The Portland daily press., 1896-02-22
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Miss SYbil Carter has introduced suo-
cessfully lace making among the Indian
women on the government reservations
in MINES ia, her pupils ranging in age
from 10 O 70 years. The women are
good prices. Miss Carter has lace making
schools al work at White Earth, Leech
Lake, Red Lake, Wild Rice r liver, Birch
Cooley and Mendoza.
Genel al Alexander Mcdowell McCook
of the United States army, retired, has
been appointed to assist Minister Brock
inr1dge in representing the United States
at the coronation of the Emperor of Rus
STA in April.
Bismarck, it is reported, is worshiped
as saint by two or three tribes of Bra
lillian indians, who live along the
Parana river. who were impressed greatly
by the account of his achievements in
founding the German Empire given them
by some German missionaries. They
hung his picture in church and devoutly
worship it, much to the scandal of the
missionaries.
The death of PrinceHenry Of Rattenberg
off the west coast of Africa recalls the
statement in some recently published
"reminiscences of life at the Tuileries and
of the ex-Empress Eugene in England
that the young French Prince Imperial
and Princess Beatrice were all but aft
anced when the French Prince sailed to
his death on the east coast of Africa. A
fact stated in London. apparently not in
any of his current biographies, is that
Prince Henry's maternal grandmother
was beautiful ana clever Hebrew
| L. -. - 10 n1E fr,n
minister of the Polish kingdom. An
English gentleman who knew the prince
well attri butes to this ancestry the unus-
ual mental gifts of all her Battenberg
descendants.
There were forty more divorces than
there were weddings in Fresno, Cal,
last year.
Arizona is beginning to put on the
frills Of civilization. The first passenger
elevator IN the Territory is being put
in new block of buildings at Phoenix.
Georgia farmers are fearful for the
peach crop. The recent warm weather
swelled the buds on the trees, and some
are almost about to bloom. A frost
would destroy the buds and ruin the
prospects Of a crop.
Two prominent citizens of Montgomery
county, Ind, are making extensive and
unusual preparations for their postmort-
EN- personal affairs. One has had pre-
pared an immense coffin of oak, with
elaborate fittings and decorations. which
be keeps in his parlor against the oocas-
ion of his needing it. The oJher has had
his tombstone made ami suitably in
scribed. On the tombstone are the words ::
An estate that was worth $40, 600 when
it got into the law courts twenty. five
years ago was settled last week in Los
Angeles, Cal. The estate was left by
Encarnacion Buelna in 1870 There was
nobody .to claim the forty-t cents
that remained when the Public Admins
TRAITOR offered it in the Superior Court
last week, and the Judge made an order
directing thai it be paid into the county
treasury.
Preparations are making for building
another immense log raft On Puget
Sound, to be towed by sea to San Fran
CISCO Several of the early attempts to
make big saving on freight charges in
this way proved disastrous the RATS
going to pieces in storms and proving
almost q total loss. Last year a large raft
was towed from the Columbia river to
San Francisco, and the undertaking
was big financial success.