The herald., 1896-03-15
PERSONALITIES

Cecil Rhodes private fortune is now et-
timated at about W 100000.
In London it is facetiously stated that
Hold the Fort, For l Am Coming, is DR..
Jameson's favorite hymn.
Mrs. Langtry, who has become public
recter, frequently receives as much as
$500 for an evenings performance.
has knocked w. G. Whitney out of the
presidential race, as it did Benjamin Har.
rison.
Labouchere observes that there are three
classes of literary people in England-'the
first is obtrusve, the second is obscene
and the third is obscure
Sam Jones, the widely known evangelist,
has recently completed new residence al
Cartersville, Ga, which contains twenty
one rooms, and which, in its exterior. is
said to embrace an ecclesiastical effect"
DR.. Carl Peters. the African explorer,
who was recently elected president of the
German Colonial association, 10 about to
undertake new exploration to Somaliland
in the interests of number of wealthy
Americans.
An English phrenologist who has ex.
amined the head of Emperor William II.
says there is nothing unusual about it. If
this professor of bumps had been Ger
man such statement would, no doubt,
have been construed as lese majesty!
Rain-in-the-Face, who was the leader in
the Custer massacre, is now a policeman
at the Standing Rock agency. He wears
his government uniform with as much
pride as he used to wear the war bonnet,
and is as active now in preserving the
peace as he was formerly in breaking it.
The most influential people in Europe
are old. Queen Victoria is nearly ii;
Lord Salisbury is Go; Prince Hohenlole is
II; Count Galuchowsky, the new Austrian
chancellor, is 50: Prince Looanoff, the
Russian chancellor, is 81; Signor Crisp,
the Italian premier, is II; the pope ana
and Mr.. Gladstone are SO. and Prince Bis
marck is 81.
The wife of DR.. Nansen, the explorer, be-
longs to famous family. Her father,
Michael Sars. was a famous Norwegan
naturalist. Her mother is the sister of tie
poet Weihaven. Mime. Nansen is at pres
ent the leading concert singer in Norway.
She has fine presence and melodious
voice that has been carefully cultivated.
DR.. Norman Blackwo ID, assistant sur
geon. United States navy, is now living on
shore at Tien-Isn, the port of Pekin, at
the head of navigation on the Pei Ho river.
He writes in evidence of the cheapness of
things in China that he has bought pair of
horses for So a piece and that his three
servants demand only So a month for the
trio.
William konrad Roentgen. whose name
has been mentioned so often recently in
connection with the discovery of the X rays,
is still a young man. He was born in lS45
and was graduated from the University of
Zurich in 1869. In 1879 he was made
assistant to Professor Kundt at the Uni
versity of Wurzburg. Since 1883 he has
been full professor at this institution.
Charles f. Haseltine of Philadelphia is a
philosopher. His handsome building, val.
ued at about 100000, was burned last
Sunday. as was also his collection of pict-
ures, valued at about the same figure, on
which there was no insurance. THE first
| heard about the fire." he says, was
about 10 o'clock. | was teaching a class in
Sunday school, when some one came up
and hoped did not sustain any great loss.
| asked him in what manner, and they