The Portland daily press., 1895-11-23
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

/ us. SAfU GAs i<OShW OOu lGCUur6u IL
the auditorium OF the Atlanta exposition
the other day on 1.-THE New Woman =
and in the course of her address said
| The new woman is here to stay. The
next innovation will be the new man
He has been needed in the world for {
long time. Let us welcome the new mar
and pray that his life may have righteous
ness for its foundation and truth for it,
| corner stone..o
| In a recent lecture on the progress n
the telephone in Germany State Secretary
DIR. Stephan said that the number O
towns Joined by telephone has now
reached 434, with 100, $50 subscribers
The daily average of conversations held
in Berlin is 40, 600 Hamburg has nearly
II, 900 subscribers. This year, as is. known,
telephone communication with Vienna
and Copenhagen was opened. The form
or line Is AS miles in length, the other
about 500 miles, with is miles Of subma.
rine cable.
Francis M. Hatch, the present Ha-
waiian minister of foreign affairs, who
has just been appointed to represent the
Hawaiian government in Washington.
was born in Portsmouth, N. H., 80 years
ago. He went to Bowdoin college, from
which he graduated with honor. For
many years his uncle. Judge Harris, was
chief justice of Hawaii under the royaI
government, and the nephew went there
as young man, entered the chief JUS
tees office, and stayed there until Jus
tlce HarIis's death. His wife, who is a
beautiful woman, is the daughter of Col.
Alexander 6. Halves of San Francisco.
Over two hundred licenses to kill deer
have been issued at Travers City, Mich.
The only woman on the list is Miss Edna
Murrell, pretty 15-year-old girl who
goes with her father every fall and is an
expert with gun.
The Duke of Westminster himself has
not anything like an exact idea what his
London property, if it were realized
would be worth. He does know, however
that the amount would be considerably
in excess of $50, 600, 000
Oscar Wilde's creditors are said to re-
ceive about S1O0 day as the income from
his work.
Mr.. G. J. r. LIE Mesurier. we'll
known member of the Ceylon civil SER
vice. has abjured Christianity and en-
braced Mohammedanism
According to Paris paper the crown
of the King of Portugal, which was re-
Gently repaired by a jeweler, is the most
costly in the world being valued at sc, 600,
900.
An Old New England Town. Sketches
of life, scenery, character, by Frank
Samuel Child, with illustrations. A steel
engraving of Judge Roger M. Sherman,
photo etchings of streets, old colonial
houses, sweeping elms and of country or
shore, as both pertain to the tour of
Fairfield, Conn, and an old print, dated
1776, of court house, church and jail, con
stitute the illustrations of this volume
which is a handsome one, we'll gotten I'D.
The book was compiled from lectures
deliver ell by the author, in response to the
Invitation of a chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution. and is dedi-
Gated to "The Eunice Donnie Burr
Chapter" The writer hopes to awaken
patriotism anew by his contribution to
colonial literature Certainly he has
succeeded in completing an interesting,
vivacious and thoroughly readable book.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons;
AOrluR, OuOEU duu IldEllOu. HFlCo w,
A Colonial Wooing by Charles Conrad
Abbott, NJ D., author of ''The Birds
About U.s." "Recent Rambles," etc., is
as fresh and pretty story as one would
ask and into it has crept the very spirit
of its heroine. who had an independent \
resolution of her own by no means to be
daunted. Here, in it's early pages, we
find an illustration of the fact that the
piety of the Friends does not always pre-
vent an eye to business ;-one-fifth day
morning, Mahlon Stacy, hearing loud
clap of thunder, while at meeting, was
heard to mutter audiibly, "Tut-tut-tut
my hay" There is a dictatorial infer
ence in this which we think especially
dignifed. The picture throughout of
1895 and thereabouts is excellent and the
unaffected style of the story commends
itself. While it makes no pretence to be-