The herald., 1897-04-18
I'M THE PUBLIC EYE


The three popular pictures in the
London shopwindows are those of the
queen. Mr., Rhodes and DR.. Nansen.
Governor Pingree of Michigan is to
visit Maine in the summer and some OK
the towns are desrous of having him
talk on municipal reform while there
Mrs. Esther Hermann has given
$40 900 to besSinvested for maintaining
educational classes for young men under
the auspices of the Young Mems He
brew ASSOCIATION of New York.
Some years ago Mr. Evarts, then an
ex-senator. was about 10 enter room
with Senator Hoar, when he remarked:
IT believe that no rules in regard to
precedence have been established to
cover cases like ours" "Oh, yes" re-
piled Senator Hoar, "the KS always
pIecetiv the 5.
Offers of too much for ones money
are regarded with skepticism in parts
of Missouri, as Springfield dry goods
firm found when it offered to sell during
one and one-half hours, of certain day
scent calico at 1 cent a yard and drew
a crowd of 1000 persons, to sell only $50
worth of goods in all.
The czar of Russia is the richest man
in the world. The disposal of every pen
nv raised for the government OF Russia
is in his control and he draws upon 1t
as if it were his private purse to as
great an extent as he pleases. But, II
his wealth is great, the claims maoe
upon him are boundless.
1t is remarkable that not only in Rus
sia but in Austria, Italy and Spain the
health of either the sovereign or the heir
presumptive is a cause of anxiety to
statesmen. and even the German en-
peror is afflicted with constitutional
,nalady which is said to be not without
its effect on international politics.
The young queen of Holland objects
| to being regarded as child any more.
Recently she entered the cabinet room
during session of the council, and In
a dignified manner asked the prime. min
| lister why the postage stamps continued
| to bear her image as little girl. Then
her majesty requested that the objec-
! tionable stamp be discontinued as soon
as possible.
Mrs. e. A. Robinson, president Of the
w. c. T. U. of Baltimore has been ap-
pointed a member of the board of visit
ors to the county jail. The mayor has
also appointed one of Baltimore's lead
ing women on the board of the city
almshouse and female house of refuge,
and the physician in charge of the Wo-
mems college is the only woman mem-
her of the new board of school commits
sioners in Baltimore.
Mrs. Creighton, the wife of the new
bishop of London, has much to do with
the social reform movement, which he
has started. She is woman of excep-
tional mental endowment and graceful
public speaker. She has written much
and some of her books have won finan-
cial success. especially her First His
tory of England" and First History
of France" She is English by birth, but
her parents were natives of ReYel, Rus
sia.
King Oscar of Sweden has just COM
pleted a novel in which his grandmoth-
er, the wife of Marshal Bernadotte, is
the heroine. Her maiden name was De-
stree Clary. In her youth she was asso-
ciated with Napoleon and his brother,
Joseph Bonaparte. Her sister. Julie
Clary, married Joseph, and she herself
was affianced to Napoleon for time,
but dismissed him because Of his atten-
tions to women of greater note in Paris.
Finally Desiree married Bernadotte,
young French officer, who rose from the
ranks of the French army to become
marshal. prince of Pontecorvo and king
of Sweden.
Paris is making a sanitary record OF
every building in that city. A munich
pal reference register will be completed
by 1900, in which will be included full
hygienic description Of each houses
drainage, plumbing and location, to-
gether with complete record of the
deaths which have occurred within its
walls. Such a scheme has been often
suggested for the cities of the United
States. It's adoption would do much to
remedy the slums and tenement condi-
tions and to secure the abatement Of
nuisances. 1t would require, perhaps.
difficult and arduous laborson the part
Of the health officials of the larger cit
les; but the smaller towns could now
easily lay the solid foundations of most
valuable house registers.