The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-03
O PEOPLE.

H. Il. H. Albert Edward, 1t is interesting
to learn, wears nm 1S}l1 collar, u has q
foyty-fve chest. a thirty-four arm and a
421Ss waist.
Mrs. Jaokson's memoirs of her husband
have brought out a western opinion that
"Stonewall" was a genius, and 80 possessed
of those i~diosynorasies which led the poet
to observe the near relationship between
great wits" and ''madmen."
President George Mont. Of Chill. is a
peculiarly interesting parsonage just at
present. He has a broad forehead, q fine
commanding eye, the we'll developed nose
which marks character. a we'll trimmed
black beard and mustache, and an erect,
active figure.
Andrew Carnegie has increased his mil
lion-dollar endowment to the PittsburR
public library by a cool one hundred thou
sand on condition that the main building
be of granite rather than brick and terra
Gotta. There is no memorial granite likely
to endure longer han a library building.
DR.. Paul GARNER. the eminent %alienist,
says that there are passages in Guy de Mau-
PEASANTS story, 9Th Horla," which excel
in accuracy and intensity anything q clin-
ical doctor could write in depicting the
agony, this terrors and the infatuations of
delirious Authorizations produced by intox-
ication. @.-. 4T ~
The literary entertainer travels in cou-
pies. The newest partnership exists be-
tween Thomas Nelson Page and +. Hopkin-
son Smith, better known as Hop" James
Whitcomb Riley and George w. Cable ara
another team. Beeoher, Wendell Phillips
and Cough lectured alone, as does Edward
Eggleston.
Nine. Adam, the famous editor OF the
Nouvelle Revue of Paris, recently sent out
invitations for q series of receptions and
inscribed on the cards the words "to talk"
She says that the mnsicales which have
amused Partisan society of recent years
show the d%ecadence of tho drawing-ruem, a
decadence she is desirous of checking.
''There must still be some thirty or forty
women left in Paris who know how to con
verse, and / will try to gather them to-
gether," says Nine. Adam.
The audacity of Senator Edmunds III lee
turing the supreme court on a point of law
recalls an anecdote of Henry Clay, who
once, while arguing a case before that aug
ust tribunal, stopped in the middle of his
speech, advanced to the bench and helped
himself to a pinch of snuff out of Mr..
Justice Westinghouse box. Then, as he
returned to his place he remarked: II see
that your honor still sticks to the Scotch
Clay was the only man of his time who
could dare to do such a thing, as Edmunds
is of his " day. ...-=. " w.
Miss Rosina Vokes has accepted Miss
Molly Elliott SeawelPs new play, maid
Marian" and intends to make it the prin-
cipal card in her repertoire next season. 1t
is not unlikely that she will produce it at
Days the coming spring. Maid Marian"
is q dramatization of a story of similar
name that Miss Seawell wrote for Lippin-
colts two years ago. 1t is story with an
old-tine flavor, for the scene is laid in
Shakespeare's day. The author is a very
brilliant young woman who, while success
full in literature and journalism. has found
time to become an adjournment to Washing
tor society.
GAS strange as life is" there are few
changes in the condition of an individual
more remarkable than those in the career
of the German author Won Mollhausen. He
is now the kaisel's imperial librarian.
Nearly forty years ago he was a day Ia
borer On a farm near the village of Mas
coutah, in Illinois. His employer is now
living, a hale and hearty old man. Adam
fiess by name, and we'll remembers the
sturdy young farm hand whose industry
was SO conspicuous. The reason why Won
Molhausen masqueraded in this way is not
known, but he has more than once
sketched American country life so ~realisti.
ca!ly in his novels that it is supposed he
was then in search of facts.