The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-03-30
TALK ABOUT PEOPLE.


MRS HUMPHREY WARD has received ten
thousand dollars so far from "Robert Els
mere"
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has his walks
and his haunts like other men. The book
stores and large publishing houses are MS
resorts.
PROF. PRoCToR's widow, who will con-
tinue her residence in Florida, is to receive
a pension of five hundred dollars year
from the British Government.
DR.. tanner, the faster, maintains that
the growing use of opium and its COM
pounds frequently produces syncope nova
days, which leads to interment before
actual death.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, is a
profound student of the Bible, and his
knowledge of the Scriptures shows itself IN
his speeches, many phrases of which are In
Biblical language.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL says that he re-
ceives scores of letters from the younger
sons of wealthy and titled Englishmen ask
ing about the avenues of employment in the
United States.
GEORGE KEENAN,, the Siberian traveller,
is said to be the only known American who
ever completely mastered the Russian Ian
guage, except Caleb Gushing, formerly
Minister to st. Petersburg.
Mrs. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT will erect a
monument over the grave of General Fran
els Marion. The grave is on an old planta-
ton near Charleston. Mrs. VanderDIt
finds she is descended from the Marions.
A KANSAS admirer of Mrs. Harrison has
presented her with magnificent broom,
made of the best straw which Kansas can
produce. The handle is covered with straw
and silver wire representing maple leaves,
flags and the signature of Mrs Harrison.
BILL NYE says the New York World paid
him sc, 900 the first year of his engagement
with it. After that, in lieu of increase, he
took the profits resulting from the sale OF
his articles to a newspaper syndicate, and
as he says, is making nearly three tunes his
original salary.
CONGRESSMAN W. l.. SCOTT, of Erie, Pa. Us
worth probably S15,OOO,OOO, but he is one OF
the least ostentatious men in Congress
His face is sallow and he is rather thin ano
round houldered, with sparse sandy hair
He represents, either as president or oil
rector, %, 900 miles of railroad.
THE chair in which President Cleveland
has sat for four years is one that he hao
made to order and paid for himself. IL Il
made of light oak, to match the desk maze
from the timber of the Resolute and sent tt
the White House by Queen Victoria. 1t is
!, a great, wide-spreading, revolving chair
with seat and back of split cane and {
5 heavy frame tastefully carved.
SENATOR ALLISON is a great worker. H'
retires early and rises early, eats simple
breakfast, reaches the Capitol long befor
his colleagues, and pegs away at COMMITTEE
r work until noon. He always stays through
t the session of the Senate and watches ever
: move until adjournment. He then return
! to committee work until dinner time. ID
is systematic in his habits, and is thus en-
abled TO accomplish vast amount OF WORE
!. He takes plenty of exercise and seldom II
), dulges IN the designations of society.
e THE house which Mr.. Blame has rente
= for the next four years at Washington !
: the historical brick mansion where Phil
Barton Key died, and where the assassl
PAYNE tried to kill Secretary Seward. Be
e KNAPP lived there IN Grants time and Mr.:
Il Belknap died there. 1t has been in turn
family residence, a clearinghouse clu
house, the social headquarters of two az
; ministrations, a Government office and
P vacant building Stunned by house hunter
7. on account of its reputation.