The Portland daily press., 1892-02-11
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Col. A. W. Wildes, of Skowhegan, has
so far recovered from his recent illness
as to be able to be out.
Rev. T. E. Busfeld of the First Bap-
list church of Bangor, has been extended
an invitation to deliver the address at
Bates College ON the day of prayer for
colleges which is observed on the 25th
of this month.
At Chicago, last Saturday, Judge Tuley
sustained the will of the late John Crerar
under which that city gets about So, 5o0,-
600 for free public library, with about
100000 more for various public and
charitable uses. The case now goes to
the Illinois supreme court on appeal.
The will is contested by eight of the tes-
tators's cousins, whose names do not
appear in it.
James Monahan of Canarsie, L. T.,
started for Europe in his dory Sunday
morning. ''On board the little, Paula, y a
local reporter tells us, fare 35 pounds of
smoked hams, 80 pounds of corned beef
boxes of bareback, 4 tanks, each. hold
ing 20 gallons apiece, 39pounds ofground
coffee, so pounds graduated sugar, and
SO cans of condensed milk. A Brahma
hen is also on board"
1t is understood that Mr. Edward M.
Box, the present editor of the Ladies'
Home Journal, has not yet definitely ac
cepted the fattering offer to edit a
monthly magazine in Chicago.
Mrs. Eleanor Bishop, mother of Irving
Bishop, the celebrated mind reader, who
once lived in fifth avenue mansion, and
spent thousands in unostentatious charity
is now in destitute circumstances.
A number of Yale graduates have
voted to tender banquet to Walter Camp
in recognition of his services to the uni
versity in regard to football, baseball
and other athletic sports. The banquet
will be given at Madison Square Garden,
February rs.
Concerning the result of the latest at
tempt to enforce the Sunday laws in Phil
adelphia newspaper of that city reports
'For the first time in history, that great
domain of incessant barter and trade, of
which South and cambridge streets are
the distinguishing thoroughfares was
closed to business. People who walked
abroad in that part of the town could
hardly believe their eyes and ears. To
the old-timers the transformation was
almost startling. Everywhere, even to
the dingy side streets, courts and alleys,
what had been bee-hives of industry on
every Sunday within memory or record,
were closed as tight as wax. The usual
swarms of residents in this overcrowded
district, who have always devoted their
Sundays to shopping or to gossip and
frolic on the streets in all kinds of wealth
er, were largely missing from their usual
hauntS.'
In a catalogue of Mexican meteorites
prepared by NJ. Antonio del Castillo, one
mass is mentioned which exploded in the
air and fell in widely dispersed frag-
ments, portions of if being found in three
places at the angles of triangle whose
two longer sides were some fifty-fve
miles in length. In one of these places
two plates of stone were discovered, ly-
ing two hundred and fifty yards apart,
which had evidently once formed one
huge block. Measurements and estima-
tons place the combined weight of the
two blocks at eighty TONS In this one
shower of ''moon stones" according to
M. del Castillo's paper, not less than 8,
900 tons of rocks fell.
The royal family of Portugal has de-
cided to retrench personal expenses. His
Majesty, the King, announced recently
that the salaries of public functionaries
were to be reduced and that the law re-
ducing salaries should be applied first to
his own family. Household expenses
have been cut down. Among the luxu-
ries which are to be dropped off for a
time is State subsidized opera. In other
directions there are to be drastic econo-
mics.
The anti-slavery societies of Europe are
talking of an exhibition at the Chicago
Fair which they think will help their
cause. The proposal is to show all the
instruments used in the capture, control
and guarding OF the slaves. 1t is thought
that slave yokes and other similar instru-
ments as object lessons will have deep
influence than speeches or pamphlets. A
complete collection of this
gruesome material was seen at the Afri-
can Exhibition in London more than a
year ago.
IL 10 d. JULIUS letSU CIdU UilC AIdUldu
Nights and "Anderson's Fairy Tales
have been translated into more different
languages than any other books, with
five exceptions; The Bible, Thomas a
Kempis's Limitation of Christ" robin
son Crusoe' and the maudlin romance of
paul and Virginia.
King Menelek of Abyssinia is cultivat-
ing the friendship of the President of
France. He has just sent a message to
M. Carnot, offering him as present two
Nubian lions which are now at his court
The same messenger took letter from
the King comforting upon President Car
not the highest decoration of the empire.
DR.. W00DBURY'S ANTIDOTE