The Portland daily press., 1895-10-19

Governor Mckinley has rented his old
home i'll Canton, Ohio, in order that he
may celebrate the twenty fifth ami VI
sary OF his wedding in it.
Mrs. L. S. Grant will make her future
home in Washington. She has purchased
the residence which Senator Edmunds,
of Vermont, built, and in which he was
living when he retired from public life.
1t is an English basement house, with
commodlous drawing room, library aid
dining room on the second floor. 1T Is
located near the western boundary of
Massachusetts avenue, one of tho fashion
albe residence streets of the city, and has
been occupied for the past two years by
Secretary Olney.
News was brought from Sitka to Port
Townsend last week that the whaling
season has been the most unsuccessful of
recent years. The catch of the entire
fleet so far as reported has been but
twenty three whales. Fourteen deaths
occurred in the fleet, and lumber of
sailors who ran away when near land
and have not been heard of since are
supposed to have frozen to death.
So many sheriffs in the West and South
have lately added bloodh ounds to their
force of criminal crackers that the price
of the animals is increasing. and the
raising Of them is becoming quite q
business. notably, perhaps, in Kentucky.
One hundred dollars is said to be an
average price for good bloodhound pup
now
The fruit growing industry in Oregon
is growing very rapidly. The State Sec
rotary of Horticulture estimates that this
fall there are sos. 900 acres OF pears,
peaches, apples and such kinds of fruit
in the State; 35, 900 acres of prunes and
6, 500 acres of berries
Prof Slseat started subscription
nearly two years ago to raise a fund to
endew lectureship of English literature
at Cambridge. which that university,
though strong on French, German and
other literatures, for some mystic reason
never had. He reports now that he has
So, 500, and wants to raise the sum to
SIS, GOO, which will suffice to give $3.50 a
year, which is a quarter of what other
leotureships paid, but will, he thinks, be
better than nothing. He says that he
attr butes his comparative failure to the
fact that English literature is a subjecs
win Oh eXcites no general enthusiasm,
like the classics, science and cricket
Mrs. Lucy NJ Flower of Chicago who
was last fall elected a member of the
Illinois school board, as a Republican, is
already reaping the d faculties Of politics.
81 denounce Mrs. Flower for her in
gratitude to the women who elect ed her
last fall by the greatest vote ever cast in
Illinois, said one woman amid APP
plause at an Indignation meeting held
in Chicago. Mrs Flower was nomin-
ated in partisan INVENTION to a place
on a partisan ticket and elect bysa
partisan vote, and she has no right at
this time to be continually advocating
non-partisan movements.
The London new ,apers comment With
surprise upon the ''golf craze" of Amer
ica They say that, so far as clubhouses
are con cerned, the Americans are already
far ahead of England, and relate in
almost sorrowing tones how Willie"
Dunn has started for Chicago to lay out
a course at Dobbs Ferry. which will
probably be the richest golf club in the
world.
The recent remarkable influx of gold
and silver into the Bank of England is
severely taxing the capacity Of the
STRONG rooms of that great financial
institution, and workmen are busily at
work building ext steel cased cham
bers for the storage of bullion. Inciden-
tally it is said that the influx of the val
liable metals indicates substantial
revival of trade.
Sargent, portrait of Patti is said to
have so displeased her that she has
pack ed it away in the garrett of her
castle in Wales.
M Horon. the great French detective,
now about to retire, will long be remeri-
bered as the mau who performed the
daring and difficult feat OF safely pilot
ing tho heir of the Russian throne, in
d sguise, through the nihilist dens OF
Paris.
One of Senator Germans peculiarities
is that he neither drinks nor smokes, and
if he can help it he will not allow anyone
to do so in his presence. Even on night
of general election if anyone comes
into his room smoking a.cigar he will
ask him to lay it aside.
James Annard, late editor of the New
castle Leader, rose from the blacks.n 18th S
forge to the editorial chair. He learned
Latin and higher mathematics when
shooting horses, and his experiences in
London journalism formed the basis OF
Barr's romance, "When Man S
Single.