Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-07-21
PERSONAL PARTICULARS.


MHs. .JoHN A. LOGAN is an accom-.
plished carpenter. and fills her home
with skillful convenienoes of her own
continuing. -. y. -
SIR JOHN MILLAIs, the eminent En-
ylish painter, IL SO long-sightcd that no
Q obliged to use brushes q yard long
when painting. 4....
MIR. GLADSTONE encourages rising art
SITS of all kinds, and promised to attend
concert which Miss Josephine Simon,
tho young American singer, is to give in
London.
Mr.. w. II. KELLY, who was lately
elected mayor of Edgerton, Kan, is
only twenty-three years old and is be-
lioyed to bo the youngest mayor in tho
United States.
SIR FREDERICK LEIGHTON, the famous
painter, is n man with curly hair and q
ruddy face that is fringed with q thick
beard. He Is sixty years old and has
painted about 100 pictures.
THE two wealthiest women I'm Phila-
dclphia, both widows, are said to bu
Mrs. Thomas IL. Powers and Mrs,
Thomas A.. Scott. Thcy are worth be-
tween $4,000, 600 and IS, 5000, 900 each.
MNS. 1JANIIN1 y IaVOrICS rellC8 OF
America arc the hunting and Indian
trophies that she picked up in Denver
and other Western cities. Her most
valued article of this nature is an In
dian medicine sash.
Dir. SCHLIEMANN is working with 4
will ut his task of laying bare all that
the ages have lett of old Troy. He has
two hundred and fifty mon ut work and
ho has laid down small railway, so no
Is making rapid progress to the attain
ment Of his object.
THOMAS TOMORROW is undoubtedly the
oldest reporter, both in years and length
OF service, regularly employed upon o
daily paper in this country. Hc celc-
brated his eightieth birthday ami
versary recently. He began reporting
for Horace Greeley in 1871, and is still
furnishing tho news of Wcstchester
County to the New York papers.
IT is worth remarking that tho Ger
mans have never called Bismarck .'Tho
Iron Chancellor" Tho tito is one Of
French or British invention. Bismarck
was called der Eisernc Graf after tho
battle OF Sedowa, and for years he was
known only as "The Iron Count" But
IhAo ellic 10 Sdlu w udFc Dcen given MIN
in admiration for his nerve in himself
arrosting Blindc, who tried to assassi-
nate him in, tue open street.
HAwARDEN, Mr.. Gladstone's country
scat, was invaded ono day recently by q
little olive-colored man. making MANY
gestures and talking q strange iargon;
so the servants arrested him rs q maniac
and possible assassin; Gladstone was
summoned to see tho wretch. who turned
out to DO Greek professor speaking
no English, who had como all tho way
from Athens to congratulate tho British
statesman on knowing Homcr's Iliud by
hcnrt.
HENRY nj. STANLEY is snid to be thor
Oughly hardened, hopelessly indifferent
and out of humor with every body and
every thing in London. Absolutely
nothing interests him except tho heart
OF Africa. 1I1e does not complain of Ill
health, but the elasticity of his nature
has departed. Tic never laughs, and
when he smiles it ia apparently with u
painful effort. His thorough mastery of
every thing that relates to Africa makes
him interesting whom he cares to talk
OF his hobby, but it is like pulling
tccth to try to interest him in any
thing DISC.