiopable picture, were roundly lectured by
the police and then allowed to 20,