Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-05-30
People aad Events.

! Williams College this year. , The salary of . lady in waiting so 3 Queen Victoria is q, 800 per annum- St Louis has both St John and Dr. Mary Walker this week. Poor old St. , Louis. A broom brigade in South Dakota
 lately saved town from destruction from prairie fire.
 The Hon. John Bigslov is soliciting
 funds for the erection of monument to
 William Cullen Bryant in Central Park. General .Gordon will, just proved, oequesths all his property to his sister,
 Mary A. Gordon. The value of the per
 sonalty was under sl0OO0
 The will of Miss Jane Hol.sss, of Pittsburg, was filed for probate last week
 and the bequests of charitable purposes
 amount to about e750,OO0.
 The Right Rev. Richard Gilmour. Bishop of Cleveland. Ohio, will sail from New York in the City of Richmond ,o- morrow for a continental tour.
 Ex-Governor Fostss. otsohso, ia sa in terfvisw says hs n not csndidass for United States Senator, but that Senator Sherman will be reelected. The Rev M. J. Crsmsr. D. D., United States Minister to Switzerland, has been called to the char of systsmatic thso- logy in Boston University.
 The statue of President Garfield con- tributed by the State of Ohio to the Ststusry Hall In.the Capitol at WAsh- | ington, has arrived from Rome. A Jamestown, D. T.. justice decides that profanity is not punishable at law whom caused by a neighbours hsns scratching up tho defendants garden
 Miss Annie Lipplnoott, of Philadel- phis, daughter of "Gracs Greenwood" has made successful debut in opera in Teissfc. Her stage name is Anita Arm our.
 The New York Herald last Saturday published over Q column of sdvertise- ments of Scotch land estates. AmerI- cans are the buyers ss well as the pro ducers of the world.
 The New York Legislature has pared c bill to regulate the height of buildings according to the width of the street. No building is to be allowed moro than eighty feet high.
 While he is abroad Walter Dsmroseh
  place, where Msx Bruch purposss to give a concert to the memory of the late Dr. Leopold Dsmrosch-
 Miss Emma Thursby sprained her ankle the otheH evening while getting in . csrrige to go to the railway station in Washington with the purpose of go- ing to her home in Brooklyn- Mohammedan citizens in London are making arrangements to build . mosque In that city. 1t will be the first and only edifice of the kind in Europe out side of the Sultan's dominions. The illnses of sI-Secrstary Freling- huyssn is attributed to drinking Sara toga water carelsssly placed in . bottle which had previously contained soonite and had not been properly eleanss6 The McIlvaines appear to be in luck at Princeton College this year. as ". B. McIlvsine has been appointed salutstor- ian and c. W. MsIlvsins valsdictorian of the class which graduates In June. Leopold Von Rsnks is the oldest living European historian who retaAnB his mental powers unimpairsd. He has passed bis 90th year, and says he sxpects to bs writing history when his age has | covered a round century. Mir. Henry Bergs. the humanitarian, wants Q law passsd making it fslony | for young people to get married before the age of 25, and he would have clergy mon scourged who marry young people with no visible means of support.
 Captain A. E. Lee, who acted as pri- vste secrstary to president Hayes while II nf haa | the manuscript of a volume of war "reminiscences, entitled -Four Ysars in | the Field" which will soon be published
 John Levsridgs. Esq. of New York. is said to be the oldest lawyer in the United States. He was admitted 10 the bar in 1911. and fought in the war with England the following year. Osly . few days sincs he argued case in court
 The name of Evan P. Howell. of the Atlanta Constitution, is being csnsidsf- cd in connection with the Dsmoeratia nomination for Governor of Georgia Mr. Howell is the man who . few vssks ago declined United States consulship.
 The reform Mayor of Canton, D. T.. is a good type of the Dakota sfstssman- He etficisted st the young peoples praysr-mesting one night and gave . card ssance the next. It is claimed that he is equally good in prayer and taking Tn chips.
 When MT Cleveland went to select . pew in lthe Washington church which he attends, he was asked what part of the building hs would like to sit in. "WslP' he said. q don't want 10 bs Co near the minister that he can see vhssh- CT or not I am listening"
 A beautiful rosebush, said to have been planted by Charlemsgne, is Ons | of the great curiosIties of the ancient city of Hildesheim. in Hanover. It is gnsrled and rugged. as becomes its sI- trsme age, and in some places the | principal stem is as thick e . mans body.
 | Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who has given her tims, money, and labor, without | compensation, Co the womAn's depart msnt of the New Orleans Exposition for mcnths, is rewarded by being char actsrizsd by soms dissstisfisd woman as "overbssring and qusrrslsoms." and h co tslegrsphed all over the country. Archibald Forbes has found it nsoss- sary 10 defend General Wolselsy. In c scent magazine article he says that there have been but two -hesvsn eorn soldiers in the last thirty years. These were Sheridan and the Russian Skoos- Jeff To Lee. Grant, and shsrnan he gives the grade of exceptionally able soldiers"
 Itmay be remarked, e the thirty season draws near, that among Prince Bismarck's presents received on his sevsntieth birthday anniversary were | two bottles of 17SS Rudeshsimsr Berg, two bottles of 1911 StisnberR, two bot ties 1922 Rudoshsim berg, two of 1859 Marcobrunn. two bottles 1881 Grown of the Rheingsu, and about 400 bottles of Johannis berger, Grsfsnberger, Sohisr- stein, MoussesuI. etc
 General (Chinessl Gordon va aa h. ysssrste smoker. He used . long pips. and every morning st sunrise vith pipe and telescope he mounted 10 the root st his palace and carefully noted every | condition of his surrcundinga Is is said that he frequently spent the sniifs night upon the ramparts with his men.