The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-07-20
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

come of $4,000.
The mysterious yelled lady with the
Coxian army Is said to be no other
than Mrs Lucy Parsons, widow of
the Chicago Anarchist.
Governor Lewelling has the reputa.
ton of being, among other varieties,
n baseball crank. And he has habit
Of getting or his base.
Mr.. Aubrey Beardsley, the artist
whose fantastic drawings are just
now a "fad" Of English bookmakers,
Is not much over twenty years old
Walter Besant is a chronic. dyedlin-
the-wool optimist, and he is said to be
more proud of the fact than he is
over all his literary successes.
President Harris, of the Maine State
college, is one of the youngest men in
charge of great educational institu.
tion in the country, being only thirty
years of age.
Mrs. Kate Douglass Wiggin. the ati.
thoress, Is n Philadelephian by birth.
who was educated in New England,
transplantcd to California, and then
came back to New York.
Francis Murphy the temperance re-
former, appears to be as popular and
thGNNlNt tNtIs he Is HOW cOUuuCl-
ing most successful series of TEN.
pcrance meetings in Boston.
The trustees of the estate of Lady
Henry Somerset, the leader of the
Womens Christian Temperance move
ment in England, are petitioning the
courts for an injunction To restrain
her from closing all the saloons on
her estate.
The late Gen. Early, whose pictur-
esque profanity caused him to be
known during the war as Lees Bad
Old Man." was in his later years, ac-
cording to the testimony of Rich
mond friend, "a daily reader and
thorough student of the Bible"
Mrs. Susan Stuart Fracketon, of
milwaukee,, who has attained dis
tinction as Il potter. and is president
Painters, Is author of a work that is
used as a text book in the South Ken
sington Art Museum Library.
Abraham Lincoln's autograph. it is
said, has been stolen by autograph
hunters from every paper on file in
the county courts of Illinois. The
distractions have been made. it is
said. by connivance of the cuStodianS
'HN I'PNAS III 'NN ilbihs
only one man in the history of the
Senate, Thomas II. Benton, of Mis-
souri,, served longer than Justin s.
Morrill,, OF Vermont, who has been a
member of that body nearly thirty
years. Benton was elected October .,
1920, and retired March 4. 1851.
Gail Hamilton regrets to see women
engaged in an effort to secure the bal
n for 1t-Ap hA
as movement backward toward
men ana mastodons, the miocene hip
parion and eOcene anchitherium,"
whatever that may signify.
Mr.. Munro Ferguson, according to a
Scotch newspaper, said that after
prOdding Mr. Gladstone on the sub
Ject, the ex-premier said: "My dear
sir, l might as well undertake to re-
place the first man in the garden of
Eden as to carry home rule for Scot
land"
Mrs. Waite, the wife of the cover
nor of Colorado is forty-eight years
of age, while her husband is sixty
nine. She was a widow and he a
widower when they married. She is
interested In the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, and thinks there
Is no one like her husband.
The paper on which letters to Queen
Victoria are written must not be fold
ed. No communication which bears
evidence of having been creased will
ever ind its way into her majesty's
hands. The proper method is TO write
on thick, glossy white paper and to
dispatch the missive in an envelope
which fits it.
The latest royal convert to cycling
is the king Of the Belgians, who now
takes an hour or two's exercise regu-
larly every morning on a tricycle. in
one OF the avenues adjoining Lakeon
palace. For some time past Leopold
III. has suffered from lameness in one
leg, for which massage and various
other remedies have been tried in
vain.
Unity church, Cleveland Ohio, is
probably the Oldest church in the
world that has as pastors two wO-
men. They are the Rev. Marion Muir
doch and the Rev. Florence Buck.
They are highly educated women, hav-
Ing finished their education at Oxford
University. England. They are CO.
pastors of the church, and have been
remarkably successful.
Bismarck has lost none of his old
time gallantry. 1t was arranged by
the deputation of ladies' who person
ally visited him to present the 10
bottles of finest Rhenish wines con
tributed from Baden, Hesse and the
Palatinate that each Of them should
kiss his hand upon being presented,
but the old soldier kissed them in
stead. and not upon their hands,
either.
Sir Julian Paunce6Ote. the British
ambassador at Washington, has gone
against the custom of generations.
which prescribed that, as French is
the language of diplomacy, the cards
OF all foreign representatives, no mat
ter of what nation. should be en-
graved in the French language. His
cards are inscribed simply, "Sir Julian
Pauncefote. representative of her Brit
annie majesty"
T.. A. Abbey, the well-known artist
illustrator, makes his original black
and white picture many times larger
than the illustration of which 1t is