The herald., 1897-03-14
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T. D. Hargis of Marshall county, KY,
is dead. aged SIS years, He was a mas :
istrate for sixty years, and had married
| 1900 couples.
Mr.. Mckinley weighed 1877 pounds the
| day he was nominated. few days be-
| fore going to Washington to be inaugu-
rated he was six POUNDS heavier
Lord Salisbury's old trouble. over
stoutness, Is again troubling him, anu
, as soon as the eastern crisis is over ne
proposes to go abroad and rid himself
OF the incumbrance.
Stratton. the Cripple Creek million
! aire. refuses to go into any money-mak-
ing schemes. What I'm trying to DO,
| says he to promoters. ''is to keep my
income down within the lim''s or de-
| cency."
Mr. Gladstone is gradually transfer
ring the bulk of his library to the IN
stitution of st. Deinol, at Hawarden, re-
tanning only few books which he treas
ures for personal rather than bioli-
ophic reasons.
Rumor has already disposed of Col.
w. r. Morrisons position on the inter
| state commerce commission, although
his term does not expire until the end
Of the year. The person selected is c.
A. Pillsbury of Minneapolis.
| Since the death of Mr.. McCullagh, the
| editor of the obe-Democrat of st.
| Louis it has been discovered that he
was an extensive owner of silver mine
stock, although he was one of the stiff
est gold men in the United States.
| Lee Merriwether, one of the candi-
dates for the mayorality OF St Louis,
| came into notice a few years ago by 4
| lively little book telling how he saw
| Europe on so cents day. He holds
| advanced views on social questions.
Rev. Sara L. Stoner of Milford, o..
recently delivered an address al the
| installation of officers of the knights
| of Pythias at that place. Mrs. Stoner
| is an ordained minister of the Universal
| ist church and has two regular appoint
merts.
John Austin Stevens, the original
| founder of the Sors of the Revolution,
| is now living in Newport. and on Wash
| ington's birthday. wher the Rhode Is
! land Sons of the Revolution held their
| first celebra ton, he delivered the prin-
cipal address.
There is an idea abroad that Mr.
| Chamberlain is the greatest amateur
orchid grower In the world, but this /:
not the case, the collection of the EN-
press Frederick of Germany being
worth nearly double that of Chamber
| lain--probabiy about 100000.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is mucf
affected by the death of her only sister
the late duchess of Montpensier 1t is
said that when Queen Mercedes died, II
| 1878, her mother, called the mater doio
rosa of the family, was so overcome will
grief that her hair turned white in G
single night.
Senator Harris of Tennessee was an
other confederate who visited Maximil
ian in Mexico at the time Gen. joe
Shelby was in that country. The senS-
tors excursion was due to the expressed
4 wish of Parson Brownlow to see hin
hanged, but the parson thought better
of it afterward.
Mrs Charles Howard of Baltimore
81 years old, is the only surviving chile
Of Francis Scott Key, the author ol
The Star Spangled Banner" In speak
ing Of her father the other day. she
said: PA was always quiet, and he was
averse to notoriety. He despised beg
gary. The begging of funds to erect q
monument to him is very displeasinf
to me-"
Thomas Sedgwick Fay, who was as
ISOLATED with N. p Willis and George
p. Morris in editing the New York Mir
ror mere than eixty years ago, is still
living In Berlin. at the age of 30. Three
novels from l1is pen-"Norman Leslie,
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