The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-16
PEOPLE OF THE DAY.


Captain Middleton chief organizer of
the English Conservative party, distrib-
uted twelve tons of literature to Eng
lish voters.
Colcuel John A. Cockerill, the journalist
is now travelling in Japan on a bicycle,
which he finds g great help to him in his
WanderingS.
Eugene Murger, a cousin of Henri Muir
ger, whose bust was recently set up IN
the Luxembourg, has been discovered
singing in the Paris streets for living.
Onslow Ford, the sculptor, and w. B.
Richmond, the painter, nave just been
elected to the Royal academy. They
were made associates in the same year.
The remains of Paul Revere rest in the
not far from those of John Hancock. one
OF the signers of the declaration OF in
dependence.
Alphonse Daudets opinion of Mr.. H;
Stanley: HE is the largest reservoir of
human energy known to me since Napo-
leon. / admire him, I think, more than
anything in the world"
Governor Matthews of Indiana is an
expert rider, and may be seen almost
any afternoon in Indianapolis on his IA
vorite horse, CorncrackerA a valuable
animal, pred IN kentucky.
Sir James Stephen, father of the late
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, once
smoked cigar, and because it was so
delicious never smoked another. This
fact is stated in Leslie Stephens most
interesting life of his brother.
Mrs. Clark required sixteen years to
prepare the concordance to Shakes
peare." Cruden labored nineteen years on
don 10 he q nd i'm
mediately after it's publication was sent
to a lunatic asylum. He never entirely
recovered from the mental disease in
duced by this gigantic undertaking.
Louise Vossion, the French consul at
Philadelphia, upon whom has been con-
ferred recently the cross of the Legion
OF Honor, fought in the Franco-Prusslan
otte, and afterward served IN the consul
lar service at Mandelay and Rangoon in
Burmah, and at Khartoum. For twenty
years he has been stationed at Phila-
delphia. He is a contributor TO the
NouVelle Revue, and has written work
on the constitution of the United States.
Mrs Hearst (widow of the California
senatorj, who is now abroad, never al
lows expense to interfere with her dis
position to travel by land or sea IN the
most luxuriously comfortable manner;
She has a saloon railway carriage and
she goes from London to Paris or vice
versa, and on the continent, when OBJ
tainaDle, special and exclusive travelling
facilities usually associated with royalty.
Yet, withal, Mrs. Hearst is described as
plain, unpretentious woman, generous
and given to good deeds.
The knighting OF Sir Henry Irving has
recalled a number of stories concerning
the famous actor. One refers to a meet
ing of a certain learned society in Lon
don some years ago, when the topic dis
cussed was Shakespeare. Mr.. Irving was
present, but every one did not seem to
know it. A man was on his feet deplor-
ing the improvement of spelling which
had resulted in notifications of pronun-
citation so that were the Elizabethan
poets to return to earth they might not
be able to read their own works, and
surely not to understand them as others
read them. IF Shakespeare were to rise
from the dead now" said the speaker,
81 make bold to say he would hardly
comprehend his own words as they issue
from the mouth of the present opponents
of them. He would be shocked were he
to hear Irving" From a seat on the left
hand Of the chairman there rose a slim
figure, and from a pair of thin lips,
whose corners rollicked in mirth, there is
sued in the clear tones Of a bell these
words: cor see him"