The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-07-11
PERONAL AND PECULIAR.

The board of life saving appliances
which met in Boston on June 6, recon.
Inends the installation of gas engine in
the "a foot service life boat. This is an
innovation, as heretofore the motive
power in IifebOats has been exclusively
oars and sail.
Haverhill, Mass. is having an interest
ing contest over the building of a school
house. The trouble arose over the at
tempt of the Socialists in the city council
to do the work by the day. and the deter
mination of the other members to have
it done by contract.
Montreal is endeavoping to get located
within its limits the remount depot of
the British army 7 he Canadian horses
required for each year are estimated at
10, 900, with price to the farmer of fully
$3.50 each. Beside this, about $75, 900 a
year would be spent on the depot, to say
nothing OF the transport of these horses
to the seaJ of war or a British port.
In 1860 Edward G. McCleary was an
a1mirer of Miss Theresa Morris, at Troy.
N. Y, but after he returned from the
war the engagement was broken, and
afterwards both married. AS the years
went on Captain McCleary lost his wife
and his old sweetheart lost her husband
By chance they learned of one another S
whereabouts, and the other day were
married in Springfield, Mass.
Rev. NJ. J. Arthur Coulee, former
priest of the Catholic church and membe
OF the Oblate fathers, was married at the
French Baptist church in Worcester,
Mass, on Monday, to Miss Gertrude
GeOrgiana Perrier, "a parOchial school
teacher in Mosham, P. O. FIR. Coulee is
80 years old and was ordained in 1889.
The marriage was not kept a secret and
the edlilce was crowded to the doors.
More than 300 persons waited outside for
the ceremony to be performed.
Not long ago Senator Hoar, who is
noted as an inveterate punster. was
Joined in the corridor of the capitol by
a former colleague in the Senate, and as
they app rOached the entrance to the SEN
ate chamber Mr.. HOar motioned his COM
panion to pass in first. ''After you, ="
said the ex-senator, drawing back polite
". NO, indeed, ]" retOrted Senator
Hoar; the KS always go before the
wise.'
Student life at Harvard was simple 58
years ago compared with what it is in
any Ameri can college today. The bows
generally boarded in the college commons
where they could board for 50 % d week
on one side, and on the other, called
starvation commons, r" for 81. 70 week.
In Jhe latter they had meat only every
other day, A few of the sons of the
weather. families boarded in private
houses, where the rate OF board varied
from So to $3.50 week. The rooms were
FURNISHED very simply, almost always
without carpets, though in rare instances
the floors would be covered with cheap
carpet, which did not last very well under
the wear and tear of bOyish occupation.
One of the favorits stories of Hon.
Adlai E. Stevenson, who is Bryan's run
ming mate, is about a man who struck a
small prOhibi tiOn town in the state of
Maine, bringing with him an abiding
thirst. There being no saloon he tried a
drug store. There he was told that he
could get whisky only on a physician S
prescription. He consulted a physician
but got no relief and desperately asked {:
What am l going to do about it?'' The
doctor said there was a nest OF snakes not
more than a mile and half from town.
Ii he could manage to get bit by snake
he would have to have whisky as an an
t1dOte, and the doctor would make out
the prescription The man with a thirst
started Off to the snake cave. An hour
and half later he returned, tired, dusty
and discOnsolate ''How did you make
1t ?'' asked the doctor. ''WelI, dear sir, ,;
re piled tie man with the thirst II called
on the snakes, but discovered that every
one of them had their bites engaged for
SIX months ahead,''