Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-08-23
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and sharp.
Robert Louis Stevenson has bought
eight acres of land near Apia, Samoa,
and viii build home there for his wife
AMI himself.
The new Chinese minister at Washing
ton, Kwo Yin. was the president Of a
college in China He is a stout man,
about 80 years of age.
Mrs. Perugini, second daughter of
Charles Dickens, paints cliildren's por-
traits, and is now making a series of
sketches fer an English magazine.
John Stevenson, though over four score
years, still personally supervises his great
street car building business in New York.
He is said to have built his first car ia
1924
Mime. Catacazy, widow of the ex-Rus-
stan ambassador, is still a beautiful
woman, and retains the glorious golden
hair which was the envy of her sex when
she was in Washington.
William Lee, said to be the sole surEiv-
ing British officer in India WHOM pres
ent at the siege and capture of Delhiand
the carrying of the Cashmere Gate, is
now living in destitute condition at
Bhim Tai. in the Himilayas.
Archbishop Kenrick, of st. Louis, is
the oldest Catholic prelate in the United
States. He was consecrSted in 184l, and
now, at the age of "a, presides over his
diocese without an assistant.
Abdul Hamid, the reigning Sultan, Is
moderate man for the "Son of the
Prophet he has only $50 wives. He
is short ,lnd fat, with dark beard and
hair, and is more progressive than any
previous Sultan.
Georgs Francis Train, since his record
breaking trip around the world, has
quietly settled down on the shores Of
Puget Sound, near Tacoma He lives
alone, and spends his time in commune
ing with the birds and cultivating psychic
force.
Henry Ciews at one time came very
near being a "Young Napoleon of FL
nance, but too much speculation
wrecked his vaulting ambition and he
lost Sc, 600, 900 at one fell swoop. Since
that time. like a burned child, he breads
the fire of reckless speculation.
Lady Anne Blunt, Lord Byron's grand
daughter, her husband, and their dapgh-
ter, are living on the borders Of the des-
ert in Egypt. about six miles from Cairo.
They have adopted the Arab dress, with
the primitive customs of that race, and
live a life of simplicity.
Henry Wizards fondness for studying
languages amounts almost to passion.
His railroad interests occupy all of his
time during the day, but nearly all of
his evenings are given over to the cru
dite and careful study of some of the
more interesting phases of the different
tongues with which he is acquainted.
General Malone is dropping out Of
politics into speculation. He is invest
ing heavily in mining lands in Taz zwell
county, Va, and, accompanied by an
expert geologist, has travelled over the
mineral and timber lands of Mcdowell
county, w. Va, locating and purchasing
immense tracts of land with view OF
opening them up.
Russell Sage is something more than
mere business machine. He served three
successive terms in Congress, during
which he originated the idea of purchas-
ing Mount Vernon, and keeping it as a
national domain. He advocated the ap-
pointment of a committee of ladies,
which eventually grew into the Mount
Vernon Association, by whom the homo
of Washington was finally conducted.
Mr.. Theodore Tilton, who has grown
old and white haired, declares that he
will never return to this country. In a
recent interview in Paris, he said: mo,
shall never go back. l love Paris and
have fortune large enough to enable
me to live here. am a man without q
country, but have expatriated myself.
Society has committed a crime against
me-. Idefended myself and was beaten. !"
Ignatius Donnelly, having become in
yolved in controversy with the Mime
sofa Farmers Alliance, thus writes to a
representative of that body: Il was q
man of eminence and influence before
the Alliance was born, and will be when
it is dead. ask nothing of it but the
opportunity to serve it. / have fought
lbgns in my day, and / am not ready now
( go on the warpath against jackalls or
iLckasses either.
Signor Crispi, the Italian prime min
lister, recently gave most extraordinary
evidence in the chamber of deputies Of
his superstition regarding the evil eye.
Signor Imbriana, having alluded to Sig
nor Crispi's life as necessarily termin-
able. the latter funded in his pocket,
dew out one of the horn shaped pieces
of coral used in Naples as counter
spell against the jettatuEa. and openly
pointed it at the speaker.
The Empress OF Germany Like other
European ladies Of position, dresses with
extreme pIainness for church. She
wears usually q wool walking dress,
wool jacket or ulster, simple round hat,
and dark gloves. and ID 90 inc0nspicuous
person that but for her place in the
royal pew Of the great Domkirche she
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