Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-21
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Governor of South Carolina ExpIaiDs
Why He Uses Railroad Passes.

ny ne uses balIFOau EaSseS.
Governor Tillman of South Carolina.
who has been taken to task for using
railroad passes, explains that he saved
money for the State by their use.
Philip D. Armour is said to be the
largest individual commercial operator
In the world. His transactions last year
reached the enormous aggregate of $685.
100000.
The Shah of Persia is developing into
kodak fiend, and his courtiers all say
that his pictures are wonderful successes.
1t wouldn't be healthy for them to say
anything else.
John A. Riley, brother of James Whit
comb Riley, has been appointed Super
lntendent OF the Bradstreet Company
for the Pacific Coast, with headquarters
at Los Angeles.
The Gar is one of the few living ban
queters, it is said, who can "drink a
toast" according to the old style, swal-
lowing toasted apple, liquor and all from
the trimming cup.
MIR. and Mrs. Robert Packard, who re-
side on farm near New Hartford Ia,
are the parents of twenty-nine living
children. The eldest is 40, and the
youngest is l6 years of age.
Mile. Darnova, a wealthy and refined
Russian lady and a relative of the Cars
Minister OF the Interior, has commenced
her big task of walking from Kieff to
Moscow and thence to Paris.
Robert T. Barker of New Bedford,
Mass, read the Bible through for the
first time in 1903. Since that date he
has read 1t ninety-nine times. 1t usually
takes him two months to read it from
beginning to end.
President Diaz is again well enough to
attend to executive business, but he
bears traces of recent suffering. His
wife wishes him to 90 to Europe for a
rest, but his ambition keeps him at home
and will for some time vet.
General Booth now has a large num-
Der of the London poor at work on his
home farm" at Hadleigh, Essex. and
as soon as accommodations are ready the
number will be increased. The scheme
is watched with good deal of interest.
The Pope does not speak English "bet-
ter than many Englishmen," as is stated
IN paragraph now going the rounds.
He does not speak the language at all,
and holds converse with English-speak-
ing people through an interpreter in
Latin.
Lady AylesbTy is one Of the most ex-
traordinary figures in London society.
She is nearly 50, and wears a wig of
corkscrew curls. She is noted as the
possessor of a sharp tongue, and her
language is at all times picturesque and
vigorous.
Bismarck since he has retired from his
official duties in Berlin has devoted him
sell largely to developing his business
enterprises. In FREDERICKSBURG, espe-
clally during the last year, his factories
have been enlarged and run to their full
capacity. His potteries have had more
orders than they could fill.
John c. Calhoun, grandson OF the
South Carolina statesman OF that name,
declares that alternate generations in his
family smoked and eschewed smoking.
He never touches cigar himself, and
he says the great apostle of notification
never did, either; but his father and
great grandfather were inveterate smok-
ers.
Ex-Speaker Reed has apparently been
getting gay during his trip abroad. A
New York PAGER records, that,ea his. re-
turn I his s1lt Aes u q 4 Il ip q q
made, but Il il El.as. Gil ! ii ssnI 81 Il
brim, was plainly built on British
block. He wore it on the back Of his
head"
Princess Milena, wife Of the reigning
Prince OF Montenegro, has subjected
herself to a severe surgical operation in
the clinic Of Heidelberg. The Princess
is now IS years old, but she has been
married thirty-one years. As Milena
Petrowna Bukotitisch in 1847 she was
called the loveliest and most beautiful
woman in Europe.
Secretary Fosters fondness for base
ball is said to be developing into mania
He goes out to the Washington ball
grounds whenever there is a game on,
and when the Cincinnati team was play
ing at the capital promptly on the stroke
of 4 every afternoon the Secretary would
make bee line for his hat and coat. A
moment later he could be seen chasing a
car with the agility of schoolbOy.