The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-07
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.
A genealogist computes that one soli-
tary ancestor living at the time OF the
| Norman conquest contributes only one
part in 16, 600, 900 to the constitution OF
descendant at the present day.
| John W. Paul of the Drexel banking
firm of Philadelphia has had his stamp col
lection insured for $4,000. The Paul
collection is one of the most valuable in
the world. There are stamps in the col
| lection worth $500 each.
Ambassador Bayard's family have
been holding Office continuously under
the United States Government for 100
years, James Bayard, the Ambassador s
grandfather having been elected dele
gate to the Federal Congress in 1895.
:, George Brown, colored, native of Vir-
ginia, has certificate from his former
master setting forth that he was born in
1854. Brown lives in New Orleans. He
says that he blacked George Wilmington
boots and lighted his cigars. For man
| 131 years of age Brown is pretty we'll
preservep, especially in his imaginative
| faculties.
Hall Caine, author of "The Deemster. -
'sThe Manxman," and other famous nov
els, will reach New York City from Eng
land about the middle of September. He
is travelling in search of health and recre-
alton, and of course to gather material
| for his literary output. He has good
many friends and acquaintances among
the litterateurs of New York.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell., who by a
timely arrival with 90, 900 troops, turned
the tide of battle at Shiloh and made a
Federal victory possible, was known as
the man who never laughed. All through
| his West Point course tand through his
Mexican war service the best joke, OF
quarters or mess would fail to SEND a
smile over his grave face.
| DR.. Ethel, the Inspector Of Schools at
Hong Kong, says that the best education
al theories of Europe, based as Ethey are
| on observations of Western children, are
| inapplicable to Chinese children, whose
minds and environments are essentially
different In Hong Kong Chinese
scholars spend from four to seven years in
studying English without learning the
| language
| Among the many curious attending the
Court of Claims of Citizenship of the
Chickasaw Nation at Tishoimngo 1.-THE
other day was an Indian. "Neshoba
Lokna," or, as he is commonly called,
"Yellow WOLF who was born in Miss
issippi. near the Alabama line, at place
called Buzzard Roost, about neighteen
miles from Tuskumbia, little lover one
hundred and thirteen years ago.
The only daughter of Gen. Longstreet,
the Confederate leader, was married IN
Atlanta Ga, to Prof. p y. Estin WHEEL
chel. The wedding had tinge of ro-
nance in being surprise to the friends
of the young lady. Prof. Whelchel, who
is we'll known educator, and Miss Lula
Longstreet went to Atlanta from Gains
vile, their home, ana, without disclosing
| to their friends their purpose, went direct
to the deanery and were married. Miss
Longstreet has been the companion of her
father on his trips North.
| W. S. Stratton, who owns the indie
pendence Mine of Cripple CreekgCol., is
a carpenter by trade. Three years ago he
walked from Colorado Springs to Cripple
Greek, a distance of thirty miles, in order
to save the fare, which amounted to 81.
Now he has an income of 81, 200, 600 a
year.
A Moscow jeweler is now making a sill
Yer service for the Russian Gar, which is
to cost 100000 rubles. The work willgbe
finished in time for USE at the coronation
services The pieces areIof solid silver, i'm
the style of Louis XIV.
The Empress of Japan is described ras a
little woman, who almost disappears in
the long trained dress of Western civiliza-
ton in which she now appears at court
ceremonies Even in high heeled boots
she appears almost D dwarf in the [eyes of
Europeans. She has, however, an express
sion of dignity in the face that is de-
scribed as very impressive.
Mrs. S. Stuart Frackelton, who has
become SO famous for her pottery and es
pecially for firing kiln Of her own in
yention and the bringing out OF the use
of water color on china, began by grind
ing her clay in coffee mill and rolling
| it out with a pastry roller. kShe has been
awarded numerous medals for excellence
in the branches of her art.
The mother of Dwight L. Moody is
still living at the age Of 80. She has
twenty seven grandchildren and seventeen
great-grandchlldren.
Francis George, the Liverpool bellman
or crier, who is to retire from business
after sixty years work, has cried 1870, 0Ol
| lost children in his time.
The portrait of the Rev. Samuel B.
Smith, d. D., painted by Peixoto, has
been purchased by the American Testi-
monial Committee and presented to
Harvard CoI,oS.-