The Portland daily press., 1895-09-25
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Lady Henry Somerset has the reputa-
ton of being one of the richest women in
England.
Mrs. Hearst's valuable collection of
laces in her Washington home is insured
for $50, 600.
The memb Of a cyclists club in
Milan are to present golden bicycle to
Queen Margaret of Italy.
Congressman Dick Bland Of Missouri
is preparing to put in circulation Q, 800
bushels of Ben Davis apples this fall.
Paganini's body was recently dug up
for some reason in the cemetery at Parma
where it layd and the features were found
to be well preserved.
Mrs. Diaz will represent her husband
personally at the Atlanta exposition as
the Mexican law forbids the president
leaving that. country during his term Of
office.
Dr. Smith, the author of America, ="
declines memorial to himself and sug-
gests instead a Lincoln memorial in the
house where the martyred president died
in Washington.
The Duke of York is said to have sold
his collection of postage stamps to Baron
Ferdinand de Rothschild. 1t is insured
for $3.50, 600.
Sarah Bernhardt has presented her two
pet gorillas, tPaul and Virginia, to the
.Jardin des Plantes; they had grown toe
big to be amusing.
Nicotine poisoning from eating grapes
from vines fumigated with pure nicotine
made many persons sick in Dorchester,
England None of the cases proved fatal.
The daughter of Geo. NJ. Pullman is
said to be paid $40, 600 year for furnish
ing the names for Pullman cars
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn of
the United States navy is one of the few
officers of high rank who are not gradu-
ates of Annapolis. He began his career
as an apprentice in the Charleston Navy
Yard.
King Milan of Servia and William Wal
dorf Astcr have been hobnobbing in Swift
zerland. They have been staying at the
Sohweitzerhof, at Lucerne, and are re-
ported to have been good deal in one
another's company.
Gen. Greedy, who has been interviewed
on the proposed balloon polar expedition
of Mr.. Andree, does not believe the plan
is feasible, or likely to be successful.
Engineer Melville is of a like opinion, and
regards Mr.. Andree's scheme as foolish.
Lewis Bates, the richest negro in Chi
cago and reputed to be worth $500, 600,
laid the foundation OF his fortune the
night of the great fire, when he made
$50 by carrying trunks in an express
wagon. He was born in slavery and is
10 years old.
Sir Henry Irving, next to the Prince of
Wales, is in the most demand among
Englishmen as speaker at public func-
tions The Dukes of York and Cambridge
follow Wales and Irving in popularity
The Duke of Connaught is probably the
best Chairman in England. He KNOWS
how to manage a meeting, anu always
speaks without notes.
The great meteor which fell from the
heavens soome weeks ago near Gulf sum-
NIT is causing queer legal middle. The
meteor feel on the land of Farmer
Swaokhammer, almost on the boundary
line between New York and Pennsyl-
yania The exact location of this State
line has for many years been matter OF
dispute, and the question has been
brought to focus by the falling OF this
meteor. Not only has the State line been
in dispute, but the dividing line between
Swackhammer and Farmer LittleJohn's
lands, dependent upon the State line, has
never been located. Falling in the dis
puted territory this meteor has brought
about p legal battle, as both formers
claim it, by right of discovery. lnlunc-
tions have been obtained by all three.
Meanwhile scientists have partly e1ca-
waited the stone and have endeayored to
determine its origin.
William Talyor Adams, "Oliver Optic, +"
the veteran story writer for boys, although
70 years old, is still fond of travel He
says that in writing bis tales he aims at