Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31
POINTS ON PERSONS.

Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS, who is at pres
ent in New York, denies that she is going to
reside in Richmond.
WILLIAM STEWART, o blind law student,
heads the list in the results of the final ex-
animation in connection with the Ontario
Law School.
ROBERT BRowNNG'S son has beauti-
full home in London, which he and his wife,
an American woman, are about to give up
for residence in Venice in an old palace.
ROBERT E. LEE, when in the United
States army, over 80 years ago, prepared
river Improvement charts, which are still in
use in st. Louis.
MISS EsTELLE M. CALLEN, newly ap-
pointed Master in Chancery of Livingston
county, ILL.,, is brunette whose good looks
are .outweighed by her sound sense and
ability for the dispatch of business.
SENIOR ANTONIO BATREs, the new Min
lister to Washington from Guatemala, has
filled this office once before, and still longer
ago was Secretary of the Legation. He has
an income of $4,000 from his cocoa planta-
tion.
M. A. HANNA, a prominent ship owner
and politician Of Cleveland, is the owner of
the manuscript from which General Grant
the Garfield campaign. 1t was q present
from the General himself.
JUDGE TAFT could never recall his can
didacy for the nomination to the Governor
ship of Ohio without chagrin-not because
he was defeated, but because he was SO Woe
fully deceived by a horde of Cincinnatians
, who made him promises they never kept.
OWEN COUNTY BRECKINRIDGE, a lawyer
of the Pacific coast, owes portion of his
name to a romantic circumstance. In 1853
John C. Breckenridge, was running for Con-
gress in Kentucky, and Owen county gave
him the victory, and to a son born upon the
day of the election he gave the county's
name as an expression of his gratitude.
Ex-Governor AMEs was once asked to
wealthy patient did not consider worth
that much. But, as his medical adviser
would not reduce the bill l cent, two checks
for $500 each we're sent in payment, one dis
tinctly stating that it was for professional
attendance, and the other "for extortion." !"
The doctor framed the latter check and has
it in view in his office to-day.
RUBINsrEIN, in his new and yet unfn-
ished book, 'fMusic and Musicians" (" will take
the ground that Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz
were not reformers, but placed obstacles in
the way of progress in the art. OF himself,
the Russian said: "1 am one of the have
beens." This statement leads a Paris
correspondent to remark that this composer
has always disparaged his own work. Nearly
20 years ago, when asked by q friend what
he had been doing during the summer, he
tersely replied: "spoiling music paper"
THEODORE DECK, the great French
potter, who died fortnight ago. was for "A
years administrator of the Manufacture Ma
tionale de Porcelaine in Sevres. By birth an
Alsatian, and by early education stove
maker, he came to Paris in 1856, and, still in
the same trade, began to study to rediscover
the lost art of making transparent enamel,
and finally succeeded. At the exhibition of
decorative arts in Paris in 1880 and 1884 he
attained worldwide celebrity with his
vases in red, turquois, Deck-blue and other
colors. In 1878 he was appointed an officer
of the Legion of Honor.