The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-12
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Princess Beatrice has plated with her
own hands the straw for hat for
Prince Henry of Battenberg. The work
manship is said to be curiously delicate.
Queen Victoria has for many years made
it a practice to occupy some of her leis-
ure in plating straw for the hats of her
sons and nephews. The kaiser has one
that he used to wear occasionally.
The Mikado of Japan has recently is
sued a decree allowing 81 japanese worn-
an to lead, if she chooses, single life.
Hitherto. if found unmarried after
certain age, husband was selected for
her by law.
The millionaire of the United States
navy is said to be Commodore George
E. Perkins. In the army the wealthiest
man is General Nelson B. Sweitzer, who
is also famous cavalryman.
Attorney Gen. NJ. j. Moloney of Illinois,
who is attacking the trusts of that State
in the courts, was born in ireland in
1S49, and is graduate of the University
of Virginia. On leaving Virginia he
settled in Ottawa. Ill. Before his cleo
ton as attorney-general he served as
city attorney of Ottawa and as States
attorney for La Sale county. He has
always been noted for the fearless and
vigorous performance of his official
duties.
ME-. ingalls,, the president of the Big
Four" com bination of railroads and of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, worked ais
way through Harvard Law School, sleen-
Ing on the floor of friends law Office
and eating his meals, when he could
get them, at cheap restaurants.
The Philadelphia Record says that
the International Walt Whitman Society
is TO be organized on the lst day of
this month. The reunion committee, of
which DR.. D. 6. Brinuon is chairman, has
already drafted definite land of forma-
ton. Centres will be established in
different parts of the world among the
admirers of Whitman, and from time to
time Whitman literature will be pub
lished, principally ESSAYS and papers in
elucidation Of his philosophy of life
or in exposition of his poetry and prin-
ciples. Annual dues have been set at
So. A president, five vice presidents and
aboard of ten directors will be elected
and a charter at once applied for.
Major Gen. o. o. Howard succeeds John
Wanamaker as president of the National
Temperance Society. The election took
place at the annual meeting in the
Broadway Tabernacle when the society
celebrated it's Goth anniversary.
Poulteny Bigelow says that Berlin has
no such "colony" of rich and pleasure
seeking Americans AS you find in Lon
don or Paris, but is the best capital in
Europe for the young American who
wants to study, live econom cally and
behave himself. The atmosphere is
more intellectual, the distractions and
temptations fewer.
At its Des Moines meeting last week
the supreme council of thea. P. A,
adopted-after some DISCUSSIONS report
containing this notice to all concerned:
Certain persons known as ex-priests
who are going about the country lectur-
ing upon the confessional and kindred
topics are not upheld by this organiza-
ton In any manner, and are considered
to be doing the cause injury and harm. :"
General George S.Greene, U.S.A., IRE
tired) entered his ninety-fourth year
last Sunday. In his active time he was
a very clever mathematician and en-
gineer, as we'll as gallant and accom-
plished soldier. He had horse shot I'M
der him at Antietam. He is the patriarch
OF the West Point alumni. "1n spite of
his advanced age,n says one Of the New
York reporters, ''the general is still as
hearty and as jolly as he was twenty five
years ago. Many friends in army and
club circles called during the day to con
graduate him."