The Helena independent., 1892-02-02
ABOUT PEOPLE.

! There are l, ,l25 characters in the twenty
four books that Charles Dickens wrote.
There is clergyman in New Mexico who
struggles along under the name of the Rev.
| Innocent Wolf.
The good people OF Gloucester, England,
took much pleasure week ago in seeing
the bishop. aged 49, appear with his skates
and indulge in an aftsrnoon's display OF his
proficiency. which is very great.
The only Turkish poetess is supposed to
be Osmau Pasha's daughter, rich Young
matron who lives in white marble palace
overlooking the Bosphorous and dines in a
conservatory from service Of gold.
An idea of the load Senator Plumb car
ried or his shoulders is given in the simple
statement of the fact that there are now
pending in the pension Office more than
5000 claims for Kansas, which were filed
and pushed forward by Senator Plumb.
Chicago manufacturers are discovering
that crude petroleum, as a substitute for
soft GOAL in their furnaces, is cheaper and
cleaner and produces no smoke. 1t has to
be handled little more carefully and the
reservoirs are subterranean. In Detroit
and Cleveland it is said that the authorities
permit the use of reduced oil in the heart of
the city.
PROF. F. Nichols Crouch, who composed
the music for many famous songs, but for
none more famous than Kathleen Mavour-
neen, is veteran of SO years." says the
New York World. He is man of medium
stature and stoutly built, with coal black
fo,1 ir,1
whitening hair, Of his great age. He has
been four times married, and has been the
father of thirty-tnree children. One child,
the first Of his second marriage, was the
notorious Cora Pearl of Paris
according to foreign papers which |
have just received from the other side of
the water" says the Marquse de Fontonoy
in the New York Recorder, "the archbishop
Of Canterbury, Mrs. Langtry, and that
ever-verdant aud roisterous baronet, Sir
Robert Peel, are all three staying together
at B1skra i'll Algeria, and have been enter
tanned by some OF the native chiefs of the
district with Arab fantasias. I scarcely
know whether to feel most astonished at
finding the lily and the baronet in the COM
pany of his grace, the primate of all Eng
land, or at learning of tho latter's presen CO
Mt such exceedingly questionable and racy
entertainments us Arab fantasias in AL
geria."
The Philadelphia Inquirer tells this story
about Henry Watterson, of the Louisville
Courier-Journal: Owing to some 1nisuu-
derstandlng few years ago Mr. Watterson
ana one or his sons arc not on speaking
| terms, The young man, however, while a
reporter on the Louisville Commercial wus
assigned to interview hls father. lie sent
mp his Gard and was admitted. you are. |
belisvo, said Mr.. Watterson holding the
card in his hand, "a reporter for the Com
metcial? Yes, SIR answered the son.
And then Watterson pere answered tho
questions addressed to him. Both men
were very formal, and at the cloas Mr.
Watterson said, as he usually does after he
is interviewed: Now, young man, be suro
to quote me correctly. The son bowed
and left.'
Kate Field tells in her Washington about
her first visit TO John Browns old home. up
III the North woods, some time ago, and
her scheme for buying it when she heard it
was for sale. Hurrying to Boston, she
mentionod the case to Wendell Phillips and
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who sent her nice,
sympathetic notes. but neither money nor
| advice. male friend then volunteered To
| rush out on tho street and collect il nmonn
lls friends. but he failed. Only one person
up there, lady, actually contributed any
cash--that is. aside from Kate Fields own
500. But within forty-eight hours afte,
| ha tn
tleman he had picked up eehtnen subscrip-
tlons, each of that amount. With this
s2,ooo the farm was bought and good
tenant secured, who still remains. "When
| revisited the Adirondaoks recently said
MISS Field, Il found our property worth
three times what we had paid for it, the
house Ill good repair, and John Browns
grave the Mecca of all tourists.'