Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-10-17

Major Mckinley now revels in the in.
effable joy of having five cent cigar
named after him.
Roger Doughty Tichborne, the famous
claimant, is now waiter in a Noting.
ham public house, and draws better than
the beer pump itself.
The queen Of Denmark is an expert
dressmaker and a good pastry cook. Her
daughters also are all clever needle
women, and so is the czarina of Russia.
Victoria is now great grandmother
She is also about 70 years of age, and has
been on the throne almost "a years, or
much longer than any other living mon
arch.
Mrs Custer, widow of the general, has
never taken off her widows weeds. She
dresses plainly in lusterless black, re-
lieved by white collar and deep white
cuffs.
Leopold Bloom, the millionaire wheat
Spectator of Chicago, has retired from
business. He says that he has made
money enough. 1t is the first case on
record.
welt Guilbert, the favorite of Partisan
music halls, says size would rather earn
her $500 a night and be deluged with
bouquets on a stage than be queen upon
any throne.
Moses Day, the Boston millionaire, be-
gan life as a poor New Hampshire miner,
and walked from B ton to Baltimore in
search of work, fail.Lg to find which he
walked back again.
Ignatius Donnelly says that if he knows
himself well enou h to be at large with
out q keeper, he v i'll not be a candidate
for the Presidency on the third or any
other party's ticket.
Charles Tappan, who built the famous
New York Tombs prison, is still living in
that city at the age of 95. He has seen
the metropolis gro from town of less
than 100000 inhab tants.
Eugene Bertrand, the new director Of
the Grand Opera House, of Paris, served
an apprenticeship as a theatrical manager
in the United States. He is 81 years old
and abandoned medicine for the stage.
Countess Lewenhaupt, ex-Secretary
! Bayard's widowed daughter, is residing
8 in the Wilmington home provided TO
7 her prior to her marriage. She inherit
g $75, 900, presented to her husband by hi
father.
!; DIR. Calling is working on new gun
! which will knock the spots out of his ia
! nous pepper box gun. His object is +
: make war so dangerous that nations vii
: have hard work to decide between it an
= base ball
:. General Franz Sigel is now 66 years Q
O age. 1t is 40 years since he came to thi
: country, and 80 years since he entere
II the Union Army. II goes to fight m
/, Sigel" was phrase often heard in til
= old war days.
It Countess de Nuremberg, who was II
}, Gently welded to a member of the impt
3, rial house of Russia, has negro blood
{. her veins. She is daughter of Puskir
who was a descendant of negro favorit
of Peter the Great.
r. w. elders home, at Marion, is
combination Of camp roughness an
, civilized luxuries. There are no carpet
= the chairs are primitive, but the cook
l. excellent. There is only one spare room
l. for the guests are not so frequent as di
a tinguished.
of The leaders of society are not alwa,
W callous to the needs of those less fort
q" nate than they are. Mr.. and Mrs. Jol
Jacob Astor are said to give away mo
IN than 100000 a year in unostentatio
o. charity while Mrs. Astor is interested
tn mission work.
ii. The late DR.. Leidy, Pennsylvania e.
inent scientist, was the first among Anne
leans to accept the Darwinian theor
y, He said of it: II feel as though I h;
OF hitherto CROPPED about in darkness, al
er that all of a sudden meteor flash,
upon the skies,
of William Woodward, of Baltimore,
90 years old, which is not wonderful, b
:. the fact that for 70 years he has been
III Sunday school teacher is. A reception
wv his honor occurred on the recent AM
versary of the commencement of his
al. bors in this field.
1t is remarkable, as showing the pr
o manence of the charm of fine voit
- that the recently published biography
uu Jenny Lind has excited great interest,
lat though it is all of 20 years since she W
It's, last heard in public. 1t is proof I'll
after all nature rules.
Editor Childs has presented to t
,as Mount Vernon Regents the proof she
,.a of the american Daily Advertiser, dat
100 September Is, 1895, containing the ia
W. well address of Washington, correct
)ut by himself. The relic is handsome
framed in hard cherry.
las Sarah Bernhardts tips completely
,ot founded bell boys and servants of
California, Hotelsays the Delmonte Va
Vi To the waiting maid who attended
MS the divine gave two $50 pieces, and
the the garcon who served her meals s
70 conferred four twenties.
Selectman Lounsbury, of Scymo
Conn, one of the officials in the Uni
States Pin Company, is going to bull
say sidewalk of pins. He has at the
- - company's shop some 20 barrels of