St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-17
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Alexander Rankin. the Scotchman
who succeeded john Brown as High
land servant to the queen, has obtained
almost as marked influence in the royal
household as Brown possessed.
The young King Alexander of Servia
will start on July % for the military
camp at Kieff, Russia. From kieff, on
July %, King Alexander will go to Mos
COW, and from there, on August 2,to St.
Petersburg.
Prof. John Stuart Blackie, of Scot
land, and Prof. ". S. Tyler, OF Amherst
college. have been teaching Greek for
more than fifty years. And, what is
more, they are still pretty lively, though
close on eighty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes library in his
Boston home looks over the Charles
river and furnishes a superb view OF
the distant spires and towers of Charles
ton and Somerville. Just at shutdown
the prospect is ideal.
bon. d. NJ. Key. judge of the United
States circuit court, and postmaster
general under President Hayes, has
been offered and accepted the position
of dean of the law school of the Grant
university. The tender was made by
Bishop Joyce, the new chancellor OF the
university.
Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey,
owns one of the finest salmon streams
i'll Canada, the NOteShasQuan, which is
reputed to be alive with the gamy fish.
The senator's angling outfit is of ire
proachaDle eXcellence-in fact, the SEN
atOr himself believes il to be the finest
in America.
Count Taafe, the Austrian prime min
lSter, Is almost as tacturn a man as
Grant was. He is Sparing OF his words,
so that when he does speak in the cham
Der he is listened to with unusual in
terest. He dresses most plainly, and in
cool weather Is usually wrapped up in
gray Overc0at, With gray SLOUGH hat on
his head.
A cablegram says that Patti demands
higher price than ever for her next
winters campaign in the United States.
She wants $1,000 a night. There is
contest between Abbey and Marcus
Mayer for possession of the diva. Mayer
wants her for concerts alone, while APP
hey wants her for concerts and opera.
It's understood to be Abbey's object to
given a series Of lOw-priced concerts in
the Garden theater. New York.
Rubinstein will pass the summer in
Dresden in order to finish his oratorio
of Moses" and a Russian opera.
BjOrnsen, the Norwegian novelist,
writes so abOminably that no one but
his wife can read his untidy MS.
- Gen Isaac Burrell, who served in the
civil war as member of the FOrtv-sec-
ond Massachusetts regiment, was forced
10 yield his sword to the Confederates at
Galveston, Tex. .n 1862. He has re-
Gently received word from a Southerner
that the present pOSsesSor of the sword
would like to return it to him.
Prof. L. l.. p erkins, of Boston, is the
owner of copy of Horace that was
printed in 1876. 1t has an index to
every word.
Mrs. Flora Hill Barton. of Manches-
ter, n. H.. will present to New Hamp-
shire a portrait of her father. Edison
Hill, who was treasurer of that state
from 1850 to 1868.
Rose Coghlan retains her shapeliness,
she claims, by brain work. There is
nothing" she says, like an active
brain for reducing flesh. Then, too
never dring when am eating. for | be-
lieve that drinking with your meals
makes you grow chunky"
There is a story that Valera took
Arditl, the conductor, to Stratford-on-
Avon. THAT is Shakespeare" she
said, pointing to the latter's monument.
You recOllect 'Amleto' and Romeo
and Julietta?" All" said the con-
ductor, Il understand; re li5rettist."