The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-07-24
PERSONAL MENTION.
A Woman who Served Through the War
Applies for Pension.


Sardou, the French playwright, writes
q hand 80 fine that II almost requires n
magnifying glass TO read it.
Lord Wolseley entered the British
army thirty-five years ago at the modest
pay Of II .25a 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 $1,000 can be raised to
remove the publication Office from Lon
don to New York.
Bacon was not willing 10 trust the
present, He wrote in MS will For
my name and memory | leave it tomen's
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
net let il go to Chicago, he says.
Mary r. Dewey Of Goshen, Ind, served
through the civil war, disguised as q
man, in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Regi-
ment under the alias OF Charles Dewey.
She now applies for a 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 sent to lie abroad for the
commonwealth.
Gordon Cumming will neither show
his hand nor his teeth. The expected
baccarat exposure has been suppressed.
The reasons are supposed to be kept se-
cret, but this will not be reliably known
till Lady Brooke is heard from.
Ex-senator Eyart's hat is always worn
on the back Of his head, as ii it wanted
to hide from observation the fact OF Its
being old enough to have heard Che first
gun at Sumter fred. MIR. 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 ewas
brimfu OF Hindoo philosophy and liter.
ature 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. Melanethon w. Jacobs Of Oxford
Pa, who has been called to the chair ol
New Testament theologytn the Hartford
Theological Seminary, preached for q
number OF years in the Central preshy-
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.
DIR. w. H. Egle Of Harrisburg has beer
elected President OF the Pennsylvania
German Society, nm organization formed
for the purpose of preserving the record,
OF those hardy mud worthy Germant
who settled in the State in an early da,
known TO fame as "Pennsylvanif
Dutchmen.n DR.. Egle is a historian d
national fame.
pr;nca p;smarct doasn,, u,r;,o Ie,tor,
IL be ran helm 4 hnt when 4 G " ;mn..ra -
five ha hos tbo,r wr;,,an and .han odJ,
his M signatora w attn % at tha same tim time % ;nclesin, %
liz nbntnaranh III Ii,s % nh;ac. % = do;na as IL,
latter probably is 10 inform his CORE
spondent that the real Bismarck and the
Bismarck he may know from the cuts il
the papers are two different persons.
Emma Abbott's ashes are TO be sur
mounted BY an $s5.O0p Gothic monu
ment Of Westerly granite, which il to b,
erected in Oak Grove cemetery Al
Gloucester, Mass. 1t will also serve a,
a tomb for the BODY OF he, husband
Eugene Wetherell. The monument will
BILE the Prince Albert memorial AZ Ion