The herald., 1897-07-04
PEOPLE PROMINENT
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
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| Princess Maud of Wales, whom we
now know as Princess Charles Of Dem
mark, has just written comedietta
which has been accepted by Sir Henry
Irving for the Lyceum-
| General Edward S. Bragg Of Wiscon-
sin has offered to have his life insured
for $4,000 in behalf of the Fond du Lac
home for the friendless, provided some
one will pay the premium.
The Bishop of London in a recent ad-
dress on Reading said: "All human
knowledge has been gained by the i'm
pertinence and pig-headedness OF =
small number Of people who are always
asking 'Why?'"
Mrs. Diaz, wife of the Mexican prest-
dent is a woman of progressive ideas.
She has founded a home where girls can
always find employment, a nursery
where workingwomen's children are
cared for and Magdalen home for re-
pentant sinners.
The new consul-general to Rome Is q
brother-in-law Of one of the members Of
the New York firm of brokers who are
popularity credited with doing an extern
sive business in buying and selling sugar
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Broker Chapman is a member of it.
General John B. Gordon has written
an open letter to the confederate vet
Grams declining to again accept the Of
flee of commander-in chief of their asso-
citation and urged them to unite upon
some other man. General Gordon has
been at the head of the organization
ever since its organization in 1885,
The friends of Oscar Wilde, who was
released a few days ago from Holloway
prison have subscribed $500 to enalblo
him ITO make fresh start in life. It is
said his wife will make him small all
| lowance from her private income. MT.
wilde has decided to write busily under
his own name.
| Roanoke college has made a graceful
acknowledgement of the fact that
number of Coreans have been sent to 1t
in order to be educated by comforting the
honorary degree of A. M. on Pom Kwan
Sob, formerly Corean minister to the
United States, at it's commencement this
week. Mr.. Sob is one of the most schol-
arly men in Corea.
An intimate friend of Munkacsy de-
clared the other day that If that artist
had been so inclined he might have
earned big fortune. American dealers,
in particular, offered him big sums If he
would paint such and such pictures, but
he preferred to follow his own ideas, his
one ambition being to paint a picture
that would win lasting fame.
Rear Admiral George Brown, the SEN
ior officer of the navy, having gone on the
retired list, Rear Admiral W. A. Kirk
land is first on the list Of officers Of his
grade and will therefore receive the hon.
or of being the senior officer of the active
force Rear Admiral Kirkland will hold
this honor until July 8, 1885, when he will
give way to Rear Admiral ]. N. Miller.
John R. Lynch, the negro political
leader of Mississippi. intends moving to
louisiana, where he thinks there Is bet
ter chance of success than in his own
state. Lynch has been in congress, was
speaker of the house of representatives
OF Mississippi, Chairman of the National
Republican convention in 1888, and fourth
auditor of the treasury under President
Harrison.
An elopement on foot is a novelty in
these days, yet this was the method
taken by Pearl Thomas and Millie john
son of Morris, Tioga county, Pa. who
were arrested by a constable disguised
as a trout ISH6TIndH. IHOIIldS anu the
girl, who is but Is years old, eloped from
Morris and, taking mountain road,
walked to Montoursville, a distance OF
forty miles.
THE venerable Episcopal Bishop
William Stevens Perry of Iowa, now
finds the burden of visiting the whole OF
his diocese, which includes all the state,
too great for his strength, and it is pro-
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work He offers to surrender $1,000 of his
salary to coadjutor bishop. The Epis-
copal seat of the new bishop, for it 10
thought a new one will surely be added,
is attracting earnest attention in the
diocese, Council Bluffs apparently be-
ing most favored.
James G. Cannon, vice-president OF
the Fourth National bank of New York,
made the statement in an address last
week before the national association Of
''credit men" that the wealthy class
gives the most trouble in retail credits.
merchants in various parts of the coun-
try and found it almost invariably their
experience that 1.-The slowest customers
are those who could most easily pay
cash; it is almost impossible to collect
from them
Miss Harriet A. Boyd, the young
woman who volunteered her services as
q nurse at the outbreak of the Greek war,
and who with a Cretan woman, was
alone in charge of hospital at Volo
which contained some fifty or sixty
wounded is from Boston, and was
graduate from Smith college in 1892.
She was a student in the American
Archaeological school at Athens when
war broke out and at once rendered
her services to the queen. Miss Boyd
vert to the front with the English
nurses but was assigned to a hospital
by herself.
AS everyone knows, Mark Twain lives
in Hartford. This fact gives much in
terest to an article in the Hartford Times
in which it says an attempt to raise n
fund for him because of his poverty must
be joke. Some of those it says,
"who have been regarded as the most
intimate friends of Mr.Clemens, arc
greatly puzzled by the continued talk
about his poverty. More of his friends
would be glad to swap incomes with him