The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-12
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis is in receipt of q
gift of $1,000 from citizens OF Macon, Ga.
Corporal Tanner is making money in
Washington. He employs a force OF IL
clerks and his practice at present is worth
S3,OU0a year.
When General Algcr goes out to the
Pacific coast this summer Oh his tour of
inspection Mrs. Logan, widow of General
Logan, will accompany him as the guest
of Mrs. Alger.
Madame Tacon, the nurse of the infant
king OF Spain, has been made a countess.
She Is over 20 years of age, and for half n
century has been i'm the service of the
royal family.
John Jacob Aston owned 400 high class
dwelling houses, rented at an average of
$1,000 a year each. He owned, besides,
houses in untold number, and
no end of real estate devoted to business
Uses.
William Waldorf Astor has sent his
check for 5000 to the treasurer of the
New York police department to bc added
to the police pension fund, as n token of
his appreciation OF the ''kind services of
the department at the funeral of John ia
cob Aston.
Henry Ward Bcccher's statue. which Is
tn be placed i'm Prospect park, Brooklyn,
is now being cast in bronco. 1t is to he of
Colossal proportions, nine feet high, and
representing the great preacher i'm the
soft felt hat and cape. The cost will be
about $4,000 and the whole work will he
completed i'm about Ia months
Robert Adams, jr., the United States
minister to Brazil, has some presence,
dresscs with unnecessary scr,lpulosity,
and. without being "a millionaire, has u
neat fortune and a salary of $4,000 a year.
He is well content with diplomacy, and
not being ovcrburdened with years, passes
n pleasant life and has hitherto escaped
matrimony.
Grover Clcveland's close friends, who
have him i'm training for another presi-
DENTAL nomination, are said to he i'm de-
spair over their inability to teach him the
necessity for restraint and some political
caution, and they are in constant fear
that by some Inflated sentence i'm a letter
or paragraph i'm n speech he may wreck
his chances for n denomination.
Phillips Brooks is drawing great crowds
to MONDAY meetings held i'm Trinity
church, New York. Women are turned
away, to say nothing Of men, anxious to
hear his remarks designed for men only.
The location of old Trinity, in the heart
of the busiest part of New York, draws to
such an orator as the great Brooks extra
ut the recess hour.
Delmar Guancia, a Spaniard, who is
now visiting the principal cities i'm this
country. does not speak a word of Eng.
lish. He expresses his wants by pen pic
lures. IT he wants n pitcher of water he
shows the picture of n pitcher to the bell
Doy. II ne ucSlfeS 10 attcilu u tIlentcf ne
shows a picture of a stage with actors to
the hotel clerk and a boy is assigned to
take him to the best show in town.
| T.. Il. Jeffrey, who has been selected as
director general of the worlds fair ut Chi
cago, began his career 40 years ago rs
Office boy for the then general anage
OF the Illinois Contra Railroad company,
to- whose position he aftcrward worked
his way. His first task was to black his
employers boots. twitted with hav-
ing blacked boots, his reply is: "weIl, I
| blackcd them we'll"