St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-10-18
PERSONALITIES.

erS besides Mrs. Mary Howe Lawn.
Mrs. Hattie Brazor Pratt, who made
such great success in grand opera
at the Covent Garden in London,
last summer, under the management
Of Sir Augustus Harris, has been
engaged to return there for three
years in leading contralto roles. 1t
is also understood that during the
winter season, Mrs. Pratt will fill
engagements at St. Petersburg. Will
Shuster is another Of Brattleboro's
young people in grand opera. He is
under contract for the coming season
with the Tavary company, which
recently opened the new Montauk
theatre in Brooklyn, and will make
tour of the principal cities Of
America.
Col. Albert Clarke, secretary OF the
Home Market Club, is the republican
candidate to the Massachusetts legis-
lature from the town of Wellesley.
Col Clarke is a native of Vermont,
and was for many years connected
with papers at ST. Adams and Rut-
land. If elected to the legislature, as
his many Vermont friends sincerely
hope, he will be a candidate for
speaker.
Lord Rosebery's mother, the Ouch
ess of Cleveland, is writing the lie
of Lady Hester Stanhope, her aunt,
who began life as the private secre-
tary and confdant of William Pitt
and for 80 years had her own exact
way, as an Arab Sheik in Syria.
Mr.. SEE, of the Chinese legation at
the national capital, is an enthusiast
tic cyclist, but must ride woman's
wheel on account of the peculiarites
of his costume.
Two hundred and fifty pounds of
flesh is what DR.. w. G. Grace carries
from one wicket to another every
time he makes a run.
Baron Hirsch, the Jewish million
aire, has just leased the shooting on
the estate of Cardinal Vaszary,
Prince Prlmate of Hungary, which
extends ovef 1900 acres.
Mr.. Letter, the father of Mrs.
George Curzon, started from the
bottom rung OF the social ladder as
a window cleaner in a Chicago dry
goods house, where he had applied
for employment. He is now a mer-
chant of the city with fortune esti-
mated at $20,0OO,OO0.
Cath" says that Secretary Brown
ing once told him that he paid out
$4,000 from his own pocket to
maintain appearances while he was
a cabinet officer. And this was in
Lincoln's time, before the era Of ex-
travagance in official life in Washing.
ton.
Mary Cowden Clark, the compiler
of the concordance to Shakespeare"
is now Sc years old, but in spite of
her age takes vivid interest in life
and books. She lives in Genoa.
Rev. Robert Collyer, formerly of
Chicago, officiated the other day in
New York at wedding ceremony
from which the word "obey' was
omitted by common consent. He
explained afterward by saying that
women never did obey, despite their
promises. THE very best woman in
the world promised to obey me-" he
said, "but she never has"
Years ago halt-starved literary
hack lay wasting away with typhoid
fever in a garnet in Paris. A poor
actress took pity on him, nursed him
back to lite, introduced him to her
manager and married him, becoming
the wife of-Victorien Sardou.
The Prince Of Wales. always mos
correct in matters of etiquette, ha,
two sorts OF cards, one reading "Al
bert Edward, ~ the other lie Prime,
de Gales the French term being
more often used in royal circles thar
the other. French being the universal
language OF royalty, all monarch
have their visiting cards for genera
use inscribed in the Gallo tongue.
, William M. Evarts was going vi
once IN the elevator at the state de
partment which was loaded with ap
, plicants for ministerships and consul
ships. Turning to a friend who &C
companied him, Mr., Evarts said
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