The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-14
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

takers the second wife of a Bangor
(Me.) man is paying off the bill for
the burial of her predecessor.
Kaiser Wilhelm's Jubilee cup, to be
raced for by British yachts next sum-
mer on the occasion of his grand
mothers reign of 60 years, is three
feet high. The course of the race will
be from Dover to Heligoland.
Perhaps as fine an autograph album
as exists is the visitors book at
Hawarden, wherein the names of Glad
stones guests are recorded. 1t con-
tains entries as far back as 1860. The
most recent of consequence is that of
Ii Hung Chang.
The death of a young woman by
malpractice and suicide of her lover.
an officer, to escape his disgrace, have
led Jules Lemaitre, academician, play
wright and critic opposed to lola and
his school, to make a defense of such
operations.
in Germany is the Prince of Thurn
and TaXis. 1t is believed that ne
wears al least one new suit of clothes
daily. Those who know and admire
him say they have counted more than
365 suits worn in one year.
Henri Rochefort derives an income of
$4,000 yearly from TIntransigeant
The Debats reproaches him with social
ism and with giving no benefit to his
employees. 1t is believed, however,
that NJ. Rochefort is exceedingly gen
erous to political refugees and he
spends carelessly.
Great Britain TO advocate the plating
of warships with armor. died at
Brighton last week. He was mayor of
Sheffield from 1852 to 1868, and master
cutler there from 1865 to 1866. He was
formerly proprietor of the Atlas steel
and iron works at Sheffield.
Society item from Kentucky: Lem
johns, whose wife was killed on the
18th of last June at Kuttawa by Mar
shall McCOllum, was married last night
to Miss Lulu Dobbs. Rev. Thomson
officiating. Mrs. Johns, it will be re-
membered, decOyed the marshal into a
cemetery and attempted to kill him.
The marriage of Johns has created
considera BILE talk
Captain John Watson of Westchester,
Mass, died recently, aged 90 years
He landed in England, at the end of
his first trip across the Atlantic, Just
as the news of the battle of Waterloo
had been received, ]. Fenimore Cooper
being one OF his companions. Captain
Watson brought nome the French in
brought across the ocean the first cargo
of French mirrors for the capitol at
Washington.
Earl de Gray has kept a record of
the game" he has killed in % years.
1t amounts to 1869 head, his average
for the last 20 years being about 10000.
while in 1893 his record was 9,135. He
has put to death 200,OO0 pheasants and
cartridges. AZ 900 grouse. 5000 other
crear f,-Ic q II
laneous animals, including pigs,
capercailzie, sambur, a dozen buffaloes
and tigers, and two rhinoceroses. On
one day last month 5000 birds were
shot on one of the Marquis of Ripon's
preserves, the largest bag being Earl
de Gray's.
The San Francisco Argonaut tells the
following: Near Washington square.
in New York. there is housed a small
club of Bohemians, the walls of whose
quarters are modestly covered with
tinted burlap. On these walls all visi-
tors of note are expected to write their
names and a sentiment original to the
occasion. 1t is told that William Dean
Eowells dropped in one day, looked
around, and wrote: L can't think of
a thing. William Dean Howells.' A
Jester happened by. and scrawled be
low: Autobiography of William Dean
Howells.
A sentence of divorce has just been
at Munich against the
of Austria's niece. Countess
George Larisch, who played so promin-
ent and so questionable a role in the
scandal thai eliminated in the tragic
death of Crown Prince Rudolph at
Meyerling. The trial took place lin
camera" but it is generally understood
that the grounds upon which the count
based his demand for a dissolution of
the marriage rested on the behavior
of the countess in connection with the
affair, which, it may be re-
membered, resulted in her Punishment
from Austria.
Giovanni Succi the Italian faster
who, according to a dispatch from
Paris, is now in an insane asylum, was
the last of a series of fasters to give
an exhibition in New York, and, not
the affidavits that ac-
it and the various schemes
used to boom it, the exhibition was
not q financial success. When Tanner
tasted on a wager several years before
the appearance of Succi, the whole
was interested in him. Imita-
tors of Tanner sprang up and many
of them proved to be frauds. Unusual
precautions were taken to convince the
public that Succi's fast was genuine,
but the skeptics scoffed at it. Toward
the end of his fast Succi became mere
skin and bones, and, whether or not his
keepers fed him on the sly. it was ap-
parent that he was not well fed, and
that he was suffering all the time.
Np~e-
Antitrust Laws.