The Portland daily press., 1897-10-15
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A relic hunter stole the chair on which
President Mckinley sat while reviewing
the Grand Army parade in Buffalo re-
Gently.
A criminal guillotined at Lisle, France,
the other day contrived to keep his cigar
cite going until his head rolled into the
basket.
Lieutenant Boiteux of the French
navy, who was the first man to enter
Timbuotoo when it was captured, recent
ly shot himself through the head the day
before that set for his wedding.
Judge Jacob B. Blair, who was re-
Gently appointed surveyor general of
Utah, was at one time Bill Nye's most
intimate friend, and helped him start
his famous paper, the Boomerang. Judge
Blair was twice elected to Congress from
West Virginia.
The Prince Of Wales does not take so
much interest in his wardrobe as he did
some years ago. He is still one of the best
dressed men in the world, and his infiu-
ence on mems fashions is as great as ever
it was; but those who have charge of his
wardrobe complain that he has lost his
old enthusiasm on the subject of dress.
Down in Texas little Miss Fite of Moran
wants to pick cotton against little Miss
Ward of Meridian. Both are years old,
| and they weigh forty eight and forty
three pounds respec lively.
In 1847 Lieutenant Maclagan Joined
the Madras division of the Indian army,
and in 1859, after applying himself dill
gently to the duties of his profession,
studying languages and eventually becoln
ing the interpreter OF his regiment, re-
| tired. The Lieutenant Maclagan and
the present archb bishop of York are one
| and the same person, and besides his pen.
sion he now draws salary Of $50, 600 a
| year.
Henry 10 Colson, nephew of Congress
man David g. Colson of Middlesboro,
KY, was married at Richmond. KY, re.
Gently by Squire Armer under rather
| romantic circumstances to Miss Lizzie
| Foster, daughter of Robert Foster of
| Jolly Ridge. For some time the couple
| have been sweethearts, but the girls par.
| ents were opposed to Colson's suit. A
| few days ago Miss Foster slipped away
| from home and joined her lover, who
was at work in q field near the railroad.
| and, without waiting for him to get his
| SOSSe1 AANeoSoSA
handkerchief, and went to Richmond
where they were made one. The groom
| who was married in shirt sleeves and
| patched pants, owns 200-acre blue grass
| farm, and is one of the most substantial
young farmers in the country
Gear Nicholas, before leaving St. Pet.
ersburg for Darmstadt, where he is now
staying with his consort on a visit to his
brother-in law, the. Grand Duke of Hesse,
gave orders for the drafting of decree,
which he expresses his intention of sign
ing Immediately on his return to Russia,
and which provides for the introduction
OF compulsory education, free Of cost, for
all classes of tho population. This move
on his part is encountering an immense
amount.of opposition, especially in gov
eminent circles, where it is argued that
the principal source and cause Of nihil-
ism is the over education of The lower
classes of the population, for whom no
occupation in keeping with their intellec-
tual attachments can be provided or
found, and who are therefore so dissatis-
| fed with their lot that their discomfort
takes the form of anarchy and nihilism. -