Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-06-02

Persons Worth knowing about
Nine. Modjeska has educated and
named five nephews and ieces
Lady Colin Campbell, in her trans
lated book, says that kissing ruins the
complexion.
Miss Mary Redmond, the Irish sculp-
tess, whose colossal statue of Father
Mathew was recently unveiled in Dub
lin, is only 20 years of age.
Chinese retaliation las set IN promptly
Mrs. Geary's excellent Chinese cook has
left her service, just as the Geary law is
declared O. X. by the supreme court.
Mrs. Jesse Grant has one of the most
valuable collections in the country of
antique candlesticks, some Of them gold,
some of them silver and others Of rare
pottery.
Lewis Morris, the Welsh poet, is said
to have been asked to write an ode on
the approaching royal marriage, He
wrote THE pic of Hades, but of course
there is no connection between the cir
cumstances,
DR.. Mendendall, of the United States
geodatic survey, who has hitherto con-
sidered Mount st. Elias the highest
mountain in North America, now gives
this honor to Mount Orizaba, in Mexico,
as established by the measurements of
DR.. Scovell of Terra Haute.
Mrs, William Walter Phelps has rec
ord as an ocean traveller that probably
is without an equal in the list of her ac-
quaintances. In the course of her jour
neyings back and forth between this
country ahd Europe Mrs Phelps has
crossed the ocean no less than sixty-fve
times.
President Cleveland has popularity
which SO far has escaped comment. He
never wears gloves, either on occasions
of public ceremonial or even when the
thermometer reaches the zero mark.
On Inauguration day he drove to and
from he capital with bare hands with
out experiencing discomfort.
The greatest stamp collectors in the
world are Philippe Ferrari, son of the
late Duchesse de Galliera, and the czar,
whose collection is said to be worth
$60O,000 The ear began his collection
when boy and has been adding to it
ever since. NJ Ferrari, who is said to
have cast away fortune because he said
it did not belong to him, boards stamps
as misers hourd money.
Tlle new prime minister of Norway,
Emil Stang, who has just undertaken
the arduOus task of governing in the
face of hostile majority until the gen
eral election of next year, has been for
10 years the leader of the Norwegian
conservatives.
Fanny Davenport, having purchased
the Dura WadswOrth house at Duxbury
Mass, one of the oldest edifices on the
South shore, has had it RACED to the
ground and will erect on the site a sum-
mer house at cost of about 100000
The house Miss Davenport occupied at
Canton, Pa. will be sold, but the home
stead where her father lived and where,
for many years, the Davenport family
reunited in the summer will be kept in
the family,
Captain Charles r. Chittenden, who
recently returned to San Francisco from
Alaska, has been in the employ Ct the
English government for % years, spend
ing most of his time searching for curios
and studying the habits and customs Of
uncivilized nations. Three years ago he
was sent to Alaska to make a study Of
the northern mainland and Queen Char
latte Island Indians. A keen sportsman,
tapper and expert angler Captain Chit
tenden thoroughly enjoys the life he
leads.