The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-09-06
Personal AND PECULIAR.

DIR. Adolph Stoeker, ex-court preacher
of Germany, founder of the German
Christian Social party, and best known
as the leader of the anti-Semites in the
Reichstag, and for his Jew batting in
and out of the German Parliament, ar
rived lately on the steamer Augusta Vic
toria from Hamburg. He is to speak In
Chicago in the interest of home mission
airy work.
Robert d. Wrenn, the new tennis cham
pion of the United States, is a Harvard
man of the class of '95 His home is in
Chicago. He has been prominent in col
1ege athletics ever since he entered, and
has been a member of the freshman base
ball and football teams. Last year was
his first real season on the tennis court,
when he was ranked eighth among
American players as the result OF his
seasons work He is scarcely over 20
years old, and is said to bear his honor
with modesty.
Galen Clark is. the guardian of Yo-
semitic Park, a white-bearded pioneer,
grizzly bear killer and inn keeper; he
has just made his first visit to the out
side world in 40 years. He settled at
'Wawona, the picturesque stopping place
of the Yosemite stages, IN 1893, built
first one cabin and then several more for
sightseers, and finally became hotel
KEEPER Later he was made a Yosemite
Park commissioner, and then guardian.
He has Just been East to his old home
in New York which he had not seen
since the early gold excitement, and to
visit the Worlds Fair, Niagara and the
Yellowstone Park.
n ~ - hos
come into possession of an old tavern
sign of unusual interest. 1t is said to
have been painted by Benjamin West be-
fore he was known to fame, and first
swung in front OF the Three Crowns
Tavern, in Salisbury. This inn was
the resort of the Tories of that neigh bor-
hood and the old sign bears marks OF the
hostility felt by the neighbors toward
the proprietor. Since then it has hung
in front of several old Pennsylvania
tayerns. It is SO weather beaten and
worn as to retain scarcely trace OF the
painting alleged to be the work OF the
great Pennsylvania artist.
Henry Labouchere has for many years
set.aside part of the profits of London
Truth as a sinking fund for the defense
of libel suits, and it is said to amount
to something like 100000
Michael Razarin, an attache of the
Russian interior department., at St.
Peters burg, is in California investigat-
ing the prison system of that State.
1t is said that in the far South of the
United States the negroes decorate the
graves of their dead very frequently with
the medicine bottles used by the depart
ed in their last illness, and that the num-
Der of bottles found on a grave is often
an Indication of the duration of the
malady. 1t is curious custom, if the
story is true, but hardly less nonsensical
than the custom prevalent in these parts
of filing a mound with floral designs
which fade rapidly, and leave unsightly
skeleton frames, rusty and dragged, lying
about for weeks and months. Flowers
growing on mound are pleasing to the
eye, but rusty wire frames and decayed
flowers are unpleasant objects to look
upon.-Brooklyn Eagle.
One of the Shah's treasures is a small
cube of gold covered with Oriental let
tiers which are repuJed to have fallen
from heaven in Mahomet's time.
The latest born son of the Crown
Prince and Princess of Greece makes the
number of Queen Victoria's great grand
children 16. He is the eleventh grand
child of the Empress Frederick.
One of d. Oliver Wendell Holiness rec
reations is the measurement of the girth
of large trees that he happens to see in
his iaunts. For this purpose he always
carries measure with him on his daily
drives.