The herald., 1898-11-29
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The death OF COlOnei Amos WEBSTER OIL
Washington leaves General Horace Porter,
now ambassador at Paris, the only surviving
member of General Z. S. Grants personal
staff.
Harrison NJ. Seal of Whitcomb, near
Brookville, Ind, probably holds the voting
record of that state. lie voted for Jackson
in 1925 and fer each Democratic presidIen-
tial candidate since then.
Lady Henry Somerset, who has been in
poor health, has been living almost in retire
ment in England for some time. She has
occupied her leisure in modelling stat
uette of her late friend and co-worler in
the temperance cause, Miss Frances Will
lard.
In telling of the origin of "Alce in Won
derand," Mrs. Hargraves, born Alice Lid
dell, says she waA the original of Alice, her
elder sister, Mrs. Skene, Prima, and Edith,
tie youngest, was Tertia. The story was
told on river excursions to Nuneham and
Godstow, near Oxford.
Isaac Wyman, prominent citizen of Sa-
lem, Mass, holds note for 100000, given
to his grandfather in l776, with the signature
of George Washington attached. The note
was given by Washington for money ad-
vanced by Mr.. Wyman's great grandfather
to supply the pressing needs Of the revolu-
tionary army, of which Washington had
been placed in charge.
A Virginia paper advises the Democrats to
nominate Dewey and Wheeler as their pres
idental ticket in 1900 The alleged fact that
Dewey never voted the Democratic ticket is
disposed of by the southern editor by say
ing that Grant never voted the Republican
ticket until he was nominated for president,
yet the Illinois man was given two terms by
the party of his adoption.
In the suburbs of Sedalia, Mo-, there lives
scholarly gentleman who was awarded the
Order of Christina by the queen of Spain
for his Jealous care of her two grandsons,
Raymondo Guell Borbon and Fernando
Alfonso, who afterward became king OF
Spain and was the father of little Alfonso,
the present king. This gentleman is Colonel
Van b. Wisker, whom nearly all Missourans
with a state acquaintance Know.
General Joe Wheelers suggestion that the
colleges of the United States give free tut
tion to a number of young Cubans is ap-
parently meeting with favor. Among those
who have written offering their hearty CO.
operation are President Eliot of Harvard,
LOW VI SOluIlDlu anu TeSluGuU
Raymond of Union. Favorable replies have
also been received from the Roman Catholic
colleges in Washington and Georgetown, the
Quakers college in Haverford and from
many southern and western universities.
Count Witte, Russia minister of finance,
who is said to have inspired the car S peace
full message, is, in sense, self-made man,
and is anything but noble in blood or ap-
pearance. Twenty-one years ago he was Il
village station master on the railroad line
between Kiev and Odessa. He disobeyed
orders concerning the transportation of a
large body of troops, and by his disobedi-
ence averted endless confusion. That won
him place in st. Petersburg, and by his
honesty and ability he has risen to the top
of the ladder.
DIR. Swallow, the Pennsylvania prohibi-
zionist who ran for governor, is not ap-
parently discouraged by his defeat A
friend asked him if he was now out of pol
itics, and the doctor replied: "No Ameri-
can citizen has any right to be out of poll
tics"
John Arbuclsle, the millionaire coffee
king, who is fighting the sugar trust, will
not remain in a place in which the temper
ature is degree higher or lower than his
theory thinks hygeinic. Every room in his
house and place of business is furnished with
thermometer.
Frederick Macmonnies, the sculptor, in
speaking of the group of "War" which he
is at work on for Prospect park, Brooklyn,
said: whatever the war has done for the
country, it has done me undoubted good and
given me fresh inspirations and impressions
for lifetime
Herman Seillen is believed to be one of
the coming men in Wall street. His fortune
is estimated at $5,000,00O and is growing
rapidly. His firm is one of the largest cof-
fee-importing concerns in the world Mr..
Eeilken is with the Havemeyers in their
fight against the Arbuckle interest.
Mr.. Hastings, the retiring governor of
Pennsylvania, is known among his admirers
as "Big Dan" on account of his fine appear
ance and unusual stature. 1t is suggested