The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-04
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Mrs. Ihomas J.Jackson has applied Tor
n pension for the services of her late hus-
band, General "Stonewall" jackson, in
the war with Mexico.
The blow has fallen. Private Dalzell is
n full-blown candidate for congress i'm an
Ohio district. Between Foraker, the DEM
ocratic ~gerrymander, and Private Dalzell,
Ohio is In a peck of trouble.
p. L. Barnum, who has just returned
from England, modestly tells a reporter:
III never met with such expressions of de-
light, and from princes, dukes, earls, and
lords, too. They were all greatly pleased
with me.n
The recent death of Mime. Pommery of
"Pommery Sec" fame, will startle quite a
number of prohibitionists who have
pointed the finger of scorn" at 'that
wicked Mr.. Pommery," believing the
eminent win importer to be a man.
Sam Jones seems to have been more
offensive down in Texas than usual. At
Tyler he said ~"dancing girls look like tad
poles and fashionable girls look no more
like God Almighty's women h a a China
man looks like a salt mine"
Sig. Succi, the Italian faster, who claims
that a man can dispense with solid food
by taking an occasional dose of his cele-
brated liquid, is coming over to this
country after showing the efficacy of his
invention in England. II is expected that
he will be received sans succi by boarding
house keepers.
Ex-Emperor Dom Pedro, who is staying
at Cannes, constantly walks and drives i'm
the neighborhood, and his manner, though
melancholy, is said to be composed. No
restraint is placed upon his actions, and
to all appearances his general health is
better than il was OH his visit to Cannes
two years age.
The queen dowager of Portugal, an Ital-
ian princess, married at the age of Is, was
very extravagant in her ideas. II is re-
ported that on one occasion she brought
home from Paris 1,000pairs of shoes On
another occasion she ordered sixty-nine
dresses from Worth, and on the way home
they were lost at sea. Not disconnected
In the least she duplicated the order.
Bismarck was 20 April 1, and Il is now
Just 10 years since he was elevated to
the rank of prince. 1t is well known that
for some time previous to its advent the
chancellor viewed the approach OF 1880
with apprehension, and some OF his
friends have asserted that he regards this
year as a '~'crisis'' one for him.
Emperor william still retains the
| French cooks that ruled the Kitchen of
| the imperial palace under his late grand
father, but he positively refuses to allow
their French bills Of fare TO be put before
him. The cooks draw up the days list of
| dishes under their French names, and
these are translated into German for his
majesty's table.
Gen. o. o. Howard, in an address the
other evening, at which he had among his
hearers General Sherman, Slocum and
| Sickles, spoke Of his last interview with
| General Grant. "Taking his hand In
mine as | said goodbye" said the
speaker, ~ asked the general II there
was not something hat | could do for
him. Nothing, Howard was the reply,
''only pray for for me-"
The London World says: MRS. Mackay
mas at last definitely east anchor in Lon.
don. The wife of the bonanza king has
acquired Charles Wilson'S house in Gros.
vcnor square, which he rebuilt entirely
only two years ago for 100000, and Mr.
Wilson removes to Lansdowne house IN
Berkeley square for which he has given
no less n sum than f300,000. Silver mines
and North sea shipping seem TO be even
more productive possessions than the pro
verbal gold mine"
Robert Prowning's will. dated Februar,
Il, 1864, was Witnessed by Tcnnyson ant
L. 4. Palgrave, and left all his propert,
to his son, the artist, Robert Barrett
Browning, save a charge Of 81 600 a year tc
Miss Browning, the poets sister. Tn,
gross value Of the personal estate I'm th,
United Kingdom is sworn under $4,000
but there is also property in Italian stocks
- $500 FrI.. $780, n. an ..I..