Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-04-10
MEN AND WOMEN.

Sarah Bernhart's bed is of white
satin, and is fifteen feet wide.
General Sickles, the soldier states
man. is an inveterate tobacco chewer.
The father of M. Faure, the new
President Of the French Republic, was
a manufacturer of arm chairs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says: st is
not the interior of ones house. but the
interior of ones mind which makes
home.
The Grand Duchess Of Hesses baby
brings up the number of Queen Vic
toria's direct descendants to round
three score and ten.
Professor Virgins is at it again.
He predicts that the eclipse of the moon
will be followed by violent earthquake
shocks on both hemispheres.
Justice Harlan of the United States
Supreme Court is such an inveterate
tobacco chewer that he is obliged to
keep cuspidor in his pew at church.
A biographer of Martin Luther has
established the fact that there are now
210 direct descendants Of Luther alive,
none of whom, however, bear the fam
lily name.
The King of the Belgians is tall,
thin, austere and reserved man Of
seventy, who has simple, quiet tastes.
He is great reader and student and
his chief recreation is found in walking
long distances.
Mrs. U. s. Grant has Joined her
daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, in Washing
ton and expects to remain until the
latter sails for Europe, some time in
April. Mrs. Grant will then go to
California to spend the summer.
Preston E. Egleston, who took the
first prize in the recent oratorical con.
test at the University of Indiana, is
the son Of barber and one Of two
colored men in the institution. His
subject was "Araham Lincoln"
The Empress Of Austria has not had
portrait taken for thirty years. She
wants to be remembered as the bril-
liant beauty who was almost six feet
tall, whose hair came below her knees
and whose waist measured seventeen
inches.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, like many a
student of today, worked his way
through Harvard by waiting on tables
at the boarding halls and tutoring
younger pupils. He graduated at
eighteen, with a greater reputation
for cleverness than for diligence.
Rejane commands a higher price
for her talents than even favorite
prima donna. According to excellent
Paris authority she receives 81 900 for
every performance, and in addition
her manager pays her expenses and
provides her with a maid and dress
maker.
o. Fl. P. Belmont will have his
summer villa at Newport so arranged
that guests will drive in ON the lower
floor and their horses and carriages
will be taken up ON the elevator, just
as they are driven in, so that persons
may alight directly at the ballroom
door.
Mrs. Sally Pratt Mclean Greene,
whose "Cape Cod Folks" made stir
some years ago, is writing new novel
at her home in Sinsbury. She is
childless widow now, her two children
and her husband, who was Frankling
Greene of Ohio, having all died
The Rev. Charles Gordon, S. j.,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Jamaica,
who is now visiting Baltimore. is
baronet by descent and the eldest son
of the late Sir Charles Gordon of
Argyleshire. Scotland. The Arch
bishop of Edinburgh and the Bishop of
Aberdeen are his first cousins.
The grandfather of President Lincoln
settled in Jefferson county, KY, in
1880, on tract of 400 acres of land,
where the old Long Run Baptist
meeting. house now stands. The land
warrant which was issued to him for
this land bears date of March 4, 1880,
and his name appears in it as "Abra-
ham Linkhorn.