The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-05-23
PERSONAL MENTION.
Horace Chiffon IL the First Native-BoFn
Texan United states senator.

Jerry Simpson, the Kansas Congress
man, owns farm Of 800 acres, and haI
eighty acres in wheat.
Joseph Pulitzer has a fad. 1t IL I,
commence whatever he has 10 do OF i'm
portance on the 10th day Of the month
Baron Rothschild, who recently los
| $4,000, 900 in speculation, told a friend
/ that his opinion Of himself could not bt
t put into words.
Mrs. Nathaniel Williams OF Crockett
Tenn, il the mother Of twelve children
and has twenty great great grandchildren
She is "a years of age.
Horace Chiffon, whom Governor Hogp
has appointed United States Senator in
Mr.. Reagan's place, IL the first native
Texan to hold that Office.
General Hawley Of Connecticut is Ia
be orator and Miss Louise Imogen Quincy
poetess on the occasion Of the Sherman
memorial exercises in Boston June 4.
Christopher =. Cranch, the Boston
poet, has written his biography for the
benefit of his children and grandchil-
dren, which doubtless some day may be
published in book form.
Ward McAlister, who met Waterloo
in attempting to write book about the
doings Of the AGO, is now drumming the
sale Of liquors, and his present literary
efforts are expended in putting certain
brands Of Wines.
The young King Alexander of servia
will, if all goes well, travel considerably
this summer and visit the various courts
Of Europe, but he will need shrewd,
conservative and refined gentleman as
companion and guardian.
Hon. John Lathrop member of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court, has laid
aside the gown for time, and is making
tour of the Southern battlefelds, upon
which he fought as Captain OF the
Thirty-fifth Massachusetts,.
The late Prince Jerome Bonaparte for
various reasons always refused TO be pre-
sented to ex-Premier Crispi of Italy. BY
a strange decree of fate Crispi was one
OF the two witnesses to the official an
nounCement of the Princes death.
Justice l.. @. C. Lamar has aged per-
ceptibly in the last few years, and is now
thin, stoop-shouldered man, with flesh
less cheeks, to which the skin hangs in
folds; long, thin gray hair, claw-like
hands and general air of feebleness.
General Bragg tells good story of his
first meeting with Oliver ?. Morton, the
great war Governor. "'ve heard a great
deal of you, cir" said Bragg. "Yes, :"
said Morton whats the use of being
feIler unless you're hell of feller?"
Rev. Francis Bethany, a brother of
" Looking Backward Bellamy, has re-
signed his Boston pastorate to take an
editorial position upon the Youths Com
pdnioa. He informed his congregation
that he would give place to fresher
man.
NJ. Lambert, who was married into the
Rothschild family a few years ago, is to
become the head of the Paris house Of
that famous firm upon the death of
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild. NJ.
Lambert is now known as Albert de
Rothschild.
A fund to provide for General Banks
in his old age will be collected in Massa-
chusetts, the movement having been
started by Senators Hoar and Dawes and
having the support of two Democratic
members of Congress, Messrs. O'Neil
and Andrew.
Rev. Philip S. MoXom informs the
Ministerial Union of Boston that "the
pulpit has been superseded by nothing"
and that "there are clergymen living to-
day who have a wider and greater inhu
ence on the conduct of men than any
newspaper in the world"