The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-19
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Rubinstein's opera, "Moses" will be
produced for the first time this season at
Vienna by the Gesellschaft der Musk
freun de.
Loie Fuller has acquired the right to
a scheme of mirrors, by which she alone
can furnish ballet that will seem to
have hundred dancers in it.
Miss Nancy Mcintosh, the prima donna
of the new Gilbert and Sullivan opera,
is the daughter of the president of the
fishing club whose broken dam caused
the YOUNGSTOWN flood
Ruskin, though broken and unable
ever to be what he once was, is yet COM
fortably well off, playing chess good
deal and pleasing himself in the social
atmosphere of his Brentwood home.
Warwick Potter, son of the late Cen
eral Potter and nephew of Bishop Potter,
has just died of seasickness while cruis-
ing on yacht. He was graduate of
Harvard in the class of 1872, and was
young man of much promise.
The Earl of Lovelace, now nearly go
years old, and very.ill at his estate in
Scotland, had for his first wife Byron's
daughter, ada, sole daughter of my
house and heart" She left son, who
inherited Lady Byron's titles and prop
erty, and he has daughter, Aad Mary,
the last descendant Of Lord Byron.
Newspaper life in Russia seems to
have the same sort of excitement that
was incident to Western journalism a
few year ago. An editor in Kursk recent
ly had occasion to discharge proof
reader In the afternoon the latter re-
turned, shot the editor through the
lungs and then opened fire on the staff.
He killed two of the men and the rest es-
capped by jumping out of the window.
If long branches of the morning glory
be picked at night, arranged in bowl
of water, and set out in the open air, the
buds will open at sunrise, and the dish
makes a most charming ornament for
the breakfast table. The slightest touch,
however, seems to blight the blossoms,
but if carefully managed and kept out of
the warm sunlight they will remain
fresh and open for many hours.
New York florists are now selling at
good prices the beautiful fringed gentian
to all appearances exactly the same flower
as the native wild variety. The flower,
though found hereabouts, is not sufi-
GENTLY abundant to be commonplace,
and in form and color itshas a rare charm
that makes it greatly priced by hunters
of the fields To be seen at its best the
fringed edges of the petals should be ex-
banded into star-like form, but the
blossom remains in this condition only
a short time. Gentians are found FREE
quently on the Cape roads, and along
the ways in Deering.
Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, United
States Navy, designer of the celebrated
Ammen ram, now being completed
at Bath, and the ardent advocate of the
use of rams in naval warfare, must feel
unusual qualification at the somewhat
belated Endorsement given to his ideas re-
Gently by Sir William Armstrong, the
noted English expert in shipbuilding and
gunmaking. Sir William, in comment
ing upon the Victoria disaster, made
some very significant remarks upon the
use of rams, and discouraged the practice
of ramming by battleships and vessels
of war of the usual types. He openly an
nounced his belief that vessels should
be specially constructed for this purpose
alone, and thus voiced identically the
views that Admiral Ammen has steadily
advanced for many years, in the face of
much Encouragement, and even opposi-
ton, only having them partly taken up
of late years, when the ram now build
ing, the Katahdin, was authorized.