The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-22
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Col. William c. Church, editor of the
Army and Nary Journal, is engaged in
writing a life of the late John Ericsson.
Prince Bismarck's pension, which has
been represented as being very large,
really to only 1900 marks, or
less III $500.
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phono-
graphy, is hale and hearty at seventy
eight. and still presides over the phonetic
institute at Bath, England.
Henry b. Slaven, who has gone to Egypt
To look after a big engineering scheme,
made a fortune in dredging the Panama
Canal. He was once a drug clerk i'm San
Francisco.
A member of the Philadelphia City
Troop says Of Mr.. Randall: ale was once
a fine horseman. We had scarcely a
better rider when we were taken into the
national military service.'
Ex-Governor Swineford Of Alaska, has
great confidence in that territory. He
will soon start a daily paper at West SUI
perior, a city that he predicts will have
100000 inhabitants in ten years.
Joseph Jefferson's new home on Buz-
zard bay will be onc of the prettiest and
contest homes owned by any member of
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but a few miles from Lawrence Barrett's
summer home.
Grace Cornwall, one of the high kickers
of the London Gaiety company, has kicked
her way into the heart Of w. w. johnson,
q Germantown pa blood. and has mar
ried him. The kicking of the family will
now he transferred TO the young mans
rich parents.
The Bashaw of Tangier, the same who
jcered at our warship Enterprise, has be-
come SO corpulent that he is unable to
walk abroad. He is only five feet two
inches i'm height n must be about the
same in breadth, M he weighs over four
hundred pounds.
Prince Bismarck has l03 decorations.
Fourteen are set in diamonds of great
value. He belongs TO no English order.
The late car Of Russia gave him the or
der Of st. Andrew, the most important in
Russia. Bismarck's diamond star be-
longing to this order is worth $4,000.
Benjamin Darling, who died in the city
asylum at Woonsocket, II. l., last week at
the age Of 81, invented the revolver type
Of pistol half n century ago. He manu-
featured the arms at Woonsocket, but
they failed as n business venture i'm his
hands. II is the same principle that made
Samuel Colt, of Hartford, a rich man.
Prince Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, is said
To be the unhappiest man on the CONT
ncnt. His subjects do not like him, and
he is distrusted by the great powers of
Europe. He has becn unable to effect the
matrimonial alliances upon which he has
at various times set his heart. Besides all
this. he has squandered all his money and
Is now hard up.
DR.. Vaughan Hughes. OF London, Eng
land, is now i'm San Francisco. DIR.
Hughes is one of the most distinguished
physicians i'm the British kingdom, and
served with distinction in the army for
scvcral years. He is also well known in
other countries i'm Europe, where his skill
i'm his profession has attracted widespread
attention. He wears several orders, with
which he was decorated by the king of
Italy for bravery and distinguished SER
vices rendered.
Relative To the impression that the
enate has a good many m~illionaires.
Senator Ingalls, says: "This is as errone-
Gus as many other popular beliefs. The
southern senators as a class are not rich
men and are, as "A rule, dependent on
their salaries. Outside of Leland STAN
ford and Hearst, of California; Sawyer of
Wisconsin; Mcmillan, of Michigan: Nc
Pherson, of New Jersey; Don Cameron, of
Pennsylvania. aud one or two others, |
do not now recall any other millionaires
i'm the senate.