Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-07
PERSONAL MENTION.
Miss Maggie Mitchell of Oregon is One OF
the Bellies of Paris.

Prince and Princess Bismarck have
lett trledrichsruhe for Schonhausen.
Secretary Foster grows so enthusiastic
when he sees good baseball play that he
throws up his hat like any boy.
1t is said that the Princess Clemen-
tine, the youngest daughter Of the King
OF the Belgians. will enter nunnery.
Mrs. DIR. J. s. Holloway of Springfield.
o., has fallen heir to 81 100000 left by
her uncle, Sir James Baxendale, an Eng
fish Knight.
Jay Gould turns the scales at lG7
pounds, but he has often turned the
scales on Wallstreet men Of more than
twice his weight.
President Lyon g. Tyler OF William
and Mary College is engaged upon po-
litical history of Virginia, for which he
has accumulated a vast amount of ma
terial.
NJ. Cabinet, the French portrait paint
er, says that Miss Maggie Mitchell, the
daughter of the Oregon Senator, is one
of the most beautiful women ever seen
in Paris.
Andrew Lang is tall, thin and dark,
and has laugh without music. He has
also a Mark Twain drawl, is near47 years
Of age and is one OF the hardest workers
in England.
Miss Virginia Knox of Pittsburg, who
married the bogus Count di Montercole,
is going to try her matrimonial luck
again-this time'with John 2. McKen-
ri Pa lti,nrro ,,nU-Gponoy Y,o,,
General Greely has been invited to at
tend a meeting Of the International Pc
lar Conference in Munich September Z.
The other eleven nations represented in
the cooperative observations of ISSl-G
will be represented.
Lord Stanley, the Governor General OF
Canada, is jolly good fellow and pop
ular and easy-gOing nObleman, enjoying
| life to the utmost. He enters into Ca
madam sports and pastimes with great
yigor and heartiness.
Ex-senator Ingalls, has solved the ques-
ton which everybody is asking by con.
senting to become one Of party which
is to make tour through Southern. Eu-
rope and the Holy Land. The party is
to consist of twenty-five persons.
The Worlds Fair Commissioners are
meeting with splendid welcome in Lon.
don. Sir Cunlitie Owen, who has repre-
scented England at every worlds fair for
/ the last quarter of a century, tells then
! his cOuntrymen intend to make a great
show.
James Gordon Benefits recent gift o
/ $4,000 to the omnibus or stage drivers
during their late strike has made hin
extremely popular with the FrencI
working classes and led them to regarC
/ him as benefactor to whom they car
appeal i'll an emergency.
Ed Stokes is not only one of the best.
/ looking and best-dressed men in the
New York conting mt summering at Sar
atoga, but he is the best mounted. His
/ horse is a noble black Kentucky charger
and he sis it as if he had been trained
to saddle in the bluegrass region.
Hubert Howe Bancroft, the historian
of the Pacific Coast, commenced fe az
a clerk in a book store. His att enti0r
was drawn to historical literature bv be
/ ing asked by his employers to aid in the
| preparation OF an almanac of the Coast
/ He has collected one of the most valua
bic histori, al libraries in the world.
George A. PiIlsbury OF Minneapolis
| has endowed the PilIsbury Academy o
/ Minneapolis with $1,000 for five fret
/ scholarships at the new University o
| Chicago, to be awarded to five students
Of the academy who have attained the
| highest grade in scholarship. Charles
! l.. Colby has endowed the Beaver Dan
/ Academy of Wisconsin with five similar
scholarships.
William Henry Smith, First Lord o
the Treasury, will soon be elevated tC
! the peerage. Mr.. Smith is the leadins
news agent in England, and the firm o
/ William II. Smith 4 Sons controls every
| book and news stand on all the princi
| pal railway lines in the country. Al
/ appropriate title for his peerage would
/ be Lord'Newsstands.
COunt notwithstanding, Chic
Court Marshal OF the King of Denmark
whose recent marriage with a singer o.
a dancing hall created such a sensation
in Copenhagen, has been placed under
guardianship. The sportive Count, who
was successful in the spirited contest
among the tennessee dOree of Denmark fol
the young woman's hand, enjoys the re.
/ spectacle age of 50 years.
1t is believed that Alexander Dumas
will portray some gambling scenes from
/ Monte Carlo in his new comedy, as he
spent several weeks last winter at that
resort, closely Observing the play, but
never stalking even sou. Dumas has
/ persuaded NJ. Febvre of the Coincide
/ Franchise to withdraw his resignation
and remain another year in order to Gre
ate the principal role for this comedy.