The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-05-08
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

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Clara Barton, of Red Cross fame, ID
visiting Johnstown and being feted by
those she helped to relieve.
Senators Hearst and Stewart acknowl.
edge that they have ''heard some talk" of
q corner In silver, but both deny that that
they are financially interested In It.
Mrs. Francis HodRson Burnett has re-
turned 10 Washington. and 10 now with
her husband and children In her beauti-
home on Massachusetts avenue.
Mr.. Frederick Shields and Mrs. Anna
Parsons, professional giant and giantess,
each seven feet in height, were married
the other day in C~incinnati-a genuine
wedding In high life.
The speech with which Oliver Crom-
well turned parliament out Of doors in
1862 has com to light through the re-
searches of DR.. Wolfgang Michael, and
there Is strong evidence that IL Is authen-
tic.
Senator Ingalls, il not in favor of in
creasing congressional salaries. He
thinks n majority of the members Of both
houses are now receiving as much as
they could make in any private employ
ment.
Editor Watterson Indignantly denies
the current story that he recently lost
$500 in a 'little Of draw" at Memphis.
Mr.. Watterson seems to nave been q
victim Of the imaginative reporter.
Mr.. Wolcott, the handsome bachelor
senator from Colorado, is not famous as
a fisherman, yet he has just landed the
largest Bass OF the season. She is a
widow and the wedding will take place at
an early date.
virginia's first woman physician is
Mrs. G. L. Haynes, who has recently been
elected assistant physician of the West
ern Lunatic asylum, after passing a sue
cessful examination before the State
Medical board.
II is reported that Leonard w. Jerome,
president of the Coney Island Jockey
club and the famous patron of the turf, is
still dangerously i'll in London, and that
his family and friends fear that he cannot
recover.
Sir James Crichton Browne says the
Scotch brain averages 80 ounces, the Eng
lish brain 40 ounces, the German ABB
ounces and the French 40 ounces. Sir
James is q Scotchman, which accounts
for the position Of that race ut the head of
the cercbellic procession.
Nine. Patti has sailed for home and she
anticipates q charming summer at Craig.
y-Nos. where there will be any number Of
house parties. The greatest pleasure
to which Mr.. and Nine. Nicolini look for
ware to is the use OF their new theater. re.
Gently finished at q cost of some 100000.
and where she IAN hear herself sing for
nothing.
Mrs. General Grant has a girls fond.
for candy, and she always has a box
on her writing desk while engaged in
writing. She is at her desk three or four
hours daily now being engaged i'm the
preparation of memoirs and c~orrespon-
dence, in which she is being assisted by
her son Jesse, who came back from Cali
fornia, where he was engaged in mining
and farming, for this especial purpose.
Mr.. George Gould is having a cottage
built at Furlough lake, i'm the Ulster
county Catskills. 1t will stand about
three hundred feet from the margin Of the
lake, and % feet higher han its surface.
II will be 34x70 eet i'm size, two stories
high, built of logs squared on three sides,
but left in their natural state with the
bark on the outside. The house will con.
tain sixteen rooms, four on the lower
floor and twelve sleeping apartments
above.