The herald., 1897-10-30
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The Isle of Mans first deemster, Sir
William Leece Drinkwater, has held
Office for fifty years.
The highest compensation ever paid to
Edgar Allen Poe for his journalistic
work did not exceed $500 per year.
An Iowa husband and wife were ad-
mitted to an insane asylum at Mount
Pleasant at the same time recently. %
Relic hunters have so defaced the
tomb of Daniel Boone in Frankfort, KY,
that the letters Of it's inscription can
hardly be deciphered.
Ben Johnson, just out of the peniten-
tiary, is now engaged in organizing a
church to be called 1.-THE New Method"
in Shelby county, Ind.
Governor Pingree of Michigan was
honored in the recent flower carnival in
Denver by float bearing representa-
ton of his potato patch" idea.
Pope Leo has sent to President Nc
Kinley copy of a book describing and
illustrating the Borghese apartments in
the Vatican. Only 100 of the books were
printed.
The offer of Senator Bacon of Georgia
to give park to the city of Macon will
the city has now more parks than 1t can
keep in order.
There is an enormous demand in New
York for Fifth avenue property facing
Central park. Only the rich can buy
when bare lots are held at from $4,000 to
$4,000 front foot.
Miss l.. M. Johnson, M. D., OF Balti-
more has just been admitted as stu
dent to the Maryland college Of phar-
macy. She is the first woman to be ad-
mitted since the establishment of the
college in 1S41.
The favorite sport of the mikado is
horse racing, but he allows no betting.
and the price of admission to the races
is placed so high that only the upper
classes can attend. The mikado's stables
accommodate about 5000 animals.
Miss Braddon, the novelist, is one OF
| the most oldfashioned persons in her
attire Imaginable. She is dowdy and in
| different and cares nothing for beauty OF
color. Her earrings are of the long-droD
style in vogue many years ago.
| Rose Amelia, countess of Wilbaix, Is
dead She and her sister, the wife CT
General Adam Badeau, who are rela-
tives of the novelist, Eugene Sue, are
said to have been the originals of Rose
and Blanche in 1.-THE Wandering jew"
| A distinguished professor Of Dublin
university, DR.. Mahaffy, is reported to
have said the other day that he doubt
| ed whether as the result of the educa-
| tional movement of the last thirty years
the people of England are either happier
| or better"
Mrs. Murfee of Meridian, Miss, vice
president of the United Daughters of the
| Confederacy of that state, is seeking the
assistance of the Missouri Daughters OF
the Confederacy in the project to pur-
chase the old home of Jefferson Davis
at Beauvoir.
Professor Darwin, who is lecturing in
Boston, reads the greater part of his
lecture from notes. but has happy way
of dropping into little impromptu ex-
planatory passages, which relieves his
manner from the style of the ordinary
scientific lecturer.
Lord Wolseley is as superstitious as
| DR.. Johnson ever was. In a recent let
ter to the Thirteen club he owned that
while in Ireland he had worn out three
or four hat brims saluting magpies. Ho
will not walk under ladder and believes
fervently in ghosts.
George Sand, the noted French woman
and writer was really Nine. Dudevant,
and her relatives were so proud of her
literary success that they had the fam
7 lily name changed from Dudevant tc
! Sand-the only instance of nom dc
plume legally ousting the real name