The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-01-27
o PEOPLE.

William G. Murphy, of Philadelphia, is q
vigorous man Of 81. He fought at and
'~'remembers' the Alamo. Murphy was one
of the guards who had Santa Anna in
charge after the battle of San Jacinto.
Giovanni Gorgesso. the blind hermit Of
the island of Zyacinthos, is declared by a
recent visitor to nave devised a reflector
which throws sunlight enough into his
cave to warm it and comfort its sightless
tenant. 9 49,
Guy de Maupassant, while apprentice in
literature to Flaubert, wrote five years for
the waste basket. His master religiously
destroyed all his crude work. The school
master, in work of this sort, would endear
himself by being very much abroad.
One of the youngest railroad presidents
in the country is George W.. Saul. the e1-
ecutive head of the Chicago d Eastern
Illinois road. He will not celebrate his
thirty-fourth birthday until next October.
At 20 he was a clerk in the traffic depart
ment OF the Ohio e. Mississippi railroad at
st. Louis. j. ."- ..~#.- .5~- g. @
In the little controversy between the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals and the management of the Fifth
venue stage line the s. p. @. A. says 1t has
no animus against the stage line and the
horses seem to nave no animus of any kind,
and it is strange that there SHOULD be any
muss at all.
The roal fesh-and-blood Cara is shown
by a photograph taken last summer to be
tall, broad-shouldered and supple. His
forehead is round and high, and his thick,
dark hair is brushed back a la Pompadou1
from it. His small black mustache has "the
cavalier curl'' and his eyes are round and
apparently fearless like those of a wild
beast.
When he reached Atlanta the other day
on his way to New Orleans. Mr.. Cleveland
wore in the lapel OF his coat a red j~aponica
bud which Mrs. Cleveland had pinned
there when he left for the south. The ex.
president arrived in Atlanta and departed
therefrom in comparative secrecy, fol
there were not ten people all told in the
depot to greet him.
George Harding, the Philadelphia patent
lawyer, who built the Hotel Kaaterskill
the story goes, because he couldn't ge
spring chicken one night at q Catskil
~oaravansary, has had success with his sons
in-law. One of them was a Bigelow, o
Nsw York, and another isSto be Mr.. Shep.
ard, of Boston, a brother of Mrs. Eben y
Jordan, Jr., of Beacon street.
The Baroness Buldett. Coutts has no
only been conspicuous for setting the fash
ion among her country women against tn
use of birds and bird plumage for tn
adornment of millinery, etc.. but she ha
successfully promoted the manufacture O
artificial birds for the purpose, a new in
dustry that gives employment to severa
hundred girls and women in Paris.
The Duke de Litta has been lionized b.
the people of Charleston, S. c., where h
has recently been visiting. The luke is al
Italian nobleman of the first rank, closet
allied to the reigning family of Italy. H
is wealthy, too, which is notable in the cas-
of q wandering nobleman. 1t is remark
able also that ho is of q literary turn O
mind, having written one novel and bein
, now at work on another.
On the occasion of the death of An oil
colored 'mammy'' in Lexington, Ky., re
. Gently, her remains we're laid in state in th
parlor of her mistress's handsome homt
and many white mourners followed til
: body to its ina resting place. During th
s. last days of her illness it WAS customary fc
the ladies OF the family to hurry HON,
whenever they had occasion to go out, E
that tho old auntie should not get Lonesome
Jeferson's old home, Monticello, is a
interesting place of pilgrimage. 1t stant
S on the summit of a beautiful mountai
q near Charlottesville and commands an III
surpassed view of the surrounding countr
On q clear day the old capital of the COZ
federaoy. sixty miles away, can be seel
The mansion is Of the modernized type
Greek architecture which WAS SO popular
II the south a few generations age, with r
tunda and Corinthian columns.