Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-07
PROMINENT PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

BUFFALO BILL has been engaged by the
French Government to teach 100 cavalry officers
to ride in the American style.
THE late Nine. de Grouchy, widow of Bona
parties Marshal, retained to the end of her life
her brilliant powers as conyersationalist.
She was S6 years old.
Miss Mary C. Fuller, daughter of Justice
Fuller, arrived at New York yesterday on the
Aller. The Chief Justice. his wife and a
number of friends met the Government tug at
Quarantine.
HARTFORD people recall that General Har-
rison has visited their city before. The first
visit was in 1872 when he was a guest of the
old Piscatorious Fishing Club and went with
them on a cruise up the coast of Maine.
THE oldest United STATES ex-Senators are
James Bradbury, Of Maine, and Jefferson Davis,
of Mississippi. Each served in the Senate of
1S47. In point of years Mr.. Bradbury is the
elder, having been born in 1906 three years
before the rth of Davis.
THE late Colonel A. U. Saxton, of ST. Joseph
Mo-, was one of the best-known men in Mis-
souri, In his youth he was mud clerk" on
an Illinois river steamboat, but he conquered
fortune and dieo a millionaire. He was famous
as humorist and practical joker.
ONLY Eve of the British officers who fought
at Waterloo were alive when the eseventy-fourth
18th of last June. They are General George
Whichcote (as Lieutenant of Fifty-second
Light Infantry; General the Earle of Abe
marie (as ensign of Fourteenth Regiment);
Lieutenant-Colonel NJ. p Browne (as senior
Cornet of Eleventh Light Dragoons): Lieuten-
ant-Colonel w. Hewett (as Captain of the
Third Battalion Fourteenth Regiment), and
Major Basil Jackson las Lieutenant of Royal
Staff Corps).
DAVID ANDREAS SAxLEHNER, owner of
the Hunyadi Janos, died recently while on his
way to Carlsbad. He was a man of limited
education, but pracrcal in the extreme. After
failing in several undertakings he established
national clothing house, in Buda Pesth. in
which home goods alone were sold. Louis
Kossuth consented to &C. as Saxlehner's clerk
for several days, in consequence of which the
business increased enormously. While Saxfeh-
ner was sitting one day in his Office peasant
entered and complained that he could get no
fresh water on his farm. He had bored wells
in number of places, but succeeded in getting
only peculiarly scented fluid, which he feared
to use. Saxleiner was interested. He asked
the peasant to bring him a sample bottle Of the
water. had it analyzed, and decided to purchase
the estate. He paid 1000 gulden per acre for
the farm, and established factory as soon as
possible. The water became popular at once,
and the red label upon the bottles famous
trade mark. OF late years the sales reached
4000, 0,000 annually and made Saxlehner many
times millionaire.
A WRITER in the Spectator says that Lord
Beaconsfeld's fondness for the primrose origi-
mated when he was living in Highbury, Lon
don. Here he was much attached to a Young
lady resididing in the same locality, Who was
the daughter Of a gentleman of good property
At q ball given at this gentleman's house, the
young lady in question wore wreath of prim-
roses. A discussion arose between Mr.. Disraeli
and another gentleman as to whether the
primroses were real or not. "A bet of a pair of
gloves was made, and on the young lady being
consulted. and the primroses being examined,
the bet was won by Mr.. Disraeli. The prim-
roses were real primroses and the young lady
gave two or three of them to the future Prime
Minister, which he put in his button.hole and
kept, and used to show long afterward Some
have thouhgt that because the Queen sent 4
wreath of primroses to Lord Beaconsfield,s
funeral the flower became his badge in that
way. This is a mere invention. The Queen
did not know at the time that the primrose
was Lord Beaconsfeld's favorite flower, and she
did not consequently, send a wreath of prim-
roses to his funeral at all. Others have enter
tanned the opinion that the noble lord appre-
ciated the flower because he says in one of his
novels that the primrose makes an excellent
salad. This is incorrect again, and the true
history OF the way the primrose became the
noble lords favorite flower is recorded above.