The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-11
PERsoNAL PARAGRAPHs.

HIhSONAh E-AfoAOIaiAl no
Mrs. Mary Anderson Navarro will
have her memoirs ready for the pub
II Usher in the coming spring.
John E. Russell, of Massachusetts. is
"a great admirer of horses and drives
la handsome pair of bays.
Mr. McLaurin, the new senator from
Mississippi, is a. tall, erect, well-pro-
portioned man, whose fine face is IN
dicative of high Intellectual caliber and
much individuality.
Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo
Bid gives as his reason for refusing TO
run for governor of Nebraska that he
does not propose to exchange an IN
come of $780, 600 for $4,000 d year.
Professor Huxley's ungovernable
temper and his frequent fits of cranki-
ness make it difficult for new acquaint-
ances to get along with him. To such
his manner is chilly in the extreme.
Among the boy authors of the old
world is the crown prince of Siam, VINO
has written several stories for English
children's magazines and can write
fuently in three European languages.
Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, the
senior bishop of the Protestant Episco-
pal church in America, will be kept IN
memory in that state by library to
iby the bishops friends
| Calve, the noted prinla donna now
singing in New York, is called Mime.
iCalve though, to use her own state
iment she has always been too busy
/ to marry" She considers English
women the most accomplished, and says
Americans come next.
! G. F. Watts, the artist, who is a little
/ over 20 years old, has painted i've
| l. 70 M
Ionides, living in London. The vener-
liable head of the family owns large
number of re-Raphaelitss, and all the
members are artistic in their tastes.
Dr. Murray, who is editing the new
| English dictionary. has had 10000
books read by his helpers, who look for
new and old meanings Of words. SO
much material has accumulated that
he has had an iron house built in his
back garden to hold the words and
their history.
Franklin Farrell, who is talked of as
the next congressman from the second
Connecticut district is a native of the
state and IS IS years of age. He began
generating in business for himself with
an outfit consisting of single lathe
and planer Today his machine shop
Icontains $50 machine tools and he en-
ploys 700 men.
/ LIT. lNEuS "a. Dbl lOl II tAlC ldoI SUI
Ivivor of the famous "Transcendental
club" in which Emerson was the CEN
trail light DR.. Holmes, DR.. George Il.
Ellis and Robert C. Winthrop are the
other venerable BOStonianS who are
left to us of q former and notable
1 generation, but DR.. Bartol is now the
ionly survivor of the brilliant company
who must be named as the associates
and friends of Emerson in the middle
part of this century.
w Martin Conway, who is lecturing
at the Royal institution in London on
his recent explorations in the Hima
llayas, has transversed more ground in
those perilous regions than any other
explorer Although his journeyings
there have covered over 5000 miles, he
says that the section of country which
4 he explored compared with the noun
famous region that has not yet been
touched is as the size of a postage
stamp to that of a large quarto page.
Mrs. Mary E. Schenley, of London,
England, has given $4,000 toward the
fund of $4,000 needed to purchase
land for public park in Allegheny,
Pa, and this nearly makes up the
amount required. She owns hundreds
lof acres in Pittsburg, and has previous
lily given to that city 279 acres for
ISchenley park, and sites for a news
boys home and an institute for the
blind. She has also recently added
81 goo to the charity fund and made a
voluntary reduction of rent to all her
tenants.
The late Mr.. Childs is described by
one who knew him as a philanthrOpist
most of the time, but a newspaper man
all of the time. Most of the leading
reporters of Philadelphia. knew him
well personally, and he often gave
them scoops" on news concerning the
Drexel estate and about matters of
which he only was cognizant over his
, own paper. But after that his paper
would take UP the news where the
others left off, and they would be
''scooped.
Something new in the way of chill
dren's parties was given in Chicago on
features of the party was a game in
which accuracy of aim, while blind
folded was necessary to success. There
was a cherry tree and Georges little
, Ratchet Each little guest, with eyes
bandaged, tried to lodge the Ratchet
: in notch first cut in the tree. The
, , first prize was a George Washington
hat, the second a Ratchet.
A steamer has just crossed the At.
lantic using for fuel Russian petroleum
which is of little value unless this ex-
pertinent results in it's general use. The
most important advantage was found
in the perfect combustion of the pc.
i. troleum, a result never obtained wher
coal is used. The process consists il
forcing the fuel through the center Of
pit of steam, which passes directly
under the boilers, which are protected
! from the flames by a superstructurt
the bricks are changed in color t
white