Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-03
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Metropolitan Michael of Seryia Con-
sents to Milan's Proposed Marriage.

Donald q. Mitchell was one oil the
class of 1841 at Yale, and takes part in
the semi-centennial observance this
year.
Kaiser William pitches the tunes in
Fatherland. There is Socialist song in
Germany called ga Free Man Am L. A
soldier sang it in barracks. He will be
locked up five years.
Nine Adam, the French author and
magazine writer, is nearly 80 years old,
but she has the spirit and energy of
girl. Her first book was published
thirty-two years ago.
Out in Keokuk, where Mark Twain
was born, the old inhabitants remember
him fairly well but declare he never be-
trayed any genius as humorist while
he lived among them.
Count Douglas, member of the Ger
man Reichstag, who has become great
4favorite with the Emperor, is a descend
ant of the famous Scotch family. He is
now one of the wealthiest land proprie-
tors of Prussia.
Judge George Hoadly, now member
of the New York bar, is attending Su-
preme Court in Ohio. He is happier in
his practice and great deal more pros
porous than when holding the Office of
Chief Magistrate of Ohio.
The Metropolitan Michael of Servia
has given his consent to the proposed
marriage of ex-King Milan. 1t is said
thakMilan sent 40, 1000 francs to the tailor
Of his mistress after receiving the ,000,-
900 francs from the State.
A young daughter of Joachim, the ia
nous violinist, recently made her debut
as an opera singer at Elberfeldt, and
made such brilliant success that she
was Immediately engaged for the winter
season at the Leipsic opera house.
The Servian boy King Alexander is a
sturdy lad of IA, with keen eyes and an
| intellectual face, but he is as self-willed
and stubborn as any royal child. He
nan, French and English in addition to
is native tongue.
| DR.. Baugh read a congratulatory dis
patch from the students of Midland Col
iege to the Evangelical Lutheran Gen
eral Synod at Lebanon, Pa, closing with
a classical quotation. When he had put
the latter phrase into English, he found
that it ran: "There are no flies on us !''
-of3ne would think Stanley awed enough
black men in Africa to match just one
Pullman porter = just one. But he
couldn't do it. A porter remarked in
San Francisco the other day that when
he finished run with Stanley this stern
ruler of men yielded up to the potentate
of the Pullman just 500.
Rev. DIR. De Costa is left in a suffi
GENTLY humiliating position by the dis
covery that his Boston correspondent
upon whose statements he based his cir
cular letter to the Bishops and STANDING
committees against Phillips Brooks, il
no other than Miss A. A Chevaillier, {
woman who had a quarrel with the new
Bishop.
Bill Nye is enjoying himself in q coun
try village OF high altitude y. North Car
DINA. He drive d spanking tear 0
horses, and "nen he has the spare tim
he puts it in on the new play he is writ
! ing for Stuart Robson. In letter to
friend William says he can now imagin
how Shakespeare used to feel about tn
time he was giving birth to new play
General Taliaferro, who has Eeen tell
!. ing the people of Richmond some inter
esting "reminiscences of Stonewall Jack
son, saws that the great Southern leade
F-'s'ar held 8. council of war. He was
NI+cGns7iiafly devout man, with at tendenc
toward fatalism, and in the early day
of the war he was personally unpopula
as well with his own staff as with tn
general officers of the army.
Ellen Terry played for several year
unGer the management Of Charles Reade
whom she characterizes in one sentenc
as " dear, lovable, aggravating, childlike
crafty, gentle, obstinate and entirely de
lightful and interesting" During tn,
progress of play Mr.. Reade would 81
and watch her, and between the act
send her little notes pointing out wha
he deemed the defects and merits of he
work.
John Russell Young, who knows Sil
William Gordon Cumming well, says o
him: "a high-tempered, impetuous
brusque, outspoken, resolute man, will
capacity for instant anger, sensitive, ir
ritable, ready with word or blow, the
military temperament at times unduly
developed stern with men, infinite il
sympathy for dogs and dumb domesti,
animals, | could imagine anything of Sil
William Gordon Cumming rather thar
his cheating at cards"
Henry Hertz, Professor of Physics il
the University of Bonn, whose remark
able discoveries in electricity have giver
him place in Germany similar to thai
held by Edison in this country, is 6
young man hardly over "a years old
After studying civil engineering and
finding it distasteful, he completed two
years. term of military service required
in the fatherland, and then began study
ing electricity with Prof. Helmholz al
Berlin, whose assistant he finally became
His researches look behind the dynamo
and the carbon, and aim to discover
more economical methods of developing
| electric energy,