The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-06-16
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Gov. Mckinley has recently been made
Knight Of Pythias.
A monument to William Cullen Bryant
is to be erected in Central Park, New
York, by the Century club Of that city.
Lieutenant Peary is at Camden, N. j.,
trying the steam yacht Sylvia. with the
expectation Of buying her for his arctic
trip.
Arlo Bates, the Boston novelist, has
been elected professor Of English litera-
tire in the Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology.
Tho United States Mint has begun to
turn out the Worlds Fair souvenir quar-
ter dollars. The diverse side represents
the head Of Queen Isabella Of Spain,
wearing the crown of CASTLE, while on
the re verse side is a woman kneeling BY
the side Of distaff.
Salmon from California have been sue
cessfully acclimatized on the lakes of the
Marine and Sa6ne Canal at Nievre, France
The salmon have not only been caught in
the lake itself, but in the tributary
streams, where they doubtless went to
spawn. g.a
Ex-Labor Commissioner Charles F.
Peck, Of New York, author Of sthe ia
nous "Peck report" is in Europe rep
resenting syndicate of American news
papers. Meanwhile he has been indicted
In the New York courts for DESTROYING
the returns on which his famous report
was based.
In 1865 Lieutenant 81. m. Tillinghast,
of Davisville, R. T., carved on the back
Of turtle in that town his initials and
date, and liberated the animal. The 9TH
or day the turtle was found within ten
rods Of the place and was carried to Mr..
Ttllinghast, who saw on its back the
identical carving made % years ago.
Rev. DR.. Ecob, the dissenting Presby-
terrain Of Albany, turned over bis barrel
to find sermon IA years old for re-
cent Sundays service. he preached IL
to show that IA years ago he thought
just as he does now, and to refute the
charge that his action in leaving The
church was 'shasty'
Marshal MacMahon, formerly Presi-
dent of the French republic, and one of
the two surviving Marshals of France,
completed his s5th birthday on July IS,
and he signalized the occasion BY COM
plotting also, his memoirs, upon which
he is actively engaged. These memoirs
cover sixty years Of French history, and
are not to be published when completed.
but are to be withheld by the publisher
for stated period after the death of the
Marshal.
Benjamin Lenthier. the Massachusetts,
French-Canadian whom Mr.. Cleveland
sends as consul to Sherbrook, P. O.. il
not acceptable to the people there be-
cause, though there are near by French
parishes Sherbrooke is the central point
of the Eastern township, settled almost
exclusively BY disbanded soldiers from
the old British Army in Canada. These
people have always strenuously opposed
French domination. Their protest, how
evor, was unheeded by the Washington
authorities. sE Ms5
A. M. Williams, who has written life
Of Sam Houston. soon to be published ]
was for several years editor of the Provi-
dence Journal, and for many years previ-
GUS one ~ Its principal writer's Nj.
Williams has given 10 years OF study and
research to this work. He had further
more, the advantage of personal ac-
quaintance with the subject of his biog-
raphy, and like him lived for several
years in the Cherokee nation, having
been secretary of the first congressional
assembly Of that nation. Mr.. Williams
was Union soldier throughout the war,
and was one of the heroes in the Port
Hudson forlorn hope.
Editor David M. Stone, of the New
York Commercial Advertiser, has re-
tired at the age Of Is. In his valedic-
tory he says that he has given forty-four
years to the service without single va
cation. For the last four years he has
had no editorial assistant, and has writ
ten with his own hand every article set
in BREWER type which has appeared in
any edition Of the paper, making over
three hundred leading editorials in each
of the twelve months, besides attending
to much other work in the conduct Of |
the business. -----is4