The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-07-30
MISSING LINKS.
The Princess of Wales, it is reported,
is not an admirer of baccarat.

graduated at the head OF his class IN
Canadian law school.
Herbert Spencer has joined the Brit.
ish Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children.
President Eliot of Harvard has
powerful bass voice that is noticeable
in congregational singing.
Secretary Rusk works more hours
at his desk than any of his clerks; but;
this is true, perhaps of all the Cabinet
officers.
Cyrus Small, Superintendent Of the
Boston police. has just entered upon
the fortieth year of his service in that
department.
Mrs. Koch, the wife of the famous
German specialist, has the entire
charge of her husbands immense cor
respondence.
The Empress of Austria is rs busy as
a schoolgirl with her linguistic studies,
and as interested as laud reformer lii
her agricultural projects.
If Belle Billion had got her title a
little sooner she might perhaps have
enjoyed the additional distinction of
being in the baccarat scandal.
The widow of General Crook means
to arrange SO rs to visit Washington
several months i'll each year hereafter,
to be near her husbands tomb at
Arlington.
Sir Henry Parkes. the leading Aus
tralian statesman. and to whom Is due
the fact that Australasia is now vir-
tually Federal Republic, began life
as farm laborer in England.
Senator Blackburn's daughters are
ardent admirers of thoroughbred
horses. They are always 10 be seen at
the Lexington races. and are thorough
ly accomplished in equine lore.
The present Czarina is said to be the
most popular Empress the nation ever
had. She is loved for her charities,
and is as bright and clever as she is
elegant She is passionately fond OF
dancing.
Perola, the ex-Dictator of Peru, is
said to be in New York in disguise. He
escaped in wonan's clothes from the
prison in Lima, and the Peruvian Gov
eminent has been for some time seek.
ing him in vain.
Amelia Rives, or rather Mrs. Chan
Ter. is working hard in Paris to win
fame as an artist. She has had the
grip, but is recovering and will soon
return to resume her studies at her
home in Virginia.
Numerous Baptist clergymen are
now saying that they are glad Dr..
Bridgeman has left the Baptist denom-
ination; and rs the good doctor seems
to be quite glad himself. everybody
ought to be satisfied.
Walter Haynes has lived upon
Haynes Hill, Brimiield, Mass. since
he was Is months old. He is 101 years
now, has wife of 90, and sister of
SO. and the horse he yet drives about
confesses to 26 years.
The Duke of Portland is the champ
ion subscriber to newspapers. He
takes all the papers of England and ii
heap more from all over creation. The
preceding Duke used TO do the same
thing. and filled up three houses with
them.
Agents of the Barring Brothers have
been offered $27. 900, 900 by the Gov
eminent of the Argentine Republic for
the reimbursement of the banking
house. Such Il sum will be great
strain on the Republic in its present
condition.
Ex-Secrclary Tafts will leaves
everything to his wife, and expresses
confidence that she will do what is
proper for the children. who were
minors at the time the document was
drawn QSS0) and of whom she is APP
pointed guardian.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt has Just
bought by cable large tract of land
at Neuilly, a suburb of Paris, for $52,.
600, all made during during her recent
American tour. 1t is said that she
will build veritable palace after she
has finished her travels.
To the list of living sons of Revolu-
tionary soldiers which is steadily in
creasing, may be added William Nj.
Willett of jersey City, and Edward
Nj. Willett. of New York. sons of Col.
Marinus Wilelt. who served in the
Revolutionary War from its beginning
to its close.
Benjamin johnson. the eccentric
Philadelphia lawyer, who died recently,
left $40. 900 to keep a metal lamp per-
petually burning in front of the altar
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
the Ascension. He also left many
thousands for more practical and
charitable purposes.
General Tscheng-ki-Tong. who was
Acting First Secretary of Legation in
Paris for some time. and who proved
social favorite and magnificent con-
fidence man, has. it is reported been
sentenced 10 decapitation ut home.
His own Government thought him too
much EurOpeanized.
Pierre Lott" the new French I'M
mortal, is not the effemiuate cpicurean
one might expect from his writings.
A Paris letter describes him as short,
squat and burly, turned forty, and
looking the bluff; hearty tar that he is
He is not society man. and is guilty
of wearing his naval uniform at dinner
and evening parties.
an huSllldu UillCtE WHO uScU 10 see
Baron Hirsch at Monte Carlo says that
the famous philanthropist would never
risk more than dollar or two at a
time. His theory was that one who
the value of money could
get just as much excitement by gamb-
ling with twenty-franc piece us if he
expended a larger amount.
One of the recent numbers of the
official LRtciiigenz BAIT. of Berlin, APP
peared without a line of police news
The reason was that in the twenty-four
hours prior to the issue of the paper
there had been neither a crime nor an
accident in the German metropolis
worthy of an official report. Such
days, however, occur seldom.
John Greenleaf Whittier has sent an
copy of The Kansas Emil
grants Song" TO the Kansas State His
torical Society. The good old Quaker
poet who is nearly 81 years old, pa
writes: My sight has fail
ed so much that | fear my writing will
ho upreala HE | would NOT hove t,;o,