The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-11
PERSONAL MENTION.
Charles Emory Smith Has the Happy
Faculty Of Being Charming
After-Dinner Speaker.

|
After-Dinner Speaker.
The King Of Greece speaks a dozen
languages.
Ex-secretary Whitney lie fearless
equestrian.
/ Mrs. General Hancock is in Europe for
the winter.
/ Private Secretary Elaliord has recov-
cred his health sufficiently to Justify
him in resuming his duties at the White
House.
They seem to think down at Washing
ton that Baron Fava will come back
again as ltnly's diplomatic representa-
tive ere long.
The vile OF Frederick Douglass, the
ex-Minister to iiayti, recently delivered
an address before colored high school
in Washington,
/ DR.. Brown sequard has apparently
abandoned his famous "elixir Of lie, Z
and now thinks that he has cure for
coughs and sneezing,
Carter Harrison will discard the edi-
toriaI I'VE" in his Chicago paper and
use the hrst-person pronoun. He regards
this as capital I-dea.
Prof Alcee Fortier Of New Orleans
says the Creoles are the Knickerbockers
OF Louisiana. He takes Author Cable
to task for his characterizationH Of Gre
ole life.
Nathaniel Holland, who is 90 years
old, voted at the recent election In Barre,
Mass. His vote was cast for James Mon
roe in 1916, and he has never missed an
election since that year.
Kaiser Wilhelm is eighteen times n
Duke, twice Grand Duke, ten times q
Count, fifteen times q Seigneur and three
times Margrave, besides being King Of
Prussia and Emperor OF Germany.
Daniel G. French, the New York
sculptor, has just arrived in Paris to fill
an order for the Chicago exhibition. II
will be colossal statue Of the Republic,
a female figure, sixty to eighty feet high.
Robert plilson, banker OF Berlin,
Pa, ia dwarf, and SO diminutiye one
that the dime-museum managers have
offered him large sums to exhibit him.
self to the curious public under their
auspices.
Bishop Merrill of the Methodist Church
has been taken to the Wesley Hospital
in Chicago for surgical treatment. For
fortnight he has been disabled By an
ailment which is thought to be an abb
dominal abseese.
Charles Emory Smith, United States
Minister to Russia, Is charming after.
dinner speaker. Under the influences OF
fetching menu his almost habitual re-
serve disappears, and he becomes un-
wontedly sociable.
Henri Rochefort, the French Anarch-
ist, who was sent TO a penal colony, from
which he escaped, is now living in Lon
don. He ia tall, slight and gray. Az
though he has been in England ak years,
he does not speak English.
The canoe in which Poultney Bigelow
nayigated the Danube from the Black
Forest to the Black Sea has been 40.
cepted by Emperor William. They knew
each other years ago, when the Ameri-
can and the Kaiser were schoolmates.
A note written recently 10 Chicago
author by Oliver Wendell Holmes shows
that the aged poets pen 10 still entirely
under his control literally as well as met
aphorieally, for, though DR.. Holmes is
now SO, he writes as neat and unvarying
hand as a bank clerk OF 30.
Joseph Pennell, whom the cable re-
ports TO have been expelled from Russia,
was probably mistaken for q spy. His
sketching as an artist once before led to
his arrest under a like misapprehenson.
Mr.. Pennell, who is both writer and
an artist, i)rmerly lived in Germantown,
and his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pen
nell, is daughter Of Edward Robins Of
Philadelphia.
Albert Moore has been painting beau
tiful pictures for a generation, but has
always failed Of recognition by the Brit
ish Royal Academy. He is the subject
Of an appreciasive article by Harold
Frederic in the Christmas Scritner, IL
lustrated with seven engravings from
the artists paintings.