The Portland daily press., 1892-04-13
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

DR.. E. R. L. Gould, of the United
States department of labor, will take
charge of the work in social science and
statistics at John Hopkins University,
and Professor John B. Clark, vice Presi-
dent of the American Economic Associa-
ton and professor of economies in Smith
College, has been secured for Baltimore
as lecturer on 'sEconomle Theory" Pro-
fessor Clark is one of the strongest living
theoretical economists, his work on the
PHILOSOPHY of Wealth. being recognized
as authoritative. He is a graduate of
Amherst College. He also studied in
Heidelberg and Zurich.
Walt Whitman's late home, little
frame house worth about $500 or S2000
is to be bought and preserved in his
memory, if MI. Traubel, one of the ex-
ecutors of the poets will, can raise the
money. Already circulars asking Tor
subscriptions have been sent out to Whit
mans admirers. MI Traubel says thzss
the two bedrooms, where Whitman did
all his literary work, and the parlor
would be kept as it is. The interior will,
however, be somewhat repaired and re-
painted.
There is very little doubt that Rubin
stein will visit America very soon, per-
haps in the spring. He has had an offer
for an American concert tour which, says
a late st. Petersburg letter, means at
least 100000, and perhaps half as much
more. The matter is not quite settled.
The great pianist is as capricious as
child, but his friends are of the opinion
that his visit is settled.
The Chicago directory of the Worlds
Fair calculate upon 10000, 900 admissions
at fifty. cents each-$16, 900, 000-from
visitors. This bears the appearance OF
being an inflated estimate, as the Paris
Expo ition realized only 100000 from
the sale of tickets.
President Harrison receives over 1907
900 letters year. Their subjects range
from requests for appointments to for
eign missions to old neekties for silk
quilts to be ratified for at church fairs.
NJ. Caubert, who occupied high posi-
ton at the last Paris exposition, and
who is a recognized authority on
worlds fairs. visited the EXPOSE
the exhibits are prepared on scale COM
nensurate with their housing the Chi
cago Worlds Fair will far excel the
greatest thing Of the kind yet held.
The custom of drinking healths' had
most curious origin. In the days when
the Danes lorded it in England they had
very common habit of stabbing Eng
lishnaen in the throat when drinking.
To avoid this villainy man when drink
ing would request some of the sifters-by
to be his pledge or surety while taking
his dl aught. Hence the custom.
The first daily newspaper ia the Eng
lish language was published by woman
Mrs. Elizabeth Mallet. 1t was issued
in London in March, 1902, 1t was by no
means a "woman's rights paper, but
was designed for the general relief and
comfort. Elizabeth Mallet frankly an
nounced that it was published to spare
the public at least half the inpertinenees
which the ordinary papers contain"
A number of commercial women are
travelling with their husbands, most OF
them for Chicago business firms, al
though few represent houses IN New
York and Boston. The lines OF goods
they carry vary from stationery ana
maps to hardware and jewelry. One
couple are travelling through the country
with horse and wagon, dealing with sew
ing machines, while another couple are
employing the same method to carry
lines Of gloves, mittens, etc.