The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-16
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.


lester Ralph, son of Julian Ralph,
the newspaper man, is studying art in
Paris.
Count Cassini, the Russian minister at
the court Of Pekin, who is at present in
Paris, has niece of IS years whose edu-
cation he is directing. She speaks Chi
nese, English, German and French Ito
perfection, and her thorough knowledge
OF Chinese enables her to act as interpre-
ter to her uncle, and through her agency
be can exchange diplomatic cnmmupica-
lions with the tsung Ii yamen directly
without ths assistance of an outsider.
Mexico lost her greatest general the
other day in the person of Guadalupe Lo-
pez, who died from pneumonia after FIVE
days illness. ten. Lopez was known as
the greatest Indian fighter in the repub-
lie, AS affull-blood Indian he was able
to cove with the savages With their own
tactics. He was regarded as the best
officer in the army, and, owing to his
universal Kindness, was known ell over
the republic as "Uncle Lupe.'' He was
65 years old, and leaves no family.
Prof. Waldemar Bagiel who died sud-
denly in Berlin last month, wns highly
esteemed as a musician, especially as in
structor in composition in the Berlin
High School of Music He was also
composer of repute. Prof BarRiel, who
was SO years old, was stepbrother of
Mime. Clara Schuman, his mother having
been the divorced wife of Frederick
Week, her father. As o composer he was
ranked ms a disciple of Robert Schu-
man, and his career as musician was
nudnrtQ ION of lott Iuio a .a~--
1t ia said that Mr.. Amborn who died
at Peabody last week. left instructions for
an unostentatious funeral and a very
humble monument with simple inscrlp-
wilton. How would this do: "Amborn
-Amdead. -
Roman butchers are having holiday,
they having struck as protest. against
the too great consumption OF horsef1esh
| in the Eternal City.
10 show the advance In methods of To-
comoticn during her reign, it is suggest
ed that Queen Victoria should go In a
state motor carriage to st. Paul, escorted
by guards on bicycles.
Official reports show that while the
number of men in the British army in
1895 was 200 681, the admissions into hos
pitfalls were 1919, 312, or over 80 per cent.
More than three-quarters of the cases
were of sexual diseases.
A new fuorescent material, much supe-
rior to all those hitherto used, has been
discovered by DR.. Van Meickbeke of
Antwerp. 1t is composed of oxyfluoride
of uranium and ammonium. By this
process 1873 grains of crystal can be made
for 81 cents.
Belgian gourmandsof Mons has be-
queathed So, COO to five friends for an an
nual dinner, which they must attend
dressed in mourning, entering the room
with flag to the music of an accordion,
the bill of fare TO contain his favorite
dishes and Wines
Isabelle, notorious under the Second
Empire as the flower girl of the Paris
Jockey Club is now an old woman
earning preoarious living by selling
| flowers in the streets. She was turned
| out by the Jockey Club on her mothers
appealing to charity because she would
not support her.
Florence is to have an international
horticultural and floral exhibition next
May.
Forty German cities now have electric
street railways. In 1891 there were only
three that had them.
The number Of unmarried women in
England and Wales exueeds the number
of unmarried mon by nearly 200, 600.
In "The Struggle for Supremacy in
Germany, 1s59-1S66, book about to be
published, DR.. Heinrich Briedjung, the
author, gives information given to him
BY Prince Bismarck with regard to tbe
latter's proposals to Autsria in 1866 be-
fore the outbreak of the war, for par
tit1on of Germany between Austria and
Prussia. The proposals involved the po-
litioal subordination of the Bavarian
crown to Austria. Bismarck proposed
that Prussia and Austria should make
a united attack upon France, with view
to the 0ession of Alsace. Austria could
take Strasburg, Prussia, Mainz, and
Napoleon, with his army demoralized by
the Mexican expedition, could do
nothing.