The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-01
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

The Chilean Liberals have pominated
Senior Vicente Reyes, president or the Chill
can senate, for president of the republic.
NJ. Maspero has found that the scarabs
and other Egyptian ornaments discovered
at Eieusis all belong to the time OF the
Ptolemies, and consequently their discoy-
sinian mysteries originated in Egypt
Dean Hole. OF Rochester, having seen
Wilson Barretts new play, The Sign OF
the Cross" calls IL "a sacred endeavor to
ring out the. false, ring in the true" and
calls on 'all earnest Christians to sup
port it by their presence and their praise"
C. p. villiers. the father of the house Of
commons. has just passed his 9th birth.
day and entered on his sixty-hrst year or
parliamentary life Though he hardly ever
appears in the house. his interest In polit-
ical affairs IS as keen as ever. He was
elected to parliament from Wolverhampton
in January, 1855, and has represented that
constituency ever since.
A syndicate has been formed In London
to send out an expedition to the Antarctic
next August for whale and seal fishing.
Two steam whalers of 400 tons, with steam
launches to be used in chasing the blue
whale, will be fitted up. and a small scien-
tifc party, headed by Mr.. Bordigrevinck,
will be taken along and landed. II possible.
at Cape Adare. Similar commercial expe-
ditions are being planned at Leith and
Hamburg and In Norway.
Dr. John A Brooks. OF Memphis. Tenn,
has received a call to the London Taber-
nacie, the largest Christian church IN
Europe. DR.. Brooks was the first Pro-
hibition candidate for governor OF Mis-
souri, in 1884, and in 1855 he was nominated
for vice president by the national Prohibi-
ton convention. He was for many years
supreme master workman Of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen. DIR. Brooks
has not yet accepted the call to London.
The cocktail was the invention OF Col.
Carter. of Culpeper Courthouse. Va. Many
years ago in that locality there was way
side inn named The Cock and Bottle"
the semblance of an old English tavern,
and which bore upon ITS swinging sign
draught and bottled ale could be had with
in-the cock" in old vernacular, meaning
the tap He, therefore. who got the last
and muddy portion OF the tap was said to
have received the cocktail" Upon one
occasion, when Col. Carter was subjected
TO the indgnity OF having this muddy bev-
erage put before him, he threw II angrily
upon the floor and exclaimed: Hereafter
I will drink cocktails OF my own brewing"
and then and there, inspired evldentiy oy
the spirit OF Ganymede, he dashed together
bitters, sugar, the oil OF lemon peel ana
some old Holland gin. and thus and then
and there was the original cocktail con-
cocted.
An old couple. both past 20 years OF age.
were remarked In Holland. Mich, few
DAYS ago under remarkable circumstances:
They were first married In that place half
a century ago. In 1854 the husband, Car
Gf6dings. brother OF ex-Gov. Giddings, OF
New Mexico, went 10 eal.AuEhla, ihtsltu-
Ing TO send for his wife and FAMILY 10 ION
him when circums tances permitted The
couple correspondent regularly for three or
four years. and then serious financial re-
verses disheartened Mr.. Giddings ana ne
ceased TO write 10 his wife. She, after
waiting several wears, procured a divorce.
hv advice OF her father, in order that he
might give her a house fn her own name
she never remarked. Giddings fortunes
took a turn for the better, and he acquired
crrslderable wealth He learned OF the
divorce and married California woman.
His second wife fied fifteen years ago. A
-s-c uTaeI<s ago GIddings returned to Mich
igan. hunted up his first wife, and they
uare remarked