The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-18
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE,

II Is said that Victor Maurel, the great
baritone, is under engagement to come to
America.
M. Tisza, the Hungarian statesman, is
only SO years old, but he looks like an
aged and feeble old gentleman.
The wife of senator Stanford supports
forty-threc k~indergartens for the children
Of poor parents in San Francisco.
II is not generally known that DIR. Mary
Walker has become a cripple for life. On
Decoration day last she fell and broke
her right hip.
The Empress Eugene has become very
much Of n r~ecluse, and is preparing a me-
mortal of the late Emperor Napoleon and
the Prince Imperial.
Bayless w. Hanna, late United States
minister to the Argentine Republic, has
been in failing health since his return to
his home i'm Indiana.
It'll now claimed that Mr.. Edwin Cowles,
the late editor of the Cleveland Leader,
was the first to propose holding the
worlds fair in 1892.
The German emperor and empress will
go TO Norway about July ! to spend a few
weeks. During their visit the king and
queen will live at Christians.
King Malietoa of Samoa has become
quite ''chummy' with Robert Louis
Stevenson, who seems to be enjoying him
self very much on the far away Pacific
island.
An official Of the court of Sweden is
about TO set out for Teheran to carry to
the shah of Persia the insignia of the Or
der of the Seraphim, the highest decora-
ton that King Oscar has to offer.
Senator Plumb was an editor before he
went into the railroad business and be-
came a millionaire. He is tall and raw
boned, wear n goatee and a SLOUGH hat,
and WINS up to So years.
Congressman Sawyer of New York, il
quoted correctly, is with the boys i'm blue
now, IL he was not during the disturbance.
He is quoted as saying in his speech: ~
have always voted for any pension case,
right or wrong, hit OF miss, whether /
knew anything about il or not"
Hiram Camp, president of the New
Haven, Conn.,, Clock company, has been
in the clock-making business for owe
sixty years, all the time with one oncern
| He probably knows more about the hist
DRY OF clock manufacture in this country
than any other man In the Nutmeg state.
The only totally blind member Of the
present British house OF m is Mr..
Macdonald, of Ireland. He il brought
into the lobby by Mrs. Macdonald every
night and given over to the charge of one
OF his colleagues. She returns almost
nightly to lead him home to dinner and
restores him TO his parliamentary work
when he is needed Mt 10 o'clock.
Captain Bond Shelton, who was present
at the C wedding of his nephew,
Lord Louth, is-or was-the young cornet
Of Dragons, who, the Inflated
Birkenhead struck pm the rock 1S52l
helped 10 save the women and children,
and, when this was done, marshaled his
men OH deck, formed them into line and
went down with them, firing a royal
salute. The men all persisted, but he was
picked up ny a stray boat after long suf-
fering i'm h water.
Baron Hirsch, the wealthy German He
brew. has decided TO contribute $4,000
monthly for the amelioration of the con-
dition Of the Jews i'm Russia. The fund
will ut first be used TO improve their pres
| ent houses and TO build new ones. The
baron will he represented by Adolphus 5.
| Solomon. of the census bureau AT WASH
ington. An effort will be made 10 dis
courage migration TO this country.
Ferdinand de Lesseps leans heavily for
ward as he walks. and his hair is white as
Stacked lime, yet he still retains a buoy
ant flow of animal spirits, and his hand
writing is-anything but shaky. He still
affects receptions with n vengeance and
personally conducts a voluminous cores
pondcnce. He is justly proud Of his IL
"%childrcn,' who range in years from 4 TO
A.. He is himself 80.
James Sparks, Of Dahlonaga, Ga, the
ditch walker on the lower section of the
Hand ditch, has been walking this line
month. 4.692 miles per year, or a total OF
5i.9is miles, or nearly two n one hall
times the distance aroun the world. Mr..
Sparks is now some seventy-odd years
old. and is still apparently as active as n