St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-21
POINTS ON PEOPLE.

Oscar Wilde, sometime apostle of the
beautiful and eX-worshiper of the sun
Hover, has become an anarchist.
Lawrence Barrett put down his name
for $500 for the Sherman monument
fund. George Nj. Pullman subscribed
$1,000.
Richard Croker. who years ago was a
famous boy soprano and sang Hear Ye
Israeli beautifully, is now a tenor in
Paris.
George Vanderhilt's castle in North
Carolina will still require ten years of
labor and the expenditure of $10,000,0O0
to complete 1t.
The arrangement under which the
return of Col. Dom Piatt to the editor
ship of Belford's Magazine was sought
has failed to connect.
The car owns a house in Holland.
and is having it thoroughly overhauled
and made sound. 1t was Peter the
Greats house in Zaandam.
Justice r. Y. Walker. of the Alabama
supreme court, is but thirty-four years
old, and the youngest man in the coun-
try holding such position
Sir John A. Macdonald thinks that the
title Americans should be reserved
for Canadians. He calls the people of
the United States Yankees"
Walter Damrosch. Secretary Blaine's
son-in-law, is conducting free Sunday
concerts for the working people of New
DIRK. The last one was attended by
about 5000 persons.
Spencer Pratt. minister to Persia. now
displaced. is bachelor of thirty-five.
lie is tall and slim with regular features,
and VaDdyck beard. His salary was
$500, but his opportunities great.
Count Herbert Bismarck has had a
famous present. The ancestral estate,
where the Iron Chancellor was born,
Schonhausen, Magdeburg. Prusslan
SaXony. has been given him by his
father.
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, the man who
wrote "SpartacuS to the Gadiators'
ana "Reguus to the Carthagenians,
once so familiar to every SchoolbOy, is
living in Harpswell. Me. He Is cler-
gyman, eighty-one years old, and even
now breaches occasionally.
Mrs. Coils p. Huntington, wife of the
railroad magnate, Is being sued for $500
for repairs executed upon her by New
Ork specialist. who processes to make
ladies more charming by the removal of
facial imperfectionS and the reduction
of oyer-thick necks.
Z. L. Barnum has closed a contract
for the erection of building at Bridge
port, Conn, to cost S125,000-a gift from
him to the historical and scientific So
cletIes OF that city.
one OF Senator Cullom'S characteristic
les is his smile. He smiles when he is
good natured and when he is not, when
saying unpleasant things as we'll as
peasant when praiSing Or damning.
Ellen Terry is learning to dance.
IF tlt.e
ana MI. Irving appear would be greatly
relieved by skirt dance or song and
dance, and the public will wish her sue
cess in her undertaking.
Gen. Lew Wallace and Secretary
Foster are almost doubles in personal
appearance, their resemblance being so
striking that they are frequently mis-
taken for each other. Each is man of
medium height, weighing about 10
pounds.
W. II. Smith is level-headed news
paper man, even if he is a member of
parliament and cabinet minister. and
| has promptly sat down upon proposal
to compel writers of articles appearing
In papers to attach their names to such
articles. He said it would be as absurd
as to compel every man to sign the bal
lot which he cast in an election.
Pope Leo NIL is now engaged in the
preparation of the most important in
cyclical that has yet been issued by
him. He is about to formulate the
views of the Catholic church on the sub
Ject OF socialism and its kindred topics.
The paper is looked forward to with
unusual interest. as many high Of
ficials are waiting for ii to decide cues
tons that are now before the church
tribunals.
The country is indebted to an acct
dent for one of its great editors Henry
WatterSon. His musical capabilities as
lad had been quite marked. He played
IN concerts with Adelina Patti when she
was eleven years old and he thirteen.
His career was changed by hitting his
thumb against a black key while prac-
ticing on the piano. A felon came on
the thumb, the hand was paralyzed. and
the first joint of tho thumb lost. There
after he turned his attention to Journal
ism.
Judge PETER, the new Kansas sena-
tor. thinks all young persons should be
taught substantial handicrafts. He has
eight children, of whom three are
daughters. The boys have all learned
the printers trade. and the eldest
daughter has been taught to set type.
One son is a locomotive engineer One
daughter does amanuensis work and re-
porting, but also sets type. The second
daughter has been trained to keep ac-
counts, and the Youngest daughter is
the StenOgrapher in the Kansas Farmer