The Portland daily press., 1892-03-11
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

gold medal-offered by the United States
Naval Institute for the best essay on any
subject pertaining to the naval profess
ion, has been secured by William Laird
Cloves of Surbition Hill, Surrey, Eng,
who submitted an essay on Torpedo
Boats; Their Organization and Con-
duct"
Lord Calthrope, whe has had charge OF
of the fund to be devoted to the erection
of memorial to the late DR.. Sir Moreu
Mackenzie, has announced that the fund
will be devoted to the erection of per-
manent addition to the Hospital for
Diseases of the Throat, which was found
ed by DR.. Mackenzie in 1868, and with
which he was connected until the time
of his death.
Count Adolphus Norraik, the transla-
tor of Tolstoi Russian stories, is hope
less paralytic at the Home for Incurables
in New York city. He was twice exlled
to Siberia, and his hardships shattered
his health.
1t is reported that Cornelius Wander
bilt is to build new residence in New
York to cost at least 50, 100000.
Lord Randolph Churchilrs appearance
has undergone a very marked change
during the past year, and many of his
old American friends would experience
considerable difficulty in recognizing
him. His beard which he started just
before he went to South Africa, has be-
come quite long and thick, and is visibly
strealled with gray.
The farewell banquet to Mr. Reid, the
retiring United States minister at Paris
has been fixed for March "a. The Ameri-
can banker, Mr.. Harjes, will preside.
The farewell address, engrossed on parch
ment, will be read by Consul Genera
King. Among the guests will be menu
bers of President CARROTS military
household; Ministers Ribot, Roche and
Rouvier; Deputies Spuller, Meline and
Sigfried: Senator Barley and M. de
Blowitz. It is reported that Mr.. Reid's
successor will be Colonel John Hay.
The New York Herald cable says it is
understood that the queen proposes to
raise Princess May to the dignity of roy
atty aud increase her present small allow
ance by a considerable amount. 1t is
privately announced that one of Princess
Mays brothers, who holds captaincy in
the dragons, is soon to marry the
daughter of a wealthy commoner, whose
name is not altogether unassociated with
breweries.
The President is besieged by autograph
hunters, and at times the desk of the
door keeper, Charles Loefher is piled
high with albums left there to receive
the Presidential signature. Loeff1er acts
as a sort of middle-man in this sentiment
tai trade, and when the President has
few minutes of leisure the stock of al
buns is deftly and decorously placed be-
fore him for his attention.
Lieutenant Graydon, formerly of the
United States navy and inventor of the
dynamite gun, has fallen out with the
Graydon gun syndicate, and publicly ac-
cuses it of fraud and deceit. He says
that the last annual report of the syndi-
cate showed that there were SO in the
treasury, and that a Is inch gun has been
ready at Birmingham for delivery to the
syndicate for the past nine months, and
that the builders are suing for $1,000 bal
ance due. Lieutenant Graydon sues the
directors for breach of contract and one
years pay, and threatens a series of other
suits.
Mrs. French Sheldon has received
very pressing invitation from Mrs. Potter
Palmer to exhibit her collection of Afri-
can curiosities at the coming exhibition
of women's work to be held at the Chi
cago Exposition in 1898. If Mrs. Sheldon
can arrange matters with the board of
lady managers at Chicago, her collection
will undoubtedly be one of the most in
teresting exhibits in the fair and will at
tract worldwide curiosity. Mrs. Shell
don's researches will eventually throw
mnch light on the history of these So
beautifully made and exquisitely carved,
and in the shape of the pottery and the
carving Mrs. Sheldon believes there are
distinct traces of Egyptic and Persian
characters, which will go far to establish
some remote connection in bygone ages
with these nations.
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