Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-12-29
About People.

Ex-senator Dawes is living quietly in
his Pittsburg home. Strangely enough
he seems perfectly contented with a
quiet life after about thirty years of an
unusually busy career.
Prof. Theodore Mommsen, the Ger
man historian, has gone to Naples to
work in the libraries there. He is busly
engaged on his Roman history, and will
remain south until after the holidays.
Judge Francis Marion Cox of Macon
county, Mo-, died few days ago, Among
the pleasantest of the many creditable
things narrated of him is the fact that
in the course of his life, he cared for
and educated eighteen orphan children.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Morse, Taun-
ton Mass. couple, have just celebrated
their Goth wedding anniversary. Mrs.
Morse, in her S4th year, is doing her
own work, and her husband, who
is 90 years old, is still bright and alert.
President David Starr Jordan of the
Stanford University says that there is
not the slightest evidence that sea ser
pents exist or ever did exist, and that
the stories of them are largely subjec-
tive and some of them not free from the
suspicion of alcoholic basis.
Countess Matilda Schmetton and her
daughter, Nine, Desire Won Gyerlyanhy,
members of an old noble Bavarian fam
lily, have qeen forced to leave Vienna, as
the police are in search of them. Charges
of theft have been br ought against
them by a number of wealthy people.
Frank NJ Hatch, the member of the
Hawaiian provisional committee who is
mentioned as likely to be appointed
minister of foreign affairs, if the provis
iona government continues, Is a native
Of Portsmouth, n H., and is graduate
of Bowdoin college. He is little over
40 years of age.
James Crapsey, born in January, 1894,
was the first man vi settled at Edger-
town, Wis, and has since that time up
to this dav he has been at work at the
railroad station in one capacity or an
other. Now he 10 baggageman and local
freight man, ard as active as any of the
bows around the station.
The great respect in which the young
emperor of China holds his mother, who
for more thru twenty years directed the
destinies of the Flowery Kingdom, adds
much to his popularity. His majesty
pays a visit every day to the palace in
the Cho- Park, where his mother resides,
about ten miles from the capital.
Both the Princess Lonise Marchion-
ess of Lorne) and Princess Beatrice have
tried '.wheeling." A couple of tricycles
are kept at Balmoral for their use, and
though they have never been outside the
grounds of the palace both princesses
frequently ride in the park. They are
MT good riders, but they use the cycle
merely to give themselves some amount
/ of muscular exercise.
Miss E. Pauline johnson, daughter OF
a Mohawk chief, is one Of the big list OF
Mass ,chusetts poets. Attired in red
wooden, sleeveless short dress, over which
was a fring9d tunic of buckskin, orna,
mented with ermne tails and colored
beads, and with bear claws and panther
teeth for bracelets and necklace, she re-
cited several Of her own poems at meet
/ ing hold in Boston the 'ther night.
Young Ravling Cottenet, on, OF the
sweIls of the New York -Four Hundred
and member Of the Knickerbocker club
who startled the exclu i've sat some
wee&s ago by opening a flower store rs
sad to relate, beng quietly snuboed oy
the exclusives of clubdom. The ladies'
patronized his establishment IN large
nun ers, but they were people VINO
never met in his set, while his felio"
clubbers have cut the store entirely.