The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-25
PERSONAL MENTION.


uthests OF Mime, BlayhtBky.
| Austin Dobson thinks of coming Il
the United States in the autumn to give
readings from his own works.
The King Of Italy takes great interes,
In raising camels when he is not occu'
pied in trying 70 raise the wind at any
rate Of interest. 81
Judge III. K, Douglass, who was Ma.
j0r on the staff of General Stonewal
Jackson, will be one Of the speakers al
the New Hampshire soldiers reunion at
The Weirs.
Oscar Wilde frankly entities his new.
est book study OF "Christianity from
the Outside Some who consider them.
selves in it could give only a real view ol
the subject.
Mr.. Ruskin thinks the English people
ought to love the apple tree, +" not for 'its
fruit, but for its flower "a sentiment
with which the parents OF the American
small boy will fully sympathize.
The oldest jockey on the turf and still
one OF the best Of them is William Hay
ward, who rode Preakness in the famous
dead-heat race for the Saratoga cup in
1879. He lives at Eatontown, N. j.
II is always pleasure to know that a
King is Of some practical use. King
Humbert is cook OF no mean order,
and can boil potato or broil steak in
q way that would make dyspeptic feel
hungry.
Gray hairs continue to crowd about the
temple Of Will s. Hays, editor, poet and
song writer, but his ebony mustache is
Respondent with youth and vigor. He
writes better than Joe Howard OF New
York, and tells more truth.
George Haven Putnam, the New York
publisher, has received from the French
government the cross OF the Legion OF
Honor, conferred upon him for his serv-
ices in helping to secure the passage Of
the international copyright law.
The late Empress Augusta OF Germany
WAS very rigid in her opposition 10 being
photographed. There is, however, d
picture to he seen in the shops Of Berlin
representing group OF the royalfamily,
with the Empress Augusta seated on the
left, holding u book up 80 AZ TO hide from
view her imperial features.
The Countess Of Caithness, the new
high priesteas Of theosophy, is the exact
antithesis Of her predecessor, Mime. Bla-
vatsky. Her figure is slender, her man
ners elegant and her tastes refined, She
dresses in great taste, Her only resem-
blance to Blayatsky lies in her fondness
for diamonds, but that is pardonable
womanly weakness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes enters his S3d
year with his characteristic good humor
and cheeriulness unabated. The genial
autocrat, " who thought il "better to
be 70 years young than 40 years old"
has the same feeling az to his eighties,
except that q partial failure Of his eye
sight causes him some trouble.
Captain George Dewey of the navy
has lived for the last five years with only
hall liver. The other half was cut off
by an Italian surgeon while Captain
Dewey was lying i'll from liver disease at
Malta in 1885. From the day the opera
was performed his health began to Inn
prove, and he has enjoyed life ever since.
Ex-Judge John Erskine, who retired
from the Federal bench about five years
ago, is ranked as one Of the greatest ju-
rists in the South, and when he retired
the bar of Georgia gave him great ova-
ton. He was appointed by Andrew
johnson. He lives most of the time
now with his daughter, Mrs Ward Of
New Yerk, and spends a few months
each year in Savannah.
The Presidents salary is paid to him
in monthly instaliments Of IA, ICE. 81.
The warrant is brought to the White
House by special messenger OF the
Treasury Department, and after the
President has indorsed il as he would nm
ordinary draft his private secretary de-
pceits it at the Columbia Bank. When
the President il out Of town the draft is
mailed to him. The same method ia
pursued in paying the Justices Of the
Supreme Court.