The Portland daily press., 1900-07-10
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Governor Powers and family will ar
rive at Old Orchard this week and re-
main there the greater part of the season
Miss Nellie Ryder of Falls Village, Ct,
aged 20 years, Will soon start for the
Klondike, there to wed Ulysses S. Grant
Myers who Is in charge of the United
States weather bureau in that country.
The White Mountain Echo begins it's
twenty year under the charge of
Mr.. Martin w. Berry, formerly of Port
land. Mr.. Berry is both editor and pub
Usher Of this model summer-resOrt jour
nal.
Judge Simmons, of Fort Scott, Kan
sas, does not allow his court to be trif1ed
with in the matter of divorces. Mrs.
Emma Collins was granted a divorce by
Judge Simmons one month ago. The
next day she married J.. III. johnson of
Joplin, Mo. The judge, learning of her
Intentions, wired her warming that if
she married SO soon after being divorced
he would set the divorce decree aside.
The telegram was received half an hour
after the wedding. Judge Simmons had
the young woman brought into court,
lectured her and set the divorce decree
aside, so that she is safely the wife of
Mr. Collins once more, and the marriage
ceremony with MIR. Johnson becomes.
void or bigamous.
In the window of a little clothing house.
near San Antonio, Texas. says Current
Literature, is large plaeard on which is
a model of large bologna sausage. The
connection between this savory edible and.
the sale of coats and trousers is shown by.
an inscription which says, with baFefaced
dissertation of the English Language: :.
You never sausage prices.
l and and immigration agents of the
Southern Pacific railroad are said to be.
engineering a scheme for colenizing Beers
in unsettled territory in western Louis
lana and eastern Texas.
General Commander Botha wife, W ho
was left behind in Pretoria, is a small,
dark-woman, with clear-cut features and
a shrewd, bright expression, and as
ladies are only as old as hey look, she
must be we'll on the suny side of 40
Mrs. Botha is of Scotch descent and has
been very we'll educated. She is decided
lY clever, has considerable artistic talsnt
and her powers of organization are almost
equal to those of Lord Kitchener himself.
Renewed attention is being called at
this time to the question Of the value Of
sheathed ships for far eastern service.
OF the United States naval forces Operat-
ing in Asiatic waters the following are
fortunate in being either sheathed, or
what is the same thing SO far as efficiency
is concerned, of composite construction:
Castine, Helena, Marietta, Nashville and
Princeton. II to this number be added
the possible New Orleans it will be un-
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than forty y-SlX guns prepared to retain
their position in any waters for an indef-
mite period, says the Army and Navy
/ Journal The remainder of the squadron
must be sent to dry dock at least once in
six months or suffer a marked reduction
in efficiency and steaming radius. The
navy department. has moved slowly in
this affair." but in the future it is not
probable that any ships will be sent
abroad unless of the sheathed or composite
type.
In Paris the king of Sweden and Nor
way is welcomed not only as an excellent
sovereign but as the grandson of three
French persons Marshal Bernadotte (aft-
Eerward king of Sweden); the marshall S
wife (nee Clary of MarSeilles,) and of
Eugene Beauharnais, son of the Empress
Josephine by her first marriage.
1t is said that coal was mined prior to
lib. In the Liege district coal was first
found about 11S9. In 1914 coal was attract
ing some attention on the southern side
of the Firth of Forth. This was hum
dred years after the mines in the Worm
| district are said to have been opened and
Iregularly worked. 1t IS not likely that
coal was mined in Great Britain before
the thirteenth century.
In Bangor ON Sunday several hundred
people were much shocked while attend
ing tho funeral, as they supposed, of
Miss Addie Paul Miss Paul was mem
Der of the Woman's Relief Corps, and
that society attended in a body When
| Miss Paul herself appeared at the head
of the funeral party of relatives several
women tainted, believing they saw a
ghost. 1t seems that Miss Paul S brother
who lived in Camden, had died, but the
notice sent to the papers had been mis-
understood so that the sister and not the
brother was reported dead.
The most remarkable use of the auto
mobiles is that now being made in the
French Soudan, where their adoption is
making costly railroad unnecessary. A
line of automobile freight wagons and
Omnibuses was undertaken last fall, and
fifty such, fitted with nine-hOrse power
BOllee motors, have been running fol
three or four months along the Senegal
and Niger valleys. Gasoline is the factor,
a nd storehouses for that fluid have been
established, as well as repair shops, al
different points along the way, for about
165 miles.
| Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, one Of
the strong mel in Congress, has an
nounced that he will retire at the end oi
his present term two years hence. The
poor health of his wife is the chief reason
for his taking this step.
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