The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-11
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

One of the daughters of the late Cen
eral Logan, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, is
soon to come into a snug fortune. She
and her son, George Lennon Tucker,
Inherit two-fifths OF the estate of the late
George e. Lemon, but instead of for
tune of s., GOO, COO, which it was supposed
be had left, it actually amounts to over
So, 600, 000
The African Methodists of the State OF
Illinois will build memorial church at
Springfield in tonor of the memory OF
Abraham Lincoln. IL will be named
The Lin coin Memorial Church and cost
$50, QUO. There will be three memorial
windows. The centre one will be dedi-
Gated to Lincoln, and the two smaller
to Frederick Douglas and John Brown.
What might be regarded as the most
interesting feature will be the memorial
room, in which are to be kept slavery
relics of every neutrality-suspicious. of all
the great abolition leaders. an auction
block, the LovejOy printing press, the
rope which was used in the hanging Of
John Brown, ami whatever else can be
gathered by the St. Paul African Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, of which Rev.
Jesse Woods, the originator OF the idea,
is the pastor.
The average vote cast for each con-
gresham through the whole country is
almost 1888, 600. IL twenty-four states
the average is below. Nineteen Of the
states in which the state average Ia above
the general average are in the North and
five are in the South. or the states in
which the state average falls below the
general average, ten are in the North
and eleven are in the South. The high
average cast in the seven states OF the
middle West is remarkable. The lowest
average is 4B, 967 in Wisconsin, and the
highest is 40. 096 in Illinois.
Two London Italians recently had g BIZ
cycle wedding in leicester square
church. The brids and groom rode on
a tsociable'' to the church, followed by
the guests ON twelve sociables and six
teen single bicycles.
Baltimore is the most orthodox city in
the world Baltimore has more churches
in proportion to population than any
largo city on earth.
English Government ordinance and
geological survey maps are to be sold
hereafter at all post offices.
Messrs Thorneycroft's s 80-knot torpedo
boat destroyer Hame made an average
of 3d. los knots en- her official trial.
Mr.. L Zangwill, who wrote the "Chil.
dreu Of the Ghetto, /" is going to deliver
lecture at Jerusalem on Easter Sun
day.
4 monument to Mazzini, with a revo-
Iutionary inscription by Signor Bovio,
has just been unveiled at Molfetta on the
Adrjatic.
'sMadame Tussaud' paid DR.. Nansen
So, 600 for the blubber-soaked suit he wore
when he met Mr.. jackson on the ice Of
Franz Josef Land
A Paris policeman who while on duty
undertook to initiate the devotions of the
Mussulman Deputy. DR.. Grenier. has
been sent to a lunatic asyl um.
Mile. Reichenberg having grown tired
OF her eternal youth. has sent in her re-
si1nation to the Coincide Franchise. She
has acted the ingenue parts for thirty
years.
Rome's Heralds' College has discovered
that the Marohese di Rudini, the Italian
Premier, has no right to hi title, which
telongs to another branch Of his family.
He is properly OILY Signor Antonio
StarabDa.
Does the young woman who rides to
the theatre in SIS carriage, sits in So
seats, and looks at the stage from be-
hind "a bouquet, while sitting beside q
$40 week clerk, never ask herself If
she is doing right?
Hebrew is springing up again as liv-
ing literary language in Eastern Europe.
a monthly review is now published at
Berlin in the Hebrew language, while
Maspero's Ancient History OF the Peo-
pies OF the East" has been published ia
Hebrew by Warsaw publisher.
England does not mean that France
shall get ahead of her in Negus Meme
lexis favor without an effort She has
Just sent an expedition of army ifaoers
to Abyssinia, which includes among its
mem hers the Queens distant relative,
Count Gleichen, and a son OF Lord Sal
isbury. One OF the officers Is under six
feet taIl one is & feat Z inches, two 8
feet 4, and one is feet inches.