The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-03
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

The congress of the United States is COM
posed of two branches-the senate and
Reed.-Atchison Globe.
Number one in the class just turned into
full-fedaed ensigns at Annapolis is young
Marble, son of Manton Marble, formerly of
the New York World.
Although Mr.. Edwin Booth has SO identl
fed himself in the popular mind with the
part of Hamlet that all other Hanlets
stand or fall by comparison with his per-
sonation. and although he has himself
played it some thousands of times, he has
never yet seen the play as spectator.
A rather pretty woman. mounted on
powerful bay horse created sensation in
Boston on Monday morning as she rode
along Beacon street. She rode astride,
clothespin fashion, just like man, but
they say she looked entirely graceful in her
Miller attire.
Labouchere got badly hit the other day.
Colonel Sauhderson. in heated speech,
compared him to a ''gargoyle.' Il believe
you don't know what gargoyle is, - said
Labby. eyes do"' shouted Colonel Saun-
derson; sit is grotesque gutter-spout"
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes gives this as
an infallible prescription to insure long
life: "Let half dozen doctors thump you
and knead you and test you in every posi-
BILE way, and render their verdict that you
have an internal complaint; they don't
know exactly what it is, but it will kill you
certainly by and by. Then bid farewell to
the world and shut yourself up for an invalid.
If you are threescore years old when you
commence this mode of life, you probably
may last twenty years, and there you are,
an octogenarian.'
At the last drawing ROOM Lady Morell
Mackenzie, wife of the skillful and pugna-
cious physician to the Emperor Frederic,
wore gown of gold brocade Topped and
ornamented with large punches of real
oranges. Mrs. Rider Haggard attracted
much attention by her beautiful dress of
gray and white satin, trimmed with butter
flies Of gold and pearls, a huge butterfly
forming the front of the bodice. Her pet
ticoat was of gold brocade, and her costly
jewels moonstones.
When, in accordance with the pretty
English custom, the charming Duchess of
Portland was offered by her husband su-
perb necklace of rare stones on the oc-
casion of the birth Of her little daughter,
she declined the gift and asked to have it's
money value given to build new aims
houses on the estate for the benefit of sick
or infirm tenants.
One of the notable people in the process
sion at the unwilling of the Lee monument
at Richmond was Professor F. n. Crouch,
the composer of kathleen Mavourneen.'
who, at nearly ninety years of age, marched
in the ranks with firm step and vigorous
movement. He was member of the First
Maryland Howitzers during the war.
Kate Field holly denies that she works in
a bright red satin dress, reformed after her
own ideas. She says: II never had bright
red satin dress, reformed or otherwise. I
don't think bright red satin dress could
be reformed except by annihilation.''
Mile. sarmesa Bilcesco is the young Rou-
manian who has just been graduated in law
in Paris. She is q years of age, and is des-
cribed as very good-looking. She was
graduated at II in science and bellies lettres
at Bucharest, and also took the first prize
there as a pianist.