The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-19
MEN AND WOMEN.

Nineteen of the pensioners Of the war OF
1912 are over 100 years old; and six OF them
live in Vermont.
Rebecca Allen. OF Chester, VT. 81 years
old, has just completed u bed-qullt con-
tanning nearly 1000 pieces.
The queen of Horny Nv Of Fsance on one
great occasion wore u dress sewn with B.
600 pearls and 5000 diamonds.
A Mrs. Simons, Of Sodaville, Or, said to
DO over 100 years OF age. draws n pension
from the war fun OF 1877.
Their arc believed to bs a SCORE Of women
in New York city whose collections Of lace
vary in value from 100000 to $780, oo.
One of the daughters of the late Fannie
kemble is this we'll known translator Of
German novels. Mis-. Wistar. of German
town, Penn.
Verdi was almost 60 years of age when no
wrote "Adia." rs When he brought out
'Otsllo," and now at S6 he produces Pal
staff"
Florence Nightingale. the famous nurse,
is ~ years old. She takes her baptismal
name from the Italian city in which she
was born.
Tennyson left n personal estate to the
value of $3.50, 900. HrowninR'a estate
amounted in value to about $4,000 and
Matthew Arnold's to only $4,000.
President Barrios. of Guatemala, has
III VA ~ "a SHio bAdp bAlV
practically rules the republic. She is
the leader of all woman movements in that
country.
The most beautiful unmarried princess
in Europe, 1t is said, 10 the Princess Glenn
%entins, the Youngest daughter of the king
OF tho Bslgians. She is 22 years old.
The two most powerful and luminous
minded per.onages in the void at this
time are oc~togenarians. Pope Leo XIII.
ss years old. and Premier Gladstone. OF
England, 81.
Robert Purvis. the only surviving member
OF the American Anti-Slaysry society, which
was organized in 1888, is seriously i'll ut his
home in Philadelphia. MIR. Purvis is SO
years old.
Mrs. Mary o. Arnold, of Norwich. Conn.,,
has sent Baby Ruth a solid silver spoon,
one OF a set of three made by Mr.. Clevs-
lands grandfather over 100 years ago and
uu heirloom in Mr.. Arnold's family.
John BallinRer and Matilda Ballinger
the seventy-sixth anniversary of
their wedding a few days ago at NATION,
Ill. The husband is 101 years Of age and
the wife "a.
The London Optician says great men are
usually blue-eyed. and instances shakes
peate, Socrates. Locke, Bacon. Milton.
Goethe, franklin, Napoleon. Bismarck.
Gladstone. Huxley. Virchow and R"nan.
Hoke Smith. of Georgia, selected for a
cabinet position under MIR. Cleveland, is
proprietor of the Atlanta Journal and a
snccessful lawyer. He is not yet IS, has
the appearance of an athlete. and lisa good
speaker.
MIR. CHM. a Boston publisher, keeps a
employed by him can help themselves, and
he never let's the barrel become empty,
though the girls are said to indulge very
freely in the fruit.
John w. Bookw alter. the Ohio million
aire. said this other day: II cannot tell YOU
how much money l have spent trying to
build a machine which will fly. But 1 think
that l have a model under way now that
will solve the problem"
Smith were the only full generals of the
confederate army living. Kirby Smith ia
now q professor in the university of tbs
South, at Sewanee, Icnn.. mi Bsauregard
mas joined the great majority. ~
Ex-senator Carlisle's son Logan is said
to have n mind much like his fathers and
has been so long associated with him that
be the private secretary of the new score.
tary of the treasury.
The Santa Clara, Mexico, newspapers re-
port the recent death of Sonora Dolores
MachnGo, of MieuoZ, who reside at Quem-
ado. Hilario. She had attained her 1lSth
year; and she left fourteen children, fifty
one grandchildren, 120 grent-grandchildren
and fort, eight neutrality-suspicious..
Her Oldest daughter is 101 years.
The Countess Louise Cianciana now sells
MATCHES on the steps of the palace of Mon
to Citorio. where the Italian Legislature
meets, over which her husband presided as
speaker some years ago. He was also one
of Garibaldi's distinguished associates and
mayor of Rome-sll of which is duly set
forth upon a placard which the countess
wears about her neck.