Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-24
POINTS ON PERSONS.

The Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, long
chaplain of Harvard College, observed his SOth
birthday last "Wednesday.
SHERIFF BROWN. of Chickasaw county,
| low :, is % years old, and the youngest Sheriff
| in the Northwest. if not in the United States.
| MRS. AMELIE RIvEs-CHANLER is now
in San Reno. where her health is sufficiently
| improved to allow her to be seen much in
public.
WILLIAM BACHE, a great grandson of
Benjamin franklin attained his S0th birthday
Monday. March l6, and on that evening
visited the Philadelphia Ledger office alone.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL's travel
ing companion IN his forthcoming visit to South
Africa will be his brotherin-law, Mr.. Moreton
Frewen. They will be accompanied by a regu.
larly organized escort. including doctor.
HON. THOMAS W. BIcKNELL of Boston,
has been requested by Hon. W. T. Harris,
United States Commissioner of Education, and
the leading educators of the country to take
charge of the educational exhibit of the United
States at the Worlds Fair.
QUEEN OLGA of Greece presented the
Crown Prince with a chapel and altar for use
in the field upon the occasion of his assuming
command of the First Regiment of infantry
recently. The small church can be divided
can be set up on low or mountainous lands.
Miss WANAMAKER, daughter of the
Postmaster General, is going abroad in time to
be presented at the drawing room the Queen
holds In June. The order for the gown Miss
Wanamaker is to wear then is already in the
hands of Worth, and he is busy preparing de.
signs to be submitted to her for her choice
Mr.. JOHN F. PLUMMER, of New York.
has a copy OF Marching Through Georgia" in
General Sherman's handwriting, together with
this note: These popular verses have been
sung annually for the last z3 years by the Army
of the Tennessee, but were not sung during the
war. first heard them in Washington in May
1865"
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, of Norwich,
President of the Connecticut division of the
Sons of the Revolution, has purchased the old
war office of his ancestor, Governor Trumbull
George Washington's bosom friend and coun-
sellor. This building, situated in the rural
town of Lebanon, has been neglected Of late
years. but now it will be well cared for.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is the champion
onion-eater of the Senate. A Cabinet officer
declares that when the Senator goes hunting he
eats an immense plateful of onions three times
day. He eats them fried for breakfast
boiled for dinner, fried at evening, and then he
takes several large ones and eats them raw
with salt and bread for lunch at night.
ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE has re-
ceived the first Darwin medal from the Royal
Society "for his independent organization of
the theory Of the origin Of species by natural
selection" The Copley medal was awarded to
Prof. Simon Newcomb for his contributions on
gravitational astronomy, and the Rumford
medal to Prof. Heinrich Hertz for his work on
lectro-mag netic radiation.
GEORGE D. REYNOLDS. United States
District Attorney of st. Louis, also has his plan
for decreasing drunkenness. He would estab-
lish State lnebriate Asylum and compel those
who make and sell liquor. including druggists,
to maintain it. The tax he would levy would
be 81, 600 the distiller, $500 on the wholesaler
and 500 on the retailer per year. Every intoxi-
Gated man should be treated as insane and sent
to the asylum until cured.