The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-09
PURELY PERSONAL.

Queen Victoria has been photo
graphed 634 times since she came to
the throne.
The Due de Galliera is said to pos
sess a collection of stamps valued at
f150,OO
The car of Russia despite his great
size is a very plain eater. At state
dinners he rarely takes anything but
soup and dessert.
Mrs Abram Hewitt has inherited
Peter Cooper's old Dutch bible, which
with its data of family history makes
very curious reading
Ex-Secretary of War Endicott is
/ having the old Peabody mansion at
! Danvers, Mass, repaired, and he in
tends TO make it his permanent home.
! The Oldest soldier in the British
army is Field Marshal Sir Patrick
Grant. He is SO years old, and Joined
the army in the very year the duke of
Cambridge was born.
Miss Agnes Melby of New Richland,
Mimi, who recently graduated at ST
Olaf's college, Mortified, is the first
| lady to take a full course at Nor
wegian-American college.
Horace Boies has never used tobacco
in any form, and is unacquainted with
the taste of liquor, and perhaps his
only profanity was when he swore in
as the governor of Iowa.
Mrs Frances Crosby, authoress of
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and 5000
other hymns, is 81 years old. She lives
in New York, and has been blind since
she was six weeks old.
Miss Lucille Rodney who has won
wager by walking from her home in
Galveston, Texas, to the Worlds fair,
counting the ties all the way, made
$500 on the journey, selling her photo
graphs.
Mrs. Cleveland commenced while at
Gray Gables to collect shells and East
Indian curios, which were picked up
by the old sea captains and presented
to her. Her collection is said to num-
Der many quaint objects.
Professor Benjamin Sharp of Phila-
delphia is visiting the Sandwich Is
lands in the interest of the Academy
of Natural Sciences of the Quaker
City for the purpose of collecting
specimens of natural history He will
visit the aboriginal burial caves.
Admiral Dot. the Lilliputian who is
now a cigarette advertisement in Chi
cago, is only As incnes high, but he re-
ceived a telegram the other night that
made him feel as big as Grover Cleve-
land. 1t was dated New York, and
read: It's ~ girl, and weighs six
pounds. Mother and baby doing
we'll"
The Princess of Wales is very kind
to her poor neighbors at Sandringham.
A writer in the Idler says that often
she may be seen picking up the dusty
little dots of children from the road,
placing them in her own carriage I'M
til it is completely packed and then
duly delivering each at its own home
to boast of having enjoyed a ride with
her.
The National Museum in Washing
ton has just received from John NJ.
Crawford United States consul-gen-
eral at st. Petersburg, a fine collec-
ton of articles illustrating the life and
habits of the people of Finland. 1t is
very complete, and contains many
articles as to the use and significance
of which the ethnologists of the mus
cum are still in doubt Mr. Crawford
has rendered the museum many SINH
lar services in the past.
Sir Henry Norman, whose recent APP
pointment as viceroy of India was a
complete surprise in England, is 67
years old, and has been connected
with the Indian service for nearly
half century. He joined the Bengal
army when he was IS years Old and
during the Sepoy mutiny was ad-
jutant-general. Afterward he was
connected with the military admins
tration of India till 1888. when he was
made governor of Jamaica, which post
he left in 1883 to become governor of
Queensland