The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-25
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

J. B. Moons. OF Brussels, has spent $780,.
600 in collecting stamps
Car Nicholas of Russia is a confirmed
victim of the cigarette habit.
NJ. Sardou's income from royalties on
his plays is computed to be $4,000 a year.
Murat Halstead is going to lecture on
George Washington's Adventures in
Ohio"
DIR. Meldon, of Dublin, Ireland. thinks
that he is the heaviest bicycle rider in the
world. He weighs 37s pounds.
Don Jayne de Bourbon. the. eldest son
of Don Carlos. will marry, ii is said, the
eldest sister of little King Alphonso.
Countess Clancarty, better known as
Belle Billion, proposes TO return TO the
stage, after an absence OF several years.
The Prince Of Wales wears $50 boots and
takes his own champagne with him TO
public dinners-according to reports unac-
companied by affidavits.
At San Francisco a warrant has been is
sued for the arrest Of MANUEL Casini a
army. He is charged with stealing a BIZ
cycle.
Mr. Carnegie admits that Russia has
placed an order for patent carboniZed re-
forged armor. and says it is large enough
to keep the plant at Homestead fully occu-
pied for the next five months.
The household goods of Della. Stewart
Parnell. the aged mother Of Charles 5.
Parnell were sold at auction at Ironsdes,
her historic home near Bordentown, n. j.,
Thursday. The prices received were small
The poor old woman stood by, weeping.
She is almost destitute.
Florence Blythe Hinckley is threatened
with brain trouble the result of the
years of mental worry due to the litiga-
ton over her fathers millions. For eight
days Mrs. Hinckley has been shut up in
her fiat on Geary street San Francisco,
and no one has been allowed to see her
save the doctor and the nurse.
Mgr. O'Bryan, rector Of the church of
ST. Andrew, Rome, died suddenly at st.
Patrick's presbytery. Montreal, Thursday
afternoon. He was overcome by faint
ing fit last Sunday morning when saying
mass in St. Patrick's church. and had
He was a Roman prelate of considerable
prominence. his work rs the Pope Pris-
oner?" having attracted worldwide atten-
ton.
An enterprising citizen OF Fulton, Fla.
Mr.. Hole. is the pioneer In q new INDUS
try for that state-diamond-backt errapin
farming. In his pen, built in the water,
he has 1000 terrapin and next year hopes
TO have five times that number. The
Florida terrapin are of the same species
as the Maryland terrapin. There Is said
TO be no difference in the taste Of the
precious morsels. but there is a great
difference in the price paid for them.
While Florida terrapin bring only $50,
those taken from the waters of Chesa-
Even at $50 dozen. however, Mr.. Hole
expects to make the business a paying
one. The great difficulty to be encoun-
tered In supplying the demand is the un-
usual ability of terrapin to hide them
selves. They are easiest caught IN the
Matching season. when they make tracks
in the sand 10 and from the nest: but this
is the closed season. and the law provides
a heavy penalty for violation. In the
epen ason terrain are captured IN nets.
Mr.. Hole says that terrapin possess a
fatal curiosity. II there are terrapin IN
a creek. ell you have TO do is 10 rap on
the boat and their little black heads viii
g.. ~
Is called into play. and the terrapin are
bagged.