The evening times., 1895-09-03
Well-Known People.

hcV. MaSkdIoO TAI one OF tEe hOft tInl.
ncnt echolars Of Japan, is coming TO this
country to study the rocial, political, and
religious principles Of American civilza-
ton. Mr.. Tai is an Epifcopalian clergy
man. and belongs 10 what war known in
Japan twenty-five years ago as the sol
dier caste. He was educated for and in
tended to enter the army but became con-
vcrted apd entered the ministry.
Bouguereau has signed his name to 429
canvases. This number, OF course, does
not include sketches and other misccla-
neous work. He has hanging in his studio
his first two pictures. One of these, "Crimes
of Youth. represents dying man flat ON ais
back in a desert with the Angel Of Death
approaching to claim his rights; the other
depicts Dante and his companion exploring
the Internal regions and witnessing scenes
Of horror.
Mrs Thomas C. PIatt, wife ofNew York's
Republican leader, is the inventor of an
improved case for packing oranges. The
lady Is alfo the owner of tuccessful
orange grove in Florida
The blue grace bellies have taken the
stump for woman's rights. Maids and
matrOns of Kentucky are now delivering
fervid addresses in various parts of the
State under the auspices OF the Equal
Rights Association of Kentucky. A few
days ago Mrs Laura Clay and Mrs. Eu-
genia Farmer stirred up a big audience
In Bowling Green TO Immense enthusi-
asm.
Queen Emma of Holland, speaks French,
English and Dutch with az much apparent
facility as German, her native tongue. 1t
Is related of her that upon one occasion
n foreign diplomatist who wifhed to grat'
ify her addressed her in German, but she
replied in French, "You forget that am
no longer German, but Dutch" She was
a young girl and her husband was 81 when
she became his second wife.
Miss Florence Bascom has been added to
the faculty of Bryn Mawr College as reader
in geology DR.. Bascom is the6nly woman
who has received the degree OF PHI. ID. from
Johns Hopkins.
The Duke of Norfolk, Postmaster Gen.
eral in Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, has
been requested to accept the Mayorar,
at Sheffield. There are several noble
men in England who are Mayors, but none
SO high in rank as duke.
At the Virginia White Sulphur Springs
the other day there was n little game
OF poker in which Judge Newnlan,of the
United States District Court OF North
east Georgia; Judge Bra wiley, a South
Ca roliDa Federal Judge, and Judge
Roger A. Pryor, of New York. took hands.
When the game-the limit in which was
modest oDe-w,is ended, Judges Newman
and Bra awley hads all the chips, although
each gentleman has but one arm, having
lost the other IL the war.-Evening Sun.
Charles Broadway Rouss, of New York.
has offered to give 100000 toward the
erection of building for the preservation
OF relics and memorials of the Southern
Confederacy This proposition has been
taken up by the organization of ex-Con-
fcderate soldiers.f which has appointed
a committee TO cooperate with Rouss and
raise the remaining funds necessary to
erect such q buiIdinsL as he desires and TO
decide with him Oh its location.
Frederick Howard Hovey, the ne W tennis
champion of America, is graduate OF
Brown University in the class OF 1880
His home is at Newton Center, Mass, where
his father, the Rev. DE- Alvan Hovey, is
president OF the Newton Theological In
stitution. Fred Hovey won second
place In the intercollegiate tennis tourna-
ment at New Haven while a senior at
Brown, and the next year, representing
the Harvard Law School, he took first
honors He was a member of the Brown
baseball team for four years, and in othe'.
branches of athletics achieved prominence.
After his entrance into the law school
he became a member of the Harvard nine,
and filled the position ut second base
with great credit to himself and the col
lege..