The Portland daily press., 1894-04-19
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Mayor Hopkins of Chicago is of such
strong anti-Masonic tendencies that he
has not only dismissed city employees
who are mem bers of the order, but he
refuses to buy goods for his own use
from any merchant whom he believes to
be a Freemason.
1t is curious, but nevertheless true,
that when Congressman-at-Large
Galusha A. Grow entered politics Lincoln
and Sherman were country lawyers,
Grant an obscure captain on the pacnc
coast and Garfield mule driver on the
Ohio canal.
The people at the White House say that
President Cleveland reads the Congress
ional Record from beginning to end
every morning in order that he may
have thorough idea of what is going
on in Congress.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, although
81 years of age, is still spry and in full
possession of her mental faculties. She
takes lively interest in all that is pass
ing in the world and is able to go about
good deal.
Mrs. Potter Palmer will endeavor to
found "home" of some description in
Chicago near the building endowed in
her name by her husband. The exact
nature of the enterprise is not known. 1T
will be wholly charity.
Something of the misty climate of Eng
land may be grasped through the mete-
geological reports for the past 80 years.
They show that the most cloudless
month in all that time yielded only 90 per
cent. of possib BILE sunshine.
Horizon Marsh, famous duckIng
preserve so miles northwest of Milwau-
kee, proves to have been palmed off on
Eastern and English capitalists for
good round sum. The property consists
of IS, 900 acres of bog, and was offered
for sale at $4,000 With no TAKERS
Notices of sheriff's sale discloses that
it has since been mortgaged as farm
land for $40, 900 to banks in New Hamp-
shire and England. Two Chicago hunt
ing clubs had leases on the place and
are mystified and astonished by the
revelation.
Mrs. Susan Stuart Fraclketon, of Mil
waukee, who has attained distinction
as a potter, is said to have contributed
the only unique piece of ceramic art to
the Worlds Fair. She has received nu-
merous medals and diplomas for superb
OF WOTk. L uc ISuCOl VI uolJ' hoo WAiuooAA
her personal letter complimentlng her,
and her work on china, "Tried by Fire."
is used as textbook in the South Ken
sinpton Art Museum Library. She is
president of the National League of
Mineral Painters.
Mrs. Ann S. Austin, the woman who
was lately elected mayor of Pleasantou,
Kan, and about whom SO much has
been written, is a native of Ohio, with
New England ancestry. She has been
prominent in social, religious and political
work all her life, and is an officer of the
independent Order of Good Templars.
German of Maryland, and Irby of
South Carolina, are the baseball cranks
of the Senate. Both are old players and
both won great regulations at the game.
German used to be pitcher and Irby
was first base and captain of a team that
never lost game.
Joseph James Cheeseman, the presi-
dent of Liberia was born in that
country. His parents were sent out to
Liberia by the American Colonization
Society and were among it's early found
ers.
Miss Maria Cultivate of De Pere,
Wis. has passed an examination as an
expert drummer before the jury appoint
ed by Theodore Thomas. She is only
eight years old.
Lord Roseberry made his debut as an
orator at the age of IA, when he ad-
dressed company of volunteers to
whom his grandfather was giving
luncheon, and spoke so eloquently and
with so much self-possession as to as
tonish his auditors.