Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-01
PEOPLE OFTEN TALKED ABOUT.

| EX-QUEEN ISABEL of Spain is taking
beauty baths at Schinznach, whore antiques
are renovatedand time-worn flesh tints are
restored.
CARL SCHURz has resigned his place as
American director of the Hambuag-Ameri-
can Packet Company, to take effect on the
! 1st of january next.
THE italian Queen is noted throughout
Europe as a pedestrian. She also displays
an endurance in mountain climbing that IS
considered remarkable for q woman
Mrs ZERALDA WALLACE, of Indiana,
who is said to be in fair way of recovery
from her recent dangerous illness, is the
stepmother of General Lew Wallace and not
his mother, as usually stated.
w. G. WYNKOOP, a Denver miningex-
pert, is about to'proceed to Africa to look
for the famous King Solomon's mines for
All English syndicate. Perhaps the best
part OF them exist in ook that Rider Hag-
gard wrote.
FREMoNT'S grandson, the son of Lieu
tenant Fremont, is handsome little boy of
3years. He is living at present with his
grandmother and auntS in the new nome
that the ladies OF Los Angeles presented to
Mrs. Fremont.
CAPTAIN YOUNGHUSBAND, an EnSl1sh
explorer, has been turned back by Russia in
his purpose to enter and explore Little
Pamir, in Central Asia, the loftiest plateau
in the world. Captain Younghusband is one
of the best known of oriental travellers.
THE Hon. w. W. Henry, grandson of
Patrick Henry, attends the church (St.
John's) in Richmond Va. where the latter
delivered the speech that made his name
famous. The seat on which the orator stood
when he cried "Ciive me liberty or give me,
DEATH is still shown to visitors.
MAJOR WISSMANN has left Europe for
the Dark Continent. He will lead an expedi-
tion from Saaddani to the interior, and Will
take with him Il crew for the steamer given
by Germany for lake service. A German
engineer also goes to construct a railway
from Tanga toward Kilima-Njaro.
The Duke of Cambridge is one of the
best known old boys in London, and there is
hardly a soldier policeman, or hackman in
town who is not acquainted with the rosy
gilled and white-haired two bottle man, who
has never been over popular with the Off
GERS of the army because he would persist in
being q fussy friend of the soldiers.
REV DR. w. w. PAGE, of New York,
% years Presbyterian minister, has decided
to take orders in the Episcopal church. He
is native of Clark county, W. Va, and a
He is now pastor of the New York Presby-
terian Church, at One Hundred and Twen-
uy-e1ghth street and Seventh avenue.
THE Crown Prince of Siam celebrated the
14th anniversary of his birth June 81 He was
decorated by the German Emperor with the
order of the Red Eagle. The Prince. in &C.
cordance with custom, entered a Buddhistic
cloister in July. He will, remain there in
strict seclusion for six months, when he will
be looked upon as capable of assuming the
reins of Government.
NINE. DE VARIOLA, who is still living in
France, nursed soldiers the field of
Waite loo. She was born in March, 1898, and
spent the day of the battle with her father
and sister in the old Bry windmill, near st.
Armand, where he had bought property.
Nine. de Varioa married Spaniard who
dying, left her poor She was once IL friend
of the eX-Empress Eugenie.
MR. THEODORE BENT who was sent to
investigate the famous Zimbabye ruins in
South Africa, writes home that these ruins
are undoubtedly of PhDnician origin, and
that the inscriptions and other evidence he
has found unmistakably indicate the form of
worship the manner of decoration, and the
system OF gold smelling practiced by the
vanished people who erected the structures.
They are relics of people who were far ad-
vanced in civilization, though the present
inhabitants are mere savages.