The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-12-19

The Kaiser viii Not Tolerate Gum
bling Among the Officers in
His Army.

Joseph Jefferson will play season Of
only ten weeks next year, aud " Rip. Van
Winkle" will be the only play in which
he will be seen.
II was through the influence Of Bishop
Phillips Brooks that the Salvation Army
was allowed TO parade the streets Of Bos-
ton with music.
Another monument IL projected In
| New York. This one is General Han
cocks, and II is proposed to erect II in
Hancock square, Harlem.
The wife of General A. w. Greely has
recently been 80 seriously Ill as 10 occa-
sion her friends great anxiety, but her
condition ia now much improved.
Bismarck is in Germany what they
call "chain smoker r"--that In, he
smokes from morning till night without
IA break, lighting one cigar with the end
OF another.
A son Of Joseph Je erson, the famous
American comedian of "Rip Van Win
kle " fame, has been In London on a
visit TO his sister, who Is the wife Of Il.
j, Farjeon, the novelist.
Walt Whitman has Of late refused 10
see the visitors who come in numbers TO
call on him. He has been compelled TO
take this precaution in self-de ense
against tho idle curiosity which brings
them TO his doors.
| The Beau Brumme OF New York's
middle-aged milionaires is d. O. Mills,
who follows the fashions in male attire
very closely, wears his clothes well, and
Is altogether model for metropolitan
Crpsus TO pattern after.
The Duke OF Leinster's country house
is said to have passed into the owner.
ship Of an Irish farmer, who was former
! ~ his tenant, under the operation OF the
new Irish land laws. This is the build
ing after which the White House at
Washington was modelled.
Sir Edwin Arnold's resemblance to
| Charles Dickens attracts general atten-
ton among New Workers. II Sir Edwin
\ IN 30 much better speaker according TO
American ideas than most of the other
lecturers Great Britain has sent or lent
us, it may be because he is SO much bet
ter journalist.
One thing the Kaiser will not tolerate
! Is gambling. lie says no man can either
win or lose money on quiet game and
be an oificer of his, and he speaks by
the card, too. He has already had sew
eral officers dropped for the offense, and
the games are now quieter than ever
among the officers.
Governor Jones, the head of the Choc-
taw nation, is pacific savage in store
clothes, which look rs If he had donned
them with the aid OF pitchfork. He
wears a.stubby gray mustache, a porten-
tous watch chain and diamond pin
nesting in a sky-blue crayat. He talks
very little English.
DR.. Gatling says his famous gun should
be regarded as philanthropic inven-
tion, for it has saved no end of lives by
soaring riotous people into submission.
So he calls the deadly gun 1.-THE peace
maker" The Doctor is growing old, but
he is still one of the handsomest men
that visit Washington. lie is tall and
portly, with snow-white hair and whisk-
ers and kindly eye, and in thought and
action he is youthful and vigorous.
John Ruskin will soon complete his
I'D year, and for sixty-fve of those
years he has been poet, though for the
most part using prose as the vehicle Of
expression for highly poetic thought. Al
the age of he wrote in blank verse 9
singular essay on "Time." The next
year he wrote an invocation to the sur
to shine on his garden, which is ar
amusing, almost pathetic, mixture o
poetry and pathos. AT the age Of 20 he
gained the Newdigate prize for English
poetry. and soon alter abandoned the
muse because, as he said, he could MOI
express his ideas in verse.