The Portland daily press., 1892-08-27
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

hotel, uses the soubriquet "StonewalP'
as if it had been her husbands Christian
name.
Lady Henry Somerset will visit India
ere long, as a delegate of the Worlds
Women's Christian Temperance Union
and will preach total abstinence to
natives and foreign residents in that part
of the world,
The recent investiture of Archbishop
Vaughan with the pallium is the first
ceremony of the kind that has taken
place in England since Queen Mary's
time, Archbishops Manning and Wiseman
having been invested at Rome.
Mrs. John A. Logan, chairman of the
Rotupda committee, has invited Mrs.
Harrison, Mrs. Morton, the ladies of the
Cabinet officers families, Mrs. q. S.
Grant and Clara Barton to assist her in
receiving at the Grand Army entertain
ment in the Capitol at Washington, Sept
10.
Miss E. Penrose, student of Somer-
vile Hall, who has just Obtained from
first class in the Honour school of Lit
ere Humaniores ("Greats'') at Oxford,
is the first woman who has attained to
this distinction since the examination
was opened to women, some four years
age.
Gen A. W. Greeley, the head of the
United States Signal corps (though not
of the weather bureau as many people
still suppose), ridicules the idea of sig
Mailing the people of Mars. He regards
it an unreasonable assumption to think
that planet inhabited by race at all like
human beings in intelligence and civiliza-
ton.
Mrs. Magaret E. Sangster, editor of
Harper's Bazaar, has just received the
compliment of degree from the Uni
versity of Omaha. Hereafter Mrs. Sang
ster, whose popularity in the West has
been increased by her services at Chau-
tauqua assemblies during several recent
summers, will be entitled to write A. M.
after her name.
Fifteen years ago the first bicycle to be
made in America was finished and de-
livered to it's owner at cost of 1888. 1t
weighed 11S pounds and was considered
to be grand machine. What change
has taken place in the manufacture of
bicycles since that time. Now there are
thousands made weekly where at that
time there were only four or five in the
whole country.
Prof. B. G. Wilder, of Cornell univer-
sity recently sent to H. G. Prick copy
of Charles Reade's 'Put Yourself in His
Place. 'tJust now" he said in note
to Mr.. Prick, you are in a position to
appreciate it. Did my means permit |
would have supply placed with union
and non-union men alike. In acknowl-
edging the receipt of the book Mr.. Prick
said; Il read it over twenty years ago,
and shall act on your suggestion and see
that number are distributed
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage preached
Thursday afternoon in Hengler's circus
at Sheffield, Eng. The building was
crowded, 5000 people squeezing into the
not over-spacious hall. There were SO
many disappointed in not being able to
gain admission that Mr.. Talmage after
ward consented to address an outdoor
meeting. This was held in the open
square, and fully $1,000 people listened
with manifestations Of enthusiasm, to
the great pulpit orator.
General Alger, according to current
story, once went to a political meeting in
a railway train with Mr.. Apologize, of
The Adrian Times, for travelling COM
panion. Reaching his destination, the
ex-governor carefully removed the dust
and cinders from his clothing with
silver backed brush, and then offered it
to MI. Applegate. ''Thank you, Gener-
all was the response; ''if used that
brush before this crowd, | wouldn't awe
a subscriber left in the morning."
Senior Dupuy de LONE, the new Spanish
minister to the United States, who ar
rived in New York, Monday on his way
to Washington, has been in this country
twice before-in 1875, and again from
1882 to 1884. He has been in the diplo-
matte services of the Spanish government
since his seventeenth year, has held the
post of secretary of the legation in Japan
at Brussels, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres,
Paris, Washington and Berlin, and has
been minister to Uruguay and member
of the Spanish Cortes. He was also one
of those appointed to receive the Worlds
Fair Commissioners at Madrid.
There is plant growing in the South
ern waters of the United States which
possesses the singular property of being
able to render the most impure standing
water perfectly healthy. The people of
Louisiana and Mississippi call it the water
lotus. 1t consists of leaves about the
size Of the head of a pin, and roots so
fine as to escape notice save under mi
croscopic inspection. Where it grows at
all, it covers the water, and to the casual
observer looks like coating of green
scum. The flowers and seeds are micro
scopic, SO that its appearance. in any
given locality is not easily accounted for
but wherever it does appear the water
beneath is always fit to drink. SO
marked is this property that families
using water from bayous where the lotus
is abundant are known to have better
general health than those taking their
drinking water from places where the
lotus is not found. It is often trans
planted into ponds, bayous and lakes,
spreads with wonderful rapidity and
naver fails To do IFS work we'll.