The herald., 1897-01-15
ABOUT PEOPLE

DR.. Elmer E. Barr negro of Chicago
has been appointed to place on the
Cook county medical staff.
Sir Henry Irving is one of the best
swordsmen in England. He has prac-
ticed scientific swordsmanship for many
years.
Connecticut's legislature of 1897 will
have one 'big man" in the body. He is
Representative Messenger of New
Hartford and he weighs $50 pounds.
Cecil Rhodes, the one-man, power in
South Africa. has had the title of the
bull that separates the fighting bulls"
conferred upon him by the natives.
Joel Chandler Harris says that his
Uncle Remus" is composite of three
or four old negroes whom he knew as a
boy, and that his "Brer Rabbit" stories
are for the most part plantation tales.
To his cell mate John Riley. recently
sentenced by Justice Bond of Leaven-
worth, Kan, to years imprisonment,
has confessed that within the last thir-
teen years he has been in forty-one jails.
Complaint has been made that there
is deterioration in Sarah Bernhardt's S
art as the result of too many foreign
tours. The London Daily News says
that she has become very unequal in
her work.
The Duo d'Orleans has bought York
house, Twickenham. where the comte
and comtesse of Paris resided at the
time of the dues birth, and he and his
wife will make 1t their headquarters
while in England.
A copy of Isaac Walton's Complete
Angler. first edition. 1863 sold in Lon
don recently for s2075. At the same
sale an Amerigo Vespucci letter, four
unbound leaves printed in Gothic char
acters, brought $780,
Lord Rosebery is cynical and phil
osopical. He is reported to have said:
There are two pleasures in life-the
real and the ideal. The ideal is to receive
the seals of office from your queen. The
real is to return them to her"
A Cuban in New York says of Maceo
that he was a man of the strictest moral
integrity, that he never drank wine,
never played cards and never smoked,
even in land where nearly everybody,
man, woman and child, smokes.
Gen. William Cullom, who has just
died at his home IN Clinton, Tex, at the
age of 81 years, was for several terms q
member Of congress from the Carthage
district in that state and was once the
clerk of the house of representatives.
F. a. Bridgeman, the well-known
American dIllSt, lives III al is. HIS
home is luXuriously furnished and his
atelier is said to be one of the most in
teresting in the French capital. He is
visited each week by scores of Ameri-
cans.
Herbert Spencer has completed his
l:fe work with volume on The Prirci-
pies of Sociology. He is now 76 years
old and has been engaged in writing for
forty years. Notwithstanding the fact
that he has been an invalid for great
portion of the time.
1t is expected that the German en-
peror will visit Jerusalem next spring,
probably at Easter, to be present at the
conservation of a Lutheran church there
The church is to be erected on ground
given by the sultan to Emperor F'reder-
ick, the kaisers father.
A young woman has received the un-
usual honor of the freedom of a Lon
don guild. She Is a daughter of Lord
Amherst of Hackney, and. having writ
ten History of Gardening in England.
has Just been thus honored by the
Worshipful Company Of Gardeners.
Gustav johnson of ST. Mary's, Potta-
watomie county, Kansas, left his wife,
by will the choice of accepting a half
interest in his estate and freedom TO do
as she chose as to her future state, o"
the whole of his property should she be
willing to promise not to marry again.
Thomas F. Bayard. Jr.. son of the am
bassador to Great Britain, has accepted
a place In the office of the corporation
counsel of New York, and will remove to
that city early next year. Mr.. Bayard
will be connected with the department of
street opening. He is a graduate of the