Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-03
PITHY PERSONALS.

The King Of Greece is the most economi'
| cal of European monarchs.
MR.. BARRETT BROWNING, son of the
poet. has purchased a house at Asolo, where
his father spent his last holidays.
WALTER BEsANT denies that he is about
to start company or business for the purpose
of publishing English books In New York.
MAYOR SHAKESPEARE, of New Or
any relationship with the Stratford playwright,
and the latter doesn't seem interested.
The German Empress is to reside this
year with her children at the schloss Of Viii.
helmshohe near Cassel, where Napoleon Ill.
| lived during the autumn Of 1870
HERBERT SPENCER is now a man of 20.
though ne looks ten years younger. He is of
medium stature and his head Is bald except
for thin fringe of hair. He has an aquiline
nose. Tuddy skin and an intellectual face.
Mr.. NEBBKER, the new United States
Treasurer, writes with stub-pen, and his sig
nature is a close, firm one, He and his wife
are people of quiet tastes, and they do not in
tend to figure conspicuously in society in
Washington,
MINNIE HAUK'S husband, Count Ernest
de Hesss. Wartegg, is q writer and scientist of
has travelled extensively in North and South
America and in Europe and Africa, and be-
longs to many scientific societies in Europe and
this country.
Mr.. HALsEY c. IVES, who has been
selected as Art Director of the Columbian
Worlds Fair, is about AZ years of age and a
native of New York. He has high reputa-
tion as an art critic and connoisseur. having
studied extensively in the art schools Of
Europe and America
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., who
was for six years President of the Union Pacific
Railroad, is naturally graduate of Harvard
and a thorough Bostonian. He has delight
full home on Commonwealth avenue, but lives
at Quincy, his birthplace. during the summer.
Having served his country with distinction
during the war, he began the study OF railroad
law, and met with much success in its practice
in later years.
MISS JEAN GORDON, of Cincinnati, upon
whom will be conferred degree at the Phila-
delphia College of Pharmacy, has earned the
highest average ever attained by any woman
graduate from that institution. Out Of the 1S4
graduates in the class of this year, only six OBJ
tanned the highest rating of distinguished"
Miss Gordon was one of the six. She was the
only woman in her class, and had to contend
with bright young men.
HORACE Chiffon, whom Governor
Hogg has appointed United States Senator
in Mr. Reagan's place. is the first native Texan
to hold that Office, and. with the exception of
William II. Grain, is probably the first to 60
to either house of Congress. Mr.. Chiffon was
a candidate for a Democratic nomination for
Congress in 1882, but got into a deadlock with
Hubbard, who was afterward appointed Minis
ter to Japan, and third man carried of the
prize.
SECRETARY PROCTOR is erecting o
building for the village library in Proctor. The
nucleus of the collection of books was orig
1nally given by him for the benefit of the hands
and employees OF the marble company there
In giving it he agreed that for every book they
would add to the library, and for every dollar
they would give to it, he would add a book and
give a dollar 1t has gone on increasing under
this arrangement. which has been faithfully
carried out by Governor Proctor, until now it
numbers some 900 volumes.