The Portland daily press., 1895-04-06
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


swallowed by a whale. His answer,
given with pleasant little accent, was
as follows: II don't know anything
about Chonah, and / don't know any
thing about the whale; it's all the same
as Trllby-it's noffel!"
Apollonaris is the name of minister
who delivers spark ling discourses 10 the
people of Strong City, Mo.
G hicago now claims to be the great
literary centre OF the country.
The Kelley treatment for inebr!ety has
become one of the prominent institutions
of Great Britain. The results of treat
ment there are watched by standing
committee, at the head of which is the
Rev. Canon Fleming, Chaplain In Ordln-
ary to the Queen and Chaplain to the
Prince of Wales.
Geu. Grants memoirs Eave finally
passed into the hands of the Century
company, who will before long issue
them in a two volume edition through
the regular trade.
Allen g. Thurman, "the noble old Ro-
man," has become a strict recluse since
the death of his wife. BE reads all night
and spends the day asleep i'll his library
III LIS Houo0 db N'Ulu LII JUS, OulC. LAG 10
50 years old.
Ex-senator William M. Evarts is II.
and is very feeble. For month or more
his health has been failing, but he is
still able to walk block or less in the
vicinity of his house when the weather
is pleasant.
DR.. Clancy of the Cambridge (Mass. }
School Board. after hard fight, has sue
ceeded in carrying through an order abol-
ishing henceforth and forever the use of
states, sponges and slate pencils in the
public schools of that town.
Mr.. "A. L. Thomas, who is one of the
Republican candidates for assessors of
Chicago, il native of Maine. He was
born in Thomaston, Me-, in 1852. He be-
gan his business career as a boy in the
Office of the Boston Traveller. In 1881 he
went to Chicago with Mr.. Lord and
started the advertising firm of Lord &
Thomas, which now does a business of
$1,250,000 a year. He is an officer of
several other successful and money
making enterprises, which proves his
ability as business man. Mr.. Thomas
resides in the Fourth Ward. and is a
prominent secret society and club man.
He has never before taken part i'll
politics.
General Martinez Campos is a sturdy,
swarthy- Spaniard, about
55' years old, and Of medium height. He
is energetic and persevering, and smokes
necessarily. His system of conquering
has been simple, but effective. and has
demonstrated that he has genius for
II ic
whether Carlists, Cubans, Democrats, or
Intransigentes, with an imposing force.
Then with great coolness and politeness
he would quietly tell his foes that they
had better give in. Of course they could
fight and cause loss of men and great ex-
penses. But they were sure to lose in the
end. And these arguments were gener-
ally effective.
The Tennyson memorial committee has
issued public acknowledgment of the
generous subscriptions received from
Americans. The committee adds that
the memorial will be inscri bed Erected
by Friends in England and in America. y
Tolstoi's "Master and Man" is having a
phenomenal success in Russia. The Sec
ond edition is in press.
The statement of Librarian Spofford
that more than $4,000 publications were
copyrighted in the Omitted States last
year, against 23, 900 in 1884, shows an i'm
mense increase in the business of his
Office, and has elected great amount
and variety of press comment. To un-
derstand the matter thoroughly, it is
necessary to bear in mind the fact that
in 1884 the international copyright law
had not been passed. AT that time, and
L. ha -
foreign writers were pirated in the United
States, and new books were as cheap as
the reprints of the old ones now are.
The oldest of the public offices of New
York, owing it's origin to a rule of gov
ernment in Dutch colonial days, is about
to be abolished-tLe Office OF city cham
berlain. 1t is the most lucrative of city
fices, for the incumbent receives $25,
600 a year. The Office of cham berlain had
it's origin in 1868, the first Treasurer of
New York or custodian of public money
beng called the retiring burgomaster. -
That was under Dutch rule. Under the
English administration the burgomaster
became the treasurer but in 1901 the
cham herlain's Office rs such was estab-
lished.
President Wilson, of the New York
BOarQ Oh Healtl, las f1CoHt1y CUuVlnCeQ
himself that strict observance of the
Mosaic laws by the Hebrews in the tene-
ment houses has saved the city from
many an epidemic. In 1858 the death
rate in New York city was 23. 1t was
supposed that the ow rate among the
middle and upper classes overcame the
high rate among the lower classes. The
Tenth Ward is the most densely populat-
ed district in the city, and there the
Hebrews are greatly in the majority. In
that ward there are more than 62a people
to the acre, yet the death rate was only
17.12. President Wilson attributes this
showing to the fact that the Hebrews
observe the old Mosaic code, which re-
quires publication or washing after de-
Element by touching OF ministering to
the sick. 1t prevents the disease germs
from sprea ling.