The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-04
PERSONAL MENTION.



His Big Cannon mt the Worlds Fair.
The King OF Sweden is great swim.
mer, and wears gants de Suede in swim.
ming to keep his hands from tanning.
Sara Bernhardt has promised to con
tribute a painting to the women's gallery
Of pictures at the Chicago Exposition.
/ Austin Dobson, the poet, is likely to
visit the United States next autumn and
give series Of readings from his own
works.
Carl Streitmann, who now seems to be
the king tenor Of the colnic.opera stage
is a Niennese, whose family fortune was
lost by bank failure.
Officer Rollings OF Philadelphia is said
to be the largest policeman in the United
States. He is 8 feet s inches in height,
and weighs $40 pounds.
! Ingalls, receives $500 for each Of his
lectures. Financially, at least, he finds
it more profitable to lecture the people
than to scold the Senate.
| Kate Field, who has made Washington
her home for the last eighteen months,
calls both New York city and Boston
idiotically Anglomaniacal." "
Frau Wagner will probably he invited
by certain people in Milwaukee, to hold
a musical festival in that city in 1893 as
an annex to the Worlds Fair.
]. Lamb Doty, United States Consul
at Tahiti, is the youngest Consul in the
service Of the United States. He was
only 20 years old when appointed.
Baron Krupp is hesitating about ex-
hibiting some Of his great cannon at the
Worlds Fair but there will be plenty OF
big gunson hand there, Notwithstanding,
The Marquis Of Lorne is said to cher
ish secret passion for cock-ighting.
He is never so happy as when a groom
gets up rattling set-to for him in sta
BILE loft.
Jules Simon, the celebrated French
economist, detests tobacco, and saysthat
he is an inveterate enemy OF alcohol.
Jules appears to be quite simple Simon
in his habits.
Edison is now Mt work on an electric
motor to replace the ordinary locomotive.
1t is designed to take up electricity from
central rail and to develop at least
| l,0O0-horse power.
Chauncey NJ, Depew is in Athens en-
ioying himself in seeing the sights. He
SAYS it is all stuff about Demosthenes
having practiced aiterdinner oratory
with his mouth full Of classic pebbles.
Ex-senator Ingalls, tells a Chicago re-
reporter that he is really and truly out
OF politics and is not even watching the
course OF events. He is quite absorbed
in agriculture interspersed with lectur-
ing.
Mrs. Langtry owed some Of her popu-
larity as well as one Of her soubriquets
to the late Frank Miles, the London art
ist. When he was in Jersey he painted
her portrait, and named it "The Jersey
Lily"
DR.. Frederick M. Fling Of Biddeford
Me-, has been elected Professor Of Eng
lish History in the University of Ne
brapka in place OF Prof. Howard, who
has gone to the Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University.
II isn't often that two members OF one
family are Governors OF two States at
the same time, but it seems 10 be the
case in West Virginia and Florida, in
each OF which States the Governors
name is Fleming.
The Queen Of the Sandwich Islands in
her passion for music has organized a
band OF trumpeters. There are few
street bands and piano organs in this
section Of the world that she is welcome
to II she wants them.
A Church Of England clergyman was
recently asked why he engaged in out
side work. I" To increase my starving"
was the odd reply, which he explained
by saying that he called an income of
EDS tS475l year starving" rather
than a " living"
A very fine portrait Of Henry Clay is
on view at 46 Pail Mall, London. 1t was
painted in 1850 by David A. Woodward
Of Washington for DR.. Chaplin Of Balti-
more, Clay's medical attendant. The
portrait is said by those who knew Mr..
Clay to be ar excellent likeness.
Jesse D. Grant, the youngest son of
General Grant, who has recently been
living quietly in California on a large
fruit ranch and farm, has been given
control, with a large contingent interest,
in a group Of silver mines in Mexico,
from which over $l,0O0,O0O have been
taken in five years.