The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-27
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Representative Breckenridge of Ken
ton. Candidates in opposition are
springing up all over his district, and
among them are men of considera BILE
local strength, and some who have been
his political managers in times past. The
Pollard affair is at the bottom of great
deal of this opposition. There is con-
siderable local doubt as to Breckinridge's
ability to entirely clear himself from
Miss Pollard's charges, and a reluctance
to be represented in Congress by a man
upon whom such a suspicion rests.
Edward Box receives one of the largest
personal mails in the country, a years
mail consisting of over 10000 letters.
Three-fourths of these letters are from
women. No part of this huge mail
reaches Mr.. Box directly; it is opened
by private secretary and distributed to
assistants for answer. Every letter, how
ever, receives reply. One of Mr.. Bok's
editors on the Ladies' Home Journal,
Ruth Ashmore, who writes to girls, re-
ceives over 5000 letters during year.
Mr.. Ferris, of Worlds Fair wheel fame,
is now engaged in constructing cantil-
ever bridge at Cincinnati, which will
have sheer span of 1900 feet and be go
feet wide. 1t will be the second longest
cantilever in the world, and, considering
its width and it's enormous size, it will
be the greatest bridge of that construc-
ton that has ever been built.
Prince Nicholas Gallitzin, who is in
San Francisco on his way to the Worlo's
Fair. is 43 years of age and member of
the best known families of the Russian
nobility. One of his great-uncles, Prince
Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, came to
America in ITO to examine the military
institutions of this new country, but he
turned missionary. He bought large
tract of land in Cambria county, Pa,
and gave it to Catholic families. He
spent his fortune. on this colony and
died there.
DR.. Edward Warren, who died the other
day in Paris, had career of more than
common interest. He was acting sur
geon- general in Lees army during the
Peninsular campaign, and after the war
went back to Baltimore to claim the
medical professorship he had given up
at the beginning of hostilities. This
being denied him, he promptly started
a new medical school that was highly
prosperous. He went abroad afterward
and became surgeon-general in the
honored with the title of Bey. The great
French physician Charcot induced him
to settle in Paris, and there DR.. Warren
had large practice among distinguished
people, and received the cross of the
Legion of Honor. He was born in
Edenton, N. c., in 1928.
Dung the past year astronomers have
discovered 30 new planets. Of this num-
Der two were found by Palisa, the wet
eran asteroid hunter Of Vienna" The
remainder were appraised by means of
photography. During thesthree opening
months of the present year 80 planets
have been added to the list. The total
number of asteroids known on April.1st
was 374.
A government commission consisting
of Prof. C. H. Gilbert and Oh jenkins,
of Leland Stanford University, has just
returned from. the. Columb iasriver region,
where they investigated the causes of
the rapid disappearance of salmon Sin
that region. They report that the lower
Columbia from Astoria for long dis
lance upward is filed with net, seines,
traps and other devices, and that the
Gamers slaughter the fish most reck-
lessly.
CA. Lorman of Detroit purposes TO
present to the Loyal Legion log II feet
long and Is inches insdiameters which had
been cut on Wilkinson's farm on the
battlefield of Chickamauga, and which
contained imbedded deep in its body and
firmly fixed six shells unexploded and
remnants of others that had struck the
same tree and been discharged, leaving
the pieces of iron imbedded almost out
of sight beneath the bark of the Tree,