The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-03-30
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
Keely of motor fame is SO.

keely OF motor fame is SO,
Inc Due de Broglie acknowledges that he
oid not see the original Talleyrand manu-
oenator-elect FELTON, is Somethinglof book
worm worm. History and law of foreign countries
to him. F"i infoo'ika'ion
The original Rockefellers in America-tbe
ancestors OF the oil kings-were four broth
Jersey. '0''''N Al N'o"
Albani celebrated her 65th birthday on
March Is. She sang Gounod's save Maria"
TO the 20 or 80 friends favored with the en-
Tree on such occasions, with voice as un-
approachable as ever.
In his walks about New York, Weston, the
father OF long-distance pedestrianism, pre-.
serves the same rapid and peculiar gait
when characterized him In his races against
time years ago.
John A. Logan Jr's enemies say he
plunged at the Guttenburg races in New Jer-
sey, and dropped from $4,000 to $4,000
dis friends say his losses may aggregate $50
He bets on the FLY he owns anyhow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Standing Bear, according to
letter received in New York from the red
americans Austrian mother-in-law, Mrs.
hlenech, have left Chicago, and are now at
the Indian agency in Rushville, Neb.
j. +. Plummer of New York has a copy of
Marching Through Georgia" in Gen. Sher-
mans handwriting, together with this note: :
"These popular verses have been sung an
nually for the last % years by the army of
the tennessee, but were not sung during the
May. 1866"
F. d. Stockton was invited to dinner in
Washington some few days ago by an artful
hostess, who had the ices served In the form
coolly asked when they came on. "Both, if
still unsolved.
Princess Kaiulani, future Queen Of Hawaii,
is living in the strictest retirement in Lon
don, completing her education. 1t was from
her school mistress that she received the
telegram telling her that she had been chosen
heir to the throne. but with 1t was sent a
congratulatory message from the Hawaiian
charge d'affairs in England.
Young John Jacob Astor and his wife
(nee willing are passying the honeymoon
very pleasantly at Havana. preparatory to
long trip abroad. New Workers. are much
disappointed that the new house which they
oAO w Ouiiu On Tllbu df6uu6 VIII NOT De more
In keeping with the great wealth of the
family.
Resolutions were passed at a meeting of
the Grant Monument Association in New
York recently, asking the legislature to ap-
propriate $500, 900 Of the state direct tax re-
Gently refunded by the United States for the
purpose Of erecting monument to General
Grant at Riverside Park. A COMMITTEES to
advance the plan will be sent to Albany.
The Pilot prints a letter from George Par
son Lathrop, the author, formerly of Boston,
but now of New York, in which he an
nounces the reception into the Catholic
church OF himself and wife, Rose Haw-
tnorne lIathr0p. daughter of Nathaniel
Hawthorne. They were received into the
cnurcn In New ork last Thursday and were
confirmed on Saturday by Archbishop Corri-
gan.
DIR. Armand Jeannout, young physician
of Paris, is the latest in the field as con.
sumption cure discoverer. His cure is by
inhalation. His apparatus consists of a
small. tubular brass boiler connected with a
brass pan with lid. When in Operation
from under the lid escape yapors which
spread about the room, one of the parts OF
which Is prussic acid.
llFrank Strong, graduate of Yale in 'S4. al
present teacher in st. Joseph, M, will pro.
badly be chosen president of the WYOMING
State University. While in college he was
connected with the Yale Gles Club and had
a remarkably deep bass voice. He was In
the famous Calvary Church Quartette, the
others being Miss Gaffney. Mrs. Blinn and
ID. 5. Knowlton. editor of the Boston Times.
Queen Vistoria's bed. which lis almost in
variably taken about with her. has been sent
from London to Grasse, together with the
royal linen and silver. The Grand Hotel Mt
Grasse, where the royal party is to put up,
of these the Queen has eight for her personal
use, leaving l6 for the other 80 members of
the party.
lis said that the Empress Frederick of
Germany is sorely hurt by the disastrous re-
suit OF her visit to Paris. This complete
failure the first time that she has been ad-
mitted to any active participation in her
sons plans is d0ubly annoying to her, be-
cause IL gives her enemies chance to laugh
at her: Prince Bismarck is said to have had
more fun out of this incident than anything
eise tnat mas happened since his fall from
power.
The Worlds Fair officials who have been
on the sick list are recovering. Director
General Davis and President Palmer, both
OF whom have been laid up with Isevere at
tack af the grip, have gone to Florida for
few weeks. In the hope of more speedy re-
cuperatlon. Vice Chairman Mckenzie, too,
has been quite Ill, and has gone to his home
In Kentucky, not expecting to be able to re-
sumo MS duties Tor some weeks Arrange
ments nave been made whereby the exposi-
ton work will not be seriously delayed by
the absence OF these officials.
Lit scarcely seems credible, yet 1t is true
that If million dollars in S. and $40 gold
pieces were shipped to Europe tomorrow
the mere rolling of the ship and the pulsa-
lions OF its engines would wear off hundreds
OF dollars, worth of the soft and precious
metal. we Americans use an alloy of one
tenth copper Ia making our coins-to harden
them. The English use less-one-twelfth.
Some time ago the English Government filled
two spinning cylinders with coin, one with
ours and one with theirs, and set them both
revolving. They acknowledged that theirs
wore away much more under the shaking
than ours did, but of course they were too
conservative to change their standard.
Miss Sophia G. Hayden of Boston wins the
$1,000 prize offered for the best design for the
woman's buildings of the Worlds Fair.
Miss Lois l.. Howe, also of Boston, wins sec
ond. $500, and Miss Laura Hayes of Chicago
gets the $3.50 offered for the third best de-
sign. Miss Hayden Is first honor graduate
OF the Massachusetts Institute of Technol.
ogy, and Miss Howe is from the same insti-
tuition. Miss Hayes is Mrs. Potter-Pa lmer IS
private secretary. As soon as the awar DIS
were made Miss Hayden was telegraphed to
go to Chicago Immediately and elaborate her
plans. Her design is In the Italian Renais-
sance style with colonnades broken by CEN
be 200 by 400 feet and 80 feet to the cornice.
There is no dome, The chief featura of or