The Portland daily press., 1897-10-29
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

There are only three negro telegraph
operators in this country, but they are
all first GLASS.
Kaiser Wilhelm's speeches during the
last two years I'LL 1913 printed pages in the
cheap German edition in which they are
printed.
Tacoma's Probate Judge is hard put to
it to determine whether minister's
claim against an estate for $40 burial
services should be allowed.
Miss Helen V. Boswell, the organizer
and head of the woman's Republican
movement in New York, is mining en-.
gineer, and ranks high as . mining
draughtsman.
Within one week Paris sheltered three
monarchs-King Alexander of Servia,
King Leopold II. of Belgium, and King
Chulalongkorn of Siam. All three main
tanned the strictest inoognito.
In Fishing Creek valley, not far from
York, Pa, q young man stood his gun
against a tree which he climbed after a
birds nest. He Jared the trunk, the
gun was discharged, and the shot entered
his side and killed him.
Colonel Isaac M Morrow, lately ap-
pointed immigration inspector Of Detroit,
fought through four wars-the one be.
tween Uruguay and the Argentine repub-
lie, the war against the Florida Semi
noles, the Mexican, and civil wars.
Johnny Armstrong, the border cattle
thief, who was hanged at Caerlanrigg in
1880 with thirty of his followers, by order
of King James ", and became the hero
of Scottish ballad, hal. had monument
erected to his memory in Caerlanrigg
church yard.
Three of the eight surviving sol diers of
the war of 1912, now on the pension rolls
of the government, are over 100 years of
age. They are Hosea Brown of Grant s
Pass, Ore, los years old, and Elijah
Glenn of Newark, N. j., and iEleazor
Smith of Danbury, N. H., each 10I ears
old. 9
Sir Charles Seely, who recently offered
1000 pounds conditionally toward the
rebuilding of the chancel of Carisbroke
church as part of the Isle of Wight
memorial to the late Prince Henry of
Battenb berg, has now decided that the
scheme had better be abandoned, owing
to the opposition of the newspapers.
William F. Sands, who has been ap-
pointed secretary of the United States
legation at Seoul. Corea, is son of Cap.
tain j. H. Sands of the navy, grandson
of Admiral Meade. During President
Cleveland's last term he was second secre-
tary of the United States legation at
Toxic, Japan.
"Eor my part said Colonel r. G.
Ingersoll the other day, II envy the man
who has lived on the same broad acres
from his boyhood, who cultivates the
fields where in youth he played, and lives
where his father lived and died. I can
imagine no sweeter way to end ones life
than in the quiet of the country, out Of
the mad race for money, place, and
power"
Another fortune has shrunk wonderful
ly under the eye of the law. The state
ment was made in court few days ago
that Richardson of the New York "spite
house, left an estate valued at less than
$400, 900, instead of $50, 900, 900, as common
ly reported This assertion was made by
the son of the deceased, in opposing an
application of the widow to be appointed
temporary administrators of the estate.
There's hardly enough left for the law
yers.
Speaking of the Prince of Naples,
Signor Giarelli says: 'His hobbies are
of a scientific nature. He is perhaps the
only.real electrician among all the present
princes of Europe. He has never occupied
himself much with literature, music; or
painting, but be is master Of electric
mechanism. He is very learned in all
that concerns the application of cleo
tricity to light, motive power, sound,
and photography. He was one of the
first and most successful experimenters
with the x rays after their discovery,
and in Rome his residence in the Quirinai
had the aspect, during his royal highness'
bachelor days, of q scientific laboratory
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