The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-01-02
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Miss Emma Anderson has held the
position of bank cashier of the State
bank, Ottumwa, Ia, since January,
1894. Her parents are Swedes.
When Prince Hilkoff was in San
Francisco. he prophesied that ''there
would be in the neal future a line of 90
knot steamers between San Francisco
and Vladivostok.
K. Tokutomi, the distinguished Jap
anese author, evidently admires Eng
lishmen, for he has written books on
the lives of Gladstone. Bright, Golden,
Cromwell and Pitt.
George r. Sims, the London writer,
is at the head of an anti bald head cru
SADIE, 1t is stated that he has caused
hair to grow on 80, 900 bald heads. His
receipt is paraffin oil.
General S.. N. Leger, the new minis
ter to this country from Haiti, Is de-
scribed as a handsome man, of middle
stature and dark in complexion. Hs
does not speak English.
Thomas Moran, master-at-arms of the
new cruiser New York, has the disitno-
ton of being the tallest man in our
navy. He stands 6 feet 4 inches in his
stocking feet and weighs 173 pounds.
After having escaped work and arrest
for 90 years, a vagrant known as Dad
Stephenson of Springfield, Mo-. who
vas taken into custody, said that until
his night in Jail he had not In all that
time once slept in a bed.
Mr.. Pat O'Brien, M, P. for Kilkenny
city, recently followed the Meath
hounds after a fox on his bicycle, was
first in at the death and won the brush.
This is the first occasion on which a BIZ
cycle has beaten a field of Irish hunters.
James L. Ensign, the musician of
New Haven, who has just died, was
one of the first members of the New
York Philharmonic society and became
its secretary in its second season of 1843
and 184+, holding the office for ten
years.
Jean de Monsters, marquis de Merin-
vile, who married Miss Mary Caldwell,
the Washington heiress, is the head Of a
distinguished French family, and his
great estate in Limousis has not chang
ed hands, except from father to son,
since the thirteenth century.
Emile Olivier, Napoleon HIS last
minister, is about to publish a novel
called Marie Madeleine" which is be-
lieved to be photographed. He brings
into it Richard Wagner, who was his
brother -in-law, Ollivier's first wife hav-
inc hoop a lnr1btar 10 Tjc1t
Labouchere cannot see why Sir Edwin
Arnold should have made a fuss because
his queens day ode was used to in
crease the attractiveness of certain ad-
vertisements of beef and beer. The lat
est president of the Royal academy, he
declares, was made" by the employ
ment Of his picture, Bubbles to
spread the fame of a soap.
A man applied for registration in st.
Louis, giving his name as MoManus.
When asked his other name, he said he
had never had any, although he was
called Mack for short. The clerks re-
fused to accept him, and he appealed to
the election commission. After an ex-
tended conference he was permitted to
register as McManus plain and I'M
adorned.
King Dom Carlos of Portugal Is q
clever artist and devotes much Of his
time to painting. Queen Maria Pia, bis
mother, models well in clay, besides
having other artistic talents, and Car
los grandfather, Ferdinand, etched very
creditably. But the fact that he married
the daughter Of a Boston shoemaker
made him ever more famous than his
pen and ink work.