Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-26
PEOPLE.

Ex.Queen LilluokalaDi is an accom-
plished pianist and singer.
The Earl of Roseberry is the young
est Knight Of the Order Of the Garter.
A colored man named Henry Brown
has been elected Mayor Of BrownyllIe,
Neb.
Henry Gapman, a student Of theology
at Princeton, is seventy-hve years ola.
He has long desired to enter the minis
try but has had no opportunity to do so.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves general
health is as good as was ten years ago.
She is happy and cheerful, but her
mind seems incapable OF any sustained
effort.
Lief Ludak, said to be the richest
landowner in Norway, is on his way TO
the Worlds Fair. He is nearly seven
feet tall, and claims TO be a lineal de-
Sceudaut of the Norsemen.
Prince Bismarck is determined TO
never grow bent. When taking his
daily walk he carries a stout cudgel
across his back, held between his ell
bows, this helps him to keep himself
erect.
Cardinal Gibbons ascribes the growth
Of Skepticism to that large class OF
young men who, having received a SUI
per6cial education, and desiring to ap.
pear learned, think 1t an evidence OF
wisdom to affect infdelitY,
Miss Jennie Young, the Anne rican
woman who owns extensive salt deposits
in chihuahua aud Coahuila, Mexico,
has gone TO England TO bring over sew
| eral thousand English families to settle
on the lands which she has been
| granted by the Mexican government.
Miss Sara A. Burstall, d graduate OF
Girton College, England, is now in this
country inspecting the public school
systems of different cities. She is one
OF the five travelling scholars" appoint
ed by the Gilchrist trustees OF England
| TO inspect American schools.
1t is mooestly acknowledged by Char
lotte NJ. Young that the money which
she earned from the publication of her
best known novel, ''The Heir of Red
clilfe," was used TO furnish the South
| ern Cross, the vessel wherein her cousin,
Bishop Coleridge Pattison, made his
voyages among the South Sea Islands.
The Shah has an unfortunate affec-
ton for Great Britain. lie is always
writing to the Queen offering to visit
Her Majesty, who is thought, however,
TO have had enough OF him last time.
He not only drinks 4 bottle OF brandy a
day, but is also an opium-eater, and is a
man Of violent and irresposible habits.
Ralph j. de Mayne. the English hun
ter OF big game in Africa, when in San
Francisco recently on his way home
from India, said that he thought the
American grizzly and an infuriated ele-
plant were more dangerous than a lion,
but that the charge Of q rhinoceros was
the most dangerous OF all.
The pressman who printed the first
COPY Of the Philadelphia Public Ledger
is still living, and is hale and hearty.
His name isJames Hagan, and he boasts
that in his long lifetime he worked for
but W establishments. He had worked
for the Ledger forty-six years, when, in
1881, ho was retired on a pension.
Frances Willard has startled many
English people, aud possibly set them
thinking in a wholesome way, by sug-
costing that the grill" behind which
all women but peeresses must conceal
themselves while listening 70 debates
In the House Of Commons, be removed
and sent to the British Museum as q
relic.
A dispatch 10 the Rev. ". c. Wins
low, Boston, SAYS that DR.. Naville, the
explorer for the Egyptian exploration
fund. has discovered the burial cham
Der OF Thothmes l., eighteenth dynasty,
at Thebes, with a massive altar a. the
entrance, thought 10 have been erected
by his daughter, the famous Queen
Hatasu.
Mrs. Anna e. Fall, an able young
lawyer. Of Maiden, Mass, has beer sp-
pointed by Governor Russell q special
commissioner for the commonwealth for
life. She is thereby authorized to take
dispositions aud acknowledgements Of
! deeds, TO issue summonses for witness
es. to administer oaths and to take All
dayits.