The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-11
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Victor Hugo's only daughter is in a lun-
attic asylum.
The present king Of Dahomey was edu-
Gated i'm Paris and was supposed to have
been civilized.
The Duke Of Bedford is said TO have
spent 10000 trying to get people to be-
lieve in cremation.
The king Of Greece Is the best tennis
player among the royal persons Of Europe.
Quite n distinction.
King Lobengula of Africa is progressing.
He receives white visitors in full dress-a
rug thrown owe his lap.
II was al interesting coincidence that
the representative sons of Gladstone and
Bismarck are both called Herbert.
Henry Irving has many pensioners, in
Guiding Lewis, who translated 1.-THE
Bells" from the French for the English
actor.
Every colorcd member of the Missis-
sippi Legislature voted for a recent bill to
appropriate 100000 for the erection of a
Confederate monument i'm that state.
Stanley has written to King Leopold
hat ne will visit Brussels during the
month of April, and the authorities are
preparing to give him a grand reception.
If Col. Elliott f. Shepard is elected
mayor OF New York he promises to clean
the streets. Cleanliness, he says, is
closely connected with godliness, and he
knows.
An almost complete score of Wagner's
"~Tannhauser," written by Richard wag-
ner and signed by him, has been discov-
cred i'm the ruins of the Zurich theater, re-
Gently burned.
ID r.Oliver Wendell Holmes has received
more congratulatory letters i'm connection
with his current articles i'm the Atlantic
than he ever received in response to his
former literary work.
Mime. Patti has made a contract to
build at her castle of Craig-y-Nos, in
Wales, n winter garden covered with
glass, 10i feet long and 20 feet with a
high curved roof As feet high.
Jacob Kimmel, a farmer of Orwigsburg,
Pa, has had a piece of wood an inch long
and half an inch wide taken from his
arm. II was a splinter from a gun which
exploded in his hands 81 years ago.
Justin Mccarthy, who has been for
some years an ardent and enthusiastic
student of the period of the French revo-
luton. is about to publish the first Install
ment Of the results of his researches.
Helen dillingham;, widow of William
dillingham;, the poet, has received a great
compliment. She is the first of her sex
to be elected a member OF the English
Royal Society of Painters i'm Water
Colors.
Senator Brown of Georgia is a devoted
member of the Baptist church, and has
proved his zeal by large contributions.
He has made a gift of $4,000 to the Bap-
fist Theological seminary at Louisville,
Kentucky.
The Prince of Naples, heir to the throne
Of Italy, will spend the coming summer
making n tour of the European courts
and looking for a wife. He is a dark,
slender youth, not bad looking, but with a
very delicate constitution.
Queen Victoria took with her to AK les
Bains. three ~coachmen, nine grooms,
eight horses. one donkey, three carriages,
~ trunks. three special beds, a cooking
stove, two doctors, one surgeon, three la
dies-in waiting, nine women servants, one
lord, two equerries and seven dogs.
Chaunccy NJ. Dcpew was called upon
by prominent citizens of st. Augustine,
Fla, recently and asked to make a speech
in honor of Ponce de Leon this week. He
refused on the ground that he is an IN
valid and not in a condition to do honor
to the man who sought for the fountain
of eternal youth.
Says the Chicago Herald: Lord Acton
is considered the most learned man in
England. He is n Roman Catholic and
in addition TO his barony has a baronetcy.
His library contains no less than 100000
volumes. all Of which are carefully select
ed and number among them some very
rare books