The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-11
BRIEF NOTE OF NOTABLES.

! General Peter Tracy of Memphis en-
I joys the double distinction of being q
cousin of Dewey and the uncle OF Hob
/ son.
Baron Henri de Rothschild, eade:
of the Paris branch of the famous
! financial family. has passed his final
/ examination as doctor.
Professor Othniel c. Marsh. curator
/ of the Peabody museum at Yale, has
just received an election as a foreign
member of the Geological Society o.
London.
Saur, the famous pianist of Dresden
has been attracted by the success won
I by foreigners in America, and is max
! ing plans to visit this country in the
near future.
Mr.. w. ]. Stillman, the American ar
I fist and art critic, who has for many
! years been the special correspondent
of the London Times, is about to leave
Rome, where he has dwelt for II years.
Nine. Anna Weiss who is well known
| in Chicago's musical circles, at one
time took music lessons in Vienna with
the queen of Spain. who was the Prin-
cess Christina. Their teacher was Mrs.
Frank.
Oscar Williams, consul of the United
States at Manila. has secured one OF
the guns of the Reina Christina and has
presented Il TO his home city, Roches-
ter, N. Y. 1t will reach Philadelphia
about Nov. l.
A general committee is in process of
formation among friends and admirers
of the late Sir E. Burne-Jones to raise
a fund. for the purchase of some repre-
sentative work by him to be presented
to the British nation as a memorial.
Queen Victoria and the queen of Hol-
10 nd no
liam's invitation to send representa-
tives to the conservation of the Church
of the Redeemer at Jerusalem, at which
most of the German Protestant sover-
eigns will be present.
DR.. George T. Fairchild. ex-president
of the Kansas Agricultural college, has
accepted the vice presidency and pro-
fessorship of English literature in Be-
rea College, Berea, KY. The accept
ance of the position takes him out of
agricultural college work for the pres
ent.
The examples set by Professor Hat
field of the Northwestern University in
resigning and going to war has been
followed by Professor George p. Ander-
son, who gave up position at William
cite University and joined the Oregon
boys, who are on their way to Ma
Mia.
The Archduchess Elizabeth of Aus
tria, only daughter of the late Crown
Prince Rudolf. will be 10 years old in
September. She was recently confirm
ed and at the last of the great court
balls at the Hofburg, in Vienna, she
was allowed to look on from the GAL
lery. At the next carnival season she
will appear in society.
General Merritt says one of the
soldier boys in San Francisco, does
not put on as much style as some OF
the militia captains. When he came to
leave on his ship, the Newport. the
other day, he did not even take a car
riage from his hotel to the dock, but
climbed on a street car and paid
nickel for the ride
Chang. the Chinese Giant" who
travelled with Barnum for years. ana
who was a phenomenally tall Yankee,
has been granted a divorce by Judge
Rodgers of Providence, r. l. Chang.
to his fellow townsmen, is Frederick A.
Bailey They call him Chang Bailey,
and when clean shaver he has a phys
iognomy that might be easily fixed up
to typify a genuine Monaghan.
Mr. Alexander Whyte has been ap-
pointed scientific adviser to the Ugan-
da administration. He was for many
years attached to the staff of Sir Hen
ry Johnston in Nyassaland. where ne
did much useful work as a collector.
One of his first duties in Uganda VIII
be the establishment of a botanic gar
den and a nursery for the cultivation
of European vegetables and fruit.