The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-01-30
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Governor Mckinley is at his desk at 7
O'Clock in the morning.
Mrs. s'Stonewalr' Jackson is under
treatment in Richmond for troublesome
neuralgia affection.
Robert Louis Stevenson's health is COM
pletely restored, but he cannot yet leave
the South Seas without danger.
Mrs. Harriet Lane johnson, niece of
President Buchanan, has given $4,000
towards the purchase of "Wheatland, y
Buchan's home, to be used as park for
Lancaster city.
William j. Seaman, the demented actor
who has been confined in the Blooming
dale insane asylum, is improving, and it
is deemed possible that he may be able to
return to his work on the stage.
The Countess of Aberoeen intends
visiting Dublin in March for the purpose
of organizing working committees and
making arrangements for the exhibition
ofaIrish Womens work at the World S
Fair in Chicago.
Sir Julian and Lady Pauncefote, an
nounces the Washington Post, have can
celled all social engagements for the
season, as they will take no part in any
gayeties for six weeks. During that
period they will wear mourning for the
Duke of Clarence.
Miss Olive Risley Seward, adopted
daughter of the late William FL. Seward
and his private secretary during his
Journey around the world shortly before
his death, is now contributing frequently
to the newspaper press.
George Shiras, I'd, of Pittsburg, is a
candidate for the United States Supreme
bench to fill the vacancy caused by JUS
tice Bradley's death. Mr.. Shiras is sixty
years old, a graduate of Ohio University
and the Yale Law School, and is we'll
known lawyer in Pittsburg.
Colonel Souff7ot, once in the armies of
Napoleon, celebrated the Tooth anniver-
sary of his birth in Paris a few days ago.
In honor of the event he was made COM
mander of the Legion of Honor. AS
long ago as 1918 Colonel Souffiot received
the cross of the legion. He became an
officer of the great society in 1S43. De-
spite his great age, he is still said to be
comparatively healthy.
Of the 32S, 716 divorces granted in the
United States for 20 years, 216, 176 or 65.8
per cent of the whole, were granted to
wives on their petitions for divorce from
their husbands for the alleged fault of
the husbands being 34.2 per cent of the
whole number; that is to say, in the pro-
portion of nearly two to one tits the wife
who seeks divorce rather than the hus-
band
The Island of Madagascar has two dis
tinct climates, two classes of natives and
two classes of fauna and flora The is
land is about the size of France. Along
the coast it is tropical and malarious, and
the natives are darker and larger than in
the interior. The interior is a high table
land and mountainous. There the elm
ate is cooler and the natives smaller and
lighter in color than on the coast. But
in the interior they are more intelligent
and they rule the island.
L.. j. Kip, grandson of Bishop W. r
Kip of the diocese of California, is to be
baptized into the Roman Catholic church
in San Francisco. MI. Kip's grandfather
ranks as the second bishop in America,
Bishop Williams of Connecticut being
his senior. Young Kip has been bred a
lawyer, but in assisting his grandfather
he was brought into close relations with
several Roman Catholic clergymen, in
Guiding Father SASHA, the head of the
Jesuits, on this coast. They converted
him, and now he proposes to make pub
lie profession of his new faith.
BY the will of General M. G. Meigs a
large collection of plate, coin, medals
and other objects of historical interest is
presented to the National Museum of
Washington. Among these relics are a
seal ring with intaglio portrait of Julius
Caesar and antique stone; large signet
of bronze with stone engraved in in
taglio antique of Chiron and Achilles of
Eneas; cabinet and collection of coins
and medals, some of them antique, in
Guiding Alexander the Great, Philip of
Macedon, Julius Caesar, Augustus and
other Roman andGreek heads, Napoleon,
Washington, and other medals; a silver
tureen or vase given by the citizens of
Baltimore to Commodore John Rodgers
after his defence of Baltimore from the
attack of the British fleet, and silver
tea kettle and lamp, presented General
Meigs by the City of Washington on the
occasion of the adoption of his project
and report on which Washington aque-
duct was built. His library, personal
property and real estate are left to his
children.