The Portland daily press., 1895-11-16
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

enlisted in the reserve corps of the Saliva.
tion Army. His name is Campbell. He
was convicted Of sin under the preaching
of Mrs. Ballington Booth.
The late Lewis W. Ross of Lewiston,
ILL.,, had a rather interesting life. At col
lege he was olassmate of Dick Yates
In the Mexican war he served in the same
regiment with Dick Oglesby. Stephen A.
Douglass was an intimate personal friend
of his. He had three terms in Congress.
Once he was talked of for second place
on the Democratic national ticket He
a1nassed a large fortune, saw his sons
prospecting as he had prospered, and met
death with an unclouded mind) at SO.
Miss Susan B. Anthony denies the
statement that she is going to retire from
active work. She never had any sickness
of consequence, and the fainting spell
the only one she ever had. She is now
rs years old, and she expects to keep busy
until she goes to pieces all at once, like
the "one-hoss shay
The Philadelphia Inquirer has begun a
''No Seat, No Fare' campaign in that
city, and says editorially: 'tThis thing
of being packed into box cars, of hanging
to strap and pitching and lurching eve
ry time the brake is applied is an in
sufferable nuisance. When q person pays
for accommodations he expects to get
them. Few passengers in the busy por-
tions of the day get them now, and ' hen
they pay for what they do not get they
are swindled, whether they submit to the
swindle willingly or not. !"
When Theodore Parker forty years ago,
predicted that before the end of the CEN
fury Kansas would have 1000, 900 people
and be worth 81, 00n, aJ5, 900 his hearers
ridiouled him. Now the Kansans con-
firm his worth as prophet by pointing
to their population of l, 500, 600 and an
assessed property valuation OF
81, 600, 600, 900.
One of the stories told of Russell Sage
is that when thief dropped bill near
him in order to draw his attention from
counting some money he had drawn at
bank, Mr.. Sage put his foot on the bill.
thanked his informant, finished his
count, slowed his own money securely
away and then smilingly put the thief's
bill in his pocket.
Charles Fl. Gibson, who, as result of
the upheaval in Maryland is serving his
last term as Senator, has been generally
regarded as the handsomest as we'll as the
best dressed man in the Senate. His
Republican successor, whoever he may be-,
can never excel Gibson in good looks or
furnish finer exhibit to the admirina
eyes in the Senate gallery of the artistic
ability of a tailor.
With the royalties from his books,
which continue to sell surprisingly well,
and his half-pay, salary as captain, Col
onel Charles King finds himself very
comfortably fixed in life. He is hand
some soldierly man of about fifty, with
gray hair and moustache and a bronze
complexion that life as civilian has not
bleaohed Colonel King lives in Milwau-
kee, and is now Adjutant General Of the
State of Wisconsin. He began to write
before he left active service, but he
hunted in vain for a publisher.
The official report of the commander
of the Columbia upon the accident to one
of the eight-inch guns of that vessel
while praoticing at target has been re-
ceiyed at the Naval Ordnance Bureau,
accompanied by photographs Of the de-
fective breech plug, which was split
almost from end to end. Careful examl-
nation by the experts of the bureau shows
that the defect was attributed entirely
to defective forging.
Annie Besant was a religious enthusi-
astEin her early years and was inclinedsto
become nun, but oompromisedby marry
ing clergyman. 1t was after her di-
vorce and during her association with
Charles Bradlaugh that she became q
Theosophist. She was TO b time pu-
nil of Huxley. The prese Mt visit to the
United States of Mrs. Besant will be her
third, as she came here to lecture in 1891
and again in 1888
Miss Liddie Kluth of Oshkosh, Wis,
and Duncan Edards of St Cloud were
married by telegraph last Monday, the
minister being with the bride in Osh-
kosh and the usual uestions being asked
the groom by wire The reason for this
was that the groom ccould not get away
from his work asJ telegrapher. and there
was no Protestant minister available in
ST. Cloud.
German papers assert that gas pipes
made of paper are a success. Manila
paper strips are passed through melted
asphaltum and then nodded under heavy
pressure. After cooling the pipes, which
may he of any desired length they receive
a waterproof coating.
In the Philadelphia fire department.
they have horse that acts as watch
dog, another chews tobacco, one kisses
tbe driver and another makes fuss If If
has not several fires to run to every day.
English papers say that Mr.. Gladstone
is at present engaged in editing all the
letters which he has receivedzand thought
worthy of preservation. They number
more than 200, 000
1t is related in the Washington Star
that on one occasion Senator Edmunds
was standing with visiting English
statesman on the high steps at the west
side of the Capitol, looking down Penn
sylvania avenue toward the Tearsurv De-
partment. The stranger had seen mncb
int o,,1