Arizona republican., 1898-06-23
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

During MT. Gladstone's illness tn,
 Irish express going to Holyhead wa
 several times stopped at Sandyford il order to put down the doctors. Ther, lis Hawarden tradition, related by tn,
 London Daily Chronicle, to the effec
 that MT. Gladstone once stopped thi.
 express by pulling the signal against i with his own hand The narrative i.
 that MT. Gladstone had been hurried
 ly summoned south by the queen. H,
 drove over to Sandyford-the date i.
 supposed to be years ago-and asked the officials there to have the trai1
 stopped. No, sir," was the timorou.
 reply, "I cannot stop the Irish expres.
 without orders, and, as she is almos,
 due, there is no time to telegraph fol
 them" We'll" quoth Mir Gladstone
 T understand your position and ap.
 preciate it. But in the interests os the nation l must go to London in the
 least loss of time. Therefore, I shall
 take the responsibility of stopping the tlsin myself" With that he went to the lever and pulled it, saying: "In the queens name"
 "rhe silly story that Colonel Pat Donan was the author of Proctor knott's famous Duluth speech, or that Knott plagiarized it from an article written by Donan, is rehearsed now land then in the newspapers" said ex- Senator Joe Blackburn of Kentucky in Washington recently. There never was a more ridiculous charge I saw lthe Donan article from which 1t was claimed that Proctor Knott stole his memorable speech, and while there was here and there a slight resemb- lance of ideals between the two, the likeness in no place approached iden- tity, either of thought or language. Nobody of any sense or knowledge of the facts would ever bring the charge |Cf plagiarism. Proctor Knott is now professor of law at Center college, po- sition for which he is eminently fitted, as he is an accomplished lawyer. He might have held several important of fees during the last administration of Cleveland, but he declined every offer made him by the president"
 The presidential perquisite of a fat Rhode Island turkey isn't in it" with the perquisite of the office of represen- tative in congress from the Third Maine district according to the Wash ington Post. This is the district that MT. Blaine used to represent, and for years Hon. c. c. Homer, residing at the quaint old town of Bucksport, scene of the pastoral play of "Old Jed Prouty," has forwarded to his represen- tative the finest salmon he could catch in Maine waters. This year Represen- tative Burleigh, now serving his first term in congress, after being for four years one of the best governors the state Of Maine ever had, received from Mir Homer a salmon that tipped the scales at thirty pounds. It was one of the largest salmon caught in Maine this season.
 ''The enemy had as many modern guns approximating to the same size. as we had and more men to fire them" writes one of the engineers of the Bal of the Manila fight. They should have been able to fire as much weight of shot in a specified time as we did" During the battle, indeed, the Spaniards fired an enormous num- Der of times. but with apparently the most impracticable aim. Shells drop ped all around our ships; we were in action for over four hours; hundreds of shot and shell fell close to us." Then comes the somewhat surprising state laent by the writer that, in his opinion. had we manned the Spanish ships and had the Spaniards manned our fleet, the American side would have been as victorious as it was"
 The fireworks artists are going to spring a good many novelties on pa- triotic public For example, one New York firm makes two large set pieces of the battles of Manila and Santiago. They are forty by 300 feet, and show the forts, tropical landscape and ships. Another piece to be brought out is rocket that throws out Old Glory in fire. Sampson and Dewey shells will te added to the noise makers. Samp- son, Schley and Dewey batteries fired together throw out a cataact of red, white and blue.
 Appropos of the big fee paid to a lobbyist by the Methodist book con- cern, South, for getting its claim through congress, Senator Hoar takes occasion to say that in the presentation of just claims to congress tsere IS never any need of employing agents or lob-