The Portland daily press., 1891-01-17
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Rider Haggard has just been black balled
from the Society of Antiquaries. of which
learned body he was solicitOus Of becoming a
member.
Won Moltke has devoted the large sum
voted him by the city of Berlin on his Goth
birthday to the foundation Of the Moltke
Branch OF the Home for Old People.
The new house of Earrings has been mate
rally strengthened by the accession of Sir
George Stephens and Sir Donald Smith and
created the Canadian Pacific Railway. They
have taken up large share-holding interest.
1t is said that Kinglake. the historian, has
left behind him vast amount of matter ex-
ceptionally interesting, and that this is to be
edited by Mr. Edward Pigott, who at present
performs the ungrateful junction OF compar-
ing plays before licensed for London thea
tres.
Blind Tom. the cratic musical genius, Is,
IL Is said, hopelessly ana dangerously insane
In private asylum in New York city. He
earned during his public career about $780,
600 for Colonel Bethune. but there is a pros.
pect that unless he dies soon he will end his
days in the almshouse.
Abram S. Hewitt is reported as saying he
knows only one really rich man in New York
meaning by that man worth over $2o.-
600. 000-who is doing his duty. This solitary
example of goodness sets apart just enough
Of his income to defray his simple living ex-
penses and bestows all the rest In charity.
Guesses as to his name are now In order.
A despatch says that Levi Beebe of Lee.
who won fame as weather prophet by pre-
dieting the blizzard Of March, 1888. four
months prior to that date, says the worst
storm of the season will visit this country
between the LIST and 18th of February. Mr..
Beebe has written to ice companies to har-
vest crops this month, as after that they will
have to abandon their work on account of
the immense amount of snow.
The Emperor of Germany, while enter
tanning much more freely than his grand
father did, has keen eye to economy. The
imperial kitchen, particularly, is managed
with an eye to business. In order to avoid
the immense wastage which has occurred at
the palace In former times, whenever q ban
quet Is given, the Emperor has fixed the
price per person at which his guests are to
be- served, and makes his cooks and servants
answer to penny for expenditures.
In his weekly cable letter Mr.. Edmund
Yates positively asserts that M. De Blow
it's story of Prince Bismarck's going to the
Empress Frederick and humiliating himself
| by requesting her to interfere to prevent his
dismissal from Office is the purest of ictions.
| He says that the Emperor not only has not
| ignored Bismarck since his retirement, but
has just accepted an invitation to join a
hunting party on the estate of the ex.Chan-
| cell0r's most intimate friend.
A Wichita, Kan, telegram says: The fero-
cious packs Of wolves which are invading
Western Kansas from the Indian territory
are causing the farmers and stockraisers #
that region great losses. When the herds
left the Cherokee strip there was nothing
left for the wolves 10 eat. and hundreds of
them are said to have migrated into the
| sparsely settled grazing counties of Kansas,
where they, can find provisions without any
trouble. Near Liberal score of the savage
animals attacked Mrs. A. j. Garvey and her
| six-year-Old boy, aud, after biting the woman
severely, carried off tho child before her
eyes. The boy was shortly afterward res
| cued, but his injuries are such that there is
| no hope Of recovery.
The other day the Frankfort, KY, com.
mon council passed stringent anti-cigarette
| ordinance. In his message vetoing it, Mayor
Taylor (who is himself In the distilling line)
said to the city fathers: "Three members Of
your honorable body are connected with the
whisky interests, which form so large part
of our material wealth. One is an officer OF
the company which controls the Hermitage
and Old Crow distilleries; another Is, prob
ably, the most prominent saloon keeper in
the city of Frankfort; the third is secretary
and manager of the o. r. c. and Carlisle
distilIeries These gentlemen, it is true, ad-
vocated and voted for this ordinance. But
am sure they did not consider the matter
carefully. Had they done so. they would
have sern that the absolute authority which
your present action implies would also en-
able you to prohibit the sale, gift or barter
or manufacture Of ardent spirits in the city
limits"
The new Japanese minister to the United
States, G. Tateno, who has just reached
Washington by way of San Francisco. is &C
companied by his wife, fve-year-old
daughter. his private secretary and law
student. The minister talks English fluent
ly, and his wife and child are dressed in
Western garb. Mr.. Tateno's public career
began in November, 1887. when he was ap-
pointed as an officer of the imperial house
hold. In 1878 he was member of the COM
mission appointed by the Imperial Govern
ment to receive General Grant, whom he met
on bis arrival from China and accompanied
during his stay In the land of the Rising SIM.
In 1880 the minister accepted the governor
ship OF Oaaka, ore of the largest provinces
In the Empire, and for ten years occupied
that position. He was appointed to his pres
ent Office in March, 1890, after having held a
seat In the Senate for nine months.