Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-09
PERSONAL MENTION.
a Man and His Wife are Nominated for
judicial Positions in Nebraska.

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Mr.. Partridge, the sculptor, is making
heroic bust of James Russell Lowell.
Mrs. Mackav is the possessor of a
string of tiawless diamonds two yards in
length.
George A. PiHsbury of Minneapolis
has presented a soldiers monument to
Concord, n. H., his native town.
The report that Bismarck had recently
slight stroke Of paralysis is pronounced
untrue, and his health is said to be fair.
Mark Twain is thinking of descending
the River Rhinein boat with his cou-
rier and working up his adventures for
his new book.
Moorfield Story, who was at one time
Sumner private secretary, has agreed
to write his biography for the Gamer
lean Statesmen Series"
Secretary Foster is the best croquet
player in Washington, and is so far ahead
OF all competitors that they don't try to
PIT themselves against him.
The man thought most likely to sue
coed the present Lord Mayor of London
is Alderman David Evans, manufact-
urer and Welshman, aged AZ years.
Francisco Cortisi, the great Italian
singing teacher, lives alone in a little
villa Just ont of Florence, where an old
housekeeper prepares his spaghetti and
his wine for him.
James S. Sine ~, farmer of North
Dakota, Giss Native OF the Earl of
Caithness, has received word from Eng
land that he has succeeded to the title
and estate Of that Englishman.
The seat which Mr.. Edmunds has been
occupying in the Senate will not be taken
by Mr.. Proctor. Senator Dixon of Rhode
Island gets it by the assignment of old
Captain Bassett. Mr.. Dixon was the first
applicant
Mrs. Ingalls, is quite unlike her tall,
thin husband in figure. She is rather
short, with a tendency to stoutness. Her
complexion is fair and rosy, and her face
is animated by pair of bright and ex-
pressive eyes.
The new Duke of Cleveland comes into
rich income of $500, GOO, derived from
the estates in Shropshire and Durham,
vast properties of which he will have the
iNuiilDCiCu ItliJ luis WITHOUT having
to sell an acre of their broad lands.
On account of the physical infirmities
OF Bishop Galleher of Louisiana his du-
ties have for the most part been assumed
by his assistant, Rev. David Sessums,
who is to all intents and purposes the
Bishop Of the diocese. AS he is but SO
years Old, Mr.. Sessums is probably the
youngest Bishop in the United States.
1t is on the cards that ex-King Milan
OF unsavory reputation will take unto
himself another wife, and that the happy
lady will be the equally famous Ouda
Ii the affair comes off, Milan will have
to earn his board wage reading proofs.
bullying printers and challenging thin
skinned critics.
Isabella OF Spain, travelling incognito
as the Countess of Toledo, was recently
carried up to a Swiss glacier and back
a task OF no little difficulty and burden.
1t was tremendously hot day, and the
arrival and departure were witnessed by
the whole village, who turned out to see
the amiable sovereign.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Bittenbender of
Lincoln, Neb., have both been nomi-
mated by the Prohibitionists for judicial
positions-the husband for District Judge
and the wife to the Supreme bench. 1t
is suggested that it was necessary to fix
the nominations in that order because the
woman was bound to have the last word
anyhow.
OF the various royal and princely heirs
in Europe who are unmarried the eldest,
with one exception (the son of the Grand
Duke OF luxembourg, is Prince Victor
Bonaparte, 80 years of age. Next comes
Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, who
ence and Avondale, now q. The Caro-
WITT is % years old.
1t is declared on authentic British au-
thority that there is but one British Off
Ger left who fought at Waterloo, and all
pretenders are warned to ring off and die
as modest folks as they were born. This
one officer is Lieutenant William Hewitt
of the Rifle Brigade, born in 1875. OF
late he has been in failing health. He
lives at Southampton.
Sir A. Paget is the senior member of
the British diplomatic corps, and has
held appointment under the foreign Sec
retaries acting for thirteen Cabinets. He
recently celebrated the fftieth anniyer-
sary of his appointment as an attache.
His present position at Vienna will be
shortly vacated, the willy old diplomat
having determined to retire from the
service.
The last French survivor of the battle
OF Trafalgar, Louis Cartigny, has just
completed his Tooth year. He was a
cabin boy on the Redoubtable in 1903 at
the time the fatal shot was fired from
that vessel at Lord Nelson. Cartignv is
still hale and hearty, in full possession
of his faculties, and spends most of his
time in the open air. Nothing delights
him more than to converse about his eX-
periences. J.
Grace Greenwood writes to the Home
Journal from Washington to say that she
is not blind, as has been reported in the
newspaper press. She says she can see
to thread up her sewing machine and
even to find her way across Fifth avenue
at an hour when the millionaires are out
in force She adds: I" l am not blind
neither to my neighbours sins nor to my
own little human frailties. | can still
read my title clear to more good for
tune than has ever. come my way"