The Portland daily press., 1892-04-01
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


President Harrison is to lay the corner
stone of the New York Grant monument
April q. General Porter, President of
the Monument Association, has issued
an appeal for $3.50, 600 more.
Lady O'Brien, the wife of the Governor
of Newfoundland, is much absorbed in
the wives and children of the men en-
gagged along the coast in the fishing in
dustry and has organized small society
to work up material into suitable cloth
ing for her proteges.
Judge Peter Turney, Democratic can
didate for the gubernatorial nomination
in Tennessee, Familiarity known as ''Old
Pete,'' is six feet four inches in height
and weighs 250 pounds.
Mile. Elise st. Omer, the celebrated
French explorer, travels without any
luggage, not even hand bag. All she
requires is slowed away i'll her capacious
pockets. Thus equipped, this energetic
lady has travelled through all parts of
Europe, Asia and America; has visited
Mormons, Japanese and Cingalese, ridden
side by side with Bedouins and climbed
the Himalayas.
According to the last report of the
Michigan bureau of labor statistics, the
farmers number more than one-half the
population, but their profits constitute
only one-eighth of the total net proceeds
of industry in the state. One-fortieth OF
the population own all the timber lands,
mineral lands, railroad lands, city rail-
road and farm mortgages and manufac-
lures in the state.
A correspondent who saw ex-Secretary
Balfour, the new leader OF
the House, at the opening of Parlia-
ment. me writes that though this much
hated man appears kindly, genial and
| modest. there is in his big lower jaw
something that makes one think of a
man of steel and adamant rather than of
flesh and blood. Yet Balfour used to
lounge about clad in satin dressing
gown embroidered with lilies, and would
not read the newspapers because they
bored him!
Congressman Stewart Of Illinois has
one home interest that he never neglects.
Whenever a circus comes anywhere near
Plano, the town which his farm adjoins,
he hires special train and takes all he
children of the place to the show at his
last fall he declined to either contribute
anything towards his election or to print
| or circulate tickets or anything else with
his name on them, but he had COM
| Portable majority.
DR.. Blyden, a well-known scholar and
educator of Liberia, has said that he can
visit his intellectual equals in England
without being reminded of the fact that
| he is negro. German newspapers have
| recently asserted that some men have
| been specially honored in their country
simply because they are negroes; and
| they mention recently deceased young
man, known as James CARRIER, who was
taken to Germany from the Guinea coast
and whose funeral in Berlin a few weeks
ago was attended by four hundred people
who greatly admired fine floral crown
| on the coffin inscribed, From his friends
in the Society of African Exploration"
The solicitors of Mrs. Florence May
brick who is serving life sentence in
Woking prison for poisoning her husband
have submitted a statement looking to
her release from prison, or, at least to
| the procurement of new trial on legal
| points to the joint consideration of cOnn-
| sell comprising Sir Charles Russell and
| MeSSrS. FOldnd, MOulUOn, ReSludlu OHHll
and H. W. MacDougall. The American
friends Of Mrs. Maybricl1 will pay the
costs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Poultney Bigelow started
for London, their present home, on the
Britannia, on Wednesday. MI. BigeloW
will visit Russia shortly, to see what pre-
cautions are taken there to prevent the
washing away of the sandy shores of the
Baltic, and report thereon to the Uniteo
States government with a view to the ap.
plication of Russian methods to the
problem of resisting the depredations o.
the Atlantic along the New Jersy coas
and elsewhere. Mr.. Frederic Remington
will accompany him and six illustrated
articles from the pen of the former anc
pencil of the latter will give a popular
account of the trip in forthcoming mum
bers Of Harper's Monthly.