Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-20
POINTS ON PEOPLE.

WARNER MILLER'S American Fiber
company has been stocked for $50, 100000.
Ex-PREs1DENT CLEVELAND will move
his law offices from William street to the Mills
building in Broad street on May L
SENATOR EDMUNDs is tapping a few
maple trees on his farm in Vermont, and will
for a season try the sweets of private life.
CHARLES EMORY SMITH. United States
Minister to Russia. has been granted leave of
absence from st. Petersburg to visit this coun-
try.
W. MACKAY LAFFAN, of the New York
Sun, has bought jadeite jar for 81, 400 And
yet there are people who talk about 1.-THE poor
newspaper man."
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER, of Illinois,
is seriously i'll at his residence in Washington,
from nervous prostration supplemented by
severe case of the grip.
PROF. BRUGsCH is about to leave Berlin
for Egypt at the expense of the German Min
istry of Education, in order to inspect the dis
coverIes recently made at Thebis.
GENERAL DEoDoRA DA FoNsECA, who
has just been elected President of the Brazilian
Republic, is 81 years old. All his life since his
boyhood has been passed in the army
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has ac-
cepted the Presidency of the Palestine explor-
alton fund, of which the Ia Archbishop of
York was the President from the foundation of
the society in 1865 to his death.
SENATOR STANFORD and wife are at
Ithaca, N. Y. The Senator is making care.
full inspection of the University there for
guidance in connection with the great univers-
ity he is building IN California.
DIR. EMMA BRAINARD RYDER is ar
ranging some appropriate Hindoo words to the
music of a lot of Yale songs. to be introduced
into East India by the Pundita Ramabai who is
laboring to elevate child widows.
BISHOP PADDOCK, of Massachusetts, was
regarded by the late Richard H. Dana, of Bos-
ton, as the best presiding officer in a conven-
ton that he ever knew. The Bishop was
ready off-hand speaker, and knew how to dis
patch business.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, while living in
Japan, not only smoked frequently himself but
even trained his children, including little girl
to do SO. Cigarettes were used by the young
folks who, strangely enough, somehow did not
seem to be very fond of the indulgence.
JAY GoULD's signature was printed in
the puzzle column of Boston paper with the
request that readers guess whose it was.
Among the persons to whom the autograph
was credited were T. Reed. Ingersoll, Ike Weir,
Baron Hlrsch. H. Greeley. Jubal Early and In
spector Byrnes.
DR.. ARMAND JEANNoUToT, a young
physician of Paris, is the latest in the field as a
consumption cure discoverer. His cure is by
inhalation. His apparatus consists of small,
tubular brass boiler connected with brass pan
with lid When in operation from under the
lid escape vapors which spread about the room
one of the parts of which is prussic acid.
MRS. FRENCH-SHELDoN, the wealthy
woman whose proposed daring attempt to
emulate Il. NJ. Stanley's recent feats in mid.
Africa has attracted much general attention,
resides with her husband, wellknown
author, in beautiful retreat by the Thames at
Hampton. She is of fine physique, 1.-the and
supple. with piercing eyes, very handsome, of
exceptional conversational powers and one
who appears to be regardless of fear. She is a
granddaughter of Sir Isaac Newton, compare.
lively young, and of American birth.