The Portland daily press., 1892-06-17
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

General Eppa Hunton, Virginia's new
Senator, rose in four years from the Con-
federate ranks to major generalship.
Sir Evelyn Barring of Egyptian fame
will take the title of Baron Cromer of
Cromer, in Norfolk, that being his
birthplace.
Mary Steele, who has charge of the
money order department of the Pittsburg
post office, handles more than $4,000, 900
annually. This is, perhaps, the largest
business intrusted to any woman.
The last male heir of Pulaski, the dis
tinguished Pole who aided the patriots
ofthe Revolution, lives in Savannah, Ca,
where he earns a scanty living peddling
small wares.
Charles J. Baker of Baltimore has just
presented to the American Bible Society
manuscript containing the whole Bible,
written in the Latin language. The vol
ume is a curious one, and it is supposed
it was written in the fourteenth century.
The Wanamakers have four homes
the residence in Washington, one in
Philadelphia, a cottage at Cape May
Point. called the Lilemyn cottage, from
the names of the two daughters, and
Lindenhurst, a very fine residence and
estate, about fifteen miles from Philadel-
phia.
There died recently in Hungary two
ladies who served in 194S in the revolu-
tionary army and fought in several of the
fiercest battles dressed in military uni
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promoted, and under the name of Karl
attained the rank of first lieutenant of
hussars. At this point, however, an ar
tillery major stopped her military career
by marrying her. The other fought I'M
der the name of Josef, and was decorated
for valor in the field. She married long
after the campaign. An Hungarian
paper, referring to the two cases, says
that about a dozen women fought in 194S
in the insurrectionary ranks.
King Christian 1. of Denmark, whose
golden wedding was celebrated recently,
is well preserved handsome man of
seventy-four. His education was entirely
German, and there is yet suspicion of
German accent in his speech. But he
had hardly assembled the throne of his
fathers in 1868 when the Danish Prus-
sian war broke out and there was good
deal of discomfort among the patriotic
Danes that their sovereign lord should
only be able to express his sorrow at the
loss of Schleswig Holstein in words which
sounded far more German than Danish.
The Duke of Portland continues to
add to his shooting domains. He has
Just taken lease of the shootings at
Dunbeeth, which adjoin those of Berrie-
dale, and give an addition of twenty
thousand more acres-thus bringing the
total area of his shootings up to about
eighty thousand acres. But the duke
believes in things on big scale. He is
one of the richest noblemen in England.
His town mansion extends along almost
the whole side of Cavendish square and
Welbeck, his seat in Nottinghamshire, is
said to be the finest woodlawn domain
in the country.
The young King Alexander of Servia
recently had a narrow escape from death.
He drove out with his adjutant to the
suburb of Belovoda, and on his way
back to town had to cross the railway at
point where a turn in the road hid
from view an approaching train. The
gates of the crossing had been left open
and a catastrophe appeared inevitable,