St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-13
MEN AND WOMEN.

French parentage, has just achieved a
notable triumph as singer at the Royal
Court theater in Stockholm.
Emin Pasha. the noted African ex-
plorer, has become totally blind. His
blindness is due to exposure for thirty
years to the glaring sun Of Africa.
Herr Won Brandt, the German am
bassador in China, has represented his
country for more than a generation in
the Flowery kingdom and Japan.
Verestchagin, the celebrated Russian
painter, has been bitten bv mad dog III
a most greyouS fashion,a and he is now in
Paris undergoing the PaSteur treatment.
Alexander Salyipi says that his father
will not be seen again Oh the American
| stage. He is playing very few times
| this year in some of the chief European
! cities.
James Richard Cooke, graduated from
| the Boston university school of medi-
| cine last week. is The first person totally
| blind from infancy to receive degree
as physician.
| Miss Nj, L. Herders, for the past six
months assistant In the drug store at
Darby. Pa, has been appointed chief
| apothecarv at the Howard hospital,
| Philadelphia.
| Prof. Swift, of Rochester, calculated
| that the recently arrived comet started
on its journey. to get within the range
| Of vision and newspaper notice about
I 5000, 900 years ago.
| DR.. Edward Everett Hale says that
| one of the secrets of keeping young at
the age of seventy is '.neEer to do any
thing yourself which you can get an
other to do for you"
Gen. Booth saw something OF Rud-
yard Kipliug on board ship and they
| had many talks together. 1t is sug-
gested thar Mr.. Kipling may work up
| the general for literary purposes.
| d. &. Ramsay, grand chief of the
Order of Railroad Telegraphers, controls
| $1,000 men and is only twenty-seven
| years of age. He lives in East st. Louis
and has served in the Illinois legisla-
ture.
One of the Oldest men in the house of
commons is Isaac Holden. who at eighty
| five years of age finds himself return
ing from pedestrian tour in Africa
and getting ready for the coming cleo
| tionS.
Princess Hohenlohe, in Strasburg,
with her daughter Elizabeth. has recent
| ly finished practical course in military
hospital nursing, assisting at operations.
| amputatlonS, cleansing and bandaglng
| wounds.
King Malietoa, of Samoa, is not paid
his salary (S25 week. with regularity
enough to keep him in easy financial
condition, so he has been having his
wives do washing for well-to-do white
| residents of Apia.
Nine. Patti. in letter to Partisan
friend, says that after her present en-
gagement she intends to undertake
series of farewell performances thrOgh-
| out Europe, and finally retire from the
stage and concert platform.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards has left
almost the whole of her property to
found professorsnip Of Egyptology,
| under certain conditions, al University
chair will, it is said, amount to about
$4,000 a year.
Lord Bramwell, recently deceased,
was to the readers of the London Times
what Constant Reader" Lex" and
"Vx oPopuli' are 10 American news
! paper readers. His signature was B."
| and thousands who never knew him
will miss him..
Matthew B. Excel, who was recently
| elected mayor Of the thrifty manufact-
| uring city of Alliance, o., has just
| passed his twenty-seeond year, and is
probably the Youngest mayor Of any
| town OF consequence III tne united
| States. He is a Democrat
Mrs. Fawcett will receive an impor-
| tant presentation Oh june 21. when the
| men and women OF the UnionIst party
| in the town and University of Cam
| bridge intend TO offer her an address in
| recognition of her work in the unionist
cause both by speech and pen.
| The Wanamakers have four homes
| the residence in Washington. one in
1 Philadelphia, cottage at Cape May
| point called the Lilemyn cottage, from
the names OF the two daughters. and
| Lin6enhurst, a very fine residences and
| estate, about fifteen miles from Phila-
| delphia.
| Lord Wolseley has finished the first
two volumes of his memoirs OF the duke
| of Marlborough, and it is probable that
| they will be published in the autumn.
The work is being written on large
scale, and these two volumes bring the
narrative down only to the death of
William III.
nj, Trcoupis, who is once more in
| favor in Greece, is man OF wonderful
| industry. Though reserved in his man
| ner, he has kindly way that foreigners
| like after they come to know him. His
| personal character has never been at
tackled. He is unmarried, and his sister
| assists him in the performance OF his
1 social duties.
| Henrik Ibsen has now lived nearly
| year in Christiana, and it is not unlikely
| that he will spend the rest of his life
| there. He has furnished splendid
| home in the PalaiskompleXen, or palace
! buildings, in the finest part of the town.
/ The house is artistIcally arranged, and
| excellent pictures by Spanish, Italian.
| Dutch and French masters meet the eye
| everywhere.
| Mrs. Bette Taylor cambridge, of
| Winchester, Va, and Mrs. Harriet Lane
| Johnson are the only survivors of the
| long line of distinguished women who
presided over the executive mansion
| previous to the time of Gen. Grant.
| Mrs. cambridge is. the daughter of
| President Zachary Taylor, and during
| his term of Office she was the lady of
| the White house.
Commodore William Wallace Hunter,
| VINO died in New Orleans Sunday at the
age of ninety years, was native of
philadelphia He received his appoint
| ment to the navy IN 1922, and resigned
from it when the civil war broke out for
the purpose of going, with the Confed
eracy. He was in command of q
United States man-of-war at the
time. and, sailing it to the Brook
| lyn navy yard, he turned the vessel over
| to the commandant, obtaining a receipt
| for all government property for which
he was responsible, and then sent his
| resignation to Washington.
No Difficulty for Them.
Puck.