The herald., 1897-01-26
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Adolph Deucher, the newly-elected
president of Switzerland, is a physician
65 years old and was once before presi =
dent. in 1890.
Senator Hill was asked by reporter
to predict McKinley'S future and replied
That l must decline to do. Although a
United States senator, strange as 1t may
seem to be, 1 neither deal in sugar nor in
futures"
One of the late John B. MoCullag IS
few amusements was the coinage of new
words. He popularized If he did not in
vent the word boom" which is only one
| of several that he managed to introduce
into the vernacular.
General S. b. Buckner and Mrs. Buck
ner were lionized so much while they
were in Boston that they have rejected
as fables the stories about the GOODNESS
of New England people. They say that
| they might have supposed themselves to
be in the south except for the east wind.
The British bishop of Bath and Wells
was surprised, after putting up al a lit
tie hotel in the Pyrenees to receive a
| number of plumbers business cards. 1t
developed that his name had been insert
ed in the visitors book as "Mr. Bishop,
England. Profession: Baths and wells" "
One of the first acts of Governor Black
of New York was to establish perma-
Al
| the state military officers but he reserves
| the right to veto what the board may de-
| eide on. 1t is understood that this is a
| hit at the profusion of gold lace and
| feathers.
| 1t is related Of John D. Rockefeller that
| he once quieted the doubts of a clergy
man who asked why the Standard Oil
company did not reduce the price of oil
| in order to lessen it's enormous net prof
IFS bV raSnOn6inp that c11ch a
would make it impossible for the inde-
pendent reflners, of whom Mr.. Rookie
| feller has ever been tender, to earn n
| living-that they, would, in fact be
| ruined.
| Dom Paul is taking steps to prevent a
repetition of the Uitlander rebellion of
last spring. He has established rigid
system of passports, to go into effect
| January /, and will require all foreign
ers to swear to obey the laws of the re-
public. The passport must show that
| the foreigner has sufficient means of sub
| sistence or can obtain such by his work.
Failing to have this passport, proper let
ters of identification may be accepted.
In spite of the refusal of the state of
| New Jersey to furnish a guard and es-
cort for Vice President Hobart at his in
auguration the Third regiment of the
| New Jersey National guard will go to
| Washington and will, as a military or
ganization, give to Mr.. Hobart the rec
| ognition his state and its executive deny
him. The various companies have de-
| cided to pay their own expenses to
| Washington and offer their services to
| Mr.. Hobart as escort and guard Of honor
on Inauguration day.
The most remarkable centenarian in
France is Mime. earlier of Lille, who in
all her life, in a nation of wine and coffee
| drinkers, has never touched those bev-
erages. For ninety years she has not
been i'll. The venerable widow had an
| interesting ancestor-a Lille merchant
known as Father Forty-two," because
| of the number of his children. When
Louis XIV. visited Lille he sent for this
| prize parent, complimented him on his
patriotism in presenting the nation with
| so many offspring and exempted him
| from all toll and taxes.