Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Emperor of Germany Said Not to be
Florid Speaker.

Governor Hill is trying the virtue of
new hair restorer.
No Shirt has been elected chief of the
,Umatilla Indians. No Shirt, it is proper
to remark, is no STRIPPING.
Colonel John Hay, the author, has
been suffering in London from sharp
attack OF the prevalent influenza.
Secretary Rusk works more hours at
his desk than any of his clerks, but this
is true perhaps of all the Cabinet officers.
DIR. A. A. Miners church in Boston
will not accept his resignation, and offers
him an assistant if he will withdraw it.
Elk President Hayes declares there is
no truth whatever in the statement that
he is growing feeble in mind and body.
Of all the great men of England Sails
bury is quoted as the most consequential
and autocratic and the one most difficult
to approach.
Leo NH. will grant no more private
audiences. Press comment upon the re-
ports Of the interviews rather than ina
bility to hold them is the cause.
Mr.. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, has sold his Scotch Highland estate
to Mr.. Coombe, the brewer. The price
paid by Mr.. Coombe is 100000.
The Duke of Rutland is credited with
exercising more influence over Queen
Victoria than any individual since the
death of the Earl of Beacons6eld.
The Mayor of Chicago is alluded to by
one paper of that city as Hemp"
Washburne. Hampstead is too long
name for hustling place like Chicago.
President Harrison with a party OF
friends will go to Mount McGregor dur
ing the summer for the purpose of visit
ing the cottage in which General Grant
died.
Thomas Beaver, the coal and iron
magnate who died at Danville, Pa, re-
Gently, leaves an estate of 81 1000, 900,
and was noted for his philanthropy. Elk
Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania is his
nephew.
Senior Antonio Batres, the new Minis
ter to Washington from Guatemala, has
filled this office once before, and still
longer ago was secretary of the legation.
He has an income of $4,000 from his
| cocoa plantations.
The young Chinese Emperor has cele-
brated the completion of his twentieth
year by picking out new wife. Prece-
dent allows man of his rank seven of
these companions, and this acquisition
is only the second.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has decided to
turn the Lathrop memorial in Albany
over to the trustees of the local orphan
asylum and endow it with So, 900 a year,
so as to secure relief from personal at
tention to this charity, which she found
ed in memory of her parents several
| years ago.
The venerable portrait painter, c. P.
A. Healy, now SO years of age, still plies
the brush with skill and enthusiasm in
Chicago. He has recently completed a
portrait of the Duke d'Aumale, third son
of Louis PHILIPPE, for the Cre:lr library,
for which the artist made study at
Chantilly.
Rev. T. E. Downing, assistant to the
Episcopal Bishop of Jerusalem, is upon
visit to America, from which he has
been absent since January, 1890. His
purpose is to spread the knowledge of
what the church is doing in the Holy
Land and to ask aid for its support and
the extension of its labors
The 9eror of Germany is not a
fio-f Ser, but is plain, straightfor-
ward CalAs :, and the reporters find it
easy to get his meaning. 1t didn't re-
quire even a shorthand man to take
these sentences from his Dusseldorf
speech; " There is only one master in
this country. and l am he l shall suf-
fer no other beside me. In this spirit l
drink to the welfare of the province"
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer has spoken
out for the manual training schools
We stand to-day with reverence before
the boy or gili who can do any one thing
perfectly-who can draw a perfectly
straight line or hit the nail exact on the
head. We who are older and missed
this teaching will go down to our graves
poorer because we missed being taught
to hit straight, to see straight, which
makes US think straight and speak
straight"