The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-03
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

Ex-State Treasurer Vincent. of Ala
hama, Is now working as a lourneyman
painter in Mississippi village.
John Mileham. of Topeka, collects cats
and has one of the largest aggregations
OF felines in the United States.
Count Badenyi, the new prime minister
of Austria. is descendant of an Italian
cook in the service of one OF the last kings
OF Poland. His head is as bare or hair as
a billiard ball.
Gladstone in his old age has begun
critical study Of dramatic art. 1t is inti-
mated that he may write write volume com IN
great Greek dramatists.
Muiake Yujiro, a newspaper man of ia
pan. says that celebrated Chinese poem,
written several hundred years ago by Liu
Ting Che bears really striking resem-
blance to THE Last Leaf" by Oliver
Wendell Holmes.
A brave New York woman. whose name
is not related. remained ali night alone in
the Rlpogenus region, away above Moose
head. in the Maine forest, last week,
while her husband carried the sick guide
out to civilization.
DIR. Joseph Parker, Of the City Temple,
taking Pope Leo's appeal for Christian
unity as directed personally TO himself,
has sent a letter kindly praising his mo-
yves. but assuring hlm that Or. Parker
can permit no man to come between him
and his Savior.
father in many ways. He is the author
clever and witty things by the score. In
preparing for the defense in a well-known
poisoning case he read a whole library Of
books on poisoning.
Prof. Olszewski, of Cracow, who has
succeeded In liquefying hydrogen, has
tried 10 liquefy helium, whose density is
nearly twice as great, without success.
This is due. Prof. Ramsey thinks, TO the
molecular constitution Of helium, and for
the same reason the nquefaction OF argon
should be more difficult.
Mrs. Martha Wilson Atalanta Lumpkin
Campton, now paying a visit TO Atlanta,
Ga. is the lady in whose honor the city
Of Atlanta received its name, Marthas-
vile. She is the daughter of the late
Wilson Lumpkin, who was governor of
Georgia. and a United States senator
She is living in quaint old house near
Athens. Ga
Madagascar names are not so terrible
as they look, says Dr. Isaac Taylor
author of Words and Places" their APP
parent length is due TO several words be-
Ing written in one. Antananarlvo, the
capital. is made up Of An, at; tana, place
and arivo. a thousand, and means, at
the place of a thousand huts." An, or
Am. in all Malagasy names, means at,
NOsi is an island. Be is big, Marc many,
Bohi hill. Keli blue. The longest name
in the island is Bongawandrianimpo
merina. meaning lat the hill of Andria-
mandroso. the chief who conquered Imeri-
ma"
DR.. Norvin Green. the longtime presi-
dent of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, claims that he gave Edison the
employment which was the beginning OF
his successful career, to which. as is well
known. the Western Union corporation
has largely contributed. Edison had been
bothering the officers Of the company
with teiegraphic devices they had no need
Of He went into the office one day when
It was impossible to obtain communica-
ton between New York and Albany, and
the seat of the difficulty could not be To-
Gated He was banteringly invited to
remedy the trouble He said he could do
so in two hours. lie was laughed at and
given two days for the task. His process
was very simple. He telegraphed TO the
best operator in Pittsburg, and instructed
him to telegraph to the best operator in
Albany. The latter telegraphed his New
York line down as far as he could, feeling
his way from point 70 point. and sending
the results TO the Pittsburg man, who for
warded them to Edison. In less than one
hour Edison said 10 the anxious officials:
THE break IS two miles from Poughkeep-
sic" That simple method insured his
status with the Western Union people,
and won for him a hearing in all his
schemes.