The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-14
Personal Notes.

John Ruskin will be 70 years old In
May. His health does not improve.
Lord Lansdowne has enough titles to
satisfy any man. In addition to his mar
quisate he has three earldoms, three WIS.,
counties and four baronies.
Franz Joseph Dohmen of Austin, Tex,
ranks above any of his fellow students of
the present senior class of the University
of Texas. He has been totally blind for
years.
Nathan Olmstead III dead at Belmont,
Wis. where he had been a justice OF the
peace for more than so years. He was
81 years old. His wife preceded him to
the grave two weeks.
Sir Thomas Smith, the physician who
was recently called in to see Mr.. Glad
stone, was one OF the most popular men
at st. Bartholomew hospital and is in
varlably spoken of as Sir Tom"
Miss Emma w. Wilmington, who has
been appointed a colonel of Third infan-
try, Arkansas state guards. is not only
the first woman ever appointed to a mill
itary position i'm that state. but is the
youngest woman holding such a position
in the United States.
w. w. b. Beach holds the record as the
silent member of parliament. 1t is said
that he once asked for a rearing at an
uproarious election meeting upon the
ground that. during nearly 40 years Oh
parliamentary life, he had never opened
his mouth in the house.
Henry and Richard Clark. brothers, and
both blind, who live at Asheville. N. c.,
are employed by the government as mail
carriers. They travel to the little mount
ain towns over rough roads without
guides, trusting entirely to the intelli-
gence of their horses.
According to the Gaulois of Paris. IL
war breaks out between the United States
and Spain Mile. Calve will not return to
this country to sing, but will prove her
patriotic fervor-she was born on the
southern frontier of France. IL not over
the boundary-by staying I'm Paris and
participating in a great revival of Gluck's
"Armida'' that is projected.
Mrs. James c. Frazer of MartinsDurg,
w. Va. is studying law at the Morgan
town university. After enjoying a vaca-
ton at her home she has just returned In
her studies, having made the entire dis
lance of 200 miles on horseback. riding
man fashion. Her route lay through
some rough country. but Mrs. Frazer car
ried a brace of revolvers. Her husband
followed by train.
That Prince Bismarck has always been
a good hater is shown in the recently
published "reminiscences of Won Tiede-
mann. formerly chief of the imperial
chancellory. During the first dinner at
which Won Tiedemann was present with
the prince Bismarck said he thought
Goethe was wrong in saying that only
Low beautified life. Hate did the sam"
service. and was quite as great a viviffer
as love. Ito me- added the prince. ARE
Indispensable love for my wife and hate
for Windhorst.' one morning
said 10 Won Tiedemsnn: 81 have not been
able to sleep; l have hated the whole
night"
Miss Estelle Dickson. who Is winning
fame by her painting in Paris. Is the first
native st. Louis girl who has received
honorable mention in the Paris Salon.
John G. Kunitz, now a liveryman at
Appleton, Wis, was Bismarcks coach
man . years ago. and for years drove the
Iron Chancellor in Berlin and elsewhere.
He was paid so a month, with board ana
~ivery-liberal and frequent tips enaoiing
him to lay by quite a sum for investment
on his arrival in this country.
The quarter Of "A million LETT by Lord
Sackville Cecil was almost entirely of his
own earning. Like his much Older half
brother. Lord salisbury, Lord III
had an 1bso hing interest N eisIti.city.
Its applic1.'J1 II The circuliti'r OF rows
on the tape" waS ~ Dns time fS Ia
Norite hobby. snd ~ o,clni- chairman "a
the Exchange Telegraph company. whicn
conveyed to the London clubs ana the
evening papers the current items OF news.
In the development of the Eastern Teie-
graph company he had a hand. ana so
successfully did he combine science with
that his fortune was made IN
comparatively few years, for he died be-
fore he MAS n