St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Lord Tennyson spends most of his
time at present reading newspapers.
The president is alarmed by the re-
port that Chicago playwright is DRAM
atizing his inaugural address.
1t is rumored that Postmaster Wana-
maker is anxious to have a picture of
John Calvin placed upon the tWo-cent
stamp.
Prince Bismarck has been again
obliged to give up alcohol and tobacco.
1t is probable, also, that he will have
to give up his designs regarding
Samoa.
Ex-senator Tabor, of Colorado, began
life under Secretary Proctor. working
for some time in his marble quarries IN
Vermont.
Sidney Bartlett. the aged Boston
lawyer whose death occurred last
week, left an estate worth fully 100000
600. His fees. even for a few words of
counsel, frequently amounted to $780,
600.
Mrs. Harrison must have found the
elixir of life in the White house. A
correspondent reports that she sis
looking unusually well, and fully ten
years younger than she did one week
ago."
Editor Murat Ha lstead was with Bis
marck on the field at Gravelotte in 1870
1t was here that Mr.. Halstead walked
over seven miles of dead bodies" and
obtained his title Of field marshal.
Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, of Philadel-
phia, has necklace of diamonds and
pearls that is valued at S15O,OOO Her
collection of emeralds is one of the finest
in the country, and the total value of
her gems is at least 100000.
Somehow even the men who opposed
them with the most bitterness have a
sneaking kindness for the famous SO6
who stuck to Grant to the last i'm the
convention of 1880. Everybody softens
toward Secretary Tracy when it is said
The was one of them.o
President Harrison is in receipt of a
bouquet of clover blossoms from the
Clover club, of Philadelphia. By the
way, wouldn't Maj. Handy make good
minister to some highly civilized coun-
try where auburn whiskerS and genial
lty would be appreciated?
Editor Elliott f. Shepard is devOting
his talents to the discovery of gems in
the presidents message. He has al
of the first water, but he has not yet
succeeded in unearthing the particular
gem for which he is diligently seeking
the jewel of a foreign mission.
Fred l.. AmeS, who is worth $20, 0O0,-
600, is supposed to be the richest man in
Boston. He lives in the finest house in
the city, entertainS gorgeOuSly, and is
regarded as an ariStocrat of the ariStO-
Gratis. Nevertheless his grandfather,
old Oliver Ames the first, used to
peddle shoyels of his own handiwork in
that town.
Gen. Slocum, who marched to the sea
with Sherman, speaking OF death, says:
81 am coward in the face of pain, and
l cannot bear to think of the physical
sensations that may attend my death
the choking in the throat, the paralysis
here, the torture there: but that aside
and rest. and [ have no feeling what
ever or dread of the hereafter
John G. Klein, the war correspond
ent" and representative of all American
tea house, recently delivered lecture
in San Francisco on Samoa, and the
Atlas says of it: "A handful of sympa-
thizing friends and three policemen in
the full glory OF blue and brass made
up the audience. With better magic
lantern and new stop in his voice and
a white tie that will not persist in
crawling up toward his chin, he may
meet with the success that came to
Cough, Phelps. Gladstone and other
great men. Without these things
journalism will pay him better"
Sam Jones is not disposed to lay all
the blame on the newspapers for the
uninteresting nature of their reports of
religious matters. In late sermon in
San Francisco he said: ''You can't
complain of the newspapers which give
two columns to dog fight and six lines
to a sermon. They want live facts and
news. AT church they find beautiful
sermon. a fair audience, and one per-
son joined by letter, and three lines will
tell all that. Let us SO take hold of the
people as to make the newspaper men
feel that at the churches they can get
the grandest news on earth. That's the
way it ought to be-
jenkins is in his glory now, when he
can furnish such thrilling information
as this: mo member of President
Harrison's cabinet is a total abstainer,
though Wanamaker publicly frowns
upon intoxicants. Mr.. Harrison likes
swallow Of Irish whisky now and then,
Blaine is connoisseur of French wines,
course has its appropriate stimulant,
Tracy is fond of pint of champagne at
lunch, Noble likes malt drinks and in
dulges every day in a bottle of imported
ale. Miller seldom takes anything but
rye and settler. while Rusk swallows
his corn-juice plain"
One of the American girls who was
presented at the queens drawing room
was so embarrassed that she made quite
faux pas. She wholly ignored the
queen until after she had saluted the
princess of Wales, when she suddenly
turned around and astonished her ma
Jesty by saying, "0h, l beg your par
don, madame" grabbed her royal baud,
kissed it, and then hurried along the
line. The queen, who is a terrible
stickler about matters of etiquette, at first
looked angry, then, catching sight of
the amused smile of the princess of
Wales, she burst into pleasant laugh
and sent the discounted debutante
away with few kindly words.