Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-04-20
PERSONAL MENTION.

The gold medal which the Queen has
given TO Richard NJ. Hunt, the architect,
IS the first of the kind ever received by
an American.
Herbert Spencer began his literary ca
reer in the columns OF the Independent
and Nonconformist at the age Of q. He
wrote first on the proper Sphere OF Gov
ernments."
The younger Dumas has given up
smoking. For the last five years he has
confined himself to cigarettes, but even
these, he thinks, retard instead Of stim-
ulating his mental processes.
NJ. Munkacsky is at work in his Neu-
lily studio on picture OF such dimen-
sions that the canvas has to be raised
and lowered by machine made for that
purpose. 1t is 13 feet high and 45 feet
wide.
Prof. Martin Kellogg of the University
Of California has been granted the hon
orary degree of LID, by the Yale cor
poration at a special meeting. Prof.
kellogg is graduate of Yale in the class
of 1850.
A visitor to Marshal Mcmahon says
that the Marshal is still great sports
man. He starts out with gun at in the
morning, and walks twelve or fifteen
miles day. His hand is firm and his
aim sure.
The Archbishop of York has an
nounced to his archdeacons that he will
contribute $1,000 a year-one-tenth OF
his gross stipend-to the fund formed to
increase the income Of the poorest bene-
fees of the diocese.
Governor Northen of Georgia has an
nounced that he will be in the race for
senator Colquitt's seat next year. 1t
seems to be taken for granted that Mr..
Colquitt will not seek reelection on ac-
count of poor health.
Thomas Allen, who served under Wei
lington in the war with Napoleon and
under General Scott in the Mexican war,
and who enlisted at the age of 72 for
service in the civil war, is still alive at
the age OF lO3 years in Tyler county, W.
Va.
Mrs. o. s. Grant will spend the sum-
mer at Highlands Falls. A suite of
rooms overlooking the Hudson has been
engaged for her, and is now receiving a
thorough overhauling. The neighbor-
hood OF West Point has strong fascina-
ton for the widow of the great soldier.
Mr.. Carlisle's new private secretary is
Captain Samuel n. Gaines of Kentucky.
Captain Gaines was a gallant Confeder-
ate soldier, was educated at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, and has since been con-
nacted with Kentucky journalism. He
is bright writer and a very attractive
man socially.
Emin Pasha's fate still remains good
deal of mystery, but the great travel
er's little daughter, Ferda, who made
her way from Wadelai to Bagamoyo two
years ago, nearly starved, still remains
at the latter place. She has quite re-
covered from the privations of that ter
rible time, and is described as being
sprightly, well-grown girl OF IL.
The Princess Edward of Sake Weimar,
the Duchess of Leinster, the Marchioness
of Londonderry, the Countess Spencer,
Lady Carew and the Countess OF Shrews-
berry are among the ladies who have
promised to preside at stalls at the dis
play of the Irish exhibits for the Chi
cago Worlds Fair, which is to be held
on March and at Mr.. Astor's house
in Carlton House Terrace.
Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, who died
recently at Gateacre near Liverpool, was
one of the richest commoners in Eng
land, and was widely known in connec-
ton with the famous art gallery at Liv-
erpool, which bears his name. He was
a brewer and public-house owner, be-
came largely interested in mines, and
had an income OF G25O,O0O year. The
cost of the Walker art gallery was about
$40, 500. He gave $50, 900 to University
College, Liverpool, and tens OF thousands
in other directions.