The Portland daily press., 1891-01-22
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Professor Newman, brother of the latt
cardinal, is hale and hearty at IS. He is I
vegetarian.
The largest income in Prussia is that O.
Herr Krupp, whose $37,0OO.0Oo yield annu
ally $1,500,000.
Mrs. Leland Stamford has given no les,
than $52. 200 to the Kindergarten Associa
tion of San Francisco.
DR.. w. 81. Milburn, the blind chaplain Of
the House of Representatives, is writing a
book on the pioneers of the Mississippi
Valley" He has collaboration.
Mrs. Lorraine ]. Pitkin of Chicago, whose
husband was Captain Pitkin of the volun.
teer service In the late war. has just been
elected postmistress Of the Illinois Senate.
The Oldest clergyman in the church Of
England, Rev. John Elliott, vicar of Rand
wick, began his Tooth year on December 10
He has served In Randwick for more than z,
years.
Mrs. Ella F. Braman. who formerly lived
in Brighton, and.who had law office will
her husbands Joseph B. Braman, at Cour
street, Boston. previous to 1888 has beer
appointed commissioner of deeds for the
District of Columbia. Mrs. Braman is the
first woman upon whom this honor has ever
has been in New York.
The well known composer-conductor Karl
Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, born at Berlin
on March 23d, 1911, has recently died there
In his eightieth year. He was pupil Of
Wilhelm Berger (piaLo) and Bernhard Kleir
Composition. In 1881 he became conductor
of the Berlin court concerts, and In 1912 con
ductor at the Royal Opera House and of thu
symphony concerts given by the royal or
chestra, both of which positions he held
with high honor. and great ability until {
few years before his death.
Prof. A. u. Westergren of the Illinois
State University, and Prof. Agassiz of Har
ward University, will sail from Panama Feb
2, on cruise of five months with the steam
ship Albatross, for deep sea dredging In the
Pacific. They go first to the Galapagos Is
lands, then working back to Acapulco, old
Mexico, and thence up the coast to San Fran
cisco. Ii Is not expected that Prof. Wester-
gren will return to Campaign, the purpose
being for him to 90 to Cambridge and as
sumo the position of assistant to Prof. Agas
siz in the museum of zoology of Cambridge
University.
In anticipation of Archbishop Williams's
silver Episcopal jubilee. which will fall on
March II, the priests of the archdiocese
some months ago quietly began the collec'
tion OF a testimonial fund to be presented to
that prelate on the 25th anniversary of his
conservation. Fifty thousand dollars Is the
sum the cergymen hope to raise, and so sue
cessfully has their work been carried ou
that already one-half that amount has beer
paid to the appointed treasurer of the fund
Rev. Thomas Magennis.
A committee Of the German iron manu-
facturers. who recently visited America in
response to the invitation of the Institute Of
Mining Engineers, desiring to give some
tangible sign of gratitude at their cordial
welcome, have asked Minister Phelps to be
the medium to present three silver goblets to
Messrs. Kirsch0ff, Raymond and Shinn.
upon whom had chiefly devolved the hospi-
tality accorded the German delegates. A
Dusseldorf artist designed the gobiets which
are shaped like bessemer distributors and
hung swivels.