The evening times., 1896-12-31
PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW.

Senator Sherman says that Gen. Grant
probably got more real service out OF his
Cabinet officers and more protection from
trivial details than most other Presidents.
1t was his custom to accept their recon-
mendations upon all ordinary matters, and
approve them without personal investiga-
ton, reserving his strength and time for
broader views and the elaboration of gen.
eral policies.
1t is said that when President Faurc
visited the hospital at Ivry, France, re-
Gently, he became Interested in an old
woman there, who had been cantiniere
and had taken part in all the campaigns
of the later empire, as the ten military
medals on her breast showed. Pointing to
two of them with especial pride, she said
Louis Philippe pinned that medal there
and the emperor this other
The difference between the ocean voyage
OF today and that of eighty years ago is
recalled by the recent death OF Capt. John
Watson, of Westchester, Mass, aged
ninety eight. He landed in England at the
end of his first trip across the Atlantic
JUDI siS thc hSWN VI tht btttl' ti
had been received, ]. Fcninore Cooper
being one OF his companions. He brought
horne the French indemnity money. twas
he also who brought across the ocean the
first cargo of French mirrors for the Capitol
at Washington.
Joseph Jefferson is of the opinion, which
is shared by many, that athletic training
can he carried too far He says that IL
kills off more people than it cures. The
strain underniines the system, forces the
heart to a task far beyond its powers, and
as a result there is collapse OF the lif.
machinery long before the appointed time
Mr.. jefferson says that he met Lawrence
Barrett some years ago on n street corner
in Boston, and Barrett said he was waiting
for car to take him to a gymnasium.
What's the matter with walking?" said
jefferson. That's better exercise than you
will get in the gymnasium, and it will save
you the trouble of going there
Some of the vagares of Emperor VIII
liam are attributed to his smoking an in
ordinate number Of cigarettes.
Joel Chandler Harris says that his Uncle
Remus' is a composite of three or four old
negroes whom he knew as boy, and that
his "Brer Rabbit stories are for the most
part plantation tales.
The monument To mark the place where
Gen. John stark's army camped just be-
fore the battle of Bennington is completed.
and was placed in position recently. The
monument contains the following inScrip-
ton: The camping ground nf Gen. John
Stark, August 4, 10. 16, 1T77 There
are the red coats. They are ours, or this
night Molly Stark sleeps widow"
Ruskin's favorite recreation is chess
and he devotes his evenings To ii. Chess is
also favorite game with George Mere
dith.
Louise Michel, who is really a most kind
hearted and generous as well as clever
woman, has written and arranged for the
publication in Paris OF a history OF the in
surrection in 1871. She is now in London.
Frederick ]. bliss, director of the work
OF the Palestine exploration fund, is re-
ported to have discovered the staircase
leading TO the pool of Sloan. The stair
case is forty feet wide, and extends back
from the pool n dista nee OF 200 feet.
Dr. Mair, who has been nominated mod
orator Of the established Church of Scot
land, and Prof. Davidson, who has been
made moderator OF the Free Kirk, were
both born in the same year at Buchan, in
A Aberdeenshire; went to the same school,
were graduated in the same class at the
University of Aberdeen, and will be put
at the head Of the two great divisions of
Scottish Presbyterianisrn the same day.