The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1893-09-30
PURELY PERSONAL.

Mark Twain's daughter, Miss Clara
Clemens, has written play. 1t is alle'
gOrical in che 'acter.
John Add II ,ton Symonds, the English
essayist and writer on art, died rich. He
left IN estate valued at E75 ,2S6, most OF
which, however came TO him by bequcst
Bret lIartc cannot work except in Sc
cusion, and when he is busy on story
he will hide himself away in some sub
urban retreat known only TO his closest
friends.
Prof. Heinrich Kiehort, the eminent
gcographer and author of the best exist
ing ancient atlas has just celebrated his
10Th birthday at Berlin. He is in excel
lent health.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, the song writer,
il short-necked, thick-set, beetle
browed man, with curly black hair, mus
tache and side whiskers, and is some
what stilted as to manner.
Bishop John ?. Newman of the Meth
odist Church, who has been visiting the
missions in South America, has been alb
sent about four months, and his tour has
covered about $4,000 miles.
Prof. Charles Carroll Everett OF the
Harvard divinity school will represent
the university at the ceremonies attend
ing the opening of Manchester's new col
lege, Oxford. 1t takes place in October.
The full-sized model for the equestrian
statue of the late Emperor William of
Germany is just completed. He is shown
mounted on u charger led by an angel of
peace. The casting in bronze will take
over year.
Associate Justice Charles +. Fenner of
the Supreme Court of Louisiana has ten
dered his resignation, being desirous of
resuming the practice OF law, which is
at once more remunerative and in some
ways more congenial to his tastes.
Ex-Congressman John Cessna of Penn
sylvania has been present at every COM
mencement of Franklin and Marshall
College since he was graduated there in
1912, and he has missed attending but
two sessions of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania in forty-tive years. He is
now Y years old.
Jenny Lind's private car was one of
the first to be used in this country, and
in the days when she was singing here
it attracted a great deal of attention. 1t
was only an ordinary car, which she
hired, and from which she had the seats
removed, fitting it up with her own lux
urious household furniture.
DR.. Diefenbach is q Bavarian painter
who refuses to wear modern clothes, and
prowls about the streets of Munich in q
sort of toga. He is coming to this coun-
try with the hopes of converting num-
Der of Americans to his ideas, and ex-
poets to establish sort of colony, of
which he shall be the head.
Lady Tryon, widow of the late Ad-
miral, has refused the government pen
sion of $1,000, which Admirals' widows
always receive. She is aware of the re-
sponsibility of her husband for the Vic
toria disaster, and is unwilling to be a
beneficiary of the governments bounty
under such circumstances. The Admiral
was Lieutenant when she married him.
The dean of the London Lyceum Com
pany and the oldest actor on the stage is
Henry II. Howe, white-haired, hale
man of 50 years. All close readers of
theatrical melange know something of
him. Though an old man, he has in re-
cent years taken the part Of gay gal
liant in many Shakespearean and other
plays. He has been on the stage for
sixty years, and was a protege of the
great Macready and Charles Kean, and
has been with Henry Irving for ten
years.