The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-16
Current GlcalingS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

war.
Carlyle was no friend Of Turk ish tyr
amy, and the phrase ''the unspeakabte
Turk, SO often attributed to Mr. Glad
stone, is really his.
Queen Nictoria's great grandchil-
dren, the first of whom arrived sixteen
years ago, now number twenty five
sixteen boys and nine girls.
Miss Isabel Hapgood, the TRANSLATOR
of TolStOiS works, mastered the intr;-
cacies of the Russian language vita
the assistance of d testament and D
dictionary.
Ieber NJ. Wells, who will be the tir5.
Governor of the State of Utah wa,
/ born in Salt Lake City thirty seven
years ago, and was educated at tbs
t University of Utah.
| Vest of Missouri is the most uncos.
ventiOnal man in the Senate. Ieneyer
wears collar in summer time in tbs
| Senate, and has been known TO take OF
his shoes in hot weather.
| The edition of the gospels in French
| for which NJ. TisSOt has painted FIVE
hundred illustrations, is to be one CT
only 900 copies. 1t is to be in two
:
three hundred dollars
7 by the strangest coincidence say.
, the Washington Post. three men mes
| IN the House restaurant the other day
whose names were Wheat, Oats, ans
Barley. They began to hunt around
and found another man whose name
was Rye.
Since the death Of his famous trDs-
| ter, Dexter, Robert Bonner has not
been on the road as often as formerly
The death Of the old horse seems really
to have shaken Mr.. Bonner seriously.
as a close friendship had grown up hs
tween the two.
Robert Louis Stevenson history Of
his own family will appear in the forth
coming edition of his works. now b.
ing prepared in Edinburgh. 1t ends
with the great achievement OF his
grandfather's life in the building u
the Bell Rock lighthouse.
General Wat Hardin OF Kentucky
has just recovered from a bad attack
of malaria. In speaking the other da?
Of his defeat in the last election, rs
said: II am too proud to whine and too
good to curse: and, as my remarks
would have to come under these heads
pass
Mr.. Frederick Denning. to whom ti:s
NalZ astronomical prize Of the Acad
envy of Sciences has been awarded for
his discoveries of meteor showers an.
comets, was clerk i'll a Bristol mer
chants office thirty years ago, when rs
, took to studying astronomy. He stu
works as public accountant.
Lord Dunleath who has just dieI
was one of the merchant princes of tbs
North of Ireland He represented tn,
great linen industry, and amassed b
large fortune, 1t is stated that more
than year ago Lord Dunleath handeb
over all his money and estates to hts
children. of whom he has living twn
- sons and three daughters.
William Waldorf Astor. in London
stands by England in the Monroe doc
trine controversy. He thus initiates
his great grandfather. John Jacob AS
tor the first, who, according to Loss
ing's Pictorial Fieldbook of the Wa
of 1872" addressed a public meeting
of merchants of New York agains5
the proposed war with England in thai
r year.
, Custer battlefield in Montana. whe!4
Custer and his command We're maSsa
cred, is to be greatly heautitied next
, spring and made into an attractive
d. park. The government is to put iii .
system Of water works, and plant trees
and substantial stone wall. three feet
high, will be huilt to take the place o.
: the present stake fence incioslng the
| ground.
Nine. Faure, the French President
wife is as modest a woman as eyhs
became the mistress Of the Eiysee
u She has ease of manner. good sense.
s kindness and dignity, and there is no-
/, trace of either aWkWardness or preten-
( sion about her. She has always dressed
elegantly. but without display. ana Is
l declared to be thoroughly undeSeryihg
: of the storm of scandal that has burst
1 about her.
/ Archibald Campbell nephew Of
: Burns "Highland Mary" died recently
o at the residence of his stepsoH. CaptaiH
Kerr, in Gourock He was in his s3rd
wear. and remembered seeing in his
e grandmother's house the box in which
n Mary kept Burns letters. They were
e afterward destroyed by her brother
o Robert. in the belief that any connec-
ton with Burns reflected on the re-
t spectabiity of the family.
-, There is no more romantic career III
fiction than that of the doWager En-
/ press of China. Her parents were
T destitute peasants in the suburbs OF
, Canton when she was a child. and rath-
> er than see them starve she begged
Il them to sell her as a slave. She was
e bought by a famous General, who was
IS so captivated by her beauty and wit
, that he adopted her as his daughter.
- He took her to Picking where she SO
. charmed the Emperor that he made
;, her his wife.
y \ French antiquarian has brought
e to light some interesting dressmaker
7. bills of the ladies of Napoleons court.
i They are from the account books OF
q Leroy. the Worth of his time 1t ap-
= pears that Josephine's yearly bill was
= about $4,000. and this was greater
Y nna omit than Marie InuiSa OF Queen