The Portland daily press., 1891-04-09
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR,

Prof. Tyndall is better and his physicians
are hopeful Of his recovery.
Friday was Rev. Edward Everett Hale's
69th birthday anniversary. The well known
preacher and author is still in California.
Denman Thompson has purchased the pic
ME ground at Swanzey's pond. N. a.. and it
Is expected that he will convert 1t into pub
lie park.
The iAllgeMeine Zeitung, Prince Bis.
marck's South German organ, ANNOUNCES on
evidently good authority that this is the first
time since 1862, when he first came into
cabinet office, that the ex-chaucellOr has re-
ceived no birthday congratulations from the
reigniug sovereign,
The naturalists Of the country propose to
raise monument over the grave Of Audubon
the first Of American naturalists, which is
now unmarked by even stone 1t is In
Trinity churchyard. DIR. Thomas Eggleston
OF Columbia College is the chairman of a
committee to raise $4,000 for the purpose.
Nine. Won Teuffel blanche Willis Howard
has not discontinued her literary work on
account of marriage. Her husband is very
proud of her literary gifts and says he should
consider 1t disgrace should marriage para
lyze or fetter his wlte's literary genius. She
is living very happily and busily at SUIT
CART.
1t is limited that Miss Phebe Uouzens may
resign the Office of secretary of the Board of
Lady Managers of the Worlds Fair because
the Board of Control has voted that all cor
respondence OF the board shall be under the
direction of Mrs. Palmer. This, she is re-
ported to have said, is taking her rights
away.
J. B. GrlnnelI, founder Iof the Iowa city
which bears his name, whose death was an
nounced last week, was the particular person
to whom Horace Greeley addressed that
famous remark go West, young sman, and
grow up with the country" He was young
Congregational minister in New York State
before he acted on this advice.
A Brooklyn man defines la grippe as fol-
lows: Twelve parts influenza. twelve parts
catarrh, twenty four parts malaria. ten parts
neuralgia, eight parts muscular rheumatism,
parts gastric or stomach fever, sixteen parts
headache and spains through the eyes, all
called acold, and ending with pneumonia.
The fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of the New York Tribune by Horace Greeley
is to be celebrated April 10 in the evening at
the Metropolitan Opera House. Among the
speakers will be James G. Blaine, George
William Curtis, Chauncey M. Depew, Charles
A. Dana and Roswell G. Horn of Michigan.
There will also be music from an orchestra
led by Walter Damroscb, and poem by
Edmund Q. Stedman, who was long employed
on the Tribune.
Good Health says that New York mer-
chant noticed that each successive book
keeper gradually lost his health. and finally
died of consumption, however vigorous and
robust he was on .entering his service. at
length it occurred to him that the little rear
room where the books were kept opened in
to the back yard SO surrounded by high
walls that no sunshine came into it from one
years end to another. An upper room. we II
lighted, was Immediately prepared, and his
clerks had uniform good health ever after.
1t may not be well known that the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church has authorized the es-
Establishment of Deaconess Homes under its
patronage, and seventeen Homes are lin sue
cessful operation in as Emany cities. There
are something over 200 probationers in sthese
various homes, and thirteen licensed Deacon
esses in the United States. The work of the
Deaconesses is wholly unsalaried. They re-
ceived only a simple living. Their time and
energy are given to work among the poor and
neglected, earring for the sick in hospitals,
or for the poor in their own homes, They
are able cases OF restitution and suffering.
They seek to provide employment for those
in need of it, gather children into the indust-
rial schools, and In every possible way bless
and benefit those without the circle of church
and Christian influence. They make no
charge for their services, the work being
supplied by voluntary contributions.
Several anecdotes are given lin "Harper's
Weekly illustrating General 'Johnston's in
difference to the danger in battle, and then
this citation is made of his opinion regarding
familiar household utensil: 81 am the
most timid man in the world, and dreadfully
afraid of kerosene lamp. The other day
servant put one in my room. was but half
dressed, and / hurried out as fast Jas could
run. knew it was going to burst. Then
think of Ill The very next night some kind
of patent kerosene lamp was sent me as a
present, and the donor lit it explaining to
me the method of working 1t. Such was my
| nervousness that never knew he was talk
| ing to me. Later, after somebody had ex-
tinguished the lamp. [ tried to treason out to
myself what a poltroOn l was. We &c t
hardened In time; but assure you nothing
could ever induce me TO light or extinguish a
kerosene lamp. An enemy armed with
kerosene lamps would drive me off the field.
| shonld be panic personifed.