The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
Current GIeanings.

of death with pneumonia at his home
in Pasadena, Cal. He is "a years old.
Horace Staples, of Westport, Conn
enjoys the distinction of being the old
est schoOl-teacher in the Nutmeg State
He celebrated his ninety fourth birth
day last week.
Mrs. Ezekiel Webster, of Nashua,
N. H., died few days ago. She was
sister-in-law of Daniel Webster, and
survived her husband sixty-se years
and her brother-in-law forty four years
Frederick Price, who used to be cen
ter rush in the football team in the
University of Georgia, is now fighting
in the Cuban insurgent army. He
gets 1924 week, and he says the work
is not half so exciting and dangerous
as football.
Emperor William has received hun
dreds of insulting anonymous letters
from England since his famous mes
sage of congratulation to President
Kruger. He was very angry at first,
and finally gave orders that no mora
letters from England should be opened
Philip Hale, of Boston, whose en-
gagement to Miss Ethel Reed, of that
city is announced, is son of the Rev
DR.. f. e. Hale, and, though only %
years old, has already attracted atten
ton as an artist. Miss Reed is also an
artist, and is regarded by some as the
greatest woman designer for posters
Robert Mark Wenley, who has just
been appointed to the senior profess
orship of philosophy in the Univer
sity of Michigan, is son of the treasurer
of the Bank of Scotland, and is pro,
life writer on many subjects. his best
known works being Socrates and
Christ" and ASPECTS of Pessimism"
Mrs. Blaine has a collection of
twenty presentation gaveIs received
by the late James G. Blaine while
Speaker of the House. Mrs. Randall
has fourteen. Speaker Reed has quite
a large collection of gavels received
during his former term, and has had
half a dozen given to him since the
present session began.
Thanks to Miss Alice NJ. Taft, of Up
ton, Mass, button boots need no longer
be the severe and unyielding things
they have been in the past. She has
invented an attachment for pair of
buttoned shoes. 1t is common shoe
button, with attachments so placed
that they can be let out or drawn 10
to suit the wearer's taste.
Young Alfonso of Spain has just
put on his first regular military uni
form with much pride. Being nearly:
ten years old, the juvenile monarch
held grand reception on his name
day, and was allowed to appear in the
costume of pupil of the Infantry
Training School. He looked SOL
dierly little fellow, though still some
what fragile.
In Lady Charlotte Burys diary of
George Tvs times, which has just been
republshed with additions in London,
there is painful glimpse of the King
as bridegroom. 1t is related that
Queen Caroline said to Lady Charlotte:
Judge what it was to have a drunken
husband on ones wedding day, and
one who passed the greater part of his
bridal night under the CRATE, where
he fell and where 1 left him."
A German journal says that Prince
Bismarck now possesses all the Prus-
sian decorations, and has exhausted
all the honors that it is possible for
the Emperor to confer upon him. This
unique condition of thirgs has been
brought about by his election as a
member of the Order pour lie Merite
for Science and Art. Prince Bismarck
continues we'll and has suffered less
severely from facial neuralgia this
winter
Mayor Sutro, of San Francisco, form
ally threw open his new Cliff House
and grounds to the public last week.
The Improvements consist in replac-
ing the old Cliff House with a struc-
ture of elaborate design and great size.
an electric railway running to the
grounds from the city, the famous SUIT
70 baths, said to be the most extern
sive and costly in the world, and the
nucleus of what promises to be one
of the most intere sting museums in
the country.
Pom Kwang Sob, the new Corean
Minister to the United States, has an
interesting history. Driven out Of
Corea few years ago with price upon