Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-16
PERSONAL MENTION.

Rev. DIR. Storrs says that the principal
duty of the college president these days
is to get money for the college.
Bertha Won Hillern, the clever German
artistic, is said to have made a pot Of
money by speculations in Virginia real
estate.
Lawyer Hummel of New York says
that money, matrimony and alimony
make nearly all the business for the
courts of justice.
Erastus Brainerd of this city, who is
in Seattle, Wash, says there are more
Harvard graduates out there than there
are in Philadelphia - Philadelphia
Times.
Miss Helen Leah Reed, Harvard An
mex girl, who captured the Sargent prize
of 500 for the best metIical translation
of an ode from Horace, spent the money
for French dress.
Prince Herbert Bismarck cherishes
carefully the wreck of a watch which he
carried during the Franco-Prussian war,
and which stopped a bullet that other
wise might have ended his life.
Lord Dunlo, whose full name is Will
lam Frederick lie Poer Trench, is de-
scribed as a weakened. weak-faced,
beardless boy, with reddish hair and a
head that runs back to an angle.
The King of Siam, with his Queen, is
visiting the Malay peninsula. He ar
rived lately at Singapore, with hotilla
of seven vessels. 1t is supposed that the
Queens saratogas were aboard the latter.
The bust of Sidney Lanier, given by
Charles Lanier of New York to the city
Der 8. Judge Buckley of the Georgia
Supreme Court will make the dedicatory
address.
Miss Elizabeth Peabody, whose chart
ties and beneyolence have made her so
distinguished throughout New England,
is now 81 years old. She is in compara-
lively good health, but is waiting quietly
for the end.
John Wilson, who has just been elect
ed Liberal member of Parliament from
Mid-Durham, worked in the mines of Il
linois and Pennsylvania several years
ago as a common laborer. Returning to
England, he became strong and sue
cessful champion of workingmen's in
terests.
The Moldavian Princess Cusa is an I'M
worldly girl. Her young husband, who
died not long ago, left to her all his prop
erty, worth about 100000. She is de-
voting the whole Of her yearly income
to charities, and is a nurse in a chill
dren's hospital at Jassy She is sister
of the Roumanian Minister, Theodore
Rosetti.
Mrs. General Grant says she first met
the General in 1874, and they were mar
ried in 1913. She has many of the let
tiers written by him during the days of
their courtship, and while she regards
these in their entirety as too sacred for
the public eye, she will make extracts
from them for her book of "reminiscences
of her famous husband
The Duchess of Leinster appeared at
the last state ball at Buckingham palace
wearing diamond epaulets, diamond
corselet, coils OF lightly mounted dia-
monds among the laces of her wondrous
gown, diamond tiara, diamond brace
lets, diamond necklace and more dia-
mond brooches and buckles than the
dazzled beholder could count.
Senator Davis of Minnesota was one OF
the first telegraph operators. Recently
he narrated with every evidence of pleas
ure in the recollection his experiences in
the office at Waukesha and along the
line for distance of twenty-four miles,
which was under his charge He was,
he said, one of the first four men in the
country to read telegraphy by sound.