The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-16
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

| The governor general of Algeria has APP
pointed Miss Chellier, graduate of the
University of Paris, to take charge of a
medical mission to the mountains beyond
| Biskra, This is merited appointments,
as Miss Chellier has already some knowl-
| edge of the needs of that part of the ooun-
| try through two journeys undertaken in
| behalf of such work.
In Boulogne there will shortly be cele-
brated the centenary Of Sister Marie Lou
Use, who, born in 1898, entered the Con-
vent Of the Ursulines eighty years ago
and has never left it since. Think Of one
who quilted the world three years after
| Waterloo, and has not seen France, the
country in all Europe that has had more
diversities than any other, since then !
| Sister Marie Louise Is both healthy and
happy and does not seem to have wearied
during her long seclusion. No doubt it
has had its advantages, and there may
even be some who may envy her lack of
acquaintance with la bicyolette and other
varieties Of the harrassed new world.
In Italy, on the other hand, party of
500 women is having q little village re-
volt. Like many feminine excitements,
q little religion and good deal of clergy
man are at the bottom of it. The village
wished for It's new cure one who had tenn
porarily performed the duties for four
years. The bishop, however, appointed
another. Then it was that the 800 anna
IONS arose and besieged the new cure in
his house. He escaped by back win
dow, and the women locked up church
and presby terry and took the keys to the
mayor, forbidding him to give them to
any but the cure of their choice. Matters
are at standstill just now. The VII
lage Is calm, because the cure has not re-
turned-through the window-and it re-
mains to be seen whether bishop or anna
IONS will triumph. 1t is curious little
episode, this outbreak of belligerent wom-
en- in an old-world Italian village.
1t Is not generally known that ia
nous singer made the first move toward
the establishing of private railway car
riages. In 1851, when Jenny Lind was
married in America, she was very much
annoyed during her honeymoon by the
intrusion of impertinent interviewers,
and, to escape the infection, she had a
pass enger car cleared of its seats and
fitted up as drawing room. In this
she was able to stop at secluded points
or go from place to place without moles-
tation. The idea was quite original
with the great singer and attracted SO
much attention that other people of luxu-
rious taste wanted to initiate her meth-
cd. The fashion did not spread very rap
idly, but it got start then, and has
evolved slowly into the development of
the palace car and dining car now SO uni
versally liked
About 80 miles south of Berlin, in the
Spreewalde, on the borders Of Bohemia,
funerals ON the Ice are of no uncommon
occurrence. Every one is perfectly at
home on skates. So the young men, ska
ting, take the ropes attached to the sleigh
on which the coffin is borne; the old men,
women and children follow, skating be-
hind. The skates used are old fashioned
In character, tied with string. The men
wear black coats and hats on such occa-
sins, but the women vary their costumes
with white hats. scarfs and aprons. In
Iceland the same mode prevails, except
that snoWshoes are used in lieu of skates.