The Portland daily press., 1894-03-28
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Speaking of the Queen, it is not gener-
ally known that she has one of the heavi-
est stocked wine cellars in Great Britain.
She possesses some fine old port of 1920,
1884 and 1e4S. Her Cabinet Rhine wines.
too, are of rare vintage and were present.
ed by her German relatives. The man
who looks after these cellars has COM
Portable salary, and his principal occu-
patton is testing to see that the wines
| under his charge are not going of in
| any way. This gentleman taster," who
| has soft, snug berth of it, is Mr..
| kingscote, and is cousin OF Sir Nigel
of that ilk. 1t is one of the easy sltua-
| tions deliberately prepared for scions of
| the aristocracy, who all well understand
| the fine art of feathering their own
| nests. no matter how the outside world
| wags, nor how much pressure exists
from overtaxation, which might readily
be relieved by cutting away hundreds
off useless sinecures. John Bull is, in
deed, patient old animal!-Howard
Paul in the American Register.
Presbyterians of Fitchburg deny that
VIC. P Breckenridge was ever all elder
in the Presbyterian church. He is the
son of the great Presbyterian theologian,
the Rev. Or. Robert Breckenridge, and
being Presbyterian by preference, has
frequently been houored by the church
on social occasions.
Grape fruit is more popular year by
year, and it is recommended by physi-
clans as better as a breakfast fruit than
the orange. 1t is considered more ex-
pensive when bought in small quanti-
ties than the orange. But, on the other
hand, no one cares to eat more than half
large grape fruit at breakfast, SO that
for practical PURPOSES it becomes cheaper
than most other fruits. The fruit mas
names, as pomelo, hummelo, pompelmars
and shodduk. The last is the name of
the largest variety. 1t is grown in
Florida, and will one day he a great
deal cheaper in.this market than it is
now.
William II. is the first monarch of
Europe who has appreciated the value
of American methods of travel, and has
SO organized his train of cars that he
can move from one end of his empire to
another not only without personal
fatigue, but under conditions that enable
him to transact State business as salts
factorily as if he were in his working
room at Potsdam or Berlin. The Chi
cago VestibuIe limited finds its counter
part in the German imperial train, which
may be said to have doubled the Ca
pacity for work Of monarch mainly
criticised because of his superb bundant
energy. People who find fault with the
Emperor because, as they say, he is per-
petually rushing from one corner OF
Europe to the other, forget that it is
not he who does the rushing, but the
train of cars under him. His life, mean
while, is as placid and methodical as
one could wish, but where his grand
father was satisfied to know man
through written report, William H..
prefers to see that man face to face.
Mrs. Davis Waite of Colorado is the
power behind the governors "throne."
The famous speech in which the govern
or advised his hearers to Wade in blood,
yea, even.blood to the horses bridles,"
in defence of liberty, was read from
manuscript prepared by his own hand
in his own parlor, with Mrs. Waite at his
elbow. The midnight raid on the peni-
a man named Bruce, who is husband
to one of Mrs. Waite's daughters by her
former marriage. The wife of his excel
lency is not much over five feet tall, not
much over 100 pounds in weight, she
dresses plainly and does not go into So
ciety. She likes W. CT. U. business, and
also reformatory work, and is a devout
adherent of all the doctrines of the
most advanced branch of the Populist
party. Gov. Waite is SO years of age,
and his hair and beard are silvery white.
Mrs. Waite is AZ, and looks much young
err. They were horn in the same district
in the State of New York, Gov. Waite
near jamestown and Celia Crane in
Oneida