The Portland daily press., 1897-04-01
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

the superior general of the Brothers of
Our Lady of Lourdes. who is coming
here on visit TO the American houses of
his ordsr. This dignitary will come
from Belgium, in which land his socie-
ty. which WAS approved only five years
ago by the present Pope, has it's head
quarers, says the Republic. The brother
hood now counts some 800 mem bers, and
II is principally represented here on the
Pacific slope, where the superior will
spend most Of the time that he tarries in
self to educational work and also to the
care OF homeless boys and aged men.
Willis Van Devanter. the new Assist
ant Attorney General for the Interior
Department., is successful lawyer, and
is thirty-eight years old. He is native
of Indiana, and graduate of De Paw
University. lie went to Cheyenne, Wy
oming, sOisse years ago, AMI became Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, by the APP
pointmenu of the President, when thirty
years old, under the Territorial govern
ment, and was also Chief Justice under
the State government. He has been
chairman of the State Republican Conn
mittee during two campaigns. and is ut
present Republican National Comm ittee
man from Wyoming.
Frank A. yanderlip, the private score
tary Of Secretary Gage, Is careful stu
dent of finance. He was for some time
the financial editor the Chicago Tri-
bune. He afterward purchased half
interest in Tine Economist, of which he
is now the assistant editor.
The English city of Birmingham re-
Gently lost citizen who was born on the
field Of Waterloo, where his father was
among the killed. His mother accom-
panied the 9th Cameron Highlanders,
and when her son WAS born the corpse OF
the father was In the same tent.
Paris has wealthy citizen, a man of
sentiment and a patron of art, who pro-
poses to spend $780, 600 in restoring NAL.
maison, the residence of the Empress
Josephine AS a rule Frenehmen are too
superstitIous to identify themselves with
that unfortunate palace and unhappy
life.
Notwithstanding the political troubles
in the Transvaal at the teginning of the
year, the output e gold from the
Witwatersrana district for 1896 was the
same as for 1s95-about 100000.
A Georgia editor has already offered
his paper for year to the person who
will bring the first load of watermelons
to his Office.
The British treasury authorities have
just received from the chief constable of
Buckingham remarkable collection of
coins, which were recently discovered at
the village of Whitechurch, Through the
falling of a ceiling In an old house. They
are all silver coins, and number twenty
<f< hD1n tfro1r 10 rf0 in6
covered by the reigns of Elizabeth.
James l., and Charles I. The bulk of
them are in excellent state of preserva-
ton. The Oldest date dec1pherable is
1866.
A Polish chemist named Eisenberg is
said to have invented An anesthetic
which solatilizes rapidly on exposure to
the air, rendering the persons near I'M
conscious for a long time. pellet
broken under mans nose put him to
sleep for four hours. 1t is asserted that
in warfare bombs charged with this
material will nuke large bodies Of all
enemy incapable of resistance.
Glass bricks are made extensively in
Ger many. They are blown with hollow
center, containing raritied air, and they
are said to be as strong and durable as
clay bricks. They freely admit light. So
far, the glass brick has only been used In
the constr uction of conselvatortes, and
has been voted q success.
The new English primate. DR.. Temple,
once entered an East End church while
mission service was being held. and,
standing in back pew, Joined in the
singing of a Moody and Sank ey hymn.
Next to him stood a workingman, who
-. II. Ill. hr r,uV~
ingman stood the dissouance as long as
he could, and then, nudging the Bishop,
said, in whisper Here, dry up,
mister; you're spelling the showI''
Mrs. Annie S. Peck, who became
famous by ascending the Matterhorn,
IA, 507 feet above sea level, in the summer
Of 1896, has been lecturing in Phildel-
phia.
Mrs. John Sherman is exceedingly
we'll read and deeply interested in cur
rent events. Next year she and Sscreta ry
Sherman will be able to celebrate their
golden wedding.
The improvement of woman is extend
ing into Spain. Sonora Bayan, friend
OF CASTELAR,, Is davoting all her time
toward the extension of woman's eauca-
ton. She is quite famous as writer
and lecturer.
The Empress Frederick is rapidly CON-
pleting her plans for making the old
Schloss at Kronberg historical museum
which she will present. as gift to the
town of kron berg. 1t is being restored
| at great expense under her supervision,
and art treasures will be added.
Mrs. Nansen, ST.. mother of the we'll
known explorer, DR.. Nansen, Ia acoredit-
ed with having ipaugurated the health
full pastime for women of toboRganine
and gliding on suowshoes. She vas the
first woman of Norway to become an en-.
thusiast along this line, which has since
become SO popular in that country.
One of the novelties Of Beacon Hill
Cripple Greek, is lady miner W. H.
Ed wards and Mrs. Purgett are working
lease on the Arequa Savage. MIS-
Purgett turns the windlaHs, while hel
partner pounds thesdrill in the twenty
five foot hole. The lady is small
woman, Int she turns the crank with ar
euergy that would make many u burlJ
masculine miner ashamed of himself.
Rice paper la not made from either riot
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