The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-11-14
PERSONAL MENTION.
Senator Sherman Keeps His Private
Correspondence in Fire
Proof Vault.

The perfume used by the Prince Of
latter uses sachets for ties, handkerchiefs
and silk socks.
Robert T. Lincoln, the United States
Minister, has returned 10 the American
embassy in London, leaving his wife at
Tours in France.
Rev. DR.. Jenckes OF indianapolis has
seventy proofs that the world will end
in ten years, and he gets sixty-nine Of
them from the Bible.
Vice-President Levi 7. Morton comes
down from his country home at Rhine
beck 10 his banking office in Nassau
street about once week.
Rope-waker Dixon, who crossed $50
feet above the whirlpool rapids at Mag
ara on three-quarter-inch cable last
July, has been drowned while bathing.
Mr.. Spurgeon signed the abstinence
pledge in 1866. Uniermented wine has
been used at the communion service at
the Metropolitan Tabernacle for several
years.
Major John A. Tibbitts Of New Lon
don, Conn, now United States Consul
at Bradford, England, has recently been
in poor health, but is now reported as
very much improved.
John Howard Parnell, brother OF
Charles Stewart Parnell, resides in At
lanta, Ga. Though living there for the
past twenty-four years, he has never
taken out citizen papers.
Z A royal blue Wilton set of pottery was
purchased recently by Miss Foster for
the Secretary's house in Washington.
This was OF American manufacture, Mr..
Foster much preferring this TO any for
eign ware.
Charles Gaylor, now critically ill at
st. Vincent's Hospital, New York, has
produced 23S plays since lS49, besides in
his earlier years doing a great deal OF
theatrical writing for Greeley and the
elder Bennett.
There are three surviving sons OF the
author of Pickwick CHARLES Dick
ems, editor of Al The Year Round: AL
fred Tennyson Dickens, merchant in
Melbourne, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Dickens, member OF the New South
Wales Parliament.
ii. Helm Clayton, for several years the
assistant at the Blue Hill Observatory
near Boston, a skilled meteorologist and
very successful forecaster, has been
designated by Prof. NJ. w. Harrington
to serve as local forecast official " for
Boston. The observer in charge of the
government station remains to perform
executive duties.
Colonel John A. Cockerll having
given handsome monument to the Or
der of Elks in st. Louis, evidently be-
lieves that one good deed deserves an
other, as he has offered to present the
cities OF New York and Brooklyn with
two bronze or stone drinking fountains
to be placed on the Brooklyn bridge
one at each of the two towers.
James Russell Lowell was descended
through his mother from an ancient
Jacobite family-the Trails OF BIebo in
Fifeshire. His mother, Mrs. Charles
Lowell, was the only daughter OF Will
lam Trail of Westness, Orkney, and
this William Trails mother belonged to
an old Morse family, SO that Lowell had
both Scotch and Norwegian blood.
Senator Sherman in his library at
Mansfield has large fire-proof vault
containing his enormous private CORE
spondence with prominent men and
women. There is material for magnif-
icent autograph collection in this mass
of letters. Among the mostfnteresting,
it is said, are the long, confidential and
affectionate personal missives of the
Senator's martial brother.
Senator PETER said in recent speech
in Kansas: am your Senator, next
in Importance to the President OF the
United States, and yet they heap upon
me these falsehoods." Whereupon the
Lawrence Journal predicts that, if he
lives and is not taken from the stump,
he will be in the lunatic asylum before
Congress meets. This is said in charity
and with the full belief that the predic-
tion will be verified"