The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-07
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

General Cadorna, who commanded
the Italian troops when they took pos
session of Rome in 1870, died recently
at the age of So years.
To Americans, w. T. Dannat. the
painter, and ROdman Wanamaker, son
of John Wanamaker, are among the
new chevaliers Of the Legion of Honor.
AS compliment to the Emperor
William when he visits Russia the car
will make all his public speeches in
German. following the example of
Alexander II of Russia on a similar
occasion. .9-SI
Robert Bonner mentions the striking
fact that, when he bought his first
trotting horse in 1856, only nineteen
horses, living and dead, had trotted a
mile in 2:3O. Now there are more than
$4,000 in the list.
The will of the late John Randolph
Tucker has been probated at LeXing-
ton, Va, and gives all his estate, real
and personal to his wife in absolute
right, but suggests to cher that she
give their son, Henry e St. George
Tucker, his law library, his watch, and
silver cup and sugar bowl. which be
longed to his uncle. Jota Randolph of
Roanoke.
A strange blending of art and mann
mon is reported from BudaPesth. The
picture of Louisa Blaha. the Hungarian
nightingale, as she has been called
since her first appearance at the Buda-
Pesth Nolka Theater. is 10 adorn the
new ]. 600 ulden note. and it is thought
that this NAV help to raise her salary
from 1000 guldens week TO 1000 a
night.
Miss NJ. Carey Thomas. president of
Bryn Mawr college, has just received
the honorary degree of Ii. D. from
the Western University of Pennsyl-
vania. Together with this news comes
the announcement that st. Andrew S
university, Scotland, has bestowed the
honorary degree of LII. D. upon
woman. for the first time in its history
The recipient is Miss Eugene Sellers,
Dr. Jameson, according to the Cape
Town Times, will return to South
Africa to carry the Rhodes transcon-
tinental wire to Lake Tauganyika
The idea is Mr.. Rhodes. and lit seems
a happy one for turning jameson
striking qualities to account In the
land of his former triumphs and
failure His many friends hope the
doctor will do better at connecting the
wire than at cutting it.
Henry Russell. who was born at
Sherner on Dec. "a. 1872. is the oldest
living English composer. He has Gem
posed and published more than $40
songs His song, Cheer. Boys, Cheer
is the air played by the guards uruni
and fife band when British regiment
leaves for abroad, and "A Life on the
ocean Wave, was in 1889 adopted by
order of the admiralty as the speclal
march of the royal marines
Henry NJ. Paul, who has been nomi-
mated by the president for the posi-
ton of professor of mathematics al the
naval academy, has been in duty at
the naval observatory since 1879. he
became an assistant astronomer at the
observatory in 1875. and in 1883 ne &C.
cupied the chair af astronomy at the
Imperial Japanese University at 10
kio. He remained there Tor Few
years apd then returned TO the onl'eu
States.
Nine. Louise de Chaplain de Serre-
Vile de Crenay ComteSSe Douaiflere
do Snare. who has just died at the
Chateau de Brunette, Vaucluse, lnlgh1
possibly have been empress OF the
French. When she lived as a glrl near
Arenenberg Queen Hortense tried 10
get up a marriage between her ana
Prince Louis Napoleon. The young
lady. luckily for her. preferred the
Danish Comte de Spare, godson Oh
the Comte de Chambord.
The Boston Transcript says; zen
eral A. S. HartwelI. a well known CIT
izen of Honolulu and a member ot the
bar of the Hawaiian Islands. is in Bos-
ton accompanied by one of his daush-
ters. He was member of the dar-
ward class of 1883, studied law, ana
entered the army at the breaking OUT
of the war Later he was brevetted
a brigadier general and commanded
brigade in the department of the south
in the latter part of the war. Soon
after the close of the war he Went to
Hawaii, and there became the first as
sociate Justice of the supreme court.
When Kalalsaua assembled the throne
he was made his first attorney general.