The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-18
PERSONAL MENTION.

David Blalock, Decatur, Ill, claims to
DO the only living son Of revolutionary
soldier.
The venerable Bishop Crowther, one OF
the best known missionaries In Africa,
was born savage In Guinea
Lord Randolph Churchill takes but two
books with him on his expedition to South
Africa-Shakespear and Moliere.
George Vanderbilt IL slender young
man, oop-shouldered, who appears to be
absorbed in bis meditations, or else absent
minded. His eyes are large and black,
his hair is black, and his complexion Is
swarthy.
Mrs. Gen. Grant Is aging rapidly.
There has been marked change both In
her appearance and in her manner within
two years. Her hair is silvered and her
slow and uneven stops betoken her adj
vancing years.
Nancy Hatch, Yasoo, Miss, negress,
began to turn white seven years ago and
now she would almost pass for q woman
of Caucasian descent Almost the whole
remnant OF her former black skin Ia a dark
line about her neck.
Maxwell Evarts, the youngest of ex-
Senator William Evarts' sons, has only q
slight resemblance to his father. He is,
perhaps, 30 years old, below medium
height, and of slender frame. As a law
yer he is already COM prominence.
M. NJ Pomeroy, famili y known as
Brick is about go years Id, bald, and
wears chin beard. He resembles a
country Methodist parson. Humorous
writing consumes only portion of his
time, as he Is engaged in mining opera
tons near Denver.
Capt. John E. Allen, who commanded
the big schooner Cornelius Hargraves
when It was sunk near Barnegat early
last winter, Is having another four-mast
built at Camden, Me. Philadelphia par
ties have taken stock in the new /, 200-to
boat, which will be named the Elk.
Herr Schmalfeld, who was Prince Bis
marck's antagonist In his recent electoral
contest, was sigarmaker with no partic-
ular fame. Association has brought him
eminence, however, and even in his defeat
he has gained notoriety which makes
him the victim Of the autograph fiend.
Two soldiers were retired from the
army last week, who had pegged along
for forty tire, and fourty years re-
spectively, and yet, because of the desper-
ately slow rate Of promotion, are no more
than colone, They are Dodge, of the
Eleventh infantry; and Gibson, of the
Third artillery.
The French foreign office has decided
that when the wife of the vice-president Of
the United States is present at a state
occasion in France she shall rank after the
wife of the president of the chamber of
deputies and the wife of the president Of
the cabinet, but before the wives of all
other cabinet members.
Ouida is growing old and her works of
late lack much Of the eloquence that used
to make them so attractive. See never
was beauty, though in her prime she
possessed her striking points--her Gambler
hair" of precisely the shade which she
used to describe in her earliest novels, and
a pair of exquisite little feet.
Edmund Yates has incurred the dis
pleasure of the Prince of Wales for having
stated in his newspaper that tho queen
was going to pay the princess debts. Mr..
Yates has, accordingly, apologized for his
conduct and retracts his assertion. Never
theless, the original statement is under
stood to be substantially correct.