The Portland daily press., 1897-05-21

Ex-Ambassador Bayard, it is said, will
bring back with him to this country an
enormous lot of English goods. His per-
sonal baggage consists of 208 pieces, with
many more to follow as freight He also
has four dogs.
Marcel Provost, a prominent French
man of letters, recently made the unin-
tentionally amusing statement that only
three Englishmen know anything of
French literature-Arthur Lang, Saint
bury, and Edmond Gosse.
Ex-senator Fred Dubois is going back
to herd cattle, as he did when he went to
Idaho seventeen years ago. almost fresh
from Yale College He will begin with
'bunch'' of 300 cattle, which he hopes
soon to increase to 1,0D0.
| Among 121, 574 emigrants who left
Europe by German harbors last year,
only 25, III were Germans. OF the total
number, 105, 339 went to the United
States, 1853 to Brazil, $3.50 to Canad a,
1924 to Africa, ETC.
Two members of the Chinese Embassy
to this country, Lieng Sheng, the first
secretary, and Lieng Pi Yuk, an under
secretary, went to school in Hartford
some years ago.
The Rev. William H. Noyes has re-
signed as a missionary in Japan of the
American Board, on the ground that he is
| uncertain whether he believes some of
| the doctrines inculcated by the Board. 1t
was his avowal of a belief in probation
after death that brought about the
ia nous controversy over that question in
tn e Board some years ago.
President David Starr Jordan of Stan
ford University, has succeeded in raising
the funds required to establish zoologi-
cal garden in San Francisco.
The Rev. DR.. David S. Schaff, of Jack
sonville, ILL.,, who has been called to the
chair of ancient history in Lane Theologi.
cal Seminary, Cincinnati, is known as
the father of Rugby football in America.
He was the captain of the first Yale foot
ball team when it played its match with
Columbia in 1s72-the first intercollegiate
football game in this country.
1t is announced that Father Schiel, the
Dominican Oriental scholar, has discov-
cred upon tablet of the reign of Khan
murabi, or Ammurabi, of Babylon, the
name, of Kudur-la -ukhgamur (Kudurla-
CANARY, who is evidently no other than
the Chedorlaomer (Chodorlahomor) of
Genesis XVI.
L. r. Bostick, of San Saba, Tex, who
captured General Santa Anna sixty lone
years ago, is now in his seventy eighth
year He went to Texas in 1928, and set
tied in Austin County. In 1926 he enlist
ed in the Texas Army, and the following
year joined General Houston's army.
After a battle, in company with two other
young men, he was scouting over the
country, about eight miles from camp,
when he saw Mexican standing in the
high grass. He attempted to hide, but
they took him prisoner, and he proved to
| be Santa Anna.
| Isaac Mason, colored, of Worcester,
Mass, celebrated his seventy-fifth birth
day last week. He was slave, and went
| to Worcester in 1856 by the under
ground railway" For many years he has
been one of the most respected citizens of
Worcester, and some of the most promi-
nent people Of the city congratulated him
on his birthday.
| Professor Theodor Mommsen the Ger
man historian of Rome, will celebrate his
eightieth birthday next autumn. The
University Of Berlin, of the faculty of
1 which Mommsen has been a member for
thirty nine years, will observe the occas-
4 ION by special IeSt1Val IN MS honOr.
| The Minister OF Public Instruction will
also do special honor to the historian,
who is in excellent health notwithstand-
| ing his advanced age.
| A prize Of $1,000 has been offered by
King Leopold II. of Belgium for the best
treatise to be written before 1901 on tThe
| Military History of the Belgians from
the Roman Invasion Until the Present
Day"
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir
intends to build. magnificent palace in
Vienna, which fact is taken as an indica-
ton that he contemplates matrimony.