Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
STANFORD PROJECT
Nothing Too Good for the University
He is Building in California
in Memory of His Son.
he OFFERED HUXLEY $4,000.
A French Scientist Sayant Who is Embalm-
ing Bodies by DepOslting Metal Upon
Them by Electricity.
he OFFERED HUXLEY $4,000.
CRUELTIES OF GENERAL SANCHEZ
Aluminium Utilized in Plating Other Metals to Ad-
vantage BY Paris Scientist


versity. He expects to have the President
and the Cabinet and number OF the most
noted statesmen go out to California when
the institution is formally dedicated, and
he is already laying his plans TO this effect.
looked over some of the accounts which
were sent in by the workmen now engaged
upon this institution, and the amount OF
money being spent is enormous, writes
Frank G. Carpenter to The DISPATCH.
The monthly outlay in some cases is as high
as 500, 900, and the Senator gets an Item
lied account of everything. The papers
concerning the university would I'LL dry
goods box, and he has received over 200 ap-
plications for professorships from promi-
nent educators in tnis country and Europe.
He offered, I understand, Huxley $50, 900
q wear If he would come from England to
California and take a professorship, and he
proposes to get the very best men he can re-
gardless of expense. He is buying great
quantity of articles for the new museum of
the university, and during the past week
4 box of photographs, as big as shoe box,
was shipped TO him. This box contained
photographs of the mummies and antiqui-
ties which he had purchased during the
summer, and there is no doubt that his
museum will be one of the finest in the
country. He will get great quantity of
articles from Greece through the explorer
Schlieman, and I understand that he
furnished large part of the money with
which Schlieman made his excavations on
the site of old Troy. His collection of Egyp-
tian antiquities is already very fine, and the
library of the new college will be one of the
finest in the United States. Senator Stan
ford looks upon this college as his monu-
ment, and he proposes to make 1t one of the
most remarkable institutions in the world.
Senator Stanford will be in Washington
on the first day of the session. He is one of
the most regular attendants among the Sem
ators, and he earns his salary as much as
though it was all that he had TO live upon.
When he came to Washington 1t was sup
posed that he would spend only about a
week or two a session at the Capitol, and it
was also supposed that he would be a lobby
iSt in favor of all bills regarding the
Pacific Railroad and the other measures in
which he is financially interested. When
he was nominated this was the view held by
the Legislature A number OF other candi-
dates were in the field. All of them were
railroad men, and were, in q measure, the
under-strappers Of Stanford and Hunt
ington.
Stanford was not a candidate until one
day member from the lower part of the
State got up and proposed his name, saying:
''All OF these candidates are railroad men.
They are the puppies of the Pacific system,
and if I've got to vote for a railroad man 1
don't propose to vote for one of the puppies.
We had better send the old dog himself,
and 1 propose the name of Leland Stan
iord.''
Stanford was then asked if he would take
the place. lie replied of course he would
and he was elected. -Four weeks ago he
did not much care whether he was returned
or not. He was in Germany at the time.
When he got back here he found that Hunt
ington was fighting him. The opposition
stirred his blood and he went into the cam
paign and made California Republican. He
will now come back to the Senate for another
six years.
LINCoLN's BRUsQUE CHARACTER
Mr.. Mcpherson has in his possession relic
obtained from the State Department which
illustrates Mr.. Lincoln's eccentricity, and
al the same time tells the story of one of his
appointments with all the coneiseness and
comprehensiEeress of an inscription on an
ancient coin or a mural tablet says the
Washington Post. 1t is a common visiting
card. with the name, as 1 remember it, of A.
j. Neichsebaum inscribed thereon, an6
under it Is written, Applicant for a con
sulzte," and under that, Recommended by
Senator MacDougall,t D and on the back Of
the card, in Lincoln's handwriting, is the
following: "The applicant married Mac
Dougall's old sweetheart. Let him be ap.
pointed A. Lincoln" And this card hat
been transmitted to the State Department
as the authority to make out the commits
sion.
STANLEY's MANAGER - Major Pond
who is managing Mr.. Stanley on his tour o.
11S lectures, for which the explorer get
SlI8,000, is a man OF huge proportions, grea
heart and ready wit, says the Philadelphia
Inquirer. he is a Western man, having
been brought up in Wisconsin in the earl,
days. when all the towns on the rivers were
II the fail of the year, at the mercy of thu
drOves OF riYermen, who drove" the log
down to The sawmills. The Major has many
thrilling incidents to relate OF life at Osh
kosh, when "the boys ran the town anC
nearly DESTROYED it occasionally.
The Major is the soul of good humor
though be has had some very hard expe-
riences as platform impressario. Henry
Ward Beecher died in the middle Of an en-.
gagemeut. Stanley on his last tour was moi
one-iourth the way through his course wher
be lett TO find J2min. He is now drawing
the largest audiences of his life. In New
York City the first night the seats sold fol
$4,000, on the aggregate of which Mr.
Stanley got $1,000 and charities the rest.
The two lectures here must have aggregated
$4,000, SO the Maj or bids fair TO come ou
whole on his contract, which is the larges
ever made with any lecturer
Some years ago the Major had the mos
valuable autograph album in existence 81
far as stage people and lecturers were con
cerned. Suddenly it disappeared. Tn
Major was inconsolable and offered $500 TO
its return. 1t aiterward turned up in one o
Bernhardts trunks, where a thoughtles
maid had put it after the actress had put he
name in it and supposed it had been re
turned. The Major is all smiles over tn
prospects of his tour He says Stanle-
and Beecher are the two greatest men of thi
century.
A MODERN NERo-Geueral Sanchez
who has been engaged in making the live
of President Bogran, of Honduras, and hi
followers miserable, is a terrible man, ac
cording to Elihu Smead. capitalist G
Newton, Mass, who arrived the other da
at San Francisco. From :he accounts
received" said Mr.. Smead, General Sar
chez. the Guatamalan chief of artillery,
yery determined, cold -blooded fellow. o
one occasion, when he was going to q receI
finn at the house Of the President of the r,
rubTic two of his soldiers Quarreled an