The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-02
ONLY A FEW.


The first treasurer of Rush county
Kan, is said to have received $1,000 fol
| taking care of $500.
In the Russian 7 village of sVjalovs
/ there is a peasant named Satoy who
claims to be 1873 years old, and thai
his father lived $50 years.
st. Andrews university. is about tc
confer the degree of doctor of laws or
woman. Miss Sellers, the translator
and editor of several books on Greek
art and archaeology.
A correspondent of Nantucket, Mass
| tells this: "A sea captain known as
Pop Wood was expected home; the
house took fire and burned to the
ground: his wife begged the neighbors
not to tell Pope about it, he would be
so mad"
Ex-senator Edmond G. Ross. who
figured in the Impeachment proceed
ings against Andrew Johnson, voting
against the President, has issued a
history of the affair from the office
of the Santa Fe New Mexican. ~
startling incident is reported from
Forsyth county, Georgia. Last week
man died, and two of the neighbors
volunteered to sit up. with the corpse.
During the night both were taken sick
three persons were buried from the
same house.
Probably Rhomberg was the name of
the first man dressmaker, and he lived
in Paris in 1870. He was a Bavarian
by birth and was the son of peasant.
On the panels of his carriage doors
was painted an escutcheon of a pair Of
open scissors and pair of corSetS. He
left an immense fortune.
Baron de Coubertin. who was active
in the revival of the new Olympian
games, has started a society in Paris
whose object is to spread the knowl
edge of French civilization and of
French work in scholarship and sci
ence in the United States He wishes
to remove the impression that the
boulevards and variety shows of Paris
are France.
Gerome intends to present to the
Luxembourg museum his fine new bust
in polychromatic marble of Madame
Bernhard. The likeness is said to be
marvellous, and it is heightened by the
touches of color on the face and hair.
The base of the bust is decorated with
symbols representing Bernhardt's ac-
complishments in painting and sculp-
ture as well as in the drama.
To celebrate his silver wedding the
Marquis of Butte has given $1,000 to the
town of Cardiff. the income to be
given to poor girls who need the
money TO get married. Whenever the
dowry is handed over, the mayor of
the town must read to the bride and
second chapter of the gospel according
to st. John-the description of the
miracle of turning water into wine at
Cana.
Sir Alfred Biliotti, the British consul
for Crete, who effected the rescue of
the beleaguered Moslems at Canda-
mos, is over go years of age. He is the
son of the late Charles Biliotti, and
has been employed in the British con-
sular service in eastern Europe as
clerk, dragoman, vice-conSul and con-
sui since 1S49. In 1859 he discovered
the Metropolis of Camirus in Rhodes,
in 1865. He has been
consul for Crete since 1885.
Professor DIR. Frederick Van Es-
march of Kiel university, and his wife,
have just celebrated their silver we'd
ding, the former being "A years old.
He won his surgical experience and
in his service for the wound
ed during the great wars of 1866 and
1870. At the close of the Franco-Ger-
man war he Hdu eSldpllSneQ nlmSeH as
friend and physician in the highest
circles, and on Feb. %. 1872, he married
as his second wife Princess Henrietta
Elizabeth of Schleswig- Holstein, whose
life he had saved by an operation.
Not long ago a workman named
Roth, living at st. Denis, where his
wife keeps a small grocery shop, went
to Paris and bought a couple of lottery
bonds. With him resides Madame
Roth's brother. Auguste Chaussart,
and in the evening, when her husband
showed her the bonds, she exclaimed,
We ought to give one of them to Au-
guste. 1t will be a kind action and
will bring US luck Both readily
agreed. and when me- presented the
bond to his brother-in-law, Chaussart
said, We'll, 1 shall be very glad to
nave it: but, remember, if / win 1
shall share the prize with you The
pond thus handed over to Auguste
Shaussart gained the first prize insthe |
ottery; so he viii take $4,000 and |
make over the other $4,000 to Roth. |