The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-04-03
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


When.Prof. Garner planned his expedi-
ton to Africa in search of the language
of the great apes, he hoped to take with
him curious letter of introduction to
a savage negro chieftain. The letter
was in the form of a phonograph mes
sage in the chiefs own language from
Ell. Glave, Stanley's young lieutenant.
Glave commends Garner to the good
offices of the savage warrior, and as
Glave's voice is we'll known to the
chieftain, the message would doubtless
have been effective, but Garner by i'll
luck failed to receive the photograph
before leaving England.
There are ..about 10000 Hungarians of
one sort or another in New York, in
GLIDING $4,000 Hebrews from ethe king
dom of Hungary. and every man of them
feels his heart w arm when he sees dis
playe all over the Hungarian quarter
the heroic crape-wreathed face OF Kos
suth. The death of the hero has
brought to light many curious and in
teresting prints and engravings of his
face and figure
The old Jefferson Davis mansion in
Richmond is to be used as museum
for relics of the Confederacy.
In 1858 kerosene oil sold for S1.50 a
gallon, but it was thought that when it
could be produced as fast as needed. Is
cents gallon would be a fair price for
it. These figures must seem little high
to the present generation who are not
paying more than 10 cents gallon for
General Q. o. Howard has been talking
to New Orleans Picayune reporter.
He has enjoyed his tour of the military
posts down South very much. He has
been received kindly everywhere. He
finds the. negroes getting along very well
-"plenty to eat, plenty to wear and
plenty of work to do" He is amazed at
the South's magnificent progress since
1866. He is in favor OF education and
property qualifications for the suffrage,
but would have them go into effect at
some specified date in the not imme-
date future. I am glad. he says, ito
see in New Orleans and all over the
South that the old veterans of each side
grasp each other by the hand; there is
none of that scowling " uich lowered
upon each other just after the war. At
Atlanta both sides united in receiving
me. This change in feeling is very
gratifying"
Even so prominent and well informed
man as Mr.. Balfour, Conservative
reader of the British House ofCommons,
recently stated that American cabinet
officers are allowed to speak in either
house of Congress.
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania
| will ride on horseback TO the National
Guard encampment at Gettysburg next
summer, with the Philadelphia City
| Troop, the Sheridan Troop and the
| Governors Troop as an escort
John Hinemian of Memphis, Tenn,
lost his power of speech sevearl years
ago as result of fever. He dreamed
one night recently that he could talk,
and when he woke in the morning he
| found that his dream was true.
Mrs. Ellen L. Platt, wife of BOSS
Platt, owns and manages one of the
| show orange groves of Florida. She
sells her crop herself, and purchases at
the North all the plantation supplies.
| She does not advise women to take up
orange growing for money, or with less
thar $40, 600 or $25, 600 capital, but says
| there are no details "of orange culture
| that woman cannot master, and If she
gets the right kind of property to start
with and has the business head for de
| tails, she can not only make iJ protita-
BILE, but solid delight"
Pope Leo XIII. has received lately q
curious and valuble gift from the gov
eminent of the United States of Colon
bia. 1t conists of three objects in gold
the intrinsic and material value OF
which is little when compared to thei,
| scientific and historic value. These
objects are three plaques of massive ano
| fine gold, which must have served as g
breast covering for some Indian cacique
They have almost the form and dimen
sions of the ornaments carried upon the
breasts Of the Hebrew pontiffs and thu
Assyrisn high priests They They were "as, dis dis
in the village Of Macheta, about 80 miles
from Bogota.