The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-27
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

At a recent supper the question was
asked what is the finest American min
eral Answers were written on slips OF
paper privately. There were nine men
present, al owners OF exceptionally fine
collections. and but two agreed on the
same mineral which was wtlfenite The
other minerals named were .vanadinite.
rhodocrosite Arizona garnet, &itanite.
tourmaline, pectolte and neulandite.
The monks OF the late Eugene Field are
TO be published by Charles Scribner's
ten volumes win he sold for SIS, 10 sub
The edition is for the benefit OF his fami-
PIE Of SookmSking &c as IS TIE puslishers cam
make ii. The volumes viii be printed by
De Winnie, from new plates on a superior
deckle-sdged paper containing, In water
mark. Mr.. Fields initials on every page.
Each volume viii have trontispiece in
photogravure on Japan paper.
Gen. Ezeta, the deposed president OF the
republic Of Salvador, is again Disturbing
the peace OF the country from which he
was driven. and its population has been
called 20 arms. The brothers Ezeta are
men who bother any country which har-
lombia, Mexico or the United States.
The ex-president. who is the. greatr
bore. Is ambitious, mercenary, dictatorial.
bellicose and incompetent He has re-
Gently tried to bribe the army OF saliva
dor with money which he looted from the
saivodorean treasury. If President Gu
JerTeZ gets no.u or MS annoying pre-
6ecessoT 1t viii go hard with him.
Lord Brassey. the newly appointed gov
eTnor Of the great Australian colony OF
Victoria. anu who visited Seattle a year
or so ago. is doing things in a grand
style al Melbourne. Instead OF going out
from England by an ordinary passenger
steamer. he went out on his own steam
yacht. the famous Sunbeam. navigating
her himself. and having his family and
numerous star OF young lordings aboard
as passengers. Occasionally ne s5ar&d
the work % the men. On arriving In Mel
bourne. Lord Brassey gave his crew
long leave for run into the country. pro-
viding them with bicycles at his own ex-
peDse. on occupying t5e viceregal hox
for the first time a the Princess theater
the gallery. He waved his hand 70 them.
nodded and smiled in such friendly fash
ion that Melbourne society stared.
The Christian Advocate brands as false
the statement that Bishop Taylor sup
ports tho Methodist missionary operations
n Africa az trading in tobacco with the
natives. when Bishop Taylor hrst went
10 IBERIA il SAYS, "the only small cur
reucy in use in portions OF the kroo coast
was leaf tobacco. Two OF our Methodist
missions used II In the purchase or rice
for absolute needs and for the landing OF
s1r1lies sent from New York Then
RishOp Taylor introduced laundry soaps as
small currency, and MS son, Ross Taylor,
has sent from a firm in this city from
three TO five tons at a single shipment,
fair quality and fun weight, eight and six
teen ounces 10 the bar, 10 serve the pur-
nose 0f currency. No tobacco has been
iizaS in tvaQe since the time when the sta
tons were opened. and the missionaries
ssid Il was a case or necessity. None OF
our miss ionaries have used Il personally.
and the heather are required 10 reno'-ice
r. use before thew are admitted into the
Methodist Episcopal church IA Africa"