Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-17
PERSONAL MENTION.
A woman Who Served Through the War
Applies for Pension.

apples Tor "a IenSIOn.
Sardou, the French playwright, writes
hand so fine that it almost requires
magnifying glasg to read it.
Lord Wolseley entered the British
army thlrty-fve years ago at the modest
pay OF Sl.25 day, and out of that he
was compelled to pay for his mess and
uniform.
George kennon has consented to be-
come editor of the paper called Free
Russia, provided IS, 900 can be raised to
remove the publication Office from Lon
don to New York.
Bacon was not willing TO trust the
present. He wrote in MS will: For
my name and memory l leave it to mems
charitable speeches, to foreign nations
and to the next ages"
The purchaser of the log cabin built
by General Grant will move it only a
short distance from its present site, the
old Grant farm near St. Louis, but Will
not let it go to Chicago, he says.
Mary F. Dewey Of Goshen, Ind, served
through the civil war, disguised as a
man, in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Regi-
ment under the alias of Charles Dewey.
She now applies for pension under her
real name.
Sarah Bernhardt bears her mothers
name. Her first name was originally
ROsine, which she changed OF her own
accord. She is Catholic in religion,
and until she was l6 she was educated
in convent
Sir Henry Wotton, who lived and
wrote in the seventeenth century, did
not have much of an opinion of diplo-
mates. He said: ''An Ambassador is
an honest man snt to lie abroad for the
commonwealth
Gordon Cu9gming will neither show
his hand nor his teeth. The expected
baccarat exposure has been suppressed.
The reasons are supposed to be kept Sc
cret, but this will not be reliably known
TILL Lady Brooke is heard from.
Ex-senator Evart's hat is always worn
on the back of his head, as if it wanted
to hide from observation the fact of its
being old enough to have heard the first
gun at Sumter fired. Mr.. Evarts ages
fast, and has decided stoop. Indicating
increasing weakness and lack of vitality.
Edwin Arnold in the DAYS when, even
though an active newspaper man hewas
brtmtul OF Hindoo philosophy and liter
AZURE and thoughts regarding them, was
often known to say to people whom he
met on the street, " My dear friend, |
am glad to see you, but really you have
taken me out of the Himalaya Mount
aims"
Rev. Melancthon W. Jacobs of Oxford.
Pa, who has been called to the chair of
New Testament theology in the Hartford
Theological Seminary, preached for
number OF years in the Central Presby-
terrain Church of Pittsburg. He is the
author Of several works on Biblical sub
Jects, and is said to be a man of great
learning.
DR.. w. H. Egle of Harrisburg has been
elected President of the Pennsylvania
German Society, an organization formed
tor the purpose of preserving the records
OF those hardy aud worthy Germans
who settled in the State in an early day
known to fame as Pennsylvania
Dutchmen." DR.. Egle is a historian OF
national fame.
Prince Bismarck doesn't write letters
II he can help it, but when it is impera-
tive he has them written, and then adds
his signature, at the same time inclosing
his photograph. His object in doing the
latter probably is to inform his CORE
spondent that the real Bismarck and the
Bismarck hem9v know from the cuts in
thiee papers a'e wr'dnferent persons.
Emma Abbott's ashes are to be sur
mounted by an $50, 900 Gothic monu-
ment of Western granite, which is to be
erected in Oak Grove cemetery at
Gloucester, Mass. 1t will also serve as
tomb for the body of her husband,
Eugene Wetherell. The monument will
be fifty feet high, and will resem-
bic the Prince Albert memorial at Lon
don.
DIR. Thomas Francis Gailor, newly
elected Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, al
though now only 35 years, has declined
a 10000 offer to become pastor of Trinity
Church, Chicago, the chair OF dogmatic
theology in the General Seminary Of
New York and the bishopric Of Michigan,
to which last, however, he was not
elected. His name was on the list of
candidates, and he begged to have it
withdrawn.
Mrs. Wanamaker's chief object in Wis
iting Europe this season is said to be to
see her grandchildren, the little son and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Rodman Wa
namaker, who make their home in Paris.
The little four-year-old granddaughter is
an especial favorite, and there is hardly
steamer leaving New York for the
French ports during the season but car
ries among the mail letter or present
for the little maid from her grandmother