St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-12
HEN AND WOMEN.

The king of Siam, who Is thirty nine,
is the Oldest of eighty-four children.
Myron NJ. Whitney.the famous singer,
has been seriously i'll at Rutland. VT,
and though recovering will not be
/ able to appear in public for several
weeks.
Prince Alfred of Edingurgh, heir of
tie Duke of Coburg-Gotha, has entered
! the university of Munich as a student in
( the department of law. Until few
i weeks ago he was pursuing his studies
at COburg.
Congressman Tillman. of South Caro-
lima, is one Of the best preserved men
in the house. lie is a strong, vigorous
and straight built example of manhood
at slXty-siX, and looks younger than
many men dozen years his junior.
Mr.. Edison says that when he was
Toy lie sold peanuts and newspapers on
The railway trains. One day baggage
porter lifted him from the ground by
his ears. The membranes snapped, and
. that is how he became deaf.
Capt. Ossip lvanovitch KomisSaroff-
KostrOmskOy, who saved the life of the
Gar Alexander III. at the time of the
attempted assassination in the imperial
summer garden. April l6, 1856. is dead.
He died at Pultawa of delirium tremens.
A marble tablet has recently been
placed on the house in which Coleridge
lived while student at Gottingen. in
the summer of 1893. This is said to be
the first compliment of the kind that has
been paid to ali English author in Ger
many.
1t is announced that w. ID. Howells
will pass the summer in quiet nook in
New England, deyoting most of his
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lean girl-life. Has the realistic novelist
of the commonplace at last found his
meter, as the French say?
George Meredith, Waiter Besant. Rob
ert Buchanan, Hall Game and TennySon
wear boards. William Black, Rider
Haggard. Thomas Hardy, j. NJ. Barrie,
Clement Scott and Clark Russell wear
mustaches only. while Andrew Lang.
Andrew Wilson, James Payn and Fred
eric Greenwood wear whiSkerS.
Nine. Juliette Adam, the editresS of
the Nouvelle Revue. declares that she
has found, if not new Lott, at least a
second BalZac, i'll young Leon Daudet.
son of the author of Jack" and
"SaphO." In the next number of the
Revue will begin a novel, just CON-
pleIed, by this young man.
William IL. Lackey. who died in
Roanoke, Va, recently, bore the colorS
of the Fifty-SecOnd Virginia infantry in
thirty-siX battles, and participated in
thirteen other engagements without
receiving scratch, though his flag was
shot from his hands several times and
his clothing pierced by bullets.
Miss Emily Dickson, daug liter of the
member for Dublin, has just passed a
brilliant examination at the Royal Uni
versity of Ireland. In the medical ex-
animation she has not only secured the
first place, but IS also first in honors.
Miss Dickson is a student at the Royal
College of Surgeons, Dublin.
Mrs. Orme, who has lately died, was
the lady of whom Mr.. RuSkin said in
his ''Pr2terita" that when he saw her
he first felt and understood what infiu-
ence woman'S beauty can have. One
of her sisters was Coventry Patmore'S
first wife, and the veritable "angel in
the house" of whom he wrote in his
poems.
Rosa Bonheur has of late years
painted only heads or single figures of
animals, but there is now on exhibition
i'll London Il recent work from her
studio showing group composed of
lion, lioneSs and several cubs. The
background is representation of an
African scene. with palm, date and aloe
trees, and mountain range in the dis
lance.
DR.. Vaughan, the new archbishop of
Westminster, will have hard task be-
fore him. He is u Tory and opposed to
home rule. That will make him out Of
sympathy with his flock, who are mostly
Irish. The archbishop was educated at
StOnyhurSt, the great Jesuit college i'll
the north of England. He was expelled
from there for smoking.
Only once year nowadays, and then
Oh. the OCCASION of a religious festival
does the empress Of Japan appear in
public in native dress. Ordinarily she
attires herself very handsomely after
the style of Worth, of Paris, and cor
respondent reports having seen her in a
costume of blue velvet trimmed with
and a dainty Partisan bon
net of blue velvet on her head.
Miss E. M. Merrick, who is well known
for her fine portrait of III. NJ. Stanley,
painted for the Royal Geographical So
cietY, is now in india, where she has
been painting likenesses of the maha- |
RANGES of Vizianagram. Rewah and |
Jeypore, which are the first portraits of |
Indian purdah ladies which have been |
produced. Miss MerricK is now en-
gagged on commissions from their high |
nesses the mahaIajahs of Cooch BelIar |
and Bettiah.