The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-24
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

IN THE PUBLIC EYE
The secretary of state. Mr.. Olney, Is
| said to be the best tennis player among
| the members of the cabinet. 1t is his
| favorite game, and aside from walking,
| which he INDUCES in every afternoon.
| after leaving his office, is his chief exer-
! else.
| lola refreshes himself by inspecting
and experimenting his property and
| workmen. He is thoroughly happy in
| the midst of brick and mortar. and en-
| joys nothing more than the sound of
hammers A siesta every day has been
q lifelong habit.
Extraordinary efforts were made on
behalf of DR.. Playfair to keep the terms
of his settlement with Mrs. Kitson Qua
of the papers. 1t Is generally rumoreX
in London, however, that DR.. Playfair
agreed to pay ES000 and costs. The ver-
dict was for s12, 900.
1t Is rumored in English official cir
cles that Prince Alexander of Teck II
anxious to Join the Soudan expedition.
1t Is unlikely, however, in view OF the
death of Prince Henry of Battenberg.
that he Will be able to obtain the queens
consent.
Several of the cars cabinet officers
are self made men. The minister OF fl
nance. for example, started life as a
clerk In q railway station at salary
of SIS a month, and Prince Helkoff, who
Is minister of ways and has charge OF all
the imperial railroads, served an ap-
premiership in q machine shop. AZ
one time he worked at boiler-making In
Philadelphia.
In a magazine article just published
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie says. I'VE should
be quite willing to abolish luxury, but to
abolish poverty would be to destroy the
only soil upon which mankind can de-
pend to produce the virtues which alone
can enable our race to reach still
higher civilization than 1t now possess
SEES"
The Edinburgh Review gives parting
shot at the Laureateship. The most
gifted poets of the day." 1t says, have
been passed over, and the appointment
bestowed on q writer who seems con-
tent to accept these doubtful bays at the
cost of becoming the laughing stock OF
the best educated class OF his country
men,"
Jean Coquelin is the prosecutor In a
case Of Matchmaking. A man named
Leon Guillard threatened to disgrace
the young actor in the eyes OF his dis
tinguished father and the world II he
did not give him q sum of money down.
Coouelin consulted the project or po-
lice, who ordered the arrest of Guillard.
The late Shah of Persia was an ex-
cellent draughtsman. On his VISIT 10
England seven years ago he sketched
the artist of The Graphic as that gen
tleman was sketching him. and the royal
drawing was dashed off with keen yet
unexaggerated power of caricature not
often met with IN an amateurs work.
Extreme parsimony in small matters
was allied with Baron Hirsch's munin.
cence. On the occasion of great nre at
Tokay, in Hungary. he sent his secre-
tary in Vienna with 10000 forms Omore
than 500, 00O) toward the fund for reliev.
ing the distress caused by the fre. put
he begged the secretary not to take
facre at the railway station. but from
stand near by, thus saving cents. The
baron could not bear being overcharged
for anything He was so indignant at
having to pay forms for pair OF
candles at a hotel that he actually took
candles with him.
1t Is expected that during the corona
ton festivities a reconciliation Will be
brought about between the car and the
Grand Duke Michael Miohaeloyitch.w who
got into disgrace by marrying beneath
him" and without leave. 1t Is said that
the dukes wife. the Countess Torby.
will use her influence to prevent the
quarrel being patched up. as she pre-
fers the life which she Is now able to
lead to the starched existence of the
Russian court. Moreover as she is by
no means of low birth herself. she re-
sents the God Almighty to a black
beetle" attitude which members Of tho
Romanoff family have assumed tow
ard her.
William Black, the novelist. was once
a leader writer for the London Times.
When asked the other day what he
thought of journalism as literary
training, he answered: II don't know
that 1t was of any particular value IN my
case. but journalism is most useful in
. nIrtv ~ left IN,
MIN experience Of large sphere of life.
but to get the fullest amount of such exc
perience a man ought to be a reporter.
There is now quite a remarkable group
of novelists who have been Journalists.
But journalism itself has undergone
remarkable change since | worked at 1t.
In the last twenty years the newspaper
has become magazine compared with
what it was. The daily newspaper 10
now ready to take anything, on any SUBJ
iect-literature, science. art-from any,
body. providing only it is interesting
Curious things sometimes happen,
even in Philadelphia. Recently Wild
over under 40 went to florists near
Laurel Hill to get some flowers to put
on his wife's grave. In the florists was
a widow under 30 getting flowers to put
on her husbands grave. AS it happened
the graves were not far apart, and they
We're in sight of each other quite while.
Although leaving the cemetery sep
arately they struck the same car. Get
ting out of the Manayunk car the Wild
ow's veil caught and the widower dis
entangled It, In the Ridge avenue car
the widow wrestled with an open win
dow, and there was nothing for the wild
over to do but raise 1t. Both were in
deepest black. and. as luck would have
it. both got out at Fifteenth street, AMI
there was only room for two together
in the Fifteenth street car, and there
they sat side by side silent until Walnut
street was reached, when both got out
and one went one way ana one the
other. 1t is believed there will be more
of this item by and by.
Tic E0erS
The best description which has re-
Gently been given of the Beers, espe-