The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-07-11
PERSONS OF NOTE.

PERSONS OF NOTE.
Pertinent Paragraphs OF People Of
Prominence Throughout the World.
The late Secretary Gresham's estate
is only worth $4,000.
M. Cachard, the legal adviser Of the
United States embassy at Paris, has
just translated the Code Napoleon into
English.
More than 200 letters of Pestalozzi,
the pedagogist, have been discovered
at Yverdun, in the Canton de Vaud.
They relate to his school work while in
the town.
DIR. Max. Nordau has turned from
theories of degeneration" to lighter
literary labors. He is at work on
play for the Lessing theater, in Berlin,
and a novel.
Lady Mary Scott, the winner of the
ladies' golf championship in England,
is the second daughter of the Earl of
Eldon and great-grand- daughter Of the
great lord chancellor.
Sir Frederick Bathurst is about to
sell the historic estate of Clarendon,
near Salisbury. Its palace was the
residence of the English kings from
Henry to Edward I'LL
The remains of General Winfield
from the Montgomery cemetery at
Norristown. The effort to have them
removed to Arlington, Va, has been
abandoned.
The managers of the Ohio state
prison have just released on parole
the notorious convict William Berner,
whose escape from the gallows in 1884
was the direct cause of the bloody Gin
cinnati riots.
M. Berthelot has devised means of
measuring the temperature of an en-
closed space without thermometer by
examining ray of light sent through
the space at the points where it enters
and leaves it.
. John Rogers statue of Abraham
Lincoln, which has been set up in the
Manchester, N. H., public library, rep
resents the president as studying a war
map. The figure is one third larger
than ife-size.
Henri Rochefote, the French editor
whose long term of exile in England
recently terminated, finds that he pre-
fers London to Paris. Upon his return
to the French capital he felt himself
to be stranger.
CASTOR Pairs, who has just been ap-
pointed rector of the university of Par
is in place of M. CASTOR Boissier, the
new perpetual secretary of the French
academy, is the greatest living ro-
nance philologist.
At last accounts Richard Watson
Glider, editor of the Century, was in
Berlin to attend the wedding of his
sister-in-law to an Italian nobleman.
The bride is sister of General DeKay,
United States consul general.
Comte de Mouy, formerly ambassa-
dor of France at Rome, has declared
himself a candidate for one of the
fauteuils in the Academic Franchise,
left vacant by the death of MN. Victor
Duruy and Ferdinand de Lesseps.
1t is said that during the term of
Henry A. Barling as executor of the
Robinson estate, of which Mrs. Hetty
Green is legatee, the latter has changed
her lawyers seven times and filed 1, 700
objections to items in the executors ac-
counts.
The descendants of old Governor
Thomas Wiggin have had their second
annual reunion and banquet in Boston.
Thomas Wiggin came to America in
1881, and for many years was the vir-
tual owner of part of what is now
southern New Hampshire.
OF the $4,000 needed to erect the
TennysOn beacon in the Isle of Wight
only 81, 900 has been subscribed so far
in England and $72O in America. The
beacon will be granite monolith in
the form of an Iona cross to take the
place of the wooden Nodes beacon.
Prince Dimitri Khlikov, a rich Rus
sian nobleman, has followed Tolstoi's
advice and divided his estates among
his peasants, reserving only seven
acres to himself, which he cultivates to
support his family. He devotes his
spare time to teaching the peasants.
Able Rambaud has received the
So, 900 D'Audriffet prize for self-abne-
cation from the French Academy. He
became blind early in life and found
difficulty in getting ordained, but de-
voted himself and his fortune of SEC, 900
a year to relieving the poor of Lyons.
He established schools for the street
children, and lodging-house for aged
people, with 500 dwellings, where they
are helped with work.
General Francisco Carrillo has ar
rived in New York from Havana. He
is a happy combination of Cuban pa
triot and American citizen, having
taken out his naturalization papers
four or five years ago. The general,
who has been in prison in Havana
these many weeks, mot because he has
been agitating at all, the Spanish au-
thorities say, but stas measure of pre-
caution.' has been we'll treated and is