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

JOHN WARD and Helei Dauvray have
been going to the theater together in London
and are said to have become reco neiIed again
EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER will 20
| to Nicaragua this month on the business of the
Nicaragua Canal Company of which he is the
President at salary OF s25, 900 year.
JAY GOULD is quoted as saying that an
| advance of mill per ton per mile in the rates
would increase the net earnings of the Mis-.
| sodri Pacific Railroad over 81, 600 600 per an.
nun.
ROBERT BONNER looks as if he were
about go years old He is of medium height,
well proportioned and has f1orid face. He is
very quiet, very polite and very pleasant in his
| manner.
NILE. JANoTHA is an thusiastic ad-
mirer of Mr.. Gladstone and his family. She
recently presented Miss Helen Gladstone, the
vice principal of Newnhan College, with a
magnificent grand piano.
Mrs. WALTER BAKER of Boston, who
left about 8, 100000 to educational and charit-
able institutions, gave years of study and
thought to the nature and needs of these organ
izatons before making her will.
W. B. RICHARDSON, the Boston natural
ist, is exploring the forests of Central America
in the interest of the British Museum. He has
met with numerous adventures and has dis
covered several new species of birds.
The Queen of Denmark is a fine pianist,
and her daughter the Czarina, is neatly as
good. At the Danish court chamber music
is a daily occupation, generally a quartet, with
the Queen at the piano. Beethoven and
Brahms are the favorite composers.
DIR. WILLIAM L. ABBOT, of Philadel-
phia, who has returned home after exploring
East Africa with DR.. Myer, the German savant,
has presented to the Academy of Sciences in
that city fine collection of heads and skins Of
animals shot near Mt. Kilima-Njaro.
MISS URINE TSUDA, Japanese woman,
who is teacher of English in the Peeress'
school at Toxic, is one of the special students
at Bryn Mawr College. Miss Tsuda was one Of
the five little girls sent in 1871 by the japanese
Government to be educated in this country,
she and one companion remaining here for ten
years.
IRA d. SANKEY, the evangelist, has
written book containing the account of how
some of his most famous gospel gongs were
written, and incidents connected with their
conception. One of his collection of songs,has
just been rendered into German. for Sunday
school use in German schools, both here and in
the Fatherland.
OLIVE THoRNE MILLER has poste d from
her home in Brooklyn no less than 20. 900 printed
slips asking the women of New York not to
wear birds or their plumage. The request is
simply and earnestly made, NO reply being
called for, and as mark of good faith signed
with the autograph of that gentle woman, who
is friend of all the little creatures in feathers
and fur.
OLIVE SCHREINER, the author of
Dreamsp and of THE Story Of an African
Farm" has her home at Matjesfontein, Cape
Colony. The place consists of farm, q hotel,
a mill, warehouse. a station and few mean
houses. and lies In the very heart of the wilder
ness, surrounded by such scenery as Miss
Schreiuer has often described in her books
level wastes Of gray sand and ragged ridges of
rock.
THOMAS a. EDISON was at Schenectady
the other day, where the Edison works are
located, and after examining an electric torpedo
boat dined at the hotel. As an evidence of
how deeply absorbed he becomes at times In
his thoughts. it is said he got up from the din
ner table and passing out of the dining room
commenced to sing Sweet Violets," much to
the amusement of the waiter girls and hotel
guests.