Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-10-31
MEN AND WOMEN.

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It is said Princess Alix of Hesse-D Darn
stadt is the most beautiful unmarried
royal girl In all Europe.
Hon. Honore Mercier, premier of
Quebec, has been created count of the
holy Roman empire by the pope.
Dubois, the French sculptor, piqued
that his statue was badly placed in the
Paris s, on, smashed it into atoms.
Justices Bradley and Field are the only
members of the United States Supreme
Court who have been such more than 10
years.
Bourke Cochran, the big boss of Tam
many, prides himself on having the
bigs est head in New York. He wears
No s hat.
Classy Ketcham, colored, who nursed
the late General e. R. S. Candy when he
was an infant, is livingat Charlottesville,
Ind, aged 101 years.
Mr.. Chiffon, of Texas, will be the
youngest man in the United States
Senate. He is but S6. Mr.. Morrill,, at
the age OF 81, is the Oldest.
Daniel Webster's grave is on knoll
nearly in the center of the little grave
yard at Mansfield, Mass. 1t is marked
by simple headstone that bears only the
name Daniel Webster"
Mrs. Helen Gouger says that she has
kept record Of the accounts of wife
murders by drunken husbands published
in tie daily papers since January 1, 1889.
The aggregate number is 1904.
The most beautiful and at the same
time the most popular woman in Canada
is said to be Mrs. MoShane, the wife of
the new mayor Of Montreal. Mrs. Nc
ShaLe is an American by birth, and it is
largely due to her that her husband was
elected to the mayoralty.
Alan Arthur, son of the late President
Arthur, is feet 4 inches in height, very
erect and slender, and belongs to the
Titans He is not yet 80, bachelor, and
has recently returned from an extended
tour in Europe, where he received much
attention.
Truxton Beale, the recently appointed
minister to Persia, who is said to be en-
gagaged to Secretary Blaine's daughter
Hattie, is a son of General Edward Beale,
minister to Austria under General Grant.
He is about 80 years of age and is a law
yer by profession.
Annie Louise Carey, at one time con-
sidered among the greatest of contraltos,
is large blonde woman in whose hand
some countenance beams the benevolence
of her heart Domestic affairs and charity
work now engage the greater share of
her daily time and attention.
Lord Salisbury, stout and INDECENT as
he may now seem, h s been hard
worker, and in 1862, when he was Robert
Cecil, visited the Bendigo and Ballarat
gold fields, where he joined the diggers,
lived in tent, did his own washing, and
dug and gathered nuggets.
Miss Hayden and Miss Howe, who have
won the first and second prizes for the
best designs for the Women's Building at
: the Chicago Worlds Fair, We're both
students at the Boston Institute of Tech
nology. Miss Hayden was graduate,
+ and Miss Howe took special course.
Miss Marie r. Schiller. who will be one
, of the three women to visit South America
, for the purpose of interesting the women
of that continent in the Worlds Fair, is
: highly educated and accomplished, speak
, ing Spanish, French, and German as
] fluently as she does English. She is a
Philadelphian.
W. R. Lee was driving an express
> wagon in Springfield, Ohio, four years
ago, when local church raised $1,000 to
) educate him as medical missionary. He
l graduated a year ago and was sent by a
5 missionary board to Siam, whose
monarch has assigned DR.. Lee to an i'm
: pOttant medical post.
Mr.. Oglesby, in one of his letters, said
"The only woman on record who was the
) wife of a Governor, the sister of Gov
: ernor, the niece of a Governor, and the aunt
and foster mother of Governor was a
Southern woman" In his pamphlet he
gives the name of this woman as Mrs.
Richard Manning, of South Carolina.
, Miss Jessie Sudlow. II year old South
Carolina girl, has won the prize that was
offered by the Times of Manchester, Eng
land, for the best composition on "The
Best Book and Why Like 1t. :" The COM
petition was open to the world, and there
were competitors from France, Germany,
Canada, South America. Mexico, and the
United States. Her subject was Swan
: hoe.
e Senator George has the true look Of a
Mississippi roustabout in his clothes.
There is nothing of the dude about the
big, hearty, and careless man, whose
garments fit him as if he had been meas
] ured with two foot rule and the tailor
+ had shaped them out with a crosscut
. saw. He is just the sort of farmer like
old fellow whom you would expect to
, meet in a cross road grocery, dickering
about the price of molasses or the weight
D of prize hog.