The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-20
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

A queer outbreak Of British prudery is
that Of the Court Journal, which thinks
it iRdedcate TO give we!l-knoWn women'S
names 10 mares, as II gives rise to suS-
gestiveness in the stud book
A man Of IS, arrested for stealing fruit
IN the Paris Halles recently, turned out TO
have been formerly a banker, He had an
acComplice who was an ex-notary, while
the stolen properly was peddled from
door TO door In basket BY the ex-5ank-
ers mistress, who not .ons ago was So
ciety woman.
Prince Pedro OF Coburg, the grandson of
the late Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil. is
now hopeleSsly insane. About three years
ago he was suddenly attacked with tnsan-
ity. and could be removed from the Coburg
palace to private insane asylum only
with the help of the local fire brigade. lie
now imagines that he succeeded his grand
father TO the Brazilian throne. and treats
his attendants accordingly. The unfortu-
nate prince is about 80 years old.
In swell society the most important COM
ing-out announcement is that Of young FL
lott Shepard, grandson Of William IL. Van
derbilt, favorite nephew or Willie IL Nan-
derbilt and a pet OF Uncle Chauncey NJ.
Depew. Elliotts mother has finished the
finest country house, people say, anywhere
on the Hudson river. II has cost her more
than s., 000, 900 and contains about 200 rooms,
IL is situated in the midst of a magnificent
estate at Scarborough. IS built in the colo
NAL style and enriched by countless treas
uTes gathered in the Old World by Mrs.
Shepard. Twelve rooms belong to Elliott.
He has everything there that spoiled
prince of the realm could cry for.
Representative Scranton. the editor Of
the Scranton Republican, published at
Scranton, Pa, IS entertaining his col
leagues in the house OF representatives
with some interesting bear stories during
the recess. He says the place he comes
from is one of the most civilized and Gull
tured communities in the world, that II is a
city of 100 600 population and has two daily
papers beside his own, with a public IL
brary, telephone exchange, an electric
light plant and various other improve
ments, yet only week ago two friends OF
his shot three bears within twenty miles or
its high school. And last year a pear ac-
tually sauntered into Minooka, suburban
town three miles from the city hall OF
Scranton, and contemplated the attrac-
lions OF the place like any other stranger.
He was slain, however, and the good people
OF Minooka had bear meat for week Mr..
Scranton Is a member OF the Episcopal
church, has served four terms In congress
and has a good reputation for truth and
veracity.
Prince Orsini owns the Lake Nemi, on
the Alban hills, near Rome. on the waters
OF which lake the Roman Emperor T1beri-
us was won't 70 carry on his frlgntfuI or
ships. Two Of these have been lying ever
since at the bottom OF the lake, the wa
ters from time to time surrendering
bronze and terra Gotta ornaments. etc.
Quite recently Princess OrsinI. VINO IL q
Hungarian Countess Hoyos by birth ana
a woman of remarkable strength or mind.
determined to turn these relics OF a Dy-
gone age 70 account for the purpose OF
repairing the sadly diminished fortune OF
that most ancient Of the patrician houses
OF Rome. Accordingly divers have been
sent down and have recovered from the
bottom OF the lake an immense quantity
OF art treasures OF priceless value, and
steps are now being taken TO raise in
their entirety the two barges, which, &C
coriing to the divers accounts, have re-
NAMED practically unlnjured by their i'm
So ne ~lk t4n
tars of that lake which Is, in the words
Of Lord Byron in his poem "Chtde Har-
old" IAN coiled into Itself and round, as
sleeps the snake"