The Portland daily press., 1894-05-09
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

DR.. Ingersoll Olmstead, professor of
bacteriology in the University of Penn
sylvania, has had leg amputated below
the knee because of blood poisoning. 1t
is supposed he became infected by lymph
with which he was experimenting.
Small boys at Fon du Lac, Wis.,, are
now using the bones of Indians long
dead to build their playhouses with.
Thousands of redskin graves have been
disturbed by gravel haulers. Nearly all
the Winnebago tribe were buried in that
vicinity.
The Town Hall clock of Warrensbu
Mo-, is private property. The man who
built it got $500 a year for winding it
up and keeping it in order. Though he
is dead, his son still does the work and
draws the money. The people of the
place dearly prize the privilege of hay-
ing clock where everyone can look
st It.
The Sunday bicyclists in England have
become vast army. Lord William
Cecil, rector of Hatfield, proposes to
bring the church into direct relations
with this new class of the population.
AS an inducement to cyclists to visit his
church he hasNprovided special seats for
their use, with a due equipment of
prayer and hymn books, and has made
arrangement whereby all machines are
to be kept under lock and key while the
riders are at their devotions Notices
to this effect have been posted at all
the INNS Lord Cecil is the second son
of Lord Salisbury
| A Washington correspondent says: The
! Beale-Blaine wedding the other day was
really quite boom for Reed for Presi-
denu In past years the Reeds and their
| friends and the Blaines and their friends
have not been intimate, and there was
somewhat spirit of rivalry between the
| two men from Maine. But at the we'd
| ding on Monday Reed was present and
| was really the hero of the day, even out
| shining the young bridegroom. There
| was in the air a general feeling that the
mantle of Blaine had fallen upon the
broad shoulders of Reed, that is as far
1 as the Blaine family was concerned.
Mrs. Blaine was very cordial 20 the ex-
speaker, and at the wedding breakfast
| made several remarks about the dlplo-
matte position that Reed would of course
| give to the bridegroom in about three
| years from now. Reed was certainly
among friends on that day, surrounded
I DY bu0 LOuGcS, I1lbts, Cdu6rOQS. ErVGS
and the. others who have been his warm
admirers and warmer friends for years.
So altogether there was quite politi-
| cal tinge.to the wedding.
| Nearly 100 army officers are teaching
| perhaps 10000 college lads all over the
country how to be soldiers. The Federal
| government undertakes to lend each col
| CT e
| and the college in each case must give
bonds for the safe return of the govern
| ments property. AS a matter of fact,
some of, the weapons thus furnished are
a bit Anticipated, but they serve their
purpose, and the alumni of these colleges
| already constitute considerable body
| of men possessing some knowledge OF
military tactics.
Since,,Mr Moody's daughter has become
engaged to Mr.. Arthur Percy Fit, the
young Irishman who has been his private
secretary, he has been so inundated with
remarks about the union being fit one
that he is becoming little weary.
| Governor Northern of Georgia. has con
sented to act as schoolmaster at SPELL
ing bee shortly to be held in Atlanta.
| The Governors friends say that he can
| spell such long words as gubernatorial
denomination with neatness and dis
| patch.
| The Amer of Bokhara, in Central
Asia, has modified entirely his habits
and customs, as result of his recent
voyage in Russia. He has opened the
| gates Of his palace to Russian ladies, and
organized dancing parties. Moreover,
| this palace, with all its Oriental SPLEEN
/ Z I 70 he anti ef.
the Amer in general comfort. .Heshas
oroered another to be built in the Euro
pean style, near the Russian Legation.
under the supervision of a French archi.
| tect.