St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-19
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Jacob Kahn. a Cleveland shoemaker,
claims that he has Invented and will
have in operation in sixty days a COM
pressed air motor that will propel a
street car twenty miles an hour at a cost
of three cents.
Amelie Rives Chanler has completed
another novel, OF which Richard Henry
StOddard, who has seen the manuscript,
says, sententiously, he thinks the prnn-
ing knife will have to be used before
the book is published.
Webb G. Hayes, the ex~-president's
son, lives in Cleveland, where he is
rated a keen and successful business
man. He is treasurer of one corpora
tiOn and a stakeholder in several others.
He is a bachelor, and occupies hand
some apartments in the East end of the
city.
Ralph ingalls,, the second son of the
senator. will finish his course of study
at the Columbia law school next spring,
and will go into the Office of William
Evarts in New York city. Ellsworth,
the eldest son, who is also a lawyer,
prefers to remain in Kansas.
Gov. Waterman, of California, has
surpassed all previous governors of the
state in %pardoning criminals. In the
last f0rty-six days of his term he has
pardoned sixty-twO cOnvicts, including
murdererS, robbers and others, most of
whom fully deserved the sentences
which they received.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Strong, of Ottawa,
Kan. had arranged to celebrate the
fifty-firSt anniversary of their marriage
Saturday last. and relatives were pres
ent from various parts of the state to
participate in the festivities. In the
morning Mr.. Strong died and in the
afternoon Mrs. Strong passed away.
The emperor of Austria lives very
simply in his palace in Vienna. He is
very abstemious. and he is most happy
when seated at the work table IN his
private study with a fragrant cigar in
his mouth. He IS still a good sports
man, and when clad in his court dress
he presents a picturesque and manly
figure. In state matters he works hard
and carefully.
Gen. F. E. Spinner. writing a year
ago of his school days. said: THE rod
was never spared on me at home or in
school-and now, with grown-up great
grandchildren, | can truthfully say |
have never. in all my long life. struck a
child a single blow. | was licked
enough to last through the whole four
SCuCi VI cCil anu lily pOStellJN. i
have found it safe through life to prac-
tice the reverse of what was taught me
to do"
DR.. Koch abjnres coffee for breakfast,
but takes instead a starchy soup made
of flour, thick and slab, with many
slices of toasted black bread, on which
attractive regimen he works in his lab
oratOry from 10 to 2, when he dimes on
soup. roast meat, and a light pudding,
eating the pudding before the soup.
All his reading-political. general and
scientifc-he is compelled to do in bed
late at night to escape interruption.
Miss Pinckney. the lady who is at the
head of Margaret Winthrop hall, tine
home where a number of girls of Cam
bridge school live, is working out an in
terestIng experimentsuccessfully under |
the direction of Arthur Gilman. She
is making a real home for the school
girls away from their own homes. A
visit to Margaret Winthrop hall shows
how completely the pleasant life of the
home is kept separate from the pleasant
life of the school.