The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-01-30
Current .Gleaninss.


that comes down from the vigiianc
days.
Rose Kingsley, daughter of Charles
Kingsley, is in New York to lecture
on French art in the nineteenth cen
fury.
Miss Louisa Aldrich- Blake is tt.s
first woman to receive the degree D!
master of surgery from London tnl-
versity.
Speaker Reed, Senator Frye. chat
man pro tenn. of the Senate. and Chief
Justice Fuller are graduates of Bowdoiti
College.
Stephen Andrews, a man 81 years
old, who dropped dead III Providence
r. l., the other day. weighed 37I
pounds.
Rev. J. \. Bull, Of Beloit, kan
preached BOO sermons last year; and q
local paper says they were ali gooj
ones, too.
Rebecca Isaacs. who supplied frui5
to the Duke of Wellington and the
British troops at Torres Nedras, diet
recently at the age of ." i'll Lisbon.
Chief Justice Beasley. Of New Jersey
has sworn IN ten Governors. beginning
with Theodore f. Randolph and cou
tinuing down the line to John w
Griggs.
Colonel c. T.. Croker. of san Frau
CISCO will pay the expenses OF the Lick
| Observatory expedition to Japan II
observe the eclipse of the sun mex
summer.
The race of President Kruger Of tie,
! Transyaal is not to die with him. liz
! has eleven children. His wife is de-,
scribed as typical Boer woman fat.
awkward. and good natured
| There is only one officer in the i'ru,
sian army who has been raised trota
| the ranks. He is Colonel I.ademantt
who was promoted for acts Of braTers
in the Schleswig- TIolstein campaigCs
of 1854.
William L. Gladstone sin recen5
letter that his pleasure i'll the lnteles-
! tual life is as keen today as 1t ever Vas
and that he could accomplish more
work than Of old if his body wou}t
permit.
\ petition signed by >Um citizens ri
Massachusetts was recently presented
to the Massachusetts State Senate ask
inc that statue of General JOSEPH
| Hooker. who was a native Of thai
state be erected at some appropriate
place
George Frederick Watts. the cete
brated English artist. whose eighty
second year will be completed iii Feb
ruary next. is spending the winter IL
this country. He is still in excellent
health and works with characteristics:
assiduity.
A pickpOcket robbed Mrs. EliZabett,
Stuart Phelps Ward in Boston the
other day. When the thief Was
brought before the victim she SAID
''He doesn't look like a criminal. lie
has a good face. and perhaps he viii;
} give up stealing. | will not prosecuts
him."
Richard Henry Dana. .Jr.. best knowFs
as the author of Two Years Befnrs
the Mast" also wrote the account o.
the Monroe doctrine which appears III
WheatOn'S international Law. IL;
t 1876 he was nominated for Minister -
England. but the Senate refused TO Goa
firm him.
, Colonel >tOttel, famous for his SttY =
ices at the French embassy at Berli,'
before 1870 and the real author of Louis
| NapOleon'S "Nie de Caesar. is at WORK
/ on Waterloo. He has obtained
. through the descendants OF Genera
y Foy, diary by that distinguished sos
| der politician which is said to ht ot
I some value.
D Robert Burns great grandson anG
namesake, his last descendant IN this
direct male line has inst died at Black
hall. near Edinburgh. aged - years
He had served as soldier. ana as D
gardener in the Edinburgh Public Ca.
dens, but for fourteen years past ha9
been keeper of the powder magazine r.
Blackhall lie left no children.
+. Princess Maud OF aies, whose be
s trothal is a matter of recent history
g, is not overload Of the fOrmaities amt
attention which her position demands
In DAYS gone by, when the Duke o.
/ York was often to be seen walking IA
S cOgnito about London. it was usually
his Youngest sister who accompanied
him. and on more than one occasion She
h has Joined parties in country house
10 under an assumed name.
When President Kruger of the Trans
:! vaal paid his visit to Eng he re
l. fused to 90 to a theater deenlng 1t llll
Re moral. He was accustomed from force
d of habit to rise at ) o clock in the morn
+s ing. and it put his entertainers to VAST
inconvenience to have his breakfas'
II served to him at that unseemly hour
j, Mrs. Kruger appeared to be typlca
y Dutch housewife. disdaining dress ant
amusement of any KIND.
seven brothers. all over 80 years Ola
" had reunion in Fresno, Cal. recent!
f. and a notable Photographic group Ii
i, an interesting memento of the occa
ia sion. The brothers are of the F'uncE
n family. There are three sisters III th'
c. family, too, all very near the three
al score and ten years mark. The eides
-, of the brothers is 81, and the younges
40 is s. A noticeable fact is that eacl
&c wears a long white beard, and none ar
n bald.