The Portland daily press., 1892-09-23
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Professor Bryce has revised the whole
of his american Commonwealth. and
has added several entirely new chapters.
1t will probably be published next month
in its new form.
Whittier was held in high esteem in
England and the press comments on his
career are all eulogistic. tits recalled
that John Bright regarded him as the
greatest poet the United States has ever
produced, and this opinion was not due.
such was Mr.. Bright's honesty of charac-
ter. to the fact that he was himself a
Quaker.
The. King of Siam has recently pre-
sented to DIR. T. Hayward Hays of Balti
more, medical missionary to Siam, rep
resenting the Presbyterian Board of Mis-
sions. a handsome gold watch and chain,
with locket, in recognition of the9doctor'
services at the birth of the king S young
est son.
Following the announcement of the
great new steamers, to be built for the
Cunard Company, comes a similar notice
from the White Star Company, which
has ordered one still larger. 1t will be
700 feet long and sixty-fve feet wide,
and will have three screws. The tonn-
age is not given.
The story that John M. Verhoeff, Of
the Peary expedition hid himself in or,
der to avoid coming back this summer
because he wanted to make independent
explorations of his own, gets little sup
port from the statement of Verhoef's
sister, who says chat when he babe hel
goodbye he told her not to be disap
pointed if he did not get back when she
expected him, and that he also told al
uncle that he did not expect to return il
| less than two years.
Madam Loyson, wife of the celebrated
Pere Hyacinthe Loyson, has had re
markable career. AT very early age
she developed religious and ascetic ten
denotes, and when a child of ten arranged
a hermitage in the forest, where she in
tended to isolate herself from the worlt
but the Puritanical discipline of hel
father, Mr.. Butterfield, forbade this plan
after the first attempt at inhabiting tn
retreat. At the age of eighteen sh
marie d Captain E. K. Merriam OF Ohio
| Several years of her married life wer
| passed in Brooklyn, and while there Mrs
| Merriam formed one of Henry Ware
Beechers congregation. AS the year,
passed by she became more and more
| dissatisfied with Professionalism, which
she did not consider sufficiently spiritua
| In 1867, while abroad, her husband died
While in Rome, the Catholic Churcl
proved an irresistible attraction, and II
1868 she announced her union with thi
church to her brother in Chicago as fol
lows: Il return to the Catholic faith Of
our fathers by the Porta Romano" Al
this very time, however, she was pro
testing vigorously against the doctrine
of papal infallibility, and during the oil
vision between the ultramontanes an(
Jesuits on the one hand and the liberia
Catholics on the other, her salon was thu
resort of the bishops of the opposition
The Pope, in acknowledgement of hel
power, said: ,She is Thousand times
| more dangerous than if she remained {
| Protestant, for the new convert is an ole
Catholic.'' Mrs. Merriam became the
wife of Pere Hyacinthe Sept. 3, 1872, ane
since then both have labored in the in
terests of Catholic reform. Their onl.
child, Paul. is now eighteen years O
age