The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-15

The 'doyen' of the House OF Commons,
now in his Goth year, received permission
to send gift to her Majesty. 1t was a
beautiful parasol.
The salaries of the professors Of Glas-
gov University last year amounted to
e23, 1888, the best paid of them being Pro-
fessor Cleveland, who received Ell GAS,
while the smallest emoluments were those
of Professors Simpson, Moir and Becker,
each Of whom received 1900.
John I. Blair, of Blairstown, N. j.,
now in his 95th year and worth forty
millions, made by building railroads and
speculation in their watered stock,
laughed heartily the other day when he
heard the report that he was dying. ~
feel stronger and better now than have
for some months past" he said. have
been i'll, but am getting stronger and
stouter now. You see, l can scarcely
span my wrist. A couple of months ago
my fingers Tapped over. I am picking up
and hope to live many years yet.
NJ. Fremlet, the sculptor, who has been
commissioned to execute the statue of M.
Ferdinand de Lesseps to be erected at the
entrance to the Suez Canal, says the mon
ument will be Of colossal proportions,
four times life size. NJ de Lesseps will
be represented standing with the plans OF
the canal in one hand and the other hand
pointing towards the entrance. Upon the
granite pedestal will be medallions rep
resenting in bas relief the portraits of the
three Khedives who encouraged the con-
struction Of the canal.
A touching scene took place the other
day in the grand old archi-episcopal pal
ace at Kremsler, in Moravia. The Prince
Archbishop Of Olmutz, Cardinal Kohn,
is the son of very poor, hard working
peasants of Hebrew origin. The Pope,
DESTROYS Of showing his appreciation OF
the privations to which this honest couple
had subjected themselves in order to edu-
cate their gifted son to the priesthood, re-
Gently sent beautiful crucifix to the old
mother and the Order of St. Gregory the
Great for the Cardinals father. Seated
upon his throne during the course OF
mass a few Sundays ago the Cardinal
conferred the two Papal distinctions upon
his aged parents, who each of them knelt
before him in their peasant garb, pre-
senting very pathetic and moving spec
tacle. The princely see, it may be added.
is the most magnificent and wealthy Of
the Roman Catholic Church.
AS precaution against accidental pol
soning the German government has
passed law requiring all drugs intended
for internal use to be put in round bot.
ties, and those which are only used exter-
nally to be placed in hexagonal bottles.
A New Jersey woman is giving salts
faction as q night Waterman. She is
supposed to be the pioneer watch LADY,
in the country.
The Duke of Sutherland owns 1,176, 454
of the 1897 ,S46 acres in Sutherland coun-
ty, Scotland.
The Jubilee visit of the Colonial Prem
iers has led to the discovery that the
Prince of Wales pronounces Premier as in
French, Premi-ay.
Miss Wilcox Of the University of Mel
bourne, has received the silver medal of
the Golden Club, being the first woman
to win the prize.
Ex-senator Dubois, of Idaho, who
walked out Of the st. Louis convention
because of its currency platform, has gone
into cattle raising on ranch in Idaho.
All his cattle bear this brand: 1851"
At Leipsic unique exhibition has been
opened, the majority Of the exhibitors be-
ing European sovereigns or members of
reigning families. 1t is a branch Of the
Saxe-T huringian exhibition, and is de-
voted exclusively to hunting trophies.
Among the more prominent exhibitors are
King Albert OF Saxony with I'll exhibits.