The leader., 1889-12-14
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Ex-KING MILAN of Servia will make his
home in Paris.
SENATOR PIERCE, of North Dakota, is the
author of several novels
The London Times suggests Stanley for
Governor of East Africa
SECRETARY RUsK is making a collection of
orchids and chrysanthemums.
GENERAL BoULANGER is doing very well
de is supported by his admirers
PRESIDENT HARRISON is an expert walker.
and likes tramp of several miles.
The letter carriers monument to s. S. Cox
VIII probably be erected in Washington.
The Lord Mayor of London was for some
part OF his early career an operatic singer.
EVEN the Car of Russia suffers with in
duenza, which is epidemic in st. Petersburg
EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND SAYS our ex-
Presidents should earn their own living like
other people.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE, the English doc
tor, is seriously considering the project of an
American tour.
EXTENSION COMMISSIONER TANNER and
w. II. Dudley have formed business part
nership in Washington.
LORD SALISBURY, the British Premier, has
the proud distinction among Englishmen of
wearing the biggest hat.
CASTELAR,, the Spanish statesman, says
that another half century will wind up the
monarchial business in Europe.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT takes long walk
every pleasant afternoon, often with a vol
ume of Shakespeare in his hand
Mr.. CAMPBELL, Governor-elect of Ohio, is
a Knight Templar, Knight of Pythias and
an Elk. He is also Presbyterian.
The late Father Damien, who died in the
cotfI OF Mn1n n1yof o116v ioh TC1
ands, has been succeeded by his brother.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTE, the British Min
lister at Washington, is devoting good deal
of time to the study of American literature.
HENRY c. KELSEY, the present Secretary
OF State of New Jersey, was the editor of
small country newspaper twenty years ago.
JULES VERNE's real family name is Olche-
WITT The novelist is now sixty-eight years
old, and engaged in the production of one of
his greatest works.
THE exceptional honor of the crown and
and brilliants pourie merite has been con-
ferred upon Count Won Moltke by the En-
peror of Germany.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the nov elist
reports himself in good health and spirits
and disposed to spend yet another winter
among the islands of the South Pacific.
CHARLES COLBY, the new President of the
Canadian Privy Council was born in the
United States. He is the first native of this
country who ever entered a Dominion Cab
met.
Mr. GLADSTONE has been speaking in Eng.
land for fifty years. and yet people are so
anxious to hear him that they would at any
time fill large hall if the seats cost ten
dollars.
STURGEON, the great London preacher,
says that the perfect" members of his flock
give him more trouble than his sinners. He
now gives notice that his fold is for black
sheep only.
MARK TWAIN passes a great part of his
time in his library, where he sits in COM
Portable armchair, his feet tilted up on the
window-sll and a thick halo of tobacco
smoke encircling his forehead.
PHYSICALLY, Speaker Reed is the largest
man in the House. He weighs as much as
Ex-President Cleveland and is taller. He is
an accomplished French scholar and reads
every new book published in Paris.
THE Oldest officer in the United States
Navy is Commodore Henry Bruce now on
the retired list and living in Boston. He was
born on February ~, 1889, and was appoint
ed midshipman in the Navy from Massa-
chusetts on November 9, 1913.
CITIZEN GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN when in
Boston recently was surrounded by a crowd
in a hotel corridor when he offered to bet
that he was the biggest fool in America
Nobody accepted the wager at first, but
finally a man came forward and said: ''Pll
take your bet stranger, provided you are not
George Francis Train"