The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-07-29
PURELY Personal.

William Deharity, Mayor Of Elwood,
Ind, is only - years old and probably
the youngest Mayor in the country.
The wife of Parkc Goodwin Of New
York, who died recently, was the eldest
daughter OF the poet, William Cullen
Bryant. She leaves four chiIdren-two
sons, Harold and Bryant, and two
daughters.
James Payn, the English novelist,
writes: (Which OF all the hcroines OF
fiction, il you had your choice, would
you prefer to take to dinner" For him
self he thinks that Becky Sharp would
be his choice.
Thurlow Weeds granddaughter, Miss
Catherine Weed Barnes, the best-known
woman amateur photographer in this
country, will wed Harry Snowden Ward,
editor OF the London Practical Photog-
rapher, and live in that city.
No woman fears mouse more than
Lord Roberts, whom Queen Victoria re-
Gently decorated dislikes cat, His
nervous sensibilities are such that he
can detect Il cats presence when unable
to see it, and he is i'll ut ease until the
animal is removed.
Mrs. Lewis Rice of Frederick, Md,
has collected enough money to place IA
more imposing monument upon the
grave of Francis Scott Key, author OF
"The Star. Spangled Banner" than the
flat marble slab which now marks it in
Mount Olivct cemetery, Georgetown.
Miss Mary Mann Page Newton, daugh-
ter of Rev. DR.. John b. Newton OF Rich
mond, Va, is being much complimented
for paper upon Colonial Virginia and
I Its Part in Molding American Civiliza-
ton" which by request she prepared to
the Worlds Fair.
A Spanish Jenkins declares that the
Queen Regent of Spain is so fast a swim
mer that she often distances the rowhoat
which accompanies her when she goes
into the surf at San Sebastian. If this
is true, her Majesty is certainly re-
markable swimmer, or perhaps the men
in the boat are excessively bad oarsmen.
Attorney Olney, who was at
first supposed to be frozen up in a crust
of Massachusetts dignity six inches
thick, turns out to be very genial gen
tleman. He attends all the baseball
games in Washington, and whoops and
wells for the home team as vigorously as
the hdmblest occupant OF the bleach
ers."
When President Dwight OF Yale con-
ducts services in the college chapel he
usually prefaces his prayer by saying:
! I - ,,,Nita in, ~ A. thn nlnSn
OF the last term, however, he rose in his
dlgnitied manner and observed. "Gen-
tlemen, this is the last time we shall
meet for devotional exercises. Let us
therefore unite in prayer and thanksgiv-
ing" The Yale men are wondering if
he really meant it.
A successor to Father Damien has
arisen in the person of Pere Sauton, n
Benedictine monk, who has been COM
missoned by the French government to
study up as to leprosy. He will visit
leprous districts in Norway, Lapland,
Finland, Turkey, Greece and Egypt, aft"
erward returning to France to report the
results of his Investigations to M. Pas
teur. Subsequently he is to set out for
Molokai in the Sandwich Islands, where
he will remain for time.
The originator of the Concord grape is
still living in Concord, Mass. He is
Ephraim w. Bull, now 81 years old and
one of the prominent men of the his
toric town. He was friend of Emerson
and Alcott, and has been greatly hon
ored by distinguished visitors to Concord
and by horticulturists ut home and
abroad. In his garden in Concord he
still shows the old mother vine of the
Concord grape, which he developed from
the seeds OF a native wild grape planted
just fifty years ago.