The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
PEOPLE you HEAR OF

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Mark Hanna has the Brice habit. He
wears red carnation every day.
! OF the II bridesmaids who attended
| Queen Victoria on the day of her mar
! rage, only three now survive.
Queen Christina of Spain is a very go
ahead woman, and long before the
! don were removed, she had ordered an
electric victoria to be built for her
| there.
When Prof. Max Mueller writes of
Matthew Arnold as a pleasant COM
panion. but very hard to convince that
poets are liable to be Influenced by as
sociating with with eminent philolo-
gists.
According to the postmaster of the
| senate, the mail that goes to Senator
Hanna every day exceeds that of any
other ten senators put together. A spe-
claI mail bag is required to hold the
Hanna mail, and in addition he re-
ceiVes almost as much more at his no.
tel, and a basketful besides three times
a day at the Republican national head
quarters.
The diary of Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, wife of the American engineer
who was imprisoned, sentenced to
death and finally released upon the
payment of a heavy fine as a member of
the JOnanneSDurS REFORM COnlIn1lI6e, Is
now in the hands of London printers,
and is awaited with considerable inter-
est.
Charles Reade's youngest daughter,
Amye Reade, was one of the spectators
of the carnival at New Orleans. Miss
Reade appears to be precOciOuS ex-
ample of heredity, for she composed
complete story a the tender age of 4
years. She became known on this side
of the ocean by her interest in circus
children and their hard lot, which led
her to write the book entitled Ruby"
of which 10000 copies were sold in two
weeks.
Whenever Mr.. Gladstone takes a rail-
way journey one of his enthusiastic adj
mirers invariably cOntrives to gain ad-
mission to the platform and present him
with a bouquet of flowers. He is a
well known florist at Windsor, where
his remarkable devotion to the grand
old man is a matter for continual COM
ment. When Mr.. Gladstone left Char
ing Cross for the south of France re-
Gently his admirer appeared armed with
his usual graceful tribute.
The late Ras Alula, the Abyssinian
general, had a most romantic career.
He was of the humbleSt parentage and
in his youth a stable boy in the service
of Ras Arka, whose daughter he even
tualIy married. He was a man of fine
physique, and of a high order of cOur-
age, handsome and talented, though
of his chosen warriors, in his black silk
robe, bordered with purple, his leopard
skin mantle with blue ribbon, gold cross
and silver chain that told of lion slain
in single combat Ras Alula was as
picturesque figure as could be found
outside of mediaeval romance.
Postmaster General Gary is the faith
er of eight daughters of manageable
age.
Prince George of Greece is an expert
bicyclist, and, it is said rides a bicycle
almost as well as he handles a man-of-
war.
Richard Olney, ex-secretary of state,
is at his desk in his Boston law office
attending to business. He is In good
health and spirits. Mr.. Olney evades
the reporters.
The Cameron family of Pennsylvania
no longer is represented among the Of
flee holders at Washington. When Am
baSSador Bayard returns to America,
the Bayard family will also be unrep-
resented in the government service.
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Maj. Ponds daughter has taken Paul
Laurence Dunbar the negro poet, to
England for the season He will read
and recite from his own poems. Miss
Pond has been associated with her fam
lily in the lecture managing business for
some time, but this is her first venture
alone.
Ex-senator Calvin S. Brice is hav-
ing the plans prepared for a $100, 900 res
idence which he will build in Lima, o.
The Brice family, it is stated, will oc-
cupy the house several months this fall
This would seem to indicate that Mr..
Brice will make a lively fight for the
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