The Portland daily press., 1895-03-23
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Because In Spanish etiquette the king
can only associate with his equals, the
hoy Alfonso can have no playmates. He
cannot play with his own sisters as an
ordinary boy might.
President Cleveland is said to be ar
ranging the preliminaries for trip
around the world at the end Of his pres
idential term.
Andrew ]. Houston of Dallas, Tex, son
of Gen.Sam Houston, has presented to
the City of Cincinnati tine dagger which
Sauta Ana surrendered to his father at
the battle Of San Jacinro. The dagger
has twelve inch blade of the finest
Toledo steel and six-inch handle
made of tortoise shell. with numerous
bands of gold and silver encircling it.
Chief Bradley of the Virginia Pamun-
gey Indians, called on Gov. O'Farrall re-
Gently and told him that i'll the tribe
Numbering 1902 .there are only thirty
squaws. He stated there were about
1900 Cherokee Indians in North Carolina
and that the Virginia Indians had about
determined to send Il representative to
the old North State and try and induce
some OF the Cherokee squaws to emigrate
to Virginia and marry among the
he heartily approved of this plan.
President George T. Angell of the
Americ an Humane Society has sent the
following to the legislature of ever!
State: ut is we'll known to the Ameli-
can press that many persons-and how
many no one can teIl-have been buried
alive. The father of the undersigned came
very near heing buried alive, being de-
clared by his physician dead, and all
preparations made for his funeral before
he could give visible signs of life. The
object of this petition. which / hope you
will cause to be properly presented, is to
call public attention throughout our en-
tire country to this important subject" !"
Prof. Walter Sims has brought legal ac-
tion against the Illinois A.P. A., for ex-
pelling him because he would not vote
for A. P. A. candidates in recent elec-
tiOn.
Although Chicago University has all
endowment of over eight million dollars,
it is still in need. of equipment, and
President Harper is said to be seeking
for q further endowment of five million.
President Cleveland recently removed
from small interior postoffice in Ken
lucky Mrs. Helm, the sister-in-law of
A braham Lincoln, because one of the
Kentucky machine Democratic poll
ticians desired the place for political
heeler who had been useful to him.
DR.. H. H Mann, the grand chief tenn
plar of the world, who is lecturing in
South Carolina, said recently he was
thoroughly satisfied after investigation
that the dispensary system tends to in
crease the consumption of liquor and
will increase the number of drunkrds.
In Sir Henry Hollands Recollections
of Past Life" he relates that one day at
dinner Lord Nugent, q we'll read Shakes
pearean, declared that there was not il
the whole of Shakespeare's plays sin
gle passage commencing, directly or in
directly, the moral qualities of the dog,
and offered to wager guinea on it. DR.
Holland accepted the challenge and was
given year to find such passage. Even
with the aid of friends he could not find
one that met the requirement., and at
tne end of the year acknowledged that
he had lost.
Dean Hole, the eminent British divine,
says that the clocks and chairs in this
country asserted to have been brought
over in the Mayfower would load to the
waters edge the largest fleet of vessels
ever known.
Monon railway employees lave become
convinced that the Monon is in earnest
in declaring no drinking man can retain
his job ON that road. Several employees
have received their walking papers for
drinking and loa6ng in saloons.
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