The Portland daily press., 1895-08-20
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Prof Bell has taken out twenty-one
United States patents as sole inventor,
the most important being that of the tele-
phone.
Billy Caffyn, once a famous cricketer
and member of the first English team
that visited Australia, is now, at the age
of 70, earning precarious living as
barber at Hartford. On account of this
prowess at the bat he used to be known
as ''Terrible Billy
In making Lord Rosebery q Knight of
the Thistle, Queen Victoria enrolls the
ex-premier in tho highest order of knight
hood in England. "The most ancient
and most noble order of the Thistle is
limited to the sovereign and sixteen
knights.
Mr.. Henry Clews, the New York bank
er, says that he will not have a college
graduate in his employ. He starts a boy
of IS to work, and claims that the boy
has almost learned the business when the
college man appears on the scene. The
average collegian objects to beginning at
the lowest round Of the ladf e..
The ups and downs of life were pain
fully shown in the case of a man who
was recently buried in the potter's field
in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was at one TINT
alderman of the city and superintendent
of the poor. He lost $3.50, 00C in Wall
street, outliyed all his relatives and
friends and was buried by the city.
At a recent sale Of autographs that of
Mark Twain sold for rs cents, that of
Howells for 50 cents, those Of other living
authors for sums ranging from four cents
| to 81. 15.
The average life of the professional
musician is shorter than that of any of
the other professions. The DOCTOR, the
preacher and the lawyer, equally busy
in the practice of their various callings,
live considerably longer than the hard
working musician. The average length
of life accorded to the professional nIusi-
clan, vocal or Instrumental, is set down
by DR.. Root in his handbook at 40 years !;
that of the doctor at 60; while the lawyer
like Tennyson's brook, may go on forever
at all events it is said that the loyal
profession can show some very aged
equivocators.
Baron Hirsch has thus far sent about
T. 900 Russian Hebrews to the Argentine
Republic and hopes to have Hebrew
community there of 100, 900 within ten
years. He sends them out in companies
rabbi and doctor, and he expects them
to settle insvillages, giving special tract
for each company.
One of the largest private estates in the
world is that of DIR. W. Seward Webb, at
Shelburne, Vt, on the shores of Lake
Champlain. The property consists of
more than 1000 acres of beautiful rolling
land bordering on the lake. There Dr.
XT1I,I g
| cent establishments on the Continent
Shelburne House-where he lives the
greater part of the year and entertains in
royal style. He has a stable of blood
horses, a feet of yachts on the lake, and
| has a game preserve of several hundred
acres. He can entertain his friends with
racing, yachting and hunting and fishing,
all of which sports he enjoys himself.
L. E Ch1ttenden, who is spending the
summer with his son, Horace Fl. Chitten-
den, at Shelburne Bay, VT, is correcting
the proof sheets of book to be entitled
Selections from the Writings and
Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
E. j. Glave the young African explorer
whose death has been reported from the
Congo country, was one of most trusted
lieutenants of Henry M. Stanley. He was
only about thirty-two ears old, and was
formerly newspaper man.
e. e. Kessler of Richmond, Ind.'
claims to have been the youngest private
soldier in the war. He enlisted in Com
pany B, Sixty y-eighth Ohio Veteran Vol
unteer Infantry, at Napoleon, O., in Sep
tember, 1861, at the age of less than thir-
teen years, and served for three years and
nine months as a@private soldier.
In Bulgaria the late NJ. Stambuloff
ranked among the first orators and could
talk excellently in French, Russian
Turkish and Roumanian. All of these
were entirely self-taught, and though his
French might occasionally be faulty in
grammar, his fluency and force Of express
sion in that tongue were remarkable. His
tastes and interests were wide, and he
often regretted that he had not more leis-
ure to cultivate them.