Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-09-12
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

-Ex-Gov. Garcelon, of Maine, is
eighty years old, and vigorous
man. There are nineteen Garcelons In
the Lewiston, Me-, city directory now.
all of the original Garcelon family,
which was very prolific. One daughter
of the house, Sally Moore, had twenty
seven children.
-Phineas Moses, who died in Gin
cinnati the other day at the age of
ninety-seven, was one of small band
of pious Israelites who organized the
first Hebrew congregation In Cincin-
natl January Is, 1924. He was also
one of the few persons who saw Ma
poleon when he was exiled to the
island of st. Helena
Queen Victoria's word, in the mat
ter of titles, is absolute law. We're she
to address a bystander inadvertently
as duke" a duke he would remain,
unless she revoked the honor. There
are several cases on record in which
titles were conferred by sudden i'm
pulse of the sovereign in colloquial
moment-titles which are extant to
this day.
Miss Alice J. Hands and Miss Mary
n. Cannon, two young women of New
York, have solved the problem of sani-
tary tenement-houseS. In order to
study the subject thoroughly they as
sumed the duties of health inspectors
and took up their residence in a very
poor tenement district. They are
about to erect a ''woman's hotel" with
model plumbing and ventilation, also
studio building.
-Australia's grand old man is Sir
Henry Parkes, who has played more
prominent part in that islands politics
than any other man. At first sight he
appears to be the oldest man alive,
looking to be even more than his eighty
years of age; but in reality he shares
with Gladstone, the pope, and Bismark
the art of keeping the vitality and
energy of youth to period far beyond
the experience of human life.
-Nabi, a bandit chief of the Cau-
casus, believes in thoroughness The
villagers of Khodshaan lately captured
one of his men and hanged him off
hand. Nabi loaded train of pack
horses with naphtha, swooped down
on the village with his band, killed all
the men, soaked the houses with naph-
tha and burned them to the ground,
and carried off the women and children
to his refuge across the Persian border.
Baron Edmond de Rothschild has
bought and presented to the Louvre
the Bosco Reale treasure, consisting of
forty silver articles which were hidden
there by people escaping from the de-
struction of Pompeii On one of the
vases is depicted a dance of death The
Louvre having refused to pay one
hundred thousand dollars for the find
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts was
trying to buy it when Baron de Roths-
child stepped in.
Mrs. Mary Ann Smith, of East
Lyme, Conn, who lately celebrated
her ninety-fourth birthday, four days
previous to that interesting event led
forth party of women to mend the
roads she had vainly petitioned the
selectmen to repair. Several petitions
had been presented to the town fathers
without avail; but the women and
children, with old Mrs. Smith at their |
head, cleared the loose stones from the
road and made it fit for travel
he"Woman's Bible" in which Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady stanton is interested, |
has failed to meet the approval of any !
theologians a BILE to read the language |
in which the Bible was written. |
Though Mrs Stanton will be an octo- |
generian in few months, she is full |
of fun as ever she was, and she laughs |
heartily when twitted upon the sneer-
ing reception that has been given to her
efforts to interpret the language of
Moses through the modern speculations
about woman's rights.