The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-02
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

no aOpNA VI wow A1du DbullO
will present the name of John c. Line
han for the office Of commander in chief
of the Grand Army Of the Republic at
the nextegrand eDcanipment, to DO held
in Buffalo the last week in August.
Cecil Rhodes, who left London recently
for Paris. will, it is stated, on leaving
that city visit Spain and Holland, return
ing to London about the end of the
present month. II, on his return from
the continent Mr.. Rhodes finds that he
is not required byi the committee, he will
leave py the ordinary mail route for
south Africa for the purpose of taking
his seat insthenCap parliament, reaching
Cape Town some time during April.
John Parshall, who has just died in
indianapolis, was member Of the Alex
ander expedition sent to Salt Lake City
to force Brigham Young to evacuate his
Office and allow his successor whom
President Buchanan had appointed to
take his seat. He was the Edriver of one
OF the ammunition wagons, and With
his own hands burst open an iloa gate
which was preventing the entrance of the
army into the Mormon capital. He was
als0-one of the six men who disposed of
tine body Of John Wilkes Booth, thesslayer
OF A braham lincoln.
Alphonso Bertillon of France, who in
vented the BertiIlon system of measuring
conyicts, advocates the exemption from
direct taxation of every family in which
there are three children, and the imposi-
ton of an extra tax of 20 per cent upon
all.those notsthusiprovided. thus prevent
ing the treasury from losing any part of
its present revenue and at the same time
esta blish q distinction between men to
whom the nations interests are dear and
men who consider them not at all.
I he New Haven Palladium gives cur
renoy to the rumor that some Yale grad
yates want to have a chair of athletics
esta blished in the university with
Walter Camp to fill it.
Lady Henry Somerset has sent s1s6
and seventeen boxes Of clothing and
blankets for the Armenian to the Ameri-
can Consul at Erzerum, Lao Bergmann.
Bishop Paret (EpiscopaD of Baltimore
has just returned from Jamaica, where
he went six weeks ago on account of ILL
health.
Mrs. Mary johnson, who died In New
York March 10, worth, it 10 said, about
$500, 600. left almost her entire estate to
Roman Catholic institutions.
1t is announced on good authority that
Ian Maclaren has no intention of leaving
Liverpool, which means, of course, that
he has decided to decline the call to q
prominent church in this country.
The Rev. Richard Henneberry of the
Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, Ire
Land, has been appointed professor of
Gaelic in the Catholic University, Wash
ington. He is an accomplished scholar,
and writes Irish with ease.
The Rt. Rev. Alphose Jossten, Vicar
Apostolic and Bishop OF the D utch West
Indies, is the first clergyman of episcopal
rank to succumb to leprosy. with which
he became infected while administering
religious instruction ana consolation to
leprous adults amt children at Curacao.
His name deserves to figure beside that
OF Father Damien on the table of honor
o. these who have sacrificed their lives
in behalf of lepSr outcasts
The queen has outlived all her original
prigy council. and also all but one of
the members of the House of Lords,
whilo she has seen lis general elections,
with 81 administrations, under 10 prime
ministers, and has approved the appoint
ment of 81 diffelen lord chancellors and
six speakers of the House of Commons.
Tho Swiss engineer, Zig, to whose good
offices the peace negotiated between Italy
and -Abyssinia is chiefly due, has received
from the negus, i'll recognition of his val
liable services. a concession of land neces-
sary for the construction of line of
railroad from the interior Of A byssinia to
a port on the Red sea. The line in ques-
tion is to be several hundred mile long,
will he financed by French capitalists
and is to be put under way at once.
The world of art will probably soon
lose one of it's noteworthy mem bers in
the person of Ramon Panduro, the Mexi-
can worker in clay. Panduro, who is a
full blooaed Indian. is self-taught and
did such good work that the Mexican
government sent him to the Worlds
Fair in Chicago. While there he attract.
ed much attention. He gave strings Of
one hour and made complete clay
| model in day. He now lies at his home
in San Pedro, suburb of Guadalaiara.
at the point of death. with a oomplica-
tion of Bright's disease aud influenza,
and his physician says he cannot recover.
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