The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-10-05
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Kaiser Wilhelm sits for his photo
graph about once week.
Edison. the inventor, has never car
rled q watch in bis hfe. He says he
itas never wanted to know the time.
The son Of President Tyler, who
acted as the latter's confidential seere-
tary at the White House, is now seven.
ty-fve years old and resident of
Georgetown.
The Infanta Eulalia is residing In
London where living Is more econom-
ical. Her pension has been reduced
and she Is attended only by a maid
of honor.
Miss Maria Gonzales Hermosilla has
Just been appointed postmistress In
the State of Jalisco, Mexico. The APP
pointment is regarded as marking an
epoch In the history Of Mexico.
President Eliot, of Harvard, in n re-
cent address, advised students to thus
epport!on their day: study, ten hours;
sleep, eight; exercise, two; social du.
ties. one; and meals, three hours.
A granddaughter of John G. Cal
noun, the southern statesman, has just
made success In France, playing in
French with a French company the
role of "Hermoine" in Racine's "An-
dromaque."
The most adventurous journey said
TO have ever been taken by woman
recently completed by Mrs. Littledale,
who, with her husband, started from
Constantinople and crossed Asia to
Shanghai.
George Westinghouse, inventor OF
the Westinghouse air-brake and tho
various patents that bear this name,
Is said to be at work on a new under
ground electric system that will fairly
revolutlonize present electric systems.
Miss Lucy ~ Booth, daughter of
Gen Booth, of Salvation Army fame,
has command Of the India forces of
the army, with her headquarters at
Bombay. The Indian army embraces
seven divisions, subdivided into twen-
ty-one districts. 122 corps and 293 out
posts
Prince Francis Joseph, OF Batten.
berg, is said to be paying marked at.
tention to Miss Anna Gould, daughter
of Jay Could who is in Paris Per-
haps II would be more correct to say
the Battenburg princcllng is looking
with loving eyes upon the Gould NIL.
lions.
When 1t comes to costly toys the
latest present to the boy king of Spain
may be said to cap the climax 1t Is
nothing less than an Infant Regiment,
comprising 400 warriors, ranging IN
age from FIVE to eight years. This is
indeed teaching the young idea how
to shoot.
A number Of letters written by Ed
.l.lt
have Just been found among the pa
pers of DR.. Rufus Grlswold, Poe's BIZ
ographer. They are to be divided into
three parts relating separately to Poe's
Hfe in Richmond, Philadelphia and New
York. will be edited by Prof. George
X. Woodberry, and published in one
of the magazines.
There are eight women colonels in
Germany. all of whom draw their pay
regularly-namely, the Empress of
Germany, the Dowager Empress, the
Princess Frederick Charles of Prus-
s.a, the Queen Regent Sophia. Queen
Wilhelm.na of the Netherlands, the
Duchess of Connaught the Duchess of
Edinburgh and Queen Victoria.
The yearly salary of Ida Lewis, the
famous Keeper Of the Lime Rock light
uCuSt, Nl tlc SUulIl tIl vi ANcNpo
harbor, Is $3.50 and two tons of coal.
She is past fifty now, her hair slight
streaked with gray and her face some
what rugged and weather-beaten, but
she is still alert and strong. She be-
gan her wonderful record of life-sav-
ing with the rescue of four small boys,
whose boat capsiZed in the harbor be-
fore her
Adna Adams Treat. of Denver, Col,
is said to be the oldest FreemasOn In
the United States. He was born in
Hartford, Conn, April s, 1897. In 1923
he became a member of Apollo Lodge
of Troy, n. Y, and he is still men,
Der of that organization. In 1925 he
married Miss Jane RELAY, Of Troy,
who died October 2S, 1890. For num-
Der of years Mr. Treat has lived in
Denver, with his daughter, the wife
of DR.. Burnham, of that city. The old
Mason and his bride We're regarded as
the handsomest couple in Troy back
In 1925. Mr.. Treat is hale and hearty
IN his nlnety-eighth year, and bids fair
to reach the concluding years of the
century He has been Mason more
than seventy years.