The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-21
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N1re. I'D arue new ODOk, tOOO
tai he published. IL I'm the Robers I'm
line of thought, hut much heavier read
ing.
Warren G. Elliott, a young Norfolk law
yer, has been elected president Of the
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad COM
pany.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has issued a call
for autograph letters of her late usband
that may bc I'm the hands Of his personal
friends.
Mr.. Mnrst Halstead has consented to
become q regular contributor to the Co.'S
nofohfam MaJc=ins. and his FIRST article
will appear I'm the April number.
+. Marion Crawford, thu novelist, IL pro-
flcient i'm 10 lanRuagestGerman, French,
Italian, Latin, Greek. Sanscrit, Arabic,
Persian. Russian and Turkish.
Mr.. j. w. Hinckley, who formerly
owned the New York Graphic, il now de-
voting himself exclusively tn the Ns,cs-
Press, his paper at Pou0hkccpsie.
James Russell Lowell Is keeping him.
self very much secluded at his home Mt
Elmwood, Mass, this winter. He il en-
gagged m writing n life Of Nathaniel Haw-
thornc.
Frank Sperry of Brooklyn, at one time
private secretary for Secretary OF the
Treasury FolHcr. il to occupy n similar
position in the Office of Collector Erhartlt,
of New York.
Ex-Governor Ames of Massachusetts has
greatly improved i'm health since he aban-
doned the cares of executive life. The
old rtitldy color has come back tn his face
and his eyes are bright and searching.
Mai. William Hughes, whose death is
as having takenp place at Long
Branch last Friday. was a brother of the
author Of 'ToIu Browns School Days."
and was "a survivor of the Crimean war.
Carl Mari, the German painter, has ar
rived i'm milwaukee, on n visit to his par
ents in that city. He comes To thisc oun-
try tn s,ipcrintend the decorations of Sen-
ator Iicarst's new house in Washington.
Miss Sturgcs, who became Mrs. Wilson
=. Bissell last week. was one of the
bridesmaids at The folsom
wedding and was the first to kiss The mis-
tress of the white house after the ccrc-
mony.
Mrs. william Johns, living i'm Pleasant
township, Franklin county, Ohio, is the
mother of two sets of triplets, all boys.
One set is D years OF g and the other
nearly u years old. They are bright,
healthy children.
Lyman Trumbull. ex-governor, ex-sccrc-
tary Of state, Judge,
her of congress- and cx-United States SEM
ntor. is still practicing law i'm Chicago AT
In age of "a. He is i'm good health and
his legal ability is as great as ever.
Bayard Taylor, after doing profitable
and continuous literary work for more
than ~ years, wrote to his friend, T.. e..
Stedman, that hc had no income except
from his personal labor. Yet, some win
tcrs he made $4,000 by his lectures alone.
Mime. Leroy, mother of the Due dab
rantcs of France. il one of the most intre-
pid explorers of the day. She has been
several months i'm the east, and suffered
from p~rivation while visiting Babylon and
Nincvch and crossing the Persian deserts
OH her way to India.
Robert &. Winthrop, jr.. has presented
Essex Institute at Salem. Massachusetts,,
two original deeds from M~asconoinct, sag
amore of Agawam, to John Winthrop, jr.,
OF lands Ina Ipswich and Chebacco. The
instruments are i'm the handwriting of
! John Winthrop, jr., and are dated June
%, 1923.
The real inventor of the powder used
for the "Lebel' rifles is not of colonel of
| that name, but NJ. Vicille, n young
| French engineer. NJ. Vieille will be the
/, fortunate recipient ere long of n prize of
1900, awarded every three years under
the auspices of the French Academy of
Science to the author of the most import
| ant discovery made within that period.
II is said that Mrs. Cleveland will write
/ "a series of articles for a New York publi-
cation, emitting them "Reminiscences of
the White House, Mrs. Cleveland is de-
%vcloping into u large woman, perfectly
English in size and proportions,
but her intimate friends say
that she retains n fineness and
delicacy of character not often found i'm
large women. She is thoroughly domes-
ticatcd in her Madison-avenue home,
which is the center of quite n circle of
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