Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-01-10
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Lord Charles Beresford e bow Legged
Prince George Of wales favorito spocir-t 4
bowls
Baron James de Rothschild once sat for
beggar
The king of the Belgians manages to live
on S66O,OOO a year
Henry Clews is building bathroom en-
tirely fitted in onyx
Simon Bolivar, the Bolivian hberator, win
have a monument costing e4o0,OOO
Prince Henry of Germany has had 700 diff
ferent photographs of himself taken
Baron De Helm, chief justice Of the Aus
trian empire, has seventeen children.
Chauncey Depew and Adam Forepaugh
might be mistaken for twin brothers
Pao Yum, president of the Pekin academy,
is translating Shakespeare into Chinese.
Senator Farwen gives fortune annually
to various religious missions and charities.
Archbishop Benson, of Canterbury, is a
warm advocate of the use of bicycles by the
clergy
Willie Collins, Professor Huxley, George
a. Pendleton and Dom Pedro will pass sixty
three this year
Joseph W. Fifer, the Republican candidate
for governor of Illinois, is six feet tall and
very spare in flesh.
The aneer of Afghanistan is said to be
raeditating a journey to England to call on
500 empress Of India this summer.
President Seelye of Amherst college, is
able to greet by name every living graduate
of the college whom he has ever met
Father Mortara, the young priest who is
creating such sensation with his sermons at
sMadrid. speaks twenty-five languages
Professor Frank c. Woodward, Of Wofford
college, South Carolina, has been elected to
the chair of English literature in the univer'
sity of that state ....
Mr.. Gladstone has accepted the dedication
of the English edition of Professor Villarls
81 ife of Savonarola" This work is now be-
ing translated into English by Mime. Villarl
Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is the owner
of a fine homestead farm and he plants tree
there for every senator who visits him. Ed
munds' is a beach, Jones' a mulberry and
Shermans soft Eastwood.
The Hon Charles Gayarre, who was
member of the United States senate fifty-three
years ago, is still living in New Orleans de
was born in that city in 1905, and is said to
be a walking encyclopaedia Of Louisiana
history.
s w. Burnham, Of Chicago, who il pres
emily going to California to take charge OF
the great telescope at the Lick observatory,
has phenomenal eyes, which are said to have
naturally as great light grasping power as
ordinary eyes get through six inch tele-
scope
President Adams, of Cornell university,
and President Hyde, of Bowdoin college, are
said to be the only two college presidents
who play tennis Maine folks claim that
President Hyde is the better player. A
match to decide the question would be very
interesting ..-...
MIR. John Noah, of Washington, has been
dressed in the clothes worn by George Wash
ingtop when resigning his commission, and
photographed into fair counterfeit present.
ment of the father of his country at "A. de
has also successfully posed for Gen jackson
in his after New Orleans clothes; so he may
be set down as young man of gifted and
most obliginG countenance.
John Wanamakers brother has been Civ
ing some "reminiscences Of the boyhood OF the
great Philadelphia merchant His first work
was done in the clothing store of Barclay
Lippincott, where he received a salary OF
81 SO a week, all of which he gave to his
mother. His dinner, when he had any, con-
sisted of a piece of pie and glass Of milk,
costing two cents Each year his salary was
increased. and at the time he was 20 he had
saved $500