The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-09-11
MEN AND WOMEN.


Probably the oldest grain dealer in
America is Otis Munroe, the doyen of
the Boston Corn E Exchange He is 81.
Air. Beecher spent $3.50. 600 on his beau
tiful Peekskill estate. Boscobel. The
executors Of Mr.. Beecher's estate will
sell it for one-third the figure.
DR.. Mary V. O'Callaghan, of Worces-
ter. has been appointed visiting physician
of the Massachusetts State primary and
reform schools at Monson and Westboro.
Rev. Mary L. Moreland. Congrega-
tional lastor at Wyanet, ILL.,, lately Off
ciated at the marriage of Rev. Frank G.
Brainard, pastor OF the church at Grid
ley. to Miss Efae Carter, of Wyanet.
There is refreshing franknass in the
reason given by Ex-Governor Jarvis, OF
North Carolina, for declining the presi-
dency of the Agricultural and Mechani-
Cal College of that State, to Which he
was recently elected. He says he does
not feel qualified
Mark Twain lives an idle easy going
sort of existence during nine months of
the year. Unlike most authors, he
works all summer and rests all the re-
mainder of the year. His home is a
handsome red brick Queen Anne villa,
the principal attraction of which is a
large library on the first floor
The precious gems with which Mrs.
Mackay decks herself are about as well
known in Paris and London as herself.
Among them is a flawless sapphire nearly
half an inch in diameter, which is said
to have cost $1S5, 900, an almost priceless
set of rose pink coral jewelry, and pair
of diamond solitaires valued at S4o0. COO.
Miss Matte Shaw lately passed the
State examination in Pharmacy at Lam
sing, Mich, graduating at the head of a
class of 104 4students-1O0 young men and
4 young women. Out of 5000 pharma-
cists who have passed their examination
in the State only 20 have had over 80 per
cent, as she did. Miss Matte Shaw is
niece of Rev. Anna H. Shaw.
Commodore John G. Walker has for
several years been the real head of the
Navy Department.. The commodore is
every inch sailor, and looks it He is
about feet 10, solidly built, and his gait
shows he has trod the deck for years. He
pays little attention to dress, but devotes
some care to his @Dundreary" whiskers.
He is considered martinez by the drones
in the service.
jefferson Davis, said L NJ. Weston,
of Michigan, few days ago, "was the
pioneer lumberman of the Northwest.
After his marriage to the daughter of
Zachary Taylor. Davis. who was lieu
tenant in the Army, went to Fort Chip
pewa, in Wisconsin. He built a saw
mill there and ran it for year. This
was 10 years before the Mexican war.
Davis's mill was the first in the West. 1t
is still standing. Had lie stuck to 1um-
bering he would have made great for
tune"
Miss Emily Sartain's lecture on "The
Pioneer in Industrial Art Education, "
which she delivered before the Philadel-
phia Art Club last February, has been
issued by the club in neat pamphlet form.
1t is an honest and deserved tribute to
Mrs. Sarah Peters, who nearly so years
ago began, in small unostentatious
manner, the work which has expanded
into the prosperous School of Design for
Women. Perhaps none is SO we'll able
to speak freely on the subject as Miss
Sartain, whose excellent management of
the school as its principal is well known.