The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-03
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Liz WOIu0U DlCyCllSUS Ol bIUOhlyll, In.
Y, have bicycle club of their own.
Carl Schurz has for two years been at
work, under contract with great pub
fishing house, upon history of the
United States between 1852 and 1860.
:. The officials of Denver have closed
Camp Relief, where they were caring for
the unemployed. They found that all
tramps in the country were resorting
thither
The Gridiron Club of Boston has ac-
quired summer home near Concord, N.
H., through the generosity of George b.
James, of Boston.
Mr. L. Cutler of Fort Myers, Fla, has
been experimenting quite successfully
with palmetto leaf with view to utiliz-
ing it as fibre for the manufacture of
paper and paper ware
Ex-Census Superintendent Robert P.
Porter has resumed charge of the New
York Press, which has now become one
of the most successful newspaper proper
ties in New York.
The proposed union of the Baptists and
Free Baptists is attracting considerable
attention in the West.
Among the principal events of the
present month has been the completion
of the Corinth canal, which was begun,
in the first place, eighteen centuries ago,
under the reign Of the Roman Emperor
Nero.
1t is said that the avearge horse stands
the wear and tear of New York life only
four years, and that rs, 900 of them are
used up annually there.
Hugh O'Donnell, chairman of the
famous advisory committee of the Anal
gamated Workers during the Homestead
riots, is now living in Chicago, where he
is associate editor of The Eight Hour
Herald"
A Missouri paper reports that since
Mrs. Lease started out to plead the Pop
ullst cause at SO much pleading, she has
cleared her farm of a considerable mort
gage, has set her husband up in the drug
business, has bought a house in Wichita,
and has sent all her children to schools
where the tuition charges are not low.
There have been six Josiah Quincys in
Massachusetts, The present Assistant
Secretary of State is son of Josiah
Phillips Quincy, who was graduate of
Harvard College in the class of 1850,
and is still living. The latter's grand
father was the second Mayor of Boston.
The Marsh Family Association of this
country is composed of descendants of
seven of that name who emigrated to
America between 1858 and 1875, all COM
ing from England and settling in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut. 1t is believed
that their descendants to-day number
100000.
Miss Matt Grim, the young novelist,
was born in Louisiana, but has spent
most of her life in Georgia At present
she is living in New York, and is engaged
on novel and a play. In appearance
she is graceful and girlish. She Is still
quite young. Her first story to appear
in "The Century" was "An Unfortunit
Creetur," sketch of power and pathos.
The seventy-ffth anniversary of the
organization of the first Sunday school,:
at Bedford, Mass. has revived the MEM
DRY of the Rev. Samuel Stearns, to whom
it's establishment was due. 1t seems
strange in this day to learn that the plan
met with opposition from adhercnts of
the church. Many honestly commended
that it was Dissertation of the Sabbath
day for children to congregate for such
purposes. Mr.. Stearns persisted iii his
design, however, and was one of the first
in the State to have such an institution.
DE OCCIl IbuOucS, Uuo ruling IacGOf IN
British politics in Southern Africa, was
not always an important parsonage.
Twenty years ago Sir Cecil-then known,
when known at all, simply as Rhodes
was associated with two other "pards" in
the ownership of certain claims in the
Kim berley diamond fields of South At
RIGA. Of these three members of the part
nership Of two decades ago, one has since
been hanged; another has sunk down
to the condition Of a common pauper,
begging on the highway when not in the
workhouse; and the third is Sir Cecil
Rhodes, ex-prime minister of Cape Col
ony, and the richest man in Africa
VS.. Simpson, C.E., prominent Eng
lish scientist, has perfected all invention
which promises to do away with the dan
gers which all pictures, and especially
water-color drawings have hitherto I'M
dergone from the disastrous effect of
light on pigments. Mr.. Simpson has, by
an exceedingly simple device, made it
possible TO frame all pictures, large or
small, under this desirable condition
The canvas or painting is placed in a
chamber or box. either copper or alum