The Portland daily press., 1897-03-25
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin have en-
gnged two windows in Piccadilly, Lon
don, at cost of $4,000, to view the
Queens Jubilee pro cession. Even LON
don is startled at this ex travagance.
General Elisha Dyer, who has just been
nominated for Governor Of Rhode Island,
is the father of Elisha Dyer, Jr., who is
famous as the leader of the cotillons in
New York's swell four hundred.
Sir Henry Irving has just been elected
President of the Actors Benevolent
Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
There are 900 subscribers to the fund,
need and distress among 10000 members
of the dramatic and musical professions
of Great Britain and Ireland.
Miss Ellen Terry is quite herself again,
and very active just now In renearsals
Of mime. Sans Gene, for the Lyoeum in
London.
United States Ambassador and Mrs.
Bayard have arranged to leave England
about April 6 for the United States.
John l.. Peak, United States Minister
to Switzerland, writes that the report of
his resignation is incorrect. He will hold
his office until removed.
Ex-Secretary VIM. c. Whitney will en-
large the ballroom of his new residence,
s7l Fifth avenue, and will build mag
nihcent conservatory. With the new i'm
provements the Whitney mansion will be
one of the most commodious in New
York.
Mrs. ID. s. Wade, a Chioagoan, manu-
features the peculiar yellow tissue paper
used by the Associated Press and the ISL
egrnph companies. 1t is said that she
has amassed fortune from ii. The pro-
cess is secret,
Major Ponds daughter has taken Paul
Laurence Dunbar, thu negro poet, to
England for the season. He will read
aud recits from his own poems. Miss
Pond has teen associated with her father
in the lecture managing business for
some time, but this is her first venture
alone.
A third Kipling will soon be In the
field. "a Pinohbeok Goddess is the
title of novel by Miss Alice Kipling,
sister of Rudyard announced for speedy
publication by Heinemann, of London.
Anelo-ln,iian life at Simla furnishes the
setting CT the story. Miss Kipling, it is
explained, has long been really Mrs.
Fleming, the wife Of an English officer.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt has just in
formed the Committee of Dramatic Ar
fists, formed in London to organize ter-
formnnces next June in honor of the
Queens Jubilee, that they can count upon
her participation.
Mrs. Manson. who accompanies her
husband to London, Is said to be har-
der person to interview than the Pope
himself. AS to both her husbands polar
work and his personality she Processes
complete ignorance. The comprehensive
answer with which she dismisses all re-
porters Ia said to be: II know nothing
about Nansen."
Since 1880 Kalamazoo celery has had
first place in the market and the small
Michigan town has built upa nationel
reputation for itself on the strength of
its celery growing. The excellence of
Kalamazoo celery is said to be due to q
small area of meadows or bottom lands,
where the soil consists if a peculiar
form Of black muck, the result Of vege-
tn BILE decomposition, especially favorable
to the celery's needs.
The largest diamond in the world has
arrived in London from Kimberly, South
Africa. 1t is said to be worth 50, 500, 600
uncut.
1t IL stated that more than 76 per cent
of thosa who people New York today
were born of foreign mothers, while more
than 40 Der cent were themselves born on
foreign soil. Peter Stuyvesant ruled in
his day over /, 400 New Workers who
conversed in eighteen different tongues
Horseflesh appears to be popular food
in the larger towns Of Germany. Accord
ing to an official statement 1920 horses
were slaughtered in Berlin, and 1884 in
BresIau, while more than'1 900 were sold
at Munich, Dresden, Magdeburg and Co.