The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-07-04
Personal MENTION.


and urrCucIoua Little Creature.
Count D'Ahraz, the French Consul Mt
New York, has n neat little salary oi
$ll 900 II year,
President Eliot, Of Harvard, has II
powerful bass voice that Is noticeable IN
congregational singing.
Sim Reeves, the noted English tenor,
who has Just retired from the stage, wac
quito welkknown as Il singer over hnll
n century ago.
Miss Hattie Blaine has gone to Eng
land. She has had letters from home
assuring her that her father is III no
respect seriously III.
Senator Villas owns , 200 acres OF land
in Wood county, Wisconsin, 800 acrea ol
which will be planted with cranbcrries,
lie may yet come to he known m the
Cranberry Statesman.
Charles Dudley Warner is described,
in what is perhaps meant to be com
plimentary way, 10y Western news
paper as "Our American iiash-light
photographer OF social iads."
General Lew Wallace, OF "Rcn llur'
| fame, saws that he is not n candidate Tor
the republican gubernatorIal nomination
| in Indiana, and that he would not have
| il were il offered TO him on silver
salver.
Herbert Spencer is not 70 greatly alb
sorbed in abstruse philosophy but that
he can take MI interest in the humane
and concrete. lie has joined the British
Society for the Prevention oi Cruelty TO
Children.
The 81 700 which Miss Juch was to re-
ceive for singing ut the indianapolis
May festival was attached on the suit OF
IL Montana bank last week. When the
fair songstress received the news she OBJ
served, GLOW horrid ~
Professor Burt Green Wilder, OF Cor
nell university, wants TO annihilate nlI
intercollegiate sports. It's evident that
the athletic side OF college life was de-
yeloped after the professor had his in
nings as an undergraduate.
The infant king OF Spain is a restless
and precocious little creature. lie has
already, though only 8 years old, out
grown his toys and yearns for liv,
horses instead Of tin ones. lie speaks
English quite correctly and is learning
French.
The assertion OF that bright lriahman
IT. L, O'Connor, that hereditary royalty
in England is now passing through the
severest ordeal it has been subjected L
for generations, has some truth in It
vet il il well TO remember that Englisf
royalty il hard nut to crack.
Seectman f,ounsbury, OF Seymour
Conn, one OF the officials in the unlte'
States Pin Company, is going to build
sidewalk OF pins. He has at the pm
company's shop some twenty barrels
old and imperfect pins, the accumula
tions of years, and these he VIII nov
utilize.
Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed il stay
ing at a quiet boarding house in Parls
At the request OF Minister Reed, NJ
. Floauet put his private gallery III TN
Chamber OF Deputies at the disposal {
j the ex-speaker, who is seen there irI
: quently, following debates with clos
attention.
o The foreign ministers to Pekln VIII
i saw the emperor at the recent royt
audience, carried away an agreeable III
l. preston of the Oriental sovereign. II
n was simply attired in silk and bore II
t scepter or other emblem OF authorit,
Instead OF crown he wore a pai
. Chinese felt hat surmounted by butto
! of crimson silk. lie appeared mild an
somewhat melancholy, and his pale ta'
wore an expression Of great reiinemer
o and dignity.
# The Russian Grand Duke Sergius
/. said to be profoundly devout in ma
"a ners. If he happens uponan image OF r
" " puted sanctty he will PROSTATE himst
a before it. If there are relics OF son
o. old ecclesiastic or by-gone generation
: he will not be happy till he kisses thel
If there is shrine where pilgrll
lie gather, there he must also worshi
" And the lady almost an Engll'
he princess, since the granddaughter of t.
a. queen) to whom he is married has HI
to learn to accommodate herself to /
a tastes.