The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-12-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE

Wilhelmina, the young Queen Of Holland,
wears bloomers when cycling.
Major. General O. b. Knowles has been APP
pointed 10 the command Of the British Army
in India.
The Pusslan Order OF Merit which Her
bert Spencer has declined, was accepted by
Carlyle, who would never accept any other
decoration.
President Dlaz OF Mexico, at slxty-flve
possesses the bodily and mental activity OF q
man OF twenty, due, he says, to the fact that
no has been great eater and a good sleeper.
Anna Katherine Green's real name Is Mrs.
Charles Rohlis. She Is married, and has
three children. Her home Is In buffalo.
whore she writes her annual detective story.
Sir Walter Wildn, London's new Lord
Mayor, Is member OF large business firm
which makes the sale Of German yeast a
specially, and has reaped fortune there
from.
Barney Barnato, the "Kafnr King" whose
enormous profits in South African mines
have lateystartled the world Is really named
Bernard Isaacs. He was once a circus
tumbler.
Gladstone Is, as usual, by no means idle.
This time il Is the English drama which no
is studying. tits presumed he contemplates
work comparing the English playwriters
to the Greek dramatists.
James Whiteomb Riley and Julian HaW-
thOrne are the neatest chirogfaphists among
the literary men Of this generation. Their
handwriting is almost identical in style
fine, clean-cut and legibe.
A check for $4,000 has been sent to DR..
/ W. G. Grace, Englands "Grand Old Man"
at cricket representing the 100, 900 shilling
/ subscriptions to the testimonial started for
him by the Daily Telegraph.
/ Daudet. the famous French novelist, once
/ said Of H. NJ. Stanley: "He is the largest
/ reservoir OF human energy known to me
/ since Napoleon. Iadmire him, think more
than anything in the world"
O. t. Bortchgrevink, who claims to have
/ been the first man to set foot on the great
antarctic continent is in Europe organizing
an exploring expedition thither, for which
South African millionaire is paying the ex-
/ peDses.
Lord Bennett, the evangelist peer, who re-
Gently married Miss Van Marter, Of Tacoma,
Wash, Is said TO have been a skeptlo up to
four years ago. when he became converted.
He is o successful leader in slam work in
London.
King Humbert, Of Italy, owns nearly 200
horses. and the greater number OF them are
English bred. The double row OF stalls
forms regular street. and each animals
name is printed in large, white letters above
the manger.
Mr.. Farrell member OF the English House
Of Commons for West Cayan, Ireland, re-
Gently broke the record for newly elected
members Of Parliament. At A15 in the
afternoon no was sworn in and at $50 nc
was on his feet making his maiden speech.
Desmond Fitzgerald, the Knight Of Gin,
died recently at Glin Castle, County
Limerick. Like the Knight Of Kerry, thC
Knight Of Gin is a hereditary knighthoot
created b. Fitzgerald OF Desmond in the
fourteenth century, by his authority as
Count Palestine, without the interposltion
Of the crown.
General Saussier, who would command the
French army in case OF war, is past seventy
years, an age at which an American com
mander-in chief would have been long re
tired. but still robust and clear-headeC
man OF affairs. He IS a soldier Of unusua
stature, and at present he is the military
| Governor Of Paris.