St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Elder Henry Preble, an aged itinerant
preacher of Vaterville. Me-, in the pros
ecution OF his calling has travelled $4,000
miles by team
Miss Florence COnger, the only
daughter of the Michigan ex-senator,
has been appointed to clerkShip in the
census bureau at Washington.
Mr. Bouccault expresses the opinion
that in making plays the writing of the
dialogue is matter of small Importance.
The tanks the thing.
Rev. Wilton Merle Smith, the famous
pitcher of the Princeton Base Ball club
in IT. has become pastor of the Central
Presbyterian Church of New York.
Secretary Window, in the estimation
Of the Austin. Minn., Register, is the
man whom the finger Of destiny seems
to point as the Republican presidential
candidate in 1892.
Prof. Paolo RosselIi, minister of pub.
lie instruction in Italy, has appointed a
committee to select the model of the
monument to be erected to Christopher
Columbus at New York in 1892.
Agnes and Timothy Freeman, aged
respectively so and 60 years, after
nearly forty years OF married life are in
the divorce court of Kansas City On dc-
Robert Browning is likely to be the
last of the English men of letters (Save
TennySen1 who will find a grave in
Westminster Abbey. The interment of
any more bodies there is opposed on
sanitary grounds.
The Rev. Robert Collyer, who began
life as blacksmith and is now one of
the most popular living preachers, has
Just entered his SiXty-Seventh year. Il
have never been sick as much as one
day in my life," he says.
Col Hollow Horn. the eminent Sioux
loafer, who has been visiting in Wash
ington. does not seem to have made
social hit in that city. The fact is.
horn, to command recognition at the
capital, must be reasonably full.
DR.. Won Dollinger addressed the
Munich academy of sciences recently,
and in that connection the London
Atheneum makes the surprise assertion
that This capacity for work and keen de-
light in it are still undIminished-" Dol
finger is nlnety-one years old.
DR.. Olga Neymann, one of the many
bright women in SorOSiS, dentist by
profession, hires female assistants, all
of them young. pretty and earnest,
whose duty it is to stand by the patient
and, if it is lady. stroke her hand SYM
pathetically. Children are wooed with
stories and petted more than little un.
til the operation is finished.
Senator Beck, the hard-headed ole
Democrat of Kentucky. said the Other
day: 1.-The state of Iowa would never
be so foolish as to put any man IN ALI
sons place save Allison himself. If i
did it would disgrace itself. William
b. Allison is a statesman, and if the
Iowa legislature has not completely
lost its senses it will send him back te
the senate as often as he can be per
Suaded to come"
Mrs. Amelia B. Edwards likes every
American city she has seen except New
York, which she says reminds me of
great soap bubble. and dread to think
what would happen in case of an earth
quake. Besides this, / found on all
sides nothing but holes of mud. cutters,
and dIrt piles, an endless rush and
block of street traffic. There are sc
many dangers and the state of the high
ways is such as to make it incOmpre-
hensible TO English people that enter
prising Americans would long endure
it. Even more remarkable is the COS
mopolitan character of the people.
Judging from the faces on the streets
and tue names on the signs. not one
person in half a dozen is American or
EngllSh,O