The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-09-19
PERSONAL MENTION.
A Chinese COmpradOr Appointed United
States Deputy Marshal for Annoy.

Miss Mary Anderson will shortly pub.
lsh her memoirs.
Ex-senator Ingalls, is said 10 receive
1900 for each Of his lectures.
Iola writes a novel every nine months.
Miss Braddon has published fifty since
| 1862.
The Edison Of France il named Ader
lie thinks that he has solved the prob
lem Of aerial navigation.
Senator Harris OF Tennessee IL said 10
be the oldest living Congressman. lie
was first elected in lS49 at the age Of 81.
Jules Verne has a son, Michel, who il
developing a talent for writing stories
very much in his fathers highly imagi-
native style.
Senator Vest has been wearing this
summer a plain suit Of homespun hemp
linen, a gift 10 him from Senator Black.
burn Of Kentucky.
Colonel Inman's history Of the old
Santa Fe trail isto be published in 1892,
and is 10 be graphic tale Of the pioneer
times in the great desert.
Maurice Bernhardt, the athletic son Of
the" divine" Sarah, and his bride are
in New York. They will spend their
honeymoon in this country.
A portrait Of Queen Victoria presented
by her Majesty TO Mrs. Phelps is the
chief feature in the drawing room Of ex-
Minister Phelps house in Burlington.
Chiei-Justice Lucas Of the Virginia
Supreme Court il but four feet high, but
he is 80 digniied that no facetious law.
yer has ever dared 10 dub him a brief.
1t has been settled that Grand Duke
George Alexandroyitch Of Russia, whose
health is still very precarious, shall re-
turn to Algeria at the end Of autumn.
The chair occupied by Garibaldi in the
Italian legislative chamber is hung with
laurel wreath Since the patriots
death no one has been allowed to use it..
The wife of Lieutenant II. ID. Borup Of
the United States Legation in Paris is
one Of the very few ladies who can claim
| to have made the ascent Of Mount Blanc.
Terence V. Powderly, General Master
Workman OF the Knights of Labor, has
accepted the Republican nomination as
delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitu-
| tional Convention.
Sir Charles Dixie is a broad -shoul-
dered, square-built man, with clear gray
ewes and full grizzled beard. His man
ner is serious and dignified and direct
almost TO abruptness.
The choice of Charles Eliot Norton as
the literary executor of Mr.. Lowell is a
singularly happy one. The duties will
be performed by one who has all the re-
quisites of an accomplished critic and
conscientious editor.
| A recent visitor to the former home OF
John Howard Payne says that it is low,
with big roof, and is all of gray shingles,
with garden in which grow hollyhocks.
There is an old well, too, and the house
stands with the end toward the road.
S. A. Douglas, Prosecuting Attorney
for the city of Chicago and son Of the
famous Democrat of that name, never
visits Springfield, ILL.,, without going to
the tomb of his fathers old political op-
ponent and friend, Abraham Lincoln.
A Chinese comprador named Chin
Gong has been appointed United States
Deputy Marshal for Annoy. The Marshal
is DR.. Edward Bedloe, said to be de-
scendant OF the family after whom Bed
loe's Island was named in New York
harbor.
James f. Lyon has brought suit against
Senator William NJ. Stewart of Nevada
for 81 900, 900 damages. The suit grows
out of complications over mining deals,
among the properties concerned being
the Emma mine of Utah. The Senator
charges Lyon with blackmail.
A business building $50 feet high is
proposed for Broadway, New York. The
Eifel tower and Washington monument
only will top it. 1t is to be constructed
of steel, with twenty-six stories, more
than 200 offices, and to have a summer
roof garden 800 feet in the air, with ex-
press elevators to the tenth floor and a
change of cars at the twentieth for the
tower. This beats the world.