St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Leland Stanford is reported to have
announced his intention of endowing
the University of the Pacific with s20,-
100000 over and above its present re-
sources.
Leslie f. Morgan, of London, Eng
land, who died lately, left $3.50, 900 to be
distributed in four equal shares among
the poor or any deserving charities OF
Philadelphia, st. Louis, Chicago and
San Francisco.
Emperor William was so much ex-
hauSted by his round of sightseeing,
dinners and receptions that when he
finally appeared at the ball he sat most
of the evening i'll an arm chair. in which
he actually permitted himself to fall
asleep.
Mrs. Jane Rose Roberts, widow of
President Roberts Of the Liberian re-
public, has sailed for England with sew
eral thousand dollars which she has
raised toward building hospital at
Monrovia. From England she will go
to Liberia.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
spends his entire salary on his private
secretary aud the various agencies fur
nishing newspaper clippings. He sub
SeribeS to three of these agencies and
has given them instructions to furnish
MIN with all the clippings relating to
himself and to the postal service.
Lord Salisbury's evident intention is
that if parliament is dissolved it shall
only be under the statute of limitations,
and that the grouse shooting of 1892
shall not be spoiled by any bothering
election. When the birds and the har-
vest are gathered i'll the constituencies
will be attended to.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Rathbone is enjoying nice, quiet time
of 1t, having as yet neither office or
duties. HIS only fear Is that somebody
will fOolIShly hurry up and break into
that delicious dolce far niente which
has Shimmered around him since he was
moved out of the inspection department.
Nasr-ed-Deen, Chah-en-Char king of
Kings. whose serious illness is reported,
has been a wise, moderate and popular
ruler for nearly fortyfve years. Of his
eighteen children five are sons, and of
these not the eldest. but-the second son,
MaZaffer-e d-Deen Mira, now nearly
forty years old, would succeed to the
throne in the event of the shah's DEATH
Cardinal Manning, who has just en-
tered upon his eighty-fourth year. OBJ
served in recent note to Mrs. Glad
stone: "You know how nearly have
agreed in Williams political career, es-
pecially in his Irish policy of the last
twenty years, and how few of our old
friends and companions now survive"
A collection of letters written by his
eminence during the last five years has
been published as souvenir.
Gov. Buchanan, of Tennessee, who is
busy with the riotous miners at Coal
Greek just at present, is said to know
more about driving cows than directing
the operations or an army of militia.
He was farmers boy, and is robust,
energetic man, Self-made and seif-edu-
Gated. He is poor man, but most
popular one among the people of the
rural districts. He was president of the
state grange society when elected gov
ernOr.
Rev. r. J. Nevins. rector of st. PauPs
Episcopal church in Rome, who has
passed over twenty years in Italy, has
just arrived in New York and reports:
1.-The italian authorities now acknowI-
edge that in recalling Minister Fava
they acted preeipitately. They received
a garbled account of the New Orleans
affair and acted without sufficient infor-
nation. l can say positively that they
have regretted their action. Rudini has
been trying to explain away Fava's re-
carl ever since"