The Portland daily press., 1897-09-14
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR
Typhoid fever is prevailing to an alarl

Typhoid fever prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in several places in Germany.
On many of the small epidemics the milk
supply has been incriminated, and the
Berlin health authorities have issued a
special warning to the public against the
use of unboiled milk.
The memorial to Archbishop Benson
in Canterbury Cathedral is to take the
form of a canopied tomb beneath the
northwest tower and close to his grave.
1t is reported that the Empress of
Russia will arrive in England on pr
vate visit to the Queen in the spring OF
next year. The Gear will not accompany
her.
Latin in the Columbian University OF
Washington, and dean of the faculty, has
been elected President of Furmar Univer-
sity in South Carolina. He is graduate
Of the. University Of Virginia and IN.
d. of Johns Hopkins.
The Marquis of Butte, who is after the
Duke of Norfolk the wealthiest Roman
Catholic in the British Islands, has just
bought Pluscarden Priory from the Duke
of Fife. The Marquis is going to spend
about e1O0,0O0 in restoring the ruins.
which are very beautiful. and Is expected
to re-establish a community to occupy the
renovated convent. Pluscarden Is six
miles from Elgin, and has splendid
grounds.
Few officers of the British Army pos
sess more brilliant record of active
service than Sir Evelyn Wood, the new
Adjutant General. Previous to becoming
a soldier he was for short time in the
navy, during which he took part in the
Crimean war; and in one of his intervals
Of comparative leisure he read for the bar
and was duly "called." Thus he is law
yer and sailor as well as soldier. In 1855
he obtained commission in the army.
and served throughout the Indian mutt
ny, where he won the Victoria Cross for
his gallantry on two occasions. He also
the kaft1r, Zulu, and Boer campaigns IN
South Africa; the Egyptian war of 1883;
and the Nile expedition of iSS4-S5.
The street decoration which takes
place SO often in ST. Petersburg is never
completed, and frequently not even be-
gun, until the night preceding the event
to be celebrated.
During bull fight at Carabancle, a
suburb of Madrid the the other day, a
bull escaped and rushed into the streets,
where it injured number of persons be-
fore 1t was killed by gendarme.
A new religious sect has been founded
in the province Of Saratow, Russia, by a
certain Alexander Panjaschok, and called
after him the "Panjaschkovtzi.' The
central idea Of the doctrines preached is
that while the soul is immortal the body
is of the devil. and should therefore be
neglected as far as possible. In pursu-
ance Of this idea the Panjaschkovtzi
never wash themselves, never shave, al
low their nails to grow long, and do not
change their clothes until the latter fall
in rags of their backs.
1t is reported from Suez that the Eng
lish company which is trying to get q
concession to build railway from Port
Said to Bassorah also intends to build q
cog-wheel railway up Mount Sinai, with
a station near the place where, according
to tradition, Moses stood when he received
the revelation.
The sale Of ice cream by Italians in the
streets of London is said to yield profit
Of 700 per cent.
Rev. DR.. Abel Stevens, historian Of
Methodism and one of the most prolific
writer's in the denomination, died at San
Jos, CAL, Saturday, aged 90.
Judge Augustus H. Fem. of the Con-
necticut Supreme Court, died Sunday.