Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-06
FAME's FAVORED ONES.

| MRS. BAEYERTZ is the name OF Hebrew
lady evangelist who is conducting mission
devoted to her faith in Toronto
LEOPOLD IL, King of the Belgians
prides himself on being workingman
He rises at 6 and does two hours work be
fore breakfast.
| PROBABLY no bank President in New
| York receives more social calls in business
hours that does Hon. Thomas L. James
President of the Lincoln National Bank
This is chiefly due to the fact that the Lin
coin Bank has great many depositors who
are personal friends of the wellknown Pres
| ident.
If the little King of Spain be excepted,
the Emperor of China is the shortest of
male monarchs, standing as he does only 8
| feet in he ght. He must, however, in point
| of stature, take second place to Queen Vic
toria, whose stature is feet 10 inches. The
house of Hohenzollern boasts the greatest
number of men of big stature.
HENRY WATTERsoN to the students of
the University of Virginia: "our country
is not getting worse; it is getting better, and
we are masters of the greatest country on
the globe. We have the most perfect sys-
tenn of government. We have nothing from
without to fear, and within we have but two
great dangers-the taste for money and the
devil of party spirit"
CAPTAIN STAIRS, who was one of Stan
ley's favorite officers during his last journey
across Africa, has gone back to Africa in
the service of the Katanga Company, to help
explore the great region of the Upper Congo
which has recently been eeded to that COM
pany by the Free State. 1t was Captain
Stairs who climbed the remarkable snow
capped mountain, Rowenzori, which STAN
anza and Muta Nzige.
IMMEDIATELY after Chauncey M De-
pew's departure for Europe this week, car
penters and decorators will invade the
rooms occupied by Cornelius Vanderbilt and
Mr.. Depew and completely remodel them.
More rooms are needed for the use of the
President and his clerks. Mr.. Depew has so
many kinds of visitors that it is necessary
to have half dozen ante-rooms in which to
stow them while they await an audience,
Mr.. Depew sails Wednesday with his wife,
son, Mrs. Hageman and her two wards. The
party will remain abroad until the early
part of September.
SPEAKING of the poem 'The Midnight
Visitor" recently credited to Walt Whit
man, correspondent says: eleven years
ago Walt Whitman read these verses to me
at my own flreside, where the old poet is
ever welcome guest. am not likely ever
to forget how my dear old friend, who still
enjoys good dinner and the camaraderie
of his friends, recited these sad and pathetic
lines by blazing fire of hickory wood. But
he never claimed to have written them him
self. On the contrary he always assured
me that the poem was a translation from
the French of Henri Murger''
SOME one gives the following as the nick
names of certain authors: Emerson-The
Sphinx. .Schiller-The Republican Poet.
Goethe-The Poet of Pantheism. Shelley
The Eternal Child. Keats-The Resurrec-
tionized Greek. Byron-The Poet of Pas
sion. Moore-The Butterfly. Jeremy Tay-
lor-The Shakespeare of Divines. Coleridge
The Insulated Son of Reverie. Bunyan-
Sponsor of the People. Shakespeare-The
Myriad-minded. Ben Jonson-The Divine
Bully of the Old English Parnassus. Spen-
ser-The Poets Poet. Chaucer-The Well of
English Undefiled, or the Morning Star of
English Poetry. Caedmon-The Milton of
the Forefathers.