Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-22
Personal MENTION.

The heirs Of John Ericsson have pre-
scented the inventors models to the Met
ropolitan Museum in New York.
James Russell Lowell is steadily but
slowly regaining his health, and is at
home at Elmwood, Cambridge, for the
winter.
Lord Tennyson expects to make a sea
voyage with his son, Hallam Tennyson,
this winter, and may visit the Mediter-
ranean.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has commits
stoned Edward Burgess to design for
him a fortytive-foot sloop yacht with
which he hopes to capture the cham
pionship next year.
The Earl and Countess of Aberdeen
have presented gold watches and lockets
to the engineer and fireman of the train
which was derailed while conveying
them through the Rockies.
Senator Edmunds has attached to his
handsome residence in Washington an
outside stairway. built on purpose for
his favorite dog, which is not allowed to
meander through the main hall.
Mrs. EIma Stuart, who survives after
having been patient by turns under
thirty-eight different doctors, has pub
lished a book on How to Get Well and
Keep Well" Rare beef and hot water
is the flag she nails to the mas head.
The young Viscount Belgrave, grand
son OF the Duke of Westminster, if he
lives to inherit his patrimony, will be
the richestman in the world. Blythe time
he attains his majority his income will
amount to between $4,000 and $2O,00 a
day.
The Villa Langenbeck at Weisbaden
has been secured by members of the inn
perial japanese household for the use of
the Mikado next summer. This, it is
declared, will be the first visit ever made
by japanese Emperor outside his own
dominion.
John HackIey. who has given a $780,
600 library building to Muskegon, Mich,
worked his way to that city twenty years
ago, poor boy, on a lumber vessel. He
was determined to succeed, if it was in
wood, and it was. He made a fortune
in lumber
C. j. Hamlin, the millionaire horse
man OF Buffalo, is 20 years of age, and
recently drove his trotting team, Belle
Hamlin and Justina, mile in 2:l3l1
1t was a wonderful performance, both on
the part OF the aged driver and owner
and his team.
His biographers now ascribe the re-
markable vitality of DR.. Wendell Holmes
to his regular habits. The rooms he oc-
cupies are equipped with barometers,
thermometers and various other Ometers,
to prevent his mourning the slightest
risk Of taking cold.
The Bradley-Martins OF New York
have set fashion which will possibly
find imitatOrs among other rich Ameri-
cans. Instead OF spending the winter
in New York or Florida they have secured
a palace in Cairo, and will give some
sumptuous entertainments in true ORR
entail splendor.
Mrs. Davis, wife of Baptist clergy
man and the only survivor, it is believed
of the Woman's Anti-Slaverv Board in
| Boston during the trying times of 1888
| 40, celebrated her Goth birthday in that
city the other day. Through her efforts
many slaves, for whom her house was a
refuge, particularly female slaves, es-
capped into Canada.
The Duke OF Portland, owner of the
great racers of the English turf, is build
ing group of almshouses at his chief es-
tate, Wolback, and with a nicely discrim-
mated distribution of honors inscribes
the principal building: "These houses
were erected by the sixth Duke of Port
land, at the request of his wife, for the
benefit OF the poor and to commemorate
the victories Of his race horses"