The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-29
PEOPLE WE TALK ABOUT.

at is rumored in Chicago that the EN-
peror William is coming over to the Worlds
fair" "~Um-ah-as an exhibit or as a Wis
itor?'-Puck.
Sir Edwin Arnold has agreed to write a
poem for the Worlds fair opening and to
serve on two committees connected with
the management.
Mrs. Taylor. of Little Washington, Pa,
is known as tine oil queen. because she has
accumulated a fortune of So. 0OO. 900 by per-
sonal Investments in the Richie county
fields.
The estates of the marquis of Ailesbury
have just been sold to Lord Iveagh. a
new lord, for So. 750, 1000. The noble lord
ruined himself by his dissolute habits, and
the purchasing money goes in a large part
to pay his debts.
The French academy's first prize for vir-
tue, $500 francs. was awarded this year to
Marie Sedier, of Bayonre, who has devoted
herself to placing deserted children with
peasants and artisans. In seven years she
has rescued twenty seven.
Congressman Baker, of Kansas, has a
daughter who does a mans work about the
homestead farm and can handle a pillow and
turn a furrow with the best of them. And
she does it because she likes the work and
finds good health in its labors.
Sir William Gordon Cumming, under the
persuasion of his wife, has taken a resi-
dence at Bayswater, London, where he pro-
poses giving big receptions during the COM
ing season. He evidently intends to push
society to grant him recognition.
The personal estate of the late duke of
Cleveland, Lord Roseberry's stepfather,
was II, 100000. After leaving property to
his wife and GO, 900 apiece to nine children
OF other people. he put the bulk of his es-
tate in trust to 90 to whomsoever within
five years after his death shall establish a
title to the barony of Barnard, the only title
which will not lapse by the dukes death.
The most prolific German authoress,
Amely Bolte, has just died at Wiesbaden at
the age OF 50. She began as a governess in
London and commenced to write in Ger
man III 1901. After that she obtained con-
siderable popularity through the produc.
ton of more than 400 ro1nances, of which
most were In two or three volumes. An eff
sSts ~ Ni ~ RoSiaAl JOSlLlO VI "OltlCI
ran through all her works.
I4ongfellow's home in Cambridge, with
its lilac hedge, its elms and its superb view
across the meadow to the Charles, is ten
anted now by tine poets daughter, Mis-
Alice Longfellow, who sometimes extend
the hospitality of its roomy pa,lors an.
handsome grounds to the ladies of the Har
ward annex. The house was built by a col
onial tory, and, although it is nea rly
century and a half old, there are few hand
somer residences in New England to-day.
Major Wingate, who has been writing
history Of the Medhist revolt in the Egg VI
tian Soudan, says the mahdi never claimed
originally to be anything more than tn
forerunner of the mahdi, who, all the faith
full expected, would come some day. ii
was an eloquent man, and during one o
his addresses to his followers. weary as the
were of Egyptian rule, they shouted, "Yo
are the mahdi." The idea seems to hav
occurred to him to make himself a create
parsonage than he had thus far claimed t.
be. II am the mahdi," he replied, ant
from that time he was accepted as the true
mahdi, and began the open revolt against
Egypt which led to his installment a
Khartoum as an absolute ruler.