The Portland daily press., 1898-01-12

Rome next month, and will make studies
in the Vatican library for scientific
work which he is writing.
Lewis Hall, who recently died In Cam
bridge, Mass. was the man who helped
William Lloyd Garrison out of the carpen-
| ter shop when his life was threatened oy
the mob during the famous Garrison
riots.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria has
been visiting Paris, having cut short her
stay in Biarritz to submit to treatment
at the hands of noted masseur. She
has maintained the strictest incognito,
and Travelled under the name of the
| Countess Hohenembs.
| An Indiana professor, who took out
s., 500 insurance policy in 1850, received
an offer from the company twenty years
ago to cash the policy for $4,000 or pay
him an annuity of $410. He elected to
take the annuity, and now, at the age of
so, has drawn from the company more
than $4,000
| 70 Theodor Mommsen. the German
historian of Rome, the German govern
ment offered the title Of Excellency on
he has consistently declined all previous
|
title of "Privy Councillor" He takes
pride in being nothing more or less than
"a German professor.
A young college athlete at Richmond
Hill, Long Island. saved two lives the
other day by making a leap six feet
through the air and striking with his
shoulder man and woman. who stood
on the edge Of railroad track, with a
| fr0 in q, abO
them to the ground just over the edge of
the track, and barely in Time
A Berlin manager has made PROPOSE
ton to Yvette Guilbert for series OF ten
performances in that city for the sum of
10000 francs. Mile. Guilbert, at last &C
counts, had not decided whether to accept
it or not. She is, however, about to
make tour in the French provinces,
where she will give forty representations,
for which She Will receive $4,000 francs
Captain William c. Oldrieve, of Boston
will on July start out on journey on
foot across the Atlantic Ocean. He
claims that he can easily walk any dis
tance on water. and will make the trip
successfully. He will be accompanied by
Captain Andrews, who in 1878, and again
in 1898, made voyages across the ocean in
very small boat. The boat used this
time will be barely thirteen feet long.
| There are fifteen churches in London
where the sexes are divided during divine
worship In All Saint, Margaret street,
even husband and wife are not allowed
to sitrtogeether. the only London church
where this plan is enforced. The restrlc-
tion has existed since the days when Dr.
Pussy laid the foundation of the church.
Several of the Boston chu1chesshave re-
eeived to membership quite a number OF
Chinese. They have for the most part re-
ceived their religious training nsour Sun
day schools. 1t is stated that there are
about eight hundred resident Chinese in
| Boston and five or six hundred more who
| go there to trade.
| . The trustees of Princeton University
have instructed the faculty to enforce
literally and strictly and impartially the
following rule: "No student shall bring
or cause to be brought into college or
keep in his room any spirituous Or fer
msnted liquors. nor shall he frequent
any place where Intoxicating liquors are
sold as beverage This means, I'M
doubtedIy, that the Princeton Inn is no
more
Mr.. EMyron ". Whitney. Jr., son
from severe illness Of typhoid fever. He
is i'll in Florence, Italy, and is being
nursed through his convalescent state by
his mother, who lett Immediately upon
| learning of his illness.
Lady Henry Somerset has again ten
dered her resignation Of the presidency Of
the British WoInen'sl Temperance Asso-
citation on account of prolonged ill-health.
Senator Quay is the first member of the
Senate to make contribution in response
to President McKinley's appeal for the
Cuban sufferers, subscription of 500 by
him being announced.
| The will OF. George Barlow, who died at
Brooklyn Jan. 2, leaves to the Metho-
dist Episcopal Hospital Fund, to found
bed in memory of testator's mother
Wnhelmina, $1,000; to the same, to found
child's hedain memory Of his son, Geo.
f., $1,000; to the Brooklyn Methodist
Episcopal Church Home, in memory of
his wife, Martha Ann, s5o00; to the
Adelph College, to be called the George
Francis Barlow Memorial Fund, $4,000;
various requests to the Brooklyn Church
Society OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church and it's funds, amounting in all
to $50, 900; to the Methodist Episcopal
Hospital, u ,oUo; 20 inc Iaoafu OF Nuuca-
ton of the Methodist Church. $4,000; to
the Brooklyn Society for the Preventionof
Cruelty to Children, 0000; to the fund
| of the same. $1,000; to the Brooklyn
Children's Aid Society, $50, 900; to the
Howard Colored Orphan Asylum, $4,000;
to the Industrial School Association and
Homs for Destitute Children, $4,000.
1t is announced in New Rochelle, the
summer home of Colonel de Lancy Astor
Kane, that his son, De Lancy iselin
Kane, has begun course of study in
Stonyhurst College, England. prepara-
tory to entering the priesthood of the
Roman Catholic Church.