The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-09

A large hall, named after Paul Revere,
has been dedicated in Boston by the
Charitable Mechanics Association. Re-
we're was the founder and first president
OF the association, and the principal adj
dress OF the dedicatory exercise was de-
livered by Frederick W. Lincoln. great
grandson of the patriot an ex-Mayor of
Boston.
The memorandum that Bishop Walsham
How of London left to be opened after his
death disoloses the fact that he always
dedicated one-tenth of his income annual
ly to ''God in charity" that after he be-
came bishop he gave away 81 coo year
as we'll as the large sums he received from
his books, and that he resolved that his
children should never profit by his epis-
copal income. 1t should be added that he
had a private fortune
NJ. Fremiet, the French sculptor, has
finished the head of the enormous statue
OF the late Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps,
which Is to 5e placed at the entry Of the
Suez canal. The canal protector is to be
represented standing, covered with an
AraD bournous, and pointing toward the
new water way opensd up to navigation.
On one or the side of the pedestal-which
Is to have granite foundation-wil be
medallion containing the portraits of
ohe hnedlVe who patroniZed the canal.
M. Blanc, the new Irefect of police in
Paris, has begun his administration by
the issue OF q stringent ordinance against
women's high trimmed hats in the
parquet and balcony seats of the metro
pol1tan theater The rule does not apply
TO women in the boxes. Curiously
enough, similar rule was enacted at the
close OF the last century by the chief of
the Parisian police, whose name was not
Nj. Blanc, but M. Noir. The same edict
debarred all women, except those of the
arlstocracy, from appearing in theatres
and places of public resort With rouge on
their cheeks.
Rider Haggard, the novelist, has pur-
chased Cliffe Grange, near Lowestaff, in
the south of England, as residence.
j. S. Sargent, the American painter,
and member of the Royal Academy, is
finishing portrait of Miss Daisy Letter,
formerly of Chicago, for the Academy of
| 1898.
Miss Columbia Rivera has been Ii
censed as practicing physician and ap-
pointed to the women's ward of st. An
| dre's Hospital in the City of Mexico. She
| is the first woman in Mexico to be ap-
pointed to such a position.
| DIR. Miner Raymond, who died lately
in Chicago, was said to be the Oldest the
illogical student in this country. He be-
gan life as shoemaker and ended at the
head of the Garrett Biblical Institute of
the Northwestern University.
TIE recent statement that there is only
one surviving schoolmate of Abraham
Lincoln has been disproved. Mrs. Susie
Yeger of Rhineyvillle, Ky, now in her
| Goth year. was schoolmate OF the great
emancipator at the nrst school session he
attended
A negro in the Missouri Penitentiary,
who served fourteen of the twenty years
for which he was sentenced, declined to
accept Thanksgiving pardon at the
hands of the Governor, simplg because
he did not want to be released during cold
weather.
| 1t appears that Miss Mary E. Wilkins's
novel, Jerome was anticipated five or
six years ago, as to its title, by Miss
Annabel Gray, an English novelist.