St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-13
MEN AND WOMEN.

James Whiteomb Riley served an APP
premiership as house painter.
Princess Galitzen. member of one of
the oldest ariStocratlc families of Russia,
is now a stablemaid in French circus.
Mr.. TahaSkima, a Japanese gentle
man, who appears in native dress, is
entertaining Kansas audiences with
lecture entitled Real Life in Japan"
Mrs. Susannah Abbott, Of Cambridge,
Mass, who is ninety-five years old, be-
gan the practice while she was young
school teacher of entering notes Of pass
ing events in daily journal, and she
still keeps up the custom.
Advices from Hermoslello, Mex, state
that an official rumOr announces that
President Diaz has rendered Gen. Luise
ferris, governor of Sonora and Lower
California the diplomatic mission at
Washington.
Herr Brockelmann. of Heidelberg,
whose death has been announced. in his
Seventy-seventh year, was eminent as a
Sunday school organizer. He took all
active part in the formation of some
1.400 Sunday schools and became en-
deared to thousands throughout Ger
many by his tolerance, cheeriness, play
fulness and charming personality.
Sir Bernard b urke, whose death was
recorded the other day. was the greatest
authority of his time on all questions
connected with genealogy and de-
scent. He said there is not a drop of
Orleans blood in the Count of Paris or
his children. Louis Philippe, an
cestor of the count, he says, was
changeling.
Emperor William has. much to the
disgust Of his subjects, inaugurated the
practice of having all the game killed
at the imperial shooting parties sold for
the highest possible price. Hitherto it
has been customary for such of the
game as was not required for the royal
household or for presents to be given to
charitable institutions.
The oldest man in the world was re
ported by a Russian journal to have
died at Tif1is recently at the age of 164
years. The case has been investigated
by committee. which now publishes
authentic details. Mardenotf was born
in 1928; his memory was very lucid. aud
he could speak of events that occurred
previous to the reign of Catherine II.
He had eighteen sons and several
daughters, and leaves widow 120 years
Of age.
1t is likely that Marion Crawford will
prOlOng his lecture tour, and conSe-
quently his visit to his native land. He
expected at nrSt to give but two OF three
readings, but the demand for his pres
ence in various towns has increased,
and it is probable that altogether he
Will give thirty before he returns to
Italy.
Some time ago fund was started for
the benefit of William Ballingall, the
well-known Scotch engraver, who has
been suffering severely from ill health
and the competition of the cheap proc
esSes of reproducing pictures. The cir
cumstanceS having been communicated
to Mr.. Gladstone. the premier recon-
mended a donation from the royal
bounty fund, and a check for e25 has
been forwarded to H. Chilean Read, one
of the treaSurerS of the fund.
Judge Bedford, of Colorado, is said to
have been scared out Of six months
growth i'll st. Louis the other day. He
was to deliver an address there at the
New England Society'S dinner, and what
he had to say was committed to writing.
But the trunk containing his manuscript
did not appear at his hotel when it
should have done so. lie reliedupOn this
aid to memory to such an extent that
the miSchance OGCaSi0ned great anxiety.
He was obliged to procure evening
clothes in the city, instead Of wearing
his own to the banquet, and it was only
a few minutes before the guests took
their seats that evening that his baggage
came to hand