The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-01-23
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Mrs. Mackay's new house in London will
become the shrine Of American tourists.
Everybody will want to walk up the $780,
900 staircase.
The venerable James Parton works six
hours day at his home in Newburyport.
His desk is his place of rest and recreation,
for that is what literary occupation means to
him
Senator Pierce of North Dakota was once
newspaper man and was connected with
the Chicago News. In those days he was
accounted good story teller and connois-
seur in dinners.
Carl Brunn, the workman who eiSed Carl
Schurz to effect his escepo from Spandau in
1850. has just died in Hoede, Westphalia
Nc vas imprisoned two years for this act of
help to Mr.. Schurz.
The King of Siam will soon send six
youths from his kingdom to Pennsylvania to
be educated hey are all to become physi-
clans. The young men are to be chosen
from among the poorer classes, and the ex
penSe of their tuition, about $500 year
each, is to be borne by the Siamese govern
ment.
Among the crop Of candidates for mayor
of Chicago, which is springing up with
something like tropical luxuriance Just now,
is Judge Julius S. Grinnell, who conducted
the prosecution of the anarchists three or
four years ago. He is Democrat, but not
patty man, and has many Republican
friends.
During his residence in Indianapolis DR..
Schliemann used to take horseback ride
every morning before breakfast. He wound
up his daily canter with plunge In a SWIM
ming bath on White River He also took
long walks. and together with prodigious
amount OF study he seemed to have a great
deal OF time for social enjoyment.
By the death of Historian George Bancroft
Rev. F. A. Farley of Brooklyn, N. T., of the
class of 1918, Harvard College. becomes the
Oldest living graduate, or, rather, the senior
alumnus, of the college. He received the
degree of B. A. from Harvard in 1918, and
b. ID. in 1928. and was ordained as Unitar-
ian Clergyman in the latter year. In the fol-
from both Harvard and Brown, and in 1850
Harvard conferred upon him the degree of
s. I. ID. He Is ninety years old.
That Methodist women are eligible to the
general conference of that church is the be-
lief of the ajority of its members as shown
by the neutrality-suspicious. of opini n garnered
from scores of conferences Miss Willard
and Mrs. Newman of Nebraska were elected
were not admitted. it will be remembered
Although the action of the annual conference
may not make this official, the .sentiment of
the great body. tremendous evangelical or
ganization, has been expressed In favor of
letting women have whatever powers they
may feel themselves fitted to exercise.
Queen Victoria's New Year gifts to the
poor of Winsor, Holy Trinity aud Clever
were distributed in the riding-school at
Windsor Castle, in the presence of the clergy
of the different parishes and of other persons
he gifts consisted. as is usual, of beef and
Goals. The joints of meat varied from three
pounds to seven pounds in weight accord
Ing to the number of persons in each family,
the total weight being more than ton and a
half The coal, which weighed over sixty
tons, was delivered at the homes of the reel
pients in quantities of from one to three
hundred weight. The total value of the gifts
amounted to $500, including $500 presented
to the Royal Clothing Club.