The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Mr.. Edwards, director of LIE Matin, the
most modern and enterprising of the
Parisian journals, has retired from Jour-
nalfsm.
Fanny Burney, the author OF "Evalina."
lies buried in Walcott churchyard nea..
Bath, with no stone of any kind to mark
her grave.
Mrs. Baker, of Dickinson, Va, aged 60
years, has just been appointed mail rider
In her district, which is one Of the Wild
est in Virginia
A Scotch newspaper refers to Mrs
Lease of Kansas as "one Of those strange
men, found frequently In America, who
write under feminine nom de plume"
A fire in an old hotel In Atehens, Ga,
destroyed some fine traditions by burn
ing out the room that John Howard Payne
and President James Monroe had occu-
pied at different times.
Miss Remfe Londonderry Of Boston,
the round-the-world bicyclist, has de-
clined over 150 offers of marriage. She
says she has saved $780, 1t isn't every
girl who has wheels who can do that.
One OF the oldest actresses in the world
Is Nine. Phister, who is so, and the other
day celebrated her sLxtdeth anniversary
as an actress. Her husband, whom she
married In 1876 was also eminent as an
actor.
Prince Dimitri Khilkov, a rich Rus
sian nobleman, has followed Tolstols ad-
vice and divided his estate among his
peasants. reservang only seven acres for
himself, which he cultivates to support
his family. He devotes his spare time
to teaching the peasants.
One more vote in the Republican nom
mating convention of 1854 would have
made a president OF Gen. Green Clay
Smith, the distinguished Kentuckian, who
is now dying. The contest was for the
vice presidential nomination, and the
honor went to Andrew Johnson.
Ismail Pasha, the late khedive OF
Egypt. left three widows, one Georgian
princess and the other two Circassians,
who I've together In the palace of RasinA,
on the bay of Naples. They now drive
about Naples without their wells, and
are very fond OF shopping and of the
theatre.
Huxleys face was thin and his complex |
ion so dark as to be almost swarthy. |
When he shaved off his mustache and |
beard his skin was quite blue black !
His hair was worn long. On the plat |
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man, without a trace of self-conscious- |
ness or embarrassment.
Stanley Weyman first thought Of OPEN
Ing up the romance OF early French |
history when sitting moodily In the |
smoking room Of his club mourning over
his bad luck In literature. The plot Of
his most successful novel flashed across
his mind as he was washing his hands |
preparatory to going to dinner.
Galen Clark, who in 1857 discovered the
big tree near Yosemite valley, Is still |
guardian of that valley. When he left |
New Hampshire In 1858 he did not expect |
to live year. But in California he
spent his time hunting and fishing, bare
headed and barefooted, and today ne Is
as hale and vigorous a man OF 80 as one
can encounter anywhere.
Bismarck has. according to the Hun
gsrian General Turr. cost Europe during
Z : last twenty-five years no less sum +
th- ~. .oo5 900 francs f,25 10000 OOO) He
has d-~e this by producing the condition
Of armed terrorism which goes under the
lame OF peace. In which we have been
living for a quarter Of century, each
power wing With each other in the
Of costly arTnamenta.a /