The Portland daily press., 1892-08-03

in Europe, has been suppressed in Bel
| grade, so that the booksellers dare not
import copies of the work. The book,
as is partly indicated by its title, gives an
account of the Queens unhappy life, and
attempts to get control of her boy, the
young King of the country.
The late Conrad Jordan of Salisbury,
Md, was an eye witness of some OF the
great events of the first Napoleon's time.
| AS a lad of eight years he saw part OF the
historic battle of Leipsic, and a few years
| later beheld the ''Little Corporal" riding
at the head of his army at Waterloo. He
| was the son of Marshal Jordan, who with
Joseph Bonaparte commanded the
French forces and their allies at the bat
tie Of Victoria.
Charles Lanier, the son of the poet
Sidney Lanier, was at work in railroad
Office when Mr.. Stead, who had seen
some of his writing, asked him to pre-
pare an article for the Review of Re
views. Young Lanier, in this task OF
preparation, had occasion to call several
times on an influential New Yorker, who
before the Stead article was finished, in
vited the young man to leave railroading
for more congenial work.
Knute Nelson, whom the Minnesota
Republicans have nominated for COVER
nor, is great favorite with the Scandi-
navians of the Northwest, who call him
Familiarity ''the little Norwegian" He
is man of small physique, hardly more
than five feet five inches in height, and
wears a close cropped dark chin beard
streaked with gray. He is a lawyer by
profession, and was for a time the attor-
ney of the ST. Paul and Northern Rail
way.
The Presidential canvass of 1892 will
have among its distinctive features that
of the entrance of the red man into poll
tics on small yet notable scale. The
Sissetons of what was lately the Fort
Traverse Reservation, near Browns
Valley, in South Dakota, have their club
and are harangued on the subjects of the
time by white and red orators; and per-
haps by this time they may have pro-
crossed far enough to be deep in the dis
cussion of the Mckinley tariff and the
Force bill, to say nothing of subjects of
more immediate interest to them. In
Southern Kansas the prospective Indian
vote is said to be the deciding factor in
one or more counties. The law distinct
ly provides that Indians who take their
allotments in severalty shall become
citizens, and there are also other ways in
which citizenship may be acquired. The
Sissetons have accepted this form of land
holding, and so have tribes and individu-
ais elsewhere.
Ex- United States Treasurer, James W.
Hyatt, who is summering at ROTOR Point
Conn, AYERS that he recently saw the sea
serpent, which he describes as follows:
''It was most Notwithstanding mon
ster, it's snake-like body being, as near as
could judge, about eighty feet long.
1t had head like bull and magnif-
cent pair of antlers like those of a deer.
1t had single eye in the centre of its
forehead, and solid streams of water
came from it's nostrils at what appeared
to be a tremendous high pressure. The
queerest thing about the serpent was its
method Of locomotion. Instead of squirm-
ing along like great eel, its body, which
was covered with alternate scales of red,
white, and blue, was as stiff as tele-
graph pole, ana Tor a long J1me could
not see what caused it to move so rapidly
At last noticed at the extreme end of
the long body fleshy mass shaped like
propeller of a steamer 1t revolved at
at very high rate of speed and propelled
the reptile, as nearly as could judge
without stop watch, at the rate of
thirty knots an hour. The propeller
could be wagged horizontally, thus act
ing like rudder.',