The Portland daily press., 1891-03-18
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR,

Elizabeth Sargent. NJ. D.. daughter of our
former minister to Berlin, is an ocullst of
exceptional skill. She lives in California.
L s. Metcalf has resigned the editorship
Of the Forum. He lis to be succeeded by w,
d. rage, who has been the Forum s business
manager.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks. the popular Bos-
ton clergyman. has thus far managed to es.
cape being either photographed or carica-
tured. he will not sit for his picture,
Mrs. Stocking, the daughter Of the late
Justice Miller of the Supreme Court, by his
first wife. has been appointed to $500 clerk
snip IN the Interior Department by Secre-
tary Noble.
Mr.. Carter, the Hawaiian minister. and
his wife. will leave Washington in.the course
Of fortnight to pass the summer In Hawaii.
'Ihey Will go by way of Seattle. WASH, to
Visit their son and two daughters, who are
making home In that city,
Senator Osborn of Kansas represented
Doniphan county In the Senate In the first
Legislature of the State. He has also been
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, governor, minister to
Chill and minister to Brazil He Is only
ifty-four years old, and the handsomest man
In the State.
p. L. Sherman, in behalf of his family, has
sent letter to the Sherman statue commit.
tee In New York, declining to receive any
surplus funds that may be contributed In
excess OF the cost of the monument Mr..
Sherman says his father left the family we'll
provided for.
Senator PETER Of Kansas has wife and
| eight children, and the latter, including
three daughters, have all been taught trades
The boys. have all learned the printers
trade, and the eldest daughter has been
| engineer. One daughter does amanuen sis
WORK ana reporting, but also sets type.
The women are coming to the rescue of
Commissioner Beattie in New York with a
VIII. Trains upon dresses are the new order
OF the day. The gown architect of great
Broadway ladies store said recently that
some dresses now have trains of quarter of
yard In length to drag upon the streets,
while none fail to drag little behind. The
street cleaning problem approaches solution.
Rev. +. e. Clark sails for England in few
days to present the Christian Endeayor
cause at the request of many friends in that
country. He will speak at two or three of
the May meetings in London, and has Inu-
merous invitations from different parts of
the Kingdom. DIR. Clark was also appoint
ca TO address the International Congrega-
tlonal Council to be held in London in July,
put Will not be able TO remain for that meet
ing.
1t is interesting to note that Queen Victo-
ria openly avows that she is not 'above" be-
lieving In certain omens, as is shown by DR.,
Krause, who quotes from passage in the
Weiner Allgemeine Zeitung. By command
Of Queen Victoria, Mr.. Martin, director of
the Institution for the Blind, has attended to
the making cradle for the newly born child
OF Princess Beatrice of Battenburg. The
cradle is to be made entirely by blind men
and women. The queen firmly believes that
objects made by blind people bring luck.
Oh the 1850 books that were published in
this country in 1890 nearly 1000 were novels.
Never before In one year were so many new
novels sprung upon an enduring public. The
returns to the writers varied. The man who
netted s., 800 did exceedingly well. those who
| got $500 were congratulated by all their
| friends, and those who had the money and
| could not make the venture in any other way
paid few hundreds down for the privilege
OF seeing their works published with the i'm
print of those publishers who do business
that way.
Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest
son of the late general, is graduate of the
law and scientific schools of Yale college,
and received degree from the Georgetown
university. While attending this institu-
ton he determined upon joining the priest
hood. BE entered the Society of Jesus in
| the Missouri province, continuing his studies
| In the novitate of the Sacred Heart at Wood
stock, Md. subsequently he Joined the Jes-
uits at their hotel on the Island of Jersey, to
| which refuge the order was driven by the
| French. Father Sherman will probably fin
ish his course in theology at Frederick, Md.
Lieutenant R. M. G. Brown, U. S. n, who
by his bravery saved the lives of four hun
dred people during the Samoan storm two
years ago and who has been the guest of the
West Virginia Legislature for two days, was
Saturday presented with handsome gold
handled sword by both houses in the Hall of
Delegates. 1t will be remembered that the
Trenton, which was the flagship of the Pa
cifc squadron two years ago, was saved by
tie skill and bravery Of Lieutenant Brown,
who stood on the bridge of that vessel during
the entire storm. When the masts were en-
tirely stripped of their sails, Lieutenant
Brown ordered every man in the rigging. so
that compact mass of humanity could be
| used as sails. This novel idea saved the
lives of four hundred people.