Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-08-04
Persons Worth Knowing About.

IPTNOHN NOItu hhuhihE hpOuhs
X ng Carlos, Or Portugal, leaped from
his carriage the other day to interfere
with a fight and prevent a probable muir
der. His majesty oyerpowered the
strongest party and turned him over to
the police.
Little Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland,
is Is years old, and her doctor, after a
study of her constitution, says that she
has used up just 80 years worth of ner-
vous force. Her life is too exciting for
a person of her representative nature.
General Alexandra Ybarra, who has
been mentioned as a coalition candidate
for the pre- .idency Of Venezuela, is now
residing in Boston. He married the
daughter Of Thomas Russell, who was
United States minister to Venezuela
under President Grant.
X. S. Hanjltsintji, a young Sikh
prince, is this year contestant in the
English university cricket matches, and
one Of the best all round members Of the
Cambridge eleven He is called simply
smith" by his daily associates, who
can't catch his right name.
Miss Kate Kane, of Chicago, gives
notice that she is out for a judgeship.
She is willing to accept a nomination
from either of the political parties, or
from both Of them, but if ignored will
run Independently. 1t is apparent that
Miss Kane believes in the wearing of
gowns by judges,
Frederick Emerson Brooks, the Cali
fornia poet, is a syIph-like creature
weighing $50 pounds. He has face
like the full moon, but it lights up mar
yelously when he begins to recite one of
his quaint, droll and pathetic poems for
roomful Of his friends, He is a native
Of New York state, but has lived in San
Francisco for II years.
Daniel Colladon, who has just died in
Switzerland, was the first man to apply
compress d air to the Transmission Of
force. In 1871 he first applied tue re-
suits of his observations upon the prop
critics of liquids, in carrying luminous
waves projected at their source, and at
the Paris exposition Of 1889 the idea
was carried out on grand scale. Cola
don first Ii Geneva with gas in 1913,
and in 1862 he was asked to. illuminate
Naples in the same way.
General j. c. Mckibben, Of Maryland
who was the second Of Senator Broderick
in the duel with Judge Terry in Califor
MIA, which resulted in Broderick's death,
is still hale and hearty. Speaking of
the duel the other day, he said that it
was a most unfortunate affair, aid that
there was really no cause for it. There
was nothing in the language used oy
Broderick that justified the combat, but
the state of feeling in California at the
time was such bat duels we're fought
upon very himsy pretexts, or upon none
at all.
George Parrot, Of Lynn, Mass, has
been peggiug away at shoemaking and
cobbhng for 81 years, and his hand has
by no noaus lost its cunning, as the
pair Of shoes he recently sent TO the
worlds fair will prove, He is 80 years
old, and went into shoeshop as an APP
prentice at the age Of 9. He still works
"A, a solid-looking old colonial bench
which was known to be 100 years old
when it came into his possession so years
ago. An unmarried sister of 81 keeps
house for him, as his wife died 20 years
ago. As the oldest working shoemaker
in Massachusetts,, Mr.. PARROT is local
celebrity.