St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-12
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Milan Oblenovitch. ex-King of Servia,
has an income of $4,000 and is steadily
running into edbt.
The Shah of Pessia has been bothered
by some London Christians, who wish
to convert him. Probably that was the
reason he skipped to Paris.
Maj. Pollock. clerk in the postoffice
department. was for many years Indian
inspector. The Sioux gave him the
name of "The white man who never
lies"
The Shah of Persia considers the
Duchess of Marlborough, who was the
Widow Hammersley, of New York. the
handsomest woman in Englane. 'Rah
for America and the Shah!
Ed Reed, son of the notorious Belle
Starr, who was killed some time since
in Indian Territory, has arrived at the
Ohio penitentiary to serve seven
years. sentence for horse stealing.
The indignant Hadji Hassein Ghooly
Khan will be succeeded as Persian en-
bassador at Washington by Ammu
Abdailah, who is said to be the latest
man in Persia His weight is stated to
be 347 pounds.
D. G. Parmelee, of Boston. has made
large fortune in peculiar way. He
has the only plant in the Hub which
manufactures baked beans for daily de-
livery. He does an immense business
and clears large profits.
Prince Bismarck has at VarZin $4,000
acres, of which $1,000 are covered with
glorious forests of oak and beech. His
home farm comprises 400 acres, and the
remainder of; the cleared land is let in
farms of about seven hundred acres
each.
W. L. Murdoch, the greatest of Aus
tralian cricket bats, has lately come into
an enormous fortune through the death
OF his father-in-law, leading AuStral-
ian mining speculator named Watson,
who leaves upward of S1OO.OO0,OOO be-
hind him.
Count Tolstoi. the famous Russian
novel writer and philanthropist, after
being an inveterate smoker, recently
stopped entirely. He says that ever
since he can't write and is helpless with
out tobacco.
Robert T. Lincoln, the new Ameri-
can minister" says the London Star,
possesses a good many advantages
over his predecessors. He is more the
typical American. Coming from the
West, he brings with him its warm cor
diality and heartiness of manner"
Col. A. E. Jones, of Cincinnati, who
was murdered by his negro coachman.
was the uncle Of Robert j. Burdette,
the humorist. He was a brother of Mr..
Burdette's mother, and when the fam
GUS fanny man was named, in the early
days of long ago, 1t was Robert Jones'
the middle name in honor of his uncle
Two men, J. Brewster McCollum and
Henry w. " Hams, who in boyhood
were schoolmateS at a country district
school in Bridgewater township, Sus-
quehanna county, Pennsylvania. are
now judges Of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania. They mere reared as
farmer boys, but leaving the pillow for
the law they both achieved distinction.
The mutual friendship formed in youth
still continues. They differ in politics.
Rogers, the Pan-EIectric telephone
promoter, who traded stock in wash
ington to public men in exchange for
influence, now threatens to write a
book on vampire Journalism" This
is one form of dementia which usually
makes its appearance after man has
wrecked himself by his own folly. If
certainly have written book denOunc-'
ing the American press for it's un-
licensed brutality and corruption.
One of the most interesting exhibits
at the Paris exposition is that of DR..
James FL. Love, of Alexandria, Egypt,
which adorns the American department..
DR.. Love is Philadelphia who has
lived in Egypt for some years. He is
now dentist to the khedive, and enjoys
the title and emoluments of pasha.
His exhibit consists OF dental imple-
ments. dentifrices, etc. 1t is complete
in every detail and admirably arranged.
1t is pleasing to learn that there is
something In the American department
worth looking at.