The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-10
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Junius S. Morgan of London gives
100000 and j. Pierpont Morgan Of New
York $4,000 for a free public library and
art gallery al Hartford, Conn.
Arthur Sewall of Bath, Me-, has bought
the ship Kenilworth, the only steel sailing
ship owned i'm the United States, and will
O her with wheat for Europe.
Ben Buffers book is TO put forth next
fall. 1t will he i'm two volumes, and he
sold by subscription. Ii is to be filled with
high explosives. Ii is said he has some
startling things TO say about Lincoln's
assassination.
William Penn Whitehouse, who has
been appointed To the vacancy on the SUI
preme bench of Maine, occasioned by the
death of Judge Danforth, is a native of
Vassalboro, and AZ years of age. He
studied law with Senator Hale.
General Jubal Early has given 81 600 for
the expenses of the unwilling Of the Lee
monument at Richmond, Va, on May
18th. He had already given much TO the
fund, and the Louisiana State
Lottery is more popular thas ever.
Alton Angler, of Georgia, the newly APP
pointed consul at Rheims, has been for
the last five years assistant general pas
senger agent of the Western & Atlantic
railroad. He one visited Rheims as an
opera singer, but that was n good many
years ago.
All France is laughing over the follow
ing announcement that lately appeared
in one of The journals: M. Ernst lola,
inventor of the spring handouts, notifies
his customers that he has nothing i'm COM
mon with his namesake, Emil lola,
writer
Dudley Foster of Billerica. Mass, hale,
hearty and i'm his s1st year. was elected
for his thiry-sixth yea as clerk and forty
first year as treasurer at the town meeting
at that place n few days ago. He declined
to he a candidate. hut was elected to both
offices by n handsome majority.
Charles McRoberts and wife, who lived
two miles south of Worthwhile. were born
on Saturday, married on Saturday, cele-
brated their golden wedding anniversary
on Saturday, took their last sickness on
Saturday and died last Saturday. Sunday
they were buried in one grave.
Emperor William of Germany is a
hearty eater. He gets away with four
meals n day in royal style. He eats ham
and eggs for breakfast. game and salads
for luncheon, soups, fish and roasts for
dinner, and hot sausages and beer for sup.
per. He has grown iieshy of late.
Ex-King Milan of Servia is the mos,
reckless gambler now in Paris. He will
bet on anything. IL he is not in posses.
sion of a pack of cards he is glad to match
coins or make the most absurd wager
Generally he is very lucky and his win
nings exceed his losses nj the end OF the
year.
Ex-Congressman Ben LcFcvre, formerly
of Ohio. and now of New York, thinks
the next democratic presidential candi'
| date will come from the West, 'becauso
they nave the people out there and they
have the energy. Tie fact that the
worlds fair is 10 go to Chicago has called
the attention Of the country 10 the grow.
ing Importance of the great West. New
York will not cut so much of a figure any
way as she has in the past"
Miss Mamie Dickens writes as To her
recollection Of her father, Charles Dick.
ems: For myself ! cannot say how far
back | can actually remember his dear
face. But | know raj ~recollect IL with
out "A mustache or beard, when both the
sensitive. powerful and beautiful mouth
and the firm chin were visible. and when
he grew older aud the beard and mustach,
were grizzled, and his hair became very
thin and the lace was lined and worn, Il
was still the most beautiful and lovablt
Of all faces in tbcw world"