The Portland daily press., 1897-08-24
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

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Berndt, who lives at Langenau. He was
born in 1788 and became soldier in 1898,
| Mr.. Austen Leigh, the principal clerk
Commons, is retiring at the end of the
year after forty-fve years service.
The son of the late Sir John Millais,
the former president Of the Royal Acad-
envy, will shortly publish life of his
| father, and there Is considerable hutter
in consequence in painters circles at the
| innovation.
The permission accorded Prince Francis
of Teck to join the Anglo Egyptian OK
petition up the Nile is accepted as proof
that he is res stored to the favor of his in
fuential relations. The prince was sent
to India for mourning heavy gambling
debt, his friends being compelled to find
the money to satisfy 1t. This, however,
they only did on condition that the prince
join the district staff of Bombay, here his
conduct has been most exemplary.
The Oldest person in Everett, Mass, is
Mrs. Lydia Gale, who, if she lives till
the sixth of next January, will be 100
years of age. Mrs. Gale was born in
Charlestown in house located on what
was then known as the training field, .
near the Bunker Hill Monument, Jan. O.,
1898. When about year old her parents
removed to Portland. Her father was
board OF a gunboat. Subsequently he was
among the men drafted for the frigate
Constitution, but on going to Boston
and taking q medical examination he
failed to pass. In 1918 she went with her
parents to Boston, and soon after mar
ried. The first twenty years of her mar
ried life were spent in Roxbury Her
husband died sixty three years ago at the
age of thirty-six. From Roxbury she
moved to No. 802 Eighth street, South
Boston, where she resided thirty -one
years, and seven years ago the whole
| family moved to their present home in
Everett.
| A permanent feature of spectacular
value has been added to the general effect
of the lighting at night at the Tennessee
Centennial Exposition, at Nashville.
The French commissioner brought from
Paris two of the electric garlands that
were swung across the principal boule-
wards of the French capital when the car
of Russia visited there. They are of
unique construction, and the colors are
80 arranged that the effect from q distance
| is that Of an immense garland of gorgeous
| flowers. These garlands have been hung
at an altitude Of fifty feet across the
avenue which extends from the Parthenon
to the Commerce Building. They have
the value Of absolute originality to
American eyes.
| Japanese merchants at Os "a have
formed company, with a'capital of $780,
600, for the special purpose of exporting
and creating wider market for paper
napkins.
By the death of cat the Temple quar-
ter in Paris receives legacy of 10000
francs for it's elementary schools. The
cats mistress, who died in 1892, left the
money for the maintenance of her pet
| cat, with the reversion at its death to the
district municipality if it would look
after the cat. 1t speaks we'll for the
honesty of the trustees that the cat, which
| is now dead at the age Of sixteen years.
should have survived it's mistress five
years.
| Mr.. Lewis M. Iddings, recently ap-
pointed as second secretary of the United
States legation at Rome, is journalist
| of distinction, scholar, and man of
affairs. He was for several years the CITY
editor of the Evening Post, and later the
financial editor.
Mrs Caroline Westcott Romney, CHI
cago woman, is about to start for the
KlondilSe region to establish newspaper.
She will take with her a small hand
press and an outfit containing all that is
required in the publication of a small
newspaper. Mrs. Romney published a
newspaper in Leadville, Col, for nearly a
year when the excitement there was at
| it's height.