The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-24
ABOUT W0Ll-NKowN MEN.

Prof. Huxley considers the writing OF
1000 words sufficient week work.
Edwin Could is crack shot and prac-
tees ora SO yards range al Irvington.
Presiaen. Arthur's son is one of the
prominent gentleman coach drivers of
Paris.
Sir Evelyn Barring, of Egyptian fame.
will take The title of Baron Cromer, in Nor
folk, that being his birthplace.
A prophet has mo honor IL his own
country. Gen. Butler was recently called
TO order in Boston court room for loud
talking.
Ernest Lavisse, the successful com
( petitor of lola for the chair in the French
Academy made vacant by the death of
Admiral Jurien de la Graviere, is just 80
years old
Chihuahus, one of the Apache chiefs,
who with Geronimo gave the United States
Government so much trouble IN 1888, is
visiting his daughter Ramona, at the Car
| Isle school.
The last male heir of Pulaski, the dis
/ tiDguished Pole, who aided the patriots of
the revolution, lives in Savannah, Ca,
where he earns a scanty living peddllng
small wares.
Judge Lamar may frequently be seen al
the market in Washington in the early
morning buying fer his household. He is
always accompanied by body servant
carrying basket
Cardinal Manning did not leave property
enough to pay his funeral expenses. These
amounted TO 50, 100, and to meet them sub
scription was started among his relatives
and intimate friends.
n
sanctioned the election of Sir John Everett
Miilais the English painter, as a knight of
the ''Ordre pour le merite," the highest
Prussian order for science and art.
Pope Leo KILL will celebrate two ami
versaries next year. February 18th will
be the tiftieth anniversary OF his conse-
Grafton as Bishop and December 18Th the
fortieth anniversary OF his conservation as
Cardinal
The German Emperor has pet aversion
for short overcoats and shoes with pointed
toes. His clothes are all made to fit him
snugly, particularly his trousers, which in
close his legs as closely as ballet dancer
tights.
The Chinese Minister is the most expen-
sively dressed man in Washington. He
never appears more than once in the same
costume, and it is supposed that he has
$50, 600 worth of dry goods Dedicated to
his personal adornment.
From clerks desk in French railroad
Office, where he tried his Impractical hand
at comic sketches for the company's sd-
vertisements in the local newspapers, the
late Alfred Grevin rose to the front rank
of Partisan caricaturists.
Lord BTamweil, deceased, was to the
readers Of the London Times what Con
slant Reader "Lexn and ''Vox Populi"
are to American newspaper readers. His
signature was B." and thousands who
never knew him will miss him.
John J Ingalls, is sa to be so super
stitous that he feels nervous if he sees the
moon over the wrong shoulder. Whenever
he has occasion to return to his home
directly after leaving it he averts the posi-
bility OF hoodoo by sitting down before
departing again.
Sig. Giolitti, the new Italian Prime Min
ister prides himself upon despising the
mandates OF fashion, aud wears at all times
an old-fashioned rusty black frock coat
that reaches nearly to his ankles, TO the
great satisfaction of the political carica-
turists and cartoonists.
The poet Swinburne is small, red-headed,
and q bachelor. His forehead is very
prominent, but his mouth is small and
feminine and his chin weak. His eyes are
large and brilliant. The poet is frank and
courteous in manner, but be avoids general
society because of his deafness.
Thomas Mast, the caricaturist, says that
his cartoons put an end to a lopg-continned
friendship between himself and Carl
Schurtz. These distinguished men no
longer speak to each other, and Mr. Mast
expresses surprise that Mr.. Schurz should
have been so sensitive to ridicule.