The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-10
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Sister Rose Gertrude. the young English
nurse who created such a sensation few
months ago by volunteering to 90 to the
Molakai leper station, has given up the
work.
In his last novel Biornstjerne Bjornson
speaks of that great poet Longfellow, the
author of Home, Sweet Home.'' Mr..
Bjornson is also probably of the opinion
that Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "Annie
Rooney."-Mobile Register.
As to the assertion of an eliminate
FRIEND of Mr.. Blaine that the secretary
will absolutely decline to be candidate
in 1892. the Topeka Capital remarks that
"Mr. Blaine has had his way once in that
matter, and the party is liable to have its
way next time"
Vasili, the famous Russian cook of Alex
ander Dumas, the elder, died last week al
LIE Puy, near Dieppe, on the French coast
His place during his masters lifetime was
by no means sinecure for it is recorded
that when the open-handed author OF
"The Three Musketeers'' and "Monte
Cristo'' was "hard up'' Vasili had to con-
coct dishes on next to nothing.
Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tri-
bune, is reputed to be one of the richest
newspaper men in the United States, his
fortune being estimated at from $4,000, O0(
to Sc, 100000. He has three daughters, but
no son, to succeed him in the large business
that he has built up. He is sixty-ive years
of age, and spends from eight to ten hours
a day in the Tribune Office.
For some time the story of William Tell
has been discredited by those who have
investigated it, but it has still been able to
hold its own until the present. But now ii
has been given the finishing touch by the
authorities of the Swiss canton of Schurtz,
who have issued positive orders prohibiting
taught in the public schools as part OF
Swiss history. The order treats the story
of Tell and Gessler as pure fiction, fol
which there is not an iota of historical
Notwithstanding Call.
Miss Winnie Davis fancee will not be
able to lead her to that home of luxury that
once was his. One week ago on Thursday
men employed about the house of young
Wilkinson and his mother in Syracuse were
engaged in cleaning and Kidding the house
of moths. They we're using benzine. NJ
one knows exactly what happened, but thu
coachman was blown out of the upper story
of the house. He died, and the house wal
almost totally destroyed. Washington
Post.
Senator Plumb, of Kansas, is fifty-thret
years old, although he looks much younger
He is lawyer, and wears good clothes Of
the latest cut, but somehow or other HI
looks like farmer, his plain and almos
rough manners and his terse English whe1
he talks helping the illusion. He is tall
broad-shouldered and deep-chested, ani
when he warns up in debate he likes t,
walk the central aisle, as Conkling uset
to, and in his rugged western way pour no
shot into his opponents. To keep up wit
the times he takes large number of news
papers, many Of which he reads himself
while in one way or another he manages
find ont what they all contain. With tn
Kansas Changers he is intensely popula,
although his party associates in the Unite
States senate do not enjoy his frank indie
pendence in opposing some of their propo
eitions.