Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-28
PERSONAL MENTION.
Baron Krupp Hesit- Is About Showing
His Big Cannon atShe Worlds Fair.

lis cannon abItHe w OrI0's FAR.
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The King of Swed@ is a great swim
mer, and wears giants de Suede in swim
ming to keep his hands from tanning.
Sara Bernhardt has promised to con.
tribute a painting to the women's gallery
OF pictures at the Chicago Exposition.
Austin Dobson, the poet, is likely to
visit the United States next autumn and
give series of readings from his own
works.
Carl StreitnfsAn, who now seems to be
the king tenorof the comic-opera stage,
is a Viennese, whose family fortune was
lost by bank failure.
Officer Rollings of Philadelphia is said
to be the largest policeman in the United
States. He is 6 feet inches in height,
and weighs $40 pounds.
Ingalls, receives $500 for each of his
lectures. Financially, at least, he finds
it more profitable to lecture the people
than to scold the Senate.
Kate Field, who has made Washington
her home for the last eighteen months,
calls both New York city and Boston
idiotically AngTomaniacal."
Frau Wagner will probably be invited
! by certain people in Milwaukee to hold
musical festival in that city in 1898 as
an annex to the Worlds Fair.
J. Lamb Doty,, United States Consul
at Tahiti, is the youngest Consul in the
service Of the United States. He was
only 20 years old when appointed.
Baron EzrdpI isAhesitatlng about ex-
hibiting aalpe4 sea nannon at the
World 1. air fR be plentyci
-big guns on hand there, Notwithstanding.
The Marquis of Lorne is said to cher
! ish a secret passion for cock-fghting
He is never so happy as when a groom
gets up rafting set-to for him in sta
BILE loft.
Jules Simon, the celebrated French
economist, detests tobacco, and says that
he is an inveterate enemy Of alcohol
Jules appears to Re quite simple Simon
in his habits.
Edison is now t work on an electric
motor to replace ne ordinary locomotive
1t is designed to kke up electricity from
central rail "a to develop at least
1,00O-horse power.
Chauncey NJ. lapew is in Athens en-
ioving himself ir seeing the sights. He
says it is all { Iff about Demosthenes
having practiqI, after-dinner oratory
with his moutht>.ll of classic pebbles.
Ex-senator L. talls tells Chicago re-
reporter that he really and truly out
OF politics and is not even watching the
course of events. He is quite absorbed
in agriculture interspersed with lectur-
ing.
Mrs. Langtry owed some of her popu-
larity as well as one of her soubriquets
to the late Frank Miles, the London art
list. When he was in Jersey he painted
her portrait, and named it "The Jersey
Lily"
Dr. Frederick NJ. Fling OF Biddeford
Me-, has been elected Professor OF Eng
fish History in the University OF Ne
braska in place of Prof. Howard, who
has gone to the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University.
1t isn't often that two members of one
family are Governors of two States al
the same time, but it seems to be the
case in West Virginia and Florida, in
each of which State the Governors
name is Fleming. 5P
The Queen of the sandwich Islands il
her passion for music has organized 6
band of trumpeters. There are a few
street bands and piano organs in thi:
section OF the world that she is welcome
to if she wants ttaRs;a
A CHurela'Sa an sEnos a clergyman wa,
recently asked why he engaged in out
side work. "To increase my starving,
was the odd reply, which he explained
by saying that he called an income o
sos (S475) year starving" rather
than " living"
A very fine portrait of Henry Clay i!
on view at rs Pail Mall, London. 1t wa.
painted in 1880 by David A. Woodward
of Washington for DIR. Chaplin of Balti
more, Clay's medical attendant. The
portrait is said by those who knew Mr.
Clay to be ar excellent likeness.
Jesse d. Grant, the youngest son o
General Grant, who has recently beer
living quietly in California on a large
fruit ranch and farm, has been giver
control, with large contingent interest
IN group OF silver mines in Mexico
from which over $1,OOO,OOO have beer
taken in five years.