The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-14
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Lieutenant Manli0 Garlbaldi, youngest
son Of the illustrious iberator, is about to
be married to Miss Mantegazza, daughter
of the celebrated author of that name.
Rudyard KiplinR. the new English lit
erary comet, il q short, stout built man.
who has pale skin. thin, brown hair and
near-siahted eyes. He wears spectacles.
Miss Susan Rhoda Cutter, who has ac-
cepted professorship in Biddle college,
Charlottesville, North Carolina, took all the
honors-Latin poem, Grafton and valedict-
ory-and then studied modern languages
for two years in Europe.
Marquis Tseng, the distinguished Chinese
statesman who died in April. spoke five Eu-
ropean languages with ease. was crack
billiard-player, an excellent pianist, mag
azine writer, a delightful dinsr-out, and .
close and intelligent student Of all political
and political-economioal topics.
Mr.. James Gorden Bennett, who intro
duced polo in this country, has been hunt
ing up its pedigree, and finds that it was
favorite sport at the court Of the Mikado
Whose "object'' even then seems to have
been the cultivation of innocent merri-
ment'') more than thousand years ago.
Robert Louis Stevenson will probably re-
turn to London in October. About that
time he will completely wind up his affairs
in Scotland. He intends to sell of his
house furniture, carry his books with him,
and fx his home permanently in Samoa.
Els island estate is said to be very lovely
with no less than six waterfalls on it.
II is said to be an easy day when Sir
Morell Mackenzie gives less than fourteen
hours to his professional duties. Sir Morell
in like an American in the value that he
puts upon time. He says: II like the
Americans because they know what time
means; they waste no words, 90 straight
for the root of the matter, and they know
as we'll as do when the conversation is al
an end.''
Mr.. Lorin g. Parmelee, of Boston, we'll
known collector of coins, has accumulated
remarkable miscellany, of which the Colo
NAL and American department is said to b
unequalled. He made large fortune asa
purveyor of baked beans at the Hub, and
began his collection with the curious PEN
MES that came to the cash drawer. Many
of his coins are 60 valuable that they are
kept in safe deposit vaults.
| Mrs. Richard r. Paulison, whose winter
home is the house built by the Marquis de
Talleyrand, on the st. Johns river, Florida,
| is considered the best markswoman in the
south. She wears on her hunting excur
sions hunting costume with short skirts
and leathern leggings, and has killed an
eagle on the wing, bagged thirty birds
with her shotgun, and hit coot's head
with riGe at two hundred yards.
"What was the largest, fee ever paid to a
physioian2" friend asks. Doctors, as q
rule, are reticent about their fees; but their
is story, probably authentic, says the New
York Star, that DIR. Willard Parker was
paid $780, 900 for the successful removal OF
an excrescence from the face and neck OF
the son and heir of one of the wealthiest
families in the vicinity Of New York. Com
modore Vanderbilt bequeathed $4,000 to
one of his doctors, but millionaires seldom
remember the physician in their wills.
They leave that to be settled by the ex-
ecutors. DR.. Palmer's fee, in the case al
luded to, is probably the largest ever paid,
in this country at least.