Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-02
MEN AND WOMEN.

NINE. CHRISTINE NELSON'S husband has
been made Under Secretary of the new Spanish
Cabinet
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON has added 81, ,0OC
yearly to the rental of his Shoreham flats in
Washington.
MARK TWAIN received s6U0OO in royalties
from the play in which the famous Mulberry
Sellers appears. -.
Mr.. JOSEPH wEHRLING. of New Orleans,
thinks he is the only surviving soldier of the
Black Hawk War.
CONGRESSMAN MCKINLEY is by no means a
rich man. He owns a small farm in Ohio and a
modest residence in Canton. Aside from this
he is worth about s5O000.
MISS HARRIET McEwEN KIMBALL, of
Portsmouth, n. H. has received the first prize
of 500 for hymn to be sung on hospital days
in the churches and synagogues OF New York.
Mr.. HERBERT WARD. who was an officer of
the rear column. says he is not aware of any
conduct on the part of Major Barrtelor that
would Justify Mr.. Stanley's insinuations.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has attached to his
handsome residence in Washington an outside
stairway built on purpose for his favorite dog.
which is not allowed to meander through the
main hall
QUEEN VICTORIA is only four feet eight
inches in height yet she is said to be real SOW
ereign in her bearing. Singularly enough. the
one place where the Queen is never to be found
is London, her nations capital.
WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD once United States
Senator and Minister to France, and one of the
greatest men this country ever produced, is
buried between Crawford and Lexington with
not a shaft to mark his grave.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS is in New York
reading the publishers proofs Of the life she is
editing of her late husband. Journeying North
ward she passed through Washington. She has
not been there before since 1865.
Mr.. ROBERT BUCHANAN. like every one else
who starts a new review, reckons on making a
stir after Christmas with the venture he is
Matching. Curiously enough, one of its chief
functions is to be to "criticise criticism"
MRS. MONA CARD, whose theories on matri-
mony have made her famous is slender
wavy. She is very restless in manner, and is
said to be an occasional victim of nervous pros
tration.
ALExEL PLATsCHEJEw.t the poor but famous
Russian poet who was sentenced to death in
lS49. partially pardoned by Nicholas, and re-
stored to his privileges by Alexander IL, has
just become incredibly wealthy by the death of
a kinsman.
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE, the famous English
woman. has boyish head, covered with short,
wavy hair that has threads of gold in it. She
has bold features, fine eyes and a brilliant CON-
plexiop. She is noted horsewoman. using a
cross saddle,
The Napoleon of tract distributors" Mr..
Charles Watson, of Halifax, England, has just
died. He worked for temperance only, and for
more than 40 years scattered tracts gratuitously.
He once said that in II months he distributed
nearly S00O, 900 tracts.
THE stones that have been cast upon the
grave of Helen Hunt lin accordance with her
wish that visitors should cast upon it two and
take away one as a memento) have completely
hidden from view the original mound and
formed one that somewhat resembles huge
coffin. The pile is now five feet from the
ground and increases rapidly.