The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-30
PROMINENT OR PECULIAR.

The Rev. Phoebe Hannaford. a promi.
nent member of Sorosis, has the honor to
be the first woman minister ordained in
| America.
Prince Max of Saxony, after renounc.
ing all claims to the throne of Saxony and
entering a Catholic institution at Eich-
stadt, has just left for the Riviera, suffer.
ing from lung trouble.
Bronson Howard is the pioneer play.
wright of this generation. His first COM
edy, Saratoga" was produced by Angus
tin DAILY nearly quarter of n century
ago. He is a native of Detroit and Jour-
nalist by training.
The first woman publisher was Char
lotte Fowler Wells, who went into the
business with her two brothers in 1914.
she Is still in business in New York, and
declares she never has time to realize that
she is growing old.
Horace Chiffon, of Tyler, Texas, who is
to succeed Senator Coke, is not yet 40
years of age. He is a well-built man with
a hearing at once dignltied and kindly.
Though not an orator, he is q master Of a
simple and lucid style.
Mrs. A. j. Peavey, the new Colorado
state superintendent of public instruction,
can trace her family back to William the
Conqueror. Her husband volunteered
from Wisconsin and was killed in the
civil war. She has been a teacher and a
journalist.
The Daughters of the Revolution of
Pittsburg have recently received by deed
from Mrs. Shenly of that city the old
blockhouse built in 1764. after the relief
of Fort Pitt during Pontiac's war. The
building will be preserved and made a
museum for colonial relics.
1t is estimated that Henry Griffin, the
favorite jockey of the last racing season,
will earn $4,000 on the turf next year.
That is to say, he will have an income as
great as n bank presidents salary, and
nearly four times as large as that which a
cabinet officer receives.
There is no color line in football. Lewis
proved this when he showed himself the
best center rush Harvard has had for
years, and now the Nebraska university
eleven has elected Fhppen, who had dis
tinguished himself as half back, to be
captain next year.
Samuel Minturn Peck cultivates one of
the largest flower gardens in Alabama
and his homo Is literally rooted with
roses.
Augustin Daily has received from the
University of Notre Dame the Leclare
medal and the degree of LII. ID. He is
tho tenth person to receive the medal.
The emperor of Russia is such n mu-
steal artist and grand tenor that il the
Nihilists were to run him out of the car
ship he could still make a good income in
the concert room.
John j. Ingalls, describes a woman who
wants TO vote as IAN opalescent phan-
tasy." And yet there are people who be-
lieve that he ought to be sent to the
senate.
The pope's doctors have ordered that
his apartments shall be warmed by a
service of hot water pipes.
Mss Ida Welt. Vassar girl, is the only
woman chemist in New York.
4 diamond brooch and an offer of mar
riage from prominent newspaper man
are hltterng tributes to the bravery of a
young lady in Copenhagen, who seized a
thief and held MIN until the police came
and carried HIM to Jail.
Practical philanthropy is tho motive Of
Miss Sterling. of Aylesford. Nova Scotia,
She has erected saw mills. grIst mills and
work shops on her model farm, TO which
she brings destitute children from SCOT
land and educates them To- trades. There
are generally about 100 little waits on the
farm fitting themselves for useful lives in
the outer world.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton has no ma
thence with the crusade against living pic
lures on tho stage while there are so
boxes.