Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-14
.EorLE OF NOTE

husband.
President Hyde, of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society, was once q poor
clerk in rival concern.
Frances Bracken. aged II, has begun
sait for divorce from Green Bracken,
ged 10, of Franklin, Ky.
one interesting fact in connection
with Cyrus Fields golden wedding was
that the entire bridal party Of ls40 was
present
Ramor has it that Lord Tennyson was
recently offered $1,000 by an enterpris.
ing American If he would write
comic opera
Mrs. Samuel J. Randall is living very
quietly in Washington ON Capitol Hill,
her younger daughter being her con-
slant companion
Moody. the evangelist, Is pedestrian.
He is nearly always in fine physical con-
dition. and disdains an overcoat even in
the coldest weather.
1t is said that Minister Reid expends
$27. 900 per annum for the rent Of his
house in Paris. which is 10000 more
than his total salary.
Miss Laura Burns, Of Martinsyille,
Ind. has natural hair seven feet in
length. Miss Burns herself is only five
feet three inches tall
Mary Anderson's ravorite dog Is q
Newfoundland Christine Nilsson pre-
fers the St Bernard, which is also one
+ Mrs. Langtry's favorites
John B. Doris. the circus man, now
owns aud drives the famous seal
brewns" which were driven by Mr..
Cleveland when he was in the White
House
TIE wealth of the Duke of Westmins-
ter. whose fortune is the greatest in Eu-
rope, is, at careful estimate, $50, 000,.
600, and it is the accumulation of a long
ancestry.
General Lee once refused 5000, 600 and
a royalty to write Southern history of
the war. He did not think it proper to
write and publish anything on the SUBJ
ject daring his lifetime.
]. Stanley Brown, who was Garfield's
private secretary. and who married Miss
Mollie Garfield, has lately become pri-
vate secretary to Secretary Rusk, of the
Agricultural Department.
Daniel Scales, the colored millionaire
of San Francisco, and perhaps the
wealthiest member of his race In the
United States, was formerly steward
ON a Mississippi River steamboat
King George, of Greece. is one of the
most democratic Of rulers. He has q
thin and rather elegant figure, fresh
complexion, and ia bald. He is a fine
horseman, but prefers walking to riding.
Zoe Gayton, San Francisco woman,
is walking across the continent for a
purse of 81 mile, providing she walks
more than Is miles day. S is in
Nevada about 100 miles ahe.d time.
Count Won Moltke attributes his at
tainment Of old age to "God's mercy and
moderation in all things. He especially
advises that no one shall ever spend a
whole day indoors, not even if the day
be rainy.
Lucy Larcom, the authoress. is super
stitious in that she believes it bad
omen to speak of her future literary
work TO even her most intimate friends.
IL did. IshouId never go on with it,
she says.
Barring Brothers was one Of the few
financial concerns that stood the strain
Of the bursting of the South Sea bubble
in the latter part of the eighteenth GEN.
turv, when even the Bank of England
haky.
i. A. Aldrich, who has been postmas-
ter Of Mendon, Mass, under every adj
ministration since President w. IL HaE-
rison, service Of 30 years, has an
nounced lis intention Of resigning be-
cause Of advancing age and i'll health.
King Kalakaua's trip to the United
States is ostensibly to benefit his eye
sight, which has become seriously inn
paired and threatened with extinction.
His court physician has therefore adj
vised him to try the skill of American
oculists.
Buffalo Bills cattle ranch In Nebraska
embraces 5000 acres, lying within three
miles of the town Of North Platte. On
one Of the larger buildings are painted
in big white letters the words, Scouts
Rest Ranch. Altogether, there are said
to be $1,000 cattle on the grounds.
Reports have been widely circu lated
for some time past In Berlin that the
German emperor's personal finances
have been hopelessly involved by his
own reckless expenditure, and that he
has had to borrow 5000, 600 marks
from the banker, Herr Won BIeichrader,
OH his note Of hand.
The old homestead Of Henry Clay at
Ashland, KY, Is now in the possession
OF Major Henry Clay Mcdowell His
daughter. Miss Nettie Mcdowell, is said
10 have a strong resemblance In mind
and ia person to her distinguished great
grandfather. She has o strong, intel
lectuaI face and fine eyeG
The next work Of Robert Louis Steven
son will be called "The South Seas; A
Record of Three Cruises. and viii deal
with adventures, economics. cannibal-
ism, criticism, ghosts. dancing. and the
language. manners. morals, and customs
OF tie dusky people whom the author
las vtsiteI. and among whom he has
elected TO live.