Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-11
PERSONS PARAGRAPHED.

OSCAR WILDE, some time apostle of the
beautiful and ex-worshiper of the sunfower,
has become an Anarchist.
GEORGE VANDERBILT'S castle in North
Carolina will still require ten years of labor
and the expenditure Of Sl00OO,GOO to COM
plete it.
JUSTICE R. N. WALKER, of the Ala
bama Supreme Court, is but "a years old, and
the youngest man in the country holding such a
position.
Mrs. STANNARD (Jokn Strange Winter),
the author of "Bootles' Baby" is about to
undertake the editing and publishing of a
penny weekly.
. SIR RICHARD CARTWRIGHT, leader of
the Liberals of Ontario In the campaign Just
ended, has been likened to a buzz-saw, SO ener-
getic and biting are his addresses.
WALTER DAMRoSCH, Secretary Blaine's
son-in-law, is conducting free Sunday concerts
for the working people of New York. The
last one was attended by about 5000 persons.
REV. DIR. j. NJ. PENDLEToN, of Bowling
Green, KY, who died last Wednesday was a
friend of Henry Clay, and wrote a book, why
L Am Baptist" which Abraham Lincoln
praised.
ELLEN TERRY is learning to dance.
Some of the somber scenes in which she and
Mr. Irving appear would be greatly relieved by
skirt dance or a song and dance, and the pub
lie will wish her success in her undertaking,
GENERAL LEW WALLACE and Secre-
tary Foster are almost doubles in personal ap-
pearance their resemblance being so striking
that they are frequently mistaken for each
other. Each is man of medium height,
weighing about l70 pounds.
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died at Clinton, Mass, aged IS, recently. was
known as the father of yachting. He launched
his first boat from the foot OF Long wharf,
Boston, so years ago, and many 4 fugitive slave
was secretly conveyed from an incoming
steamer on one of his little boats to place of
safety.
W. H. SMITH is level-headed newspaper
man, even if he is a member of Parliament
and a Cabinet Minister. and has promptly
sat down upon proposal to compel writer's of
articles appearing in the papers to attach their
names to such articles. He said it would be as
absurd as to compel every man to sign the
ballot which he cast in an election.
POPE LEO XIII is now engaged in the
preparation of the most important incyclical
that has yet been issued by him. He is about
to formulate the views of the Catholic Church
on the subject of socialism and its kindred
TOPICS The paper is looked forward to with
unusual interest as many high officials are
waiting for it to decide questions that are now
before the church tribunals.
The QUEEN OF RoUMANIA has written
a melodrama which should have been produced
at the Burg Theater at Vienna, but it turned
out to be so wildly and weirdly absurd in plot
and So bombastic in language that the man
ayers insisted that If 1t was produced there
would not only be a riot in the audience but a
strike among the employees. and SO it was with
drawn. Even a Queen is not free from dra-
matte failures.
JUDGE PETER, the new Kansas Sena-
tor, thinks all young persons should be taught
substantial handicrafts. He has eight chii-
dren, Of whom three are daughters. The boys
have all learned the printers trade, and the
eldest daughter has been taught to set type.
One son is a locomotive engineer One daugh-
ter does amanuensis work and reporting, but
also sets type. The second daughter has been
trained to keep accounts, and the youngest
daughter is the stenographer In the Kansas
Farmer Office, Of which paper the father is
editor.