Arizona republican., 1898-06-02
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

When annoyed excited the prince of
Wales winks the left eye rapidly, the
emperor of Austria puffS out his cheeks,
the car lays his hand fiat on the top of
his head, and the sultan of Turkey grasps
his throat tightly with his hand
The late lord of Sackville Cecil, a half
brother of Lord Salisbury, left large
esate made by his own exertions- His in
terests were mainly in telegraph COM
panies and other business based on cleo
trio science. to the development of which
he was devoted.
A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post says: "In 1889 l sat beside
the late Mr.. Villiers at dinner in Lon
don. The talk of the company was on
DIR. Johnson. Mr.. Villiers turned to me
and said. by way of passing remark. My
father knew him well, but never liked
him. Mr.. Villiers himself died tie other
day, aged &c."
The French playwright, Adolph d En-
merry, is seriously i'll in Paris, and is not
expected to recover. He is the author of
innumerable plays of a melodramatic
character. many of which have been
heard in English, the most popular of
which was ''The Two Orphans" He is
the Oldest and passes for the richest of
French dramatists, his property being es-
timated at 81, 900, 900 or IS, 600 0G0.
Prof. Park of Andover figures rather
amusingly in the "reminiscences of the
late Prof. Schan of New York city, just
published. In 1912 Schaff (being a pri-
vat-docent at Berlin) introduced Park to
his German friends, and among the rest
to Kahnis. He relates that under the
continuous pelting of Parks questions,
kahnis finally exclaimed in despair:
God forgive Christopher Columbus for
discovering America
The work of restoring the moldering
old church at Stratford-upon-Ayon
where Shakespeare spirit dominates
everything, is to be resumed Immediately.
A sum of $4,000 will be required to COM
plete the undertaking. The vicar Rev G.
Arbuthnot, ambitious to see the work fin
ished by the 23d of April, 1899, Shakes
peare's birthday, holds himself RESPONSE
BILE for e., 900 over and above what has
already been subscribed.
Frank Swain of Bridgeport, Mass, en-
ployed as an electrician at the power
house of the street railway company.
while repairing some machinery received
a severe shock from an electric current.
From that time until midnight he suf-
fered intense pain, but when the power
was shut off at the power house the pain
disappeared. At o'clock the next morn
ing when the power was again started at
the power house the pains returned.
DIR. Herman v. Hi1precht, of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, who has just
returned from the site of the ancient citv
of Nfppur in Babylonia, where his arch
Biological labors have been so successful,
while in Constantinop1e visited the sui
tan, who gave him many valuable an
tiquities and invested him with the Os-
manil decoration The sultan. indeed,
is so well disposed to Prof. Hilprecht and
his work of excavating the ruins of an
cient Babylon that the university feels
encouraged to continue the researches on
an even greater scale.
When Theodore Roosevelt. who learned
to ride broncos in the far west, mounted
one of the animals for the first time a lot
of people gathered about to see the "ten-
derfoot' discomfiited. Sure enough Roose-
welt went off at the first jump and fell
heavily. To the surprise of all he in
sisted on trying it again, however, and
this time stayed on until the animal was
conquered. Then, when he dismounted
he promptly tainted. 1t was found that
his fall had broken one of his ribs.
There We're some very remarkable sug-
gestions for the prevention of pauperism
made at the recent session of the ma
tlonal conference Of charities in New
York One of them came from Professor
Matthews. who urged that clergymen
and state officers should be held respon-
slble for the support of the offspring
from marriages performed by them.