St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-05
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MEN AND WOMEN.

A young man VINO Chains TO De grandson
of Garibaldi lives in Nashville, Tenn. He is
a dark, romantic-looking Italian, but his
claims to an exalted ancestry are not clear.
Ladies who are seen Hding in the park
these days are no longer restricted to the
beaver but wear the pot hat or ''derby,"
or else the soft Tyrolese hats, with an occa-
sional touch of ribbons orfeathers.
1t is asserted that Walker Blame is being
actively pushed by his father for the position
of first assistant secretary of state in Har-
rison's cabinet. He filled the same position
in the Garfield administration when Mr..
Blaine, ST., was secretary of state.
James A. Stewart, the newly elected mayor
of Griffin, Ga, is one of the youngest mayors
on record, his twenty-second birthday having
been celebrated in August last He is the
son of Congressman j. d. Stewart, who was
greatly surprised when he heard of his boys
election.
1t is curious what an attraction the gull
lotine has for the French people, At the ex
ecution of Prado, the murderer, such men
as Henri Rochefort, Mounet-Sully. Armand
Sylvestre, Catulle Mendes and Alphonse Dau-
Diet were noticed in the throng which wit
messed the execution.
The engagement will shortly be announced
of Miss Arnold, daughter of the late Matthew
Arnold, and Mr.. Wodehouse. second son of
Lord Kimberly. Miss Arnold is clever,
bright-looking girl with dark hair and eyes
anda pc cularly sunny manner. She has
great look of her late father.
Maurice Barrymore, says a New York
critic, is not cursed with the spen dthrift
habits which make many of his fellow actors
as poor as church mice except on pay day.
&c It'd
dimes daily in modest little restaurant on
Sixth avenue. Most professionals with
modest income disdain anything below Del
monico's.
Gen. Grenfels, the commander of the Brit
ish forces at Suakin. has tiled up the wells
of the country with the hope of injuring the
rebel Arabs. If one may judge by the Arabs
who come to this country, the fact of de-
priving them of water will not give the SONS
O the desert very much inconvenience. 1t
is on par with depriving them of soap, or
other equally absurd things which hey have
no use for.
Viscount Eversley, the oldest member of
the house Of lords, is dead. He was born in
1894 and entered the house of commons in
1880, was chosen speaker in 1889 and in
1857 was called to the upper house as Wis
count Eversley. He was governor and cap
tain general of the Isle of Wight, governor of
Carisbrooke Castle, high steward of Winches-
ter. honorary lieutenant colonel of the Hants
Yeomanry, commissioner of church estates
1859, ecclesiastical commissioner QS59)
and trustee of the British museum.
Chairman Calvin Brice. the Democratic
manager in the last campaign, has written
kind and congratulatory letter to Gen.
Harrison. rendering him the use of his
private car for his journey between Indian
apolis and Washington prior to the Inaugural
ton. or in whatever travelling he sees fit to
do. The car is the same one in which Sem
ator Thurman made his speaking tour in the
campaign 1t is attached to the Lake Erie
& western road, of which Brice is presi-
dent.
Vice President Morton's coachman, an
Englishman named White, is at present the
king bee of the profession in New York.
White was brought up in the stables of Lord
Dufferin and was afterward the coachman of
the Prince of Wales, until the Marquis of
Lorne. while governor general of Canada,
EMPLOYED him. His next employer, Mr.
Morton, took him to Paris. In the French
capital White took high rank among the
Jehus. and was considered one of the hand
soonest whips in that city of accomplished
cOachers.
Verestchagin, the Russian artist, delivered
| a lecture on War as he had seen it, in
New York Friday evening. He described his
travels in China. and told of seeing in one
deserted town a long line OF skulls, $4,000
in number. The human bones. he said,
change after DEATH For instance, the upper
part of the skull of man grows, while the
chin, jaw bones, hands and feet diminish,
showing that the animal side gives way to
the intellectual. Mr.. Verestchagin related
some lurid and gruesome incidents in the
wars through which he had been, but when
he came to describe the battlefield of Plevna
and his unsuccessful search for his brothers
body he was unable to proceed, and brought
his lecture to a sudden termination.