The Portland daily press., 1897-02-17
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

John G. Sutton, of Denver. spent al
his money, $50, COO, few years ago in
building II church III Denver, on oondi
ton that he should lie allowed 10 live in
the tower and be employed rs the sexso,
of the church.
Two-rhirds Of the population of til,
British Channel islands are females.
An automatic singer" has been ex
hibited in Paris. The voice can be heart
go yards off. The apparatus is said t.
be simple.
In Canton, Chino. they name streets
after the virues, as here they are named
after persons. Thus there is a street
called Unblemisbed Rectitude, Pure
another of Love.
DIR. Geist- jacob, of Frankfort. Ger.
many, has written a history of dentistry
from 300 B. g. to the present time. 1t
is known that there were men practic.
ing the profession of dentistry i'll Egypt
at least 5000 years ago.
A Paris paper says there is no truth in
the recent report that NJ. Tissot, the ar.
fist, has entered a monastery.
The only fortress in the United States
is Fortress Monroe, at Cid Point Com
fort, in Virginia. 1t was built for the
purpose Of defending the naval yard Of
Norfolk against possible attack. Its
area is about so acres, surrounded by d
moat filed with water from to Is feet
deep and from rs to 100 feet wide
Two weeks after his term of office
nd mi he
years old.
In suit recently brought by Henri
Roohefort against til manager of a Paris
newspaper, L'Intransigeant, it was
shown that the revolutionary writer re-
ceives $40, 600 year as editor of the paper,
and in the past seven years has drawn
$40, 900 in dividends.
No one belongs to the Carlton club OF
London unless he is a blue blooded aris-
toorat. William Waldorf Astor has been
elected to membership, and this more
than anything else shows how complete
ly London has accepted him.
Rigo Jancsi, the Hungarian gypsy with
whom the Princess de Chimay eloped,
led the Ro1nany Hungarian orchestra on
the roof of the New York Casino in 1888.
He played ut private houses, among them
that of Col. Elliott f. Shepard, and at
Lakewood his music was greatly enjoyed
by Mrs. Grover Cleveland. The mana
ger of the band says now that Jancsi
was vicious, illiterate and ignorant
fellow. "He is of such low order CT
intelligence that had to treat him like
q dog" says this manager, "but when
he plays, this little gypsy, his music is
wonderful. He is all music when he
plays"
Phil May, the English caricaturist,
smokes tremendous cigars. He is one OF
the least conventional of the Bohemian
artists of London, and has been seen in
the Strand in frook coat, yellow boots
and straw hat.
Capt. Robley D. Evans. of the United
States Navy, is nicknamed Fighting
Bob,'' and he objects to the title. When
the late war broke iuto he was Junior
officer, and his mother, thinking her son
was too young to know his own mind,
sent his resignation without consulting
him. The resignation was accepted, and
he was out of the Navy, but he soon
found way to get back and saw much
service during the war. He was wound
ed and walks with a slight limp.
William Morris left 1925, 900 worth of
personal property, accumulated from
his application of art to industry rather
than from his poetry. AL the property
WAS left to relatives.