Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-05-27
NEWSPAPER NoToRlETY.
Personal Mention by the Press-what
che Paragraphists Say OF People.

ItEtbtat " 49,
che Pa~ragraphists Say OF People.
Mr.. Henry Labouchere calls Lord
Salisbury lone Of the weakest of man
kind"
The French academy has awarded the
grand prize to Carmen Silva, the queen
of Roumania, for lies Pensees dune
Refine"
Mr.. John Boyle o'Reilly has set out on
a canoeing voyage through tho Dismal
swamp.
The empress Of Russia is said 10 do a
great part OF her household sewing. and
as she has a houseful of seamstresses, it
must be that the latter are principally
employed in ripping out the august lady's
needlework.
Sir Nlorel Mackenzie, though not
musical himself. is warmly interested in
vocalization and everything pertaining
to the human voice. He never accepts
o fee from a professional singer, but
doctors free of charge the throats OF all
public yocalists who apply to him.
Sir Edwin Arnold-for he was knighted
early in the present year-the interpreter
Of 1.-THE Light of ASIA to the English
speaking world, is not often to be seen in
general circles in London, but may be
found almost any day in his sanctum as
editor of The Daily Telegraph. busy
enough, with his working cap IN, in the
administration of that great daily.
"our buildings are fairly papered with
elocutionists' signs" New Workers said
to Mrs. Harriet Webb, when she started
to establish herself there as a teacher,
seven years ago. 1--WE viii build on an
other story with merit, =" laughed the fair
and plucky western girl. Today she is
famous as a reader and a teacher, and
stands in the front rank among teachers
of the art Of expressing ideas through the
person.
Mime. Romero, the wife Of the Mexican
minister at Washington, is said to have
no superior among the ladies of the capt.
tai as an entertainer. She was one of
the first ladies Of the diplomatic corps TO
remove the barriers of exclusiveness that
hedged in that circle, and invitations TO
her receptions are always greatly in de-
mand. Nine. Romero is a daughter Of
an old Virginia family and is a fluent
converser in English and Spanish.
Mr.. Nansen. a well known Norwegian
athlete, is about TO make the attempt of
crossing the vast snow fields Of Green
land on snow shoes. A wealthy Danish
merchant has supplied the money for the
unique enterprise, and Mr.. Nansen has
received many applications for permits
sion to join him. Many persons in the
scandinavian countries are condemning
the undertaking as foolhardy and desper-
ate, but Mr.. Nansen and his party-all
picked athletes-believe it will succeed.
Mrs. Gould, a wealthy New York
widow, has a taste for railroad enter.
prises that seems 10 go with the name.
She subscribed the necessary funds to
carry on the work Of construction of the
Covington and Macon road, and person
ally watched the progress Of the work
until the last spike was driven. She had
a construction engine at her command,
which she has been known to order out
at night that she might watch the men
working by torchlight. Mrs. Gould is
said to be under 40, and has q daughter
who is just -,
One of the interesting figures Of New
York has been Miss Hampton, Of South
Carolina, a daughter Of Gen. Wade
Hampton, who is now assistant in tho
surgical ward of one of the hospitals,
Miss Hampton has taken a very thorough
course Of training as a professional nurse
and il is her plan, when her studies havl
been completed, 4 open a school for tn,
instruction of nurses in the south, AM
supply, If possible, a new field for worI
for the southern women. She is a slen
der woman, with a 1.-the figure, darI
hair, and a colorless but healthy con
p~lexion. She is entirely devoted TO he
work. an enthusiast in il, and a woma.
OF exceptional endowments.
Mrs. Florence Kelley Weschnewetsky
the sweet faced labor reformer who lee
turel against child bondage in New Yor
city in the Central Labor unions bal
not long ago, is the wife OF a Polls
nobleman. She is also the daughter G
MIR. Pig Iron Kelley, the champion q
the high protective tariff. Mr.
Weschnewetsky has had more roman.
in her life than most young women {
her social advantages and good look
Some years ago Miss Kelley, who IN
already mastered the mass Of statistic
which compose her fathers working |
brary. together with John Stuart Mil
Adam Smith and all the books she couI
find on political economy, went to Gel
many 10 pursue her studies in social sc
ence and entered the University {
Heidelberg. Prince Weschnewetsky, {
Poland, was a fellow student. He an
Miss Kelley, who had been writing yer
interesting letters to American new
papers to vary the monotony Of h,
studies, fell in love with each other The
studied love aud philosophy together an
then got married and began practicir
them.