The Portland daily press., 1892-01-11
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


Senator and Mrs. Hale give dinner
January 20 in honor of President and
Mrs. Harrison.
Mrs. Palmer says that her sole aim in
life now is to make the Woman's Build
ing and exhibit of the Worlds Fair not
only positive credit but great glory to
her sex.
Two eolored delinquents in Raleigh,
N. c., were recently condemned to re-
ceiye thirty-nine lashes each, and specta-
tors were admitted to witness the whip
ping at rs cents head.
Senator Perkins of Kansas may be de-
scribed as an all round sort of man. He
was born in Ohio, taught school in Penn
sylvania, served in an Illinois regiment
during the war, lives in Washington and
represents Kansas in the United States
Senate.
The proposal that the legislatures of
the Southern States pension Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis brings out protest from the
Jackson (Miss.) Ledger Dem which de-
clares: mississippi has done enough for
the Davis family, and it is time to call a
halt
Last year there were twenty-three sur
viving widows of Revolutionary soldiers,
and several of these have since died.
The Oldest of those now alive are Nancy
Raines of Carter Furnace, Tenn, aged
one hundred, and Ann Maria Young of
Easton, Pa, who is in her 101st year.
The London City Council has decided
that the wedding gift to be presented by
that body to the Duke of Clarence and
his bride shall be diamond necklace
valued at 1900 guineas for the princess
and magnificent silver dinner service
valued at nine hundred guineas for the
dnke.
The women of Denmark are protesting
over the fact that married women are
not allowed to vote ON the same footing
as single women. Unmarried women
over 25 years of age who pay taxes have
municipal suffrage. But as soon as a
woman marries she gives UP her vote,
and her husband is the only one who has
the privilege of casting ballot.
One day last week Judge Gresham,
while on his way from his residence to
the law chambers in Chicago, left an i'm
portant opinion in horse car, and was
obliged to kill time ingeniously for q
couple of hours on this account while
two United States Deputy Marshals were
out in search of the document, which
they finally recovered.
London is rather slow in adopting i'm
provements. It is only recently that ex-
tensive use has been made of the tele-
phone. The City Council is now consid-
ering the Introduction of the police pat
rol wagon, so well known in great Amer
lean cities, and there is a good prospect
that this summary method of removing
drunken and disorderly persons will be
adopted.
The inhabitants of Oregon rejoice in
the appellation of ''Webfoots,'' and the
weather report of the State fully justi-
fies them in their proud claim to the
title. Last month, rain fell on twenty
five days. The heaviest rainfall hereto
fore recorded in Portland was Ia in
ches, in December, 1882 but last month S
dampness broke the record. On an aver
age rain falls eighteen days in the month
of December in Oregon.
The ''Passion Play" is to be performed
by redskins at great gathering of
Christian Indians in Kamloops, B. G.,
next June The Rev. Father Lacombe
is organizing the meeting, and it is ex-
pected that some 1000 Christian Indians
from various parts of British Columbia
and many pagan reds will be in attend