The herald., 1896-03-16
SOME PROMINENT PEOPLE

Evangelist Moody. who has not visited
the Pacific coast within the past ten years,
is soon to conduct a series of revival meet
ings in San Francisco.
General Horace Porter's latest mot is
that the first half of mans life is spent
in getting his name into the papers, and
the last half in q struggle to keep il out.
Lord Salisbury is had sailor. When he
goes to sea in boat he loses his dignity
etc. queen Victoria, who never suffers
from mal-de-mer, cannot understand
Salisbury's inability to resist shaking up
The queen regent Of Spain is a confirmed
cigarette smoker, and seldom transacts
any business without smoking befosA
during and after the transaction. WIN
der?
Prof. Gieseler of Gotungen has twenty
four children. He saw a child crying IN
the street and asked: "What is the mat
ter, little boy?" Don't you know me,
papa?" said the boy. He was one of the
twenty.four children.
Mrs. Custers favorite home is secluded
log cabin near the Pocono river. seven
miles from the Delaware Water Gap, and
two and a half miles from door bell: -
Here she finds it possible to do more writ
ing in day than in a week of city life.
Professor Roentgen is the hero of the
upon him in his Wurtzburg home. and the
university students organized grand
torchiight procession through the town to
his house to congratulate the professor on
his wonderful discovery.
One of the most prolific authors of short
stories in England is Mr.. Pett Ridge, who
in the brief five years he has been writing
them has produced 250. besides count
less number of sketches and dialogues.
Mr.. Petit Ridge is 35 years old. He an
employee on a small salary of the municip-
ality of London, and this gave him his en-
tire support until he went into Journalism.
Joseph Chamberlain is almost as great
reader as Mr.. Gladstone, and has appar-
emily the same catholicity of taste. On his
book shelves will be found among the his
torians Macaulay, Froude. Leckey, Napier.
Alison, Freeman and others. Several
shelves are devoted to French and italian
to poetry, Chaucer,
Spenser, Milton. Byron. Tennyson and
Alfred Austin stand cheek by jowl in the
poets corner.
The czarina is one of the few royalists
who still make a practice of wearing state
jewels. AT her coronation in May she
will wear crown worth $7.5OO,O00.
and the czar's crown is still more
story by Hans Christian Ander-
sen, but it is stated on excellent authority
that there is q vault in the winter palace at
st. Petersburg containing drawers full OF
diamonds, pearls and other precious stones,
from which the czarina may borrow at
pleasure.
1t 10 said that the dowager empress of
Germany contemplates residing perman-
emily i'll England. AS far as the German
emperor is concerned the arrangement is
said to be perfectly satisfactory-even
more 40. But the German chancellor has
yet to give his consent, which is unlikely,
unless the Empress Frederick consents to
give up part of her German allowances.
queen Victoria, with her proverbial thrift
ness, refuses to consent to such an ar
rangement. and SO the matter remains in
statu quo. From England the Empress
Frederick receives an allowance OF
100000 q year. But from Germany she
receives, tall told" larger allowance
than comes into the Golfers of Queen Vic
toria as reigning sovereign OF England.
The ST. James Gazette says: An inter
esting rumor comes from the Isle of Wight
to the effect that there is some talk in the
island that Princess Henry of Battenberg
may he appointed to the governorship. In
the thirteenth century the island was under
the governorship of lady with the signifi-
cant name OF Isabella de Fortibus. She
ruled ten yes-a as a feudal chief, and none
dared desp ier of her Office, or was so
wanting in rliyalry of the times as to
attempt to d. so. Isabella seems to be a
remarkably smart woman of business, for
she ceded her sovereignty to the crown for
$4,000, which in 1898 meant great
riches. The idea is that Princess Beatrice
should hold the Office in trust for her eldest
son, Prince Alexander, until he comes of
age. 1t is graceful proposal and by no
means impracticabie.