The Portland daily press., 1891-09-23

Ex-President Hayes is ranked amops VIZ
millonnaires of the country
Miss Norma e. Crawford has had tne oneI
| of the chair of oratry in the university Oh
| Honolulu made to her.
Mrs Leland Stanford has purchased 150
| hondsomaIv hound Bibles to go in the stu
dent's rooms at the Palo Alto University.
Mrs. A. X. Weed, the widow of reporter
in Pennsylvania, has received the sum of
s94o. 600 from w. Fl. Josper of Idaho, who is
4 bachelor and great admirer of her late
husband.
William Hayward, the Oldest Jockey on the
American turf, owns stable of his own and
is supposed to be worth about $4,000. The
horses he rode won something 10 excess of
$l,OOO,OO0 In stakes and purses.l
The engagement is announced in Washing
ington of Miss Pendleton, daughter of the
late Hon. George III. Pendletop. unIted
States minister to Berlin, to Mr.. Arthur
Mr. w. w. Corcoran. VIZ '"'0
President Bnchanan's old home at Lancas-
ter, Pa, "Wheatland." has been sold to
cemetery company for $4,000, and will be
used as a graveyard. The old brick man.
sion VIII pc converted into chapel, and the
spring so often spoken Of in Buchanan's dav
Will make fountain pond,
According to an educational journal the
number of illiterate persons in Russia. Sibe-
ria, Roumania and Bulgaria forms so per
cent. oil the population; in Spain. GO; Italy,
4S; Hungary, 43; Austria, 80: Ireland. 81.
France and Belgium, Is; Holland. 10: United
States, q; Scotland, z; Switzerland %; and
cent
The bestowal of the freedom of Newcastle
upon-Tyne upon Mr.. Gladstone makes the
eighth time the privilege of comforting the
honorary personal freedom of the city has
Deen exercised during the present century.
Only twenty-six times has the freedom"
been conferred since 1912, one of the iearliest
Durgesses being Sir A. Haslerigg, governor
| OF the garrison In 1649.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Loco
metive Engineers looks about 60 years old, Is
about five feet six inches tall and weighs
about 100 pounds. His hai- is gray, and the
carefully trimmed Prince of Wales beard
which adorns his ford face is almost twhite.
His upper lip Is clean shaver and his thin
lips have the habit Of coming together after
each sentence In very determined and posi-
tive way.
Lady Olivia Taylour, who is soon to be
come the .bride.of Lord Henry Cayendish
Bentlnck, is considered one of the most beau
tiful women in London society. Her feat
ures are fine and regular, and her figure is
tall and slight. her hair is light-almost
golden---and she has curious white
feather" among her tresses. 1t is not indi-
cative of her character, however, for she Is
lady Of very high spirit.
The personal history Of the late Congress
man w. l.. Scott reads like page from
some old time romance. AT IS he was the
possessor of $4,000, 900, the richest man in
Congress and the employer Of 10000 men.
Thirty years before he was penniless man,
peddling fish about the streets of Erie. He
himself knew very little about his birth and
the first years of his life. He was the son of
a colonel In the regular army, a Virginian by
birth and education, though resident in
Washington at the time young Scott was
born, In 1927. Both Col. Scott and his wife
died while their son was yet mere Lac.
They were In poor circumstances, and the
boy was turned out into the world to shift
for himself. The first of his numerous occu-
pations that he can remember was when
early in his teens he found himself page In
the House of Representatives.