The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-07

Flygare- Carlen in her day the most pop
ular of Scandinavian Writers ~ ,nctlon,
| passed away recently i'll SooefN'AA't' III
her elghty-ffth year. :,
MI. Charles S. ogden OF Phlladelphia
has presented to the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania the first portrait in oil
I of Washinpton nainted by Charles Will
son Peale at Moirlnt Vernon ia the year
l772.
Gov. Francis of Missouri is stickler
for ''the swallow-tair' coat at his recep-
tions. Col Richard Dalton, VINO wants
to succeed Francis, says that II ne IS
elected Governor the people hiay oail oh
nm III their shirt-sleeves.
Mr.. Winans, the State superintendent
of Public Instruction in Kansas, was for-
merly bricklayer in Atkinson, where ne
helped to build old Corinthlan Hall.
State Senator Kimball OF PARSONS worked
by his side in those days.
Professor Huxley's daughter, the wife
of civil engineer, is now living in the City
of Mexico. Among other English people
whom she finds there are RIDER tiagggarq
and two great grandsons OF the LORD
Chesterfield who wrote famous letters TO
| his son.
Connecticut proposes to send to the
Worlds Fair marble bust OF Harriet
Beecher Stowe, the cast being paid for
with money raised by observation-disclosures
machines set up in the post Offices OF the
state.
The Prince of Wales has been elected
G. M. Mark Mason of Great Britain, and
Sir Augustus Harris has been elected
grand treasurer.
1t is predicted that Ben Butterworth's
successor as Worlds Fair solicitor-gen-
eral will be his present assistant, Mr.. w.
| K. Carlisle son of the distinguished Ken
lucky senator.
James Robert Mckee, the Presidents
son-in-law, has now been in business in
Boston for year, and is said to like the
city very much. Thus far he has lived at
hotel, but it is probable that before
many months he will be settled perma-
nently in Boston with Mrs. Mckee.
| The King of Siam has ordered costly
and speedy steam yacht to be built for
his own pleasure. 1t will be about as
big as an ordinary transatlantic steamer
and twice the size of any other yacht
at1oat.
Mrs. Tel Some is the leading lady law
yer in Japan, and has a large and profita-
BILE practice. But she couldn't resist the
temptation to leave it for a season IN
order to come to this country to lecture.
A marble bust of Lucy Stone, made by
Annie Whitney, is to be sent to the
Worlds fair, to stand beside those of
| Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady
| Stanton, which have been nearly COM
pleted by Washington sculptor.
! Mr.. johnson of Indiana is said to be
the most rapid speaker in Congress.
Mrs. LIE Favre, president of the New
York Vegetarian Society, has completed
an experiment on which she started Feb
/, to determine how cheap she could live
and yet take nothing but the very best of
food. She has discovered that she can
subsist royalty on S1.30 per week, and
she declares there is no reason why all
| working men and women should not
adopt her bill of fair and save their mon
ey.
General Palmer, like many other big
men, including Congressman Springer,
has little wife. Mrs Palmer is de-
scribed as Unite of woman" and it
| is said that one of the prettiest pictures
! to be seen at the Capitol restaurant at
| Washington is that of the stalwart Hi
nois senator, trimming over with health
and good humor, taking luncheon with
Isher. Mrs. Palmer is very popular in
Washington.
The other day the popular branch of
the Mississippi Legislature passed bill
disqualifying saloon-keepers for service
as grand jurors, and making the fact of
the saloonkeeping a sufficient ground for
challenge in making up petit jurors; but
the Senate, so far refuses to concur.
IA Cincinnati German relates the
Cleveland Leader, ''made bet that he
could fast five days. On the fourth day
he was locked in room where there
was q plateful of steaming hot sauer
kraut and he yielded to the temptation.
Now he is suing to get his money back"
''There is a possibility" says the
Washington Star, ''that the United States
steamer Boston, now on her way from
Callao to Panama, may be ordered to
stop at the Island of Socorra, Off the west
coast of Mexico, in the hope of being
able to rescue some seamen OF the
wrecked vessel Tahite, who are supposed
to be there"
Russian papers deny emphatically that
General Gourko, encouragement Of
Russian Poland, intends to resign his
place. They say that he is still hale de-
spite his sixty-four years, and will be the
leader in the Russian army in case of
European war;. He is said to be popular
and to enjoy the confidence of the czar.
Rev. DR.. G. 7. Purves, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Pittsburg,
has been called to the chair of New Tes-
! lament literature and eXegesis in Prince
ton Theological seminary. He appears
to be inclined to accept the call, although
he declined one to another professorship
that of church history-in the same in
stitution last year. He is said to have
also declined the passionate of the late
DR.. Howard Crosby's church in New