The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-22
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

T.
Let Spanish princesseS sail fast
Toward their ancestral halls,
Let dukes and earls and 'ssich' fit past
The fair White City's walls.
There comes another guest whose state
Is greater still, and more
Suggestive of the truly great
The Sultan OF JohOre.
1 Let titled white folks all step back,
And let Chicago hum
To do this mighty monarch proud
When he may choose to come;
He'll give them points in fashions new
And Oriental lore,
He'll trump McAllister's hoodoo--
This Sultan Of Johore!
Clarence Bayne, pitcher of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania ball team, and fine
athlete, is dead of appendicitis.
Williams College alumni are told that
the Institution faces yearly deficit of
$1,000. Brown University's yearly deficit
is still larger.
The Queens Gold Medal of the Royal
Institute of British Architects has been
presented to Richard M. Hunt, of New
York, for his work at the Fair.
A Pittsburg (Pa) excursion company
has offered round-trip tickets between
that city and Chicago at twelve dollars
Their enterprise was rewarded by their
projects being proclaimed t'pauper ex-
cursions,' and butseve of athin skinned
public were found to buy the tickets.
An English stonemason was married
in Hartford the other day and in the
evening he celebrated the affair in a
novel and inexpensive manner. He hired
a two-seated carriage with a driver and
rode through the streets, sitting beside
his bride and playing the latest tunes on
concertina.
A special meeting of the General Com
mittee of the Methodist Church of the
World has been called to boycott the ex-
position on account of Sunday opening.
Bishop Merrill says the five million mem
bers of the denomination will be asked
not to attend, and that all the Methodist
exhibits at the fair will be removed.
When Chauncey NJ. Depew learned of
the proposed boycott his remarks were
brief but pointed. Sin. my opinion. y
said he, "the. people will take their
chances of accommodation and dam
nation and see the fair
An Illinois man removed foul air from
a well in curious way. He took a
small umbrella, tied string to the
handle and lowered it open into the we'll.
Having let go nearly to the bottom,
he drew it up, carried it few feet from
the well and upset it. He repeated this
operation twenty or thirty times, with
all the bystanders laughing at him.
But on lowering candle, which had
several times been dut out by the bad
air, it burned clear and constantly,-a
sure sign that the air was fresh.
MI. Chatield- Taylor, the young man
who serves as Spanish Consul at Chicago
and who therefore gained great social
distinction when the Infanta arrived, is
a great observer of the aproprieties. So
keen is his sense of the fitness of things
that he has had his coach fitted up as a
dressing room, and there he keeps sever
al suits of clothes, shirts, cuffs and COL
lars, and other articles of apparel. Under
one seat is washbowl, with water can
near by. In case he is out calling in the
afternoon and has not time to get home
in season to dress at O. clock, he simply
let's down the curtains of his carriage.
disrobes, attends to the duties of the
toilet, and then arraying himself in even
ing dress, is ready when the bells chime
6 to sit down to dinner.