The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-05
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

PEOPLE OF NOTE.
Not all society girls eat the bread Of idle
ness. Miss Mildred Conway, only dauQhter
Of that favorite writer Moncure d. CONWAY.
assists her father in his literary work. pIays
the piano like professional performer.
has 90 much dramatic ability az 20 have
procured her good offers from theatrical
managers, and is one of the most faithful
and Jealous workers in the successful Sol
lege Settlement in Rivington street, while
in addition to her gift of cleverness her
fairy godmother gave her q Rypsy-like
beauty and charming voice.
Miss Elizabeth Peabody. Of Boston, Who
first introduced the Froebel or Kinderoar-
ten system of instruction into this country,
and who was the third of that remarkable
trio of Peabody girls" one of whom mar
ried Horace Mann and the other Nathaniel
Hawthorne, is still living. with mind yet
clear and benevolence undiscouraged at the
ripe age of eighty-nine.
Mrs. Mary Cleary Duncreux is not only
president of the New York Screw manufac-
tory, but practical working mechanic,
who inspects all the output of her estab-
lishment, and who can turn out first class
cabinet screws, gun screws, watch screws
and machine screws. She has been in the
business for seventeen years, and main
tains, as the result of her own experience,
that girls have quite as much ingenuity and
manual dexterity as boys, and lack training
only, and not capacity, to become az good
mechanics.
Hon. w. w. Dixon, who has received the
democratic nomination for congress in
Montana, has resided in the state since
1866. He is lawyer of recognized standing
and ability, a man of irreproachable per-
sonal character, and a citizen largely identi-
fed with the industrial interests of the
state. His nomination has aroused the
utmost enthusiasm among all classes of
citizens, especially the old-timers, who will
delight in sending pioneer to congress-
Denver News.
Senator Stanford, of California, owns the
largest vineyard in the world. It is four
thousand acres in extent, and, with some
smaller wineries, yields over one million
gallons of wine a year. To secure the
gathering of his fruit at the proper moment,
Senator Sanford gives the school boys of
San Francisco chance to 90 to the farm
and pick it. Many of these boys are poor,
and eager to earn the dollar day which he
pays them. A Thousand Of them volunteer
every year, sleep in an immense barrack,
are we'll fed and kindly treated, and sent
back at the end of month with thirty dol
lars in their pockets, and peck of English
walnuts as q sort of stirrup cup.
Phil Armour, the big pork man, thus ex-
plains how he got his name: II was named
Phil after bad colored man who lived in
our town, and who was terror of all the
boys. The name of the fellow was Philip
Morgan, and he was up to all sorts of capers:
and suppose because I was 80 full of
pranks myself the boys called me Phil too.
The D in my name stands for Danford.
That was my fathers name, and was
named Danford Armour. But the boys in
sisted on calling me Phil, and Phil re-
main, my mother finally consenting to call
me Philip D. Armour. So you see got my
first name from bad negro, and I suppose
that is the reason have been so bad ever
since.''
Bismarck is one of the largest landowners
in Prussia, and he carries on successfully
at his various estates the business of cattle
breeding, Reese-breeding, distilling spirits,
brewing and the manufacture of yeast. His
cattle and geese industries yield him an
annual profit Of $500 to $4,000, and the
annual income from his yeast business, the
most important item in the e1-chancellor's
income, is about $4,000. His jewels. pic
lures and plate represent value of $780,
900, and his total income is not far from
$175, 600 year.
1t is said that the drop of colored blood
in the veins of Mile. Jeannine Dumas, the
only unmarried daughter of the younger
Dumas, shows more conspicuously in her
complexion and features than it does in
that of her illustrious father, who is only
an octoroon, and therefore the tinge of
color in his children ought to be impercep-
tible. The elder sister of Jeannine became
Nine. Lipmann some years ago and is re-
nowned for being very eccentric and very
fond of flirtations. Their mother, who is
still living, is Russian Princess.