The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-11-02
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

During the last year in New York. DIR.
made $3.50, 000-probably the largest medical
income ever earned in America.
The longest horse car line in the world Is
that connecting the city of Mexico with
Jalapa-seventy-two miles, The trip Is
made in eight hours.
Walt Whitman Is hopelessly paralyzed and
is but shadow of his former self. He may
| live for years, but Is liable to die at any
time, as the paralysis Is approaching his
| heart.
Bordentown, N. j., reports the appear
ance Of a number of large porpoises In the
| Delaware River on Sunday. Men went out
In boats with guns and succeeded In shoot.
| ing two of them.
The pioneer ''bean train"-twelve cars
started from Saticoy, CAL, for Chicago on
| Saturday, October II. The beans were con-
| signed to Chicago firm by the Farmers
Alliance OF Ventura county.
Alexander Sutherland, of Denver, makes
claim to the honor of being the "Buglar Of
Balaklava"-the trumpeter who sounded the
charge that led the Light Brigade up to the
mouth OF the murderous cannon. Suther-
land Is an erect and well preserved man Of
eighty, with hair and beard of silvery white
tary massacre in dramatic manner, but
with quiyering lip.
Cluny Castle, Andrew Carnegie's much
talked-about Scotch estate, Is large build
ing OF gray stone, surrounded by about IL,
600 acres of land. well stocked with game.
Here the Pennsylvania baron keeps his
famous English coach and four-in-hand, now
historical since Blaine sat on the box, and
here he entertains in princely style during
the summer months of his residence in Scot
land.
The first objection they make to Mr..
Fassett," said DR. Depew at Rochester. sis
that he is young man. was elected Sec
rotary OF state when I was % years old, and
| thought then that a young man was just
sne KIND OF man for secretary of state.
%, you see, am consistent when l say that
| Mr.. Fassetts youth is not valid objection
to his candidacy"
The Old John-street Methodist Church.
New York, celebrated its one hundred and
twenty-hith anniversary on Sunday, Bishop
Andrews presiding and the venerable Will
liam Arthur Of London making one of the
addresses. Old st. Paurs Chapel on Broad
4 way, where Washington used to saw his
| prayers, Is to celebrate its 125th anniversary
| next Sunday.
A Maryland correspondent writes to the
New York Tribune: willie Grant Webb,
the six-year-Old son of Mrs. Johanna Webb
at Hampden, Baltimore county, Is addicted
to singular and dangerous habit which Is
puzzliDg the physicians. For some time the
boys mother has detected a strong odor OF
gasoline oil about her son and was at a loss
to know the cause Saturday she found him
lying unconscious on the floor and can of
gasoline oil by his SIDE"
The late Prof. Henry S. Spencer, of Wash
ingtoD, was. at the age Of twelve, thought to
be the finest penman In the United States.
He was one of five brothers, and his father
was the author of the Spencerian system.
When but twenty-five years old be became
the superintendent of the penmanship de-
partment OF the business college of the
United States, and IL was through his efforts
mat number Of institutions were founded.
HIS eldest brother is Prof. Robert @. Spencer
president Of the Milwaukee Spencerian
BUSINESS College, and Mrs. Sarah s. Sloan,
OF Chicago, Is sister,