Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-17
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Mr.. GLADSTONE has been chopping down
many trees at Hawarden Of late, with all his
old yigor.
AT Washington yesterday Walter Lyon, of
Pittsburg, was admitted to practice in the Su-
preme Court of the United States
THE late King of Bavaria left debts which
will be paid off at the rate of S275000 a year.
The last payment will be made in 1905.
PRINCE LUoIEN BoNAPARTE has come into
fortune of Sl50, 900 by the death of his nephew.
Paul Amadeus Francis Coutts Stuart.
HON. STEPHEN A. DOUGLASS, JR., addressed
Republican gathering of 8, 900 people in Find
lay, O., last evening. Tariff was what he talked
about
AT Chicago yesterday John NJ. Harlan, son
of Justice Harlan, of the United States Su-
preme Court, was appointed administrator of
the Illinois estate of the late Justice Stanley
Matthews.
AT meeting Of the Chicago bar yesterday
committee was appointed to act in connection
with the Executive Committee for the purpose
of securing the Worlds Fair for Chicago.
Among the members were Robert T. Lincoln,
John N. Jewett, Lambert Tree, Lyman Trum-
bull, Howard Henderson and Benjamin F.
Aver.
CHARLES ScRIBNER, the publisher, says
Robert Louis Stevenson did write ''The Wrong
Box in spite of the denial that has been tele-
graphed from San Francisco. "It was in his
handwriting" says Mr.. Scribner "It is not
possible that he would deceive us. In addition
to all this the work shows intrinsically the
hand of Mr.. Stevenson"
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany is much dis
pleased with the models submitted to him for
a monument to his grandfather William L
He has said that not one of them deserves a
prize. Many of the most famous sculptors in
Germany refused to compete claiming that
the prizes were too small reward for the labor
required in the preparation Of models.
MARY ANDERSON has won high position as
q maker of bread. She writes to the London
Times giving her recipe for the staff of life.
She is cosmopolitan in her tastes, being an
American who makes English bread out of
Hungarian -four and French yeast She says:
"Bread, if made as have described, will not
turn sour, and will be sweet and moist for at
least eight or ten days if kept in PAN" 1t is
said that William WHITES. the critic, considers
Mary great genius as bread maker.
c. AVERY ORR, who accompanies the United
States eclipse expedition to Africa, is anxious
to make certain anthropological studies. Upon
reaching the coast of Africa Mr.. Orr will leave
the expedition, and, accompanied by five black
and five white men, all fully armed, will strike
out for the interior, visiting many of the native
tribes whose manner of living he will closely
observe. photographing and measuring them,
noting their habits and manners and studying
all the characteristics peculiar to each tribe.
NJ OSIRIS, who gave the prize Of 100000
francs for the most useful work In the Exhibi-
tion. has a mania for statues, and proposes to
erect many in Paris The representative of
the Voltaire Statue Committee, who inter-
viewed him concerning his proposed statues,
proposed that one of them should be that of
Racine; but NJ. Osiris would not hear of it, and
declared that if he erected statues it was
chiefly because he liked to meet in his walks
the wellknown faces of his former friends