The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-10-22
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

Lieut.. Gov. Willard. of California, is ex-
pected TO die today OF consumption
Ex-President Harrison is in New. York
city. he will return to indianapolis on
Wednesday.
John Dillon. the well-known Irish lead
er and member of parliament for East
Mayo, will be married at the end of No
yember TO daughter Of Justice Matthew.
Secretary Herbert has issued an order
detaching Rear Admiral kirkland from
the command OF the European station
and assigning the command to Rear Ad-
miral Selfridge, at present the head OF
the trial board at the navy department.
Admiral Kirkland is at present on his flag
ship, the San Francisco, en- route from
Gibraltar to Algiers.
Nine. Thalberg, widow Of the pianist
blache. died recently in Thalberg's villa
at PoSilipo. In Naples at the age OF 81.
When her husband died she had the body
embalmed with petrifying preparation
that preserved 1t with some semblance OF
life. and kept ii seated in the room where
Thalberg used to work
District Attorney j. r. Fellows, of New
York. has resolved to donate his law IL
brary OF 1000 volumes to the new library
of the court of general sessions, which
owes Its existence to the efforts OF Judges
Fitzgerald and Cowing and Recorder Golf.
With the 1000 volumes donated by Col.
Fellows and the sum of 5000 which was
set aside some years ago for this purpose,
1t is expected that an excellent beginning
books treating of criminal law.
partition suit involving an unusual
feature has been begun in Brooklyn by
Cyrus V. Washburn. a lawyer. against
city surveyor. Before his death Palmer.
as the result of some litigation. came into
possession OF $50 lots in Cypress Hills
cemetery, valued at $4,000. Before he
could dispose OF them he died The stat
ute provides that cemetery lots, when the
owner dies. are inalienable, and the ques-
tion now is whether or not these lots can
he sold. The $50 lots altogether are more
than four acres in extent.
Remembering the unhappy matrimonial
experiences Of Byron and OF his daughter
latters child. the poets granddaughter. is
most happily married. She is Lady Anne
Blunt. the wife of Mr.. Wilfred Blunt, and
a Bostonian who has visited them in their
picturesque home in Surrey has some
pleasant things TO say of their congenial-
ity Of temperament. They have an estate
winter. and Lady Blunt is fond Of making
translations from the Arabic and having
her husband put them In verse. Both are
ardent disciples OF William Morris, even
in his socialistic views. They likewise
find profit and pleasure combined in i'm
porting Arabian horses for the English
market.
A modification of the decimal system
for the division OF time and angles is pro-
posed by NJ. de Scranton in the Revue
Scientnques. The hour must be retained
as the unit OF Ilne, because II Is uilNtI-
sally accepted and IL is hopeless to try
to change it. Every hour, however, Is d.
yided into 100 minutes and each minute
into 100 seconds. The new minutes would
be Sc seconds long, three-fifths OF the old
minutes. and the new seconds little over
one-third as long as the present seconds.
Time would then be expressed in deci-
mails: thus SEAS would read hours %
new minutes and Is new seconds. For an
cular measurements he proposes dividing
the circle into go degrees instead of 800.
with the same subdivision into 100 minutes
Of 100 seconds as for the hour.