The Portland daily press., 1892-03-09
the right. Republicans can look forward
to the prospect with equanimity.
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Lord Dufferin will assume his duties
as British ambassador in Paris in few
days.
Jack Irwin, Kentuckian, has not swal-
lowed drop of water in 36 years. He
drinks only tea, coffee and has passed his
60th year.
The postage stamp will be 50 years old
May 6. Its inventor was printer, James
Chalmers of Dundee. Its Introduction
into the United States dates from 1e41.
The Swedish king has conferred on DR..
J. A. Ouchterlony of Louisville the Royal
Order of the Polar Star, a decoration re-
served for statesmen, scientists and
writer's of note.
Although Loubat, the new premier OF
France, has been posing for sixteen years
in public life, he never before attracted
public notice, ranking only as legisla-
tive cypher until called to his present
position.
Madam Ribot, the wife of the gentle
man who has been managing the foreign
affairs of the French republic for the past
year or two, is the daughter of Banker
Isaac III. Burch of Chicago. Her mother
was the daughter of the late Hon. Erastus
Corning of Albany, N. Y.
Congressman Amos J. Cummings will
deliver an address in New York on Me-
mortal day, when the statue of Horace
Greely, subscribed for by the printers OF
the United States, will be unveiled in one
of the city parks. 1t is of bronze, and
represents Mr. Greeley seated IN q
natural pose. The bronze weighs 300
pounds, and the seated figure, of nearly
colossal size, is six feet high. The cost
of the work, including the granite pedes-
tai, will be $4,000.
Since Archbishop Ireland of ST. Paul
went to Rome, it has been stated on the
most reliable Catholic sources in Mime
sofa that he was invited by the pope him
self to visit the latter and discuss the
question of naming an American cardl-
nal prefect and accept the same 1t he saw
fit. The last time Cardinal Gibbons was
in Rome he showed the pope the neces-
sity of having an American cardinal pre-
feet at the Vatican.
Sir William Thompson, the famous
scientist, who was one of the three emil
nent persons elevated to the peerage on
New Years day by the queen, has select
ed as his title Baron Kelvin. This is the
name of small stream near Glasgow,
which was once clear body of water,
but is now an open city sewer. Many OF
the electrical wonders of today were
foretold by him 20 years ago, and he was
knighted in 1866 for his services in con-
nection with the Atlantic cable, which
has been utilized solely through his in
ventions.
s'AI. de Lesseps,'' according to Paris
correspondent is not only in the enjoy
mert of his wonted health, which is ex-
eellent for man of his great age, but
has not been kept at home for single
day by the slightest indisposition, or
even as measure of prudence, which
considering the weather with which we
have been afflicted, wol1 have been a
very natural proceeding on his part. The
Grand Francais' goes out daily, and is
wonderfully hale and hearty" M. Gle
Lesseps is now in his eighty-seventh
year.
Prof. A. T. Free of the mineralogy and
geology department. of Yankton College,
Dakota, who has been in Boston the past
eight months in the interest of his col
lege, has been appointed its president.
Yankton College was founded by the Da-
kota State Association of Congregational
churches, and Rev. Joseph Ward was its
first president. Two years ago he died,
and since then Rev. D. T. Bradley has
been acting president.
Count Douglas, one of the members OF
the German reichstag, is rapidly rising
in the estimation of Emperor William,
and may, according to reports, become a
member of the imperial cabinet. He is
exceedingly wealthy, and, as his name
indicates, is descendant of the famous
Douglasses of Scotland. He was made a
count by the old Emperor William, upon
proving that his first ancestor in Ger
MANY belonged to the noble Scottish
house. The names of Johnstone, Wash
ington and Mcdonald are also to be found
among the mobiles of Germany.
The birthday present which the EN-
peror of Germany received few weeks
ago from his four eldest boys represented
the first sum OF money the princes mao
earned by the labors of their own hands.
Last autumn the crown prince got to
know that the deer in the royal forests
were, during the winter months, fed
partly on wild chestnuts and acorns.
The boy at once communicated with his
three brothers, and next day the foul
were seen about in the grounds of the
New Palace, carrying large akets and
pnshing wheelbarrows, into which they
weeks these harvestings were continued,
and finally an agreement was entered
upon with the head forester, according
to which the bushel of chestnuts OF
acorns was sold to him by the princes at
price of four marks. All the boys
were present when their goods were
measured, in order, as they said, to see
that the bushels were not filled too liber-
ally.