The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-21
PERSONALITIES.

Hall Caine has bought one of the larg-
est farms in the Isle of Man.
Ambassador layton IS irving 10 intro
ducc golf in the city of Mexico.
A bust of ex-Speaker Reed is being ex-
ccuted in bronze for the Maine legisa-
ture.
Ian Maclaren will probably be Modera-
tor of the next English Presbyterian Cen
cral Assembly.
1t is said Admiral Dewey has submitted
to the camera fiend 10000 times in the
past eighteen months.
T.. Marion Crawford is now in Sicily
and does not expect to return to this
country for at least year.
Charles H. Hoyt says it took him but
five days to write "A Texas Steer" which
proved to be one of his most successful
farces.
Perhaps the oldest Confederate soldier
in the world is Seymour Garner, who lives
in Wilcox county, Alabama. Though
Jos years old, he is till alert and remark
ably well preserved.
Francis Browning, a Philadelphlan, who
has recently been admitted to the bar, is
also a practicirg physician, graduate of
a dental college, and holds the degree OF
mechanical engineer.
Fernand Labori the counsel of Dreyfus,
is the editor of an exhaustive encyclope-
dia of French law, the twelfth volume OF
which came out last year. He is also the
editor of a monthly politico-literary re-
view called The Grande Revue.
Admiral Dewey is perhaps the best
small swOrdsman among the senior Off
GERS of the navy, indeed, the best in the
| service, excepting possibly Lieutenant
| Commander Lucien Young, whose skill is
| a matter of note all through the service.
William Oliver Smith, who Is to repre-
| sent Hawaii in Washington during the
next session Of congress-, speaks the lam
| guage of the natives of that island as
we'll as he does English. He is, with
them, the most popular foreigner in their
| country.
Ex-President Policarpo Bonilla, of Hon.
| duras, is said to be the only president Of
that republic that every turned over to
his successor in a friendly spirit the chief
| magstracy of his country, or who has
ever been unpurchasable while occupying
| the office.
Colonel Ormond F. Minis, who was the
| organizer of the famous Minis battery"
| in the Civil War, and to whom the Sem
ate gave the complimentary commissions
| OF Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colo
mel afterward, has just celebrated his
eightieth birthday.
a promoter of financial concerns akin to
| trusts, has made himself felt to 10000
working people, to 800 employers and to
| the stockholders back of S75, 100000 capital,
and now has in hand operations which, IL
successful will nearly, if not quite, double
those figures.
James II. Resan, of Texas, the last
survivor of jefferson Davis cabinet is
now in his eighty-ttth year, but, in spite
of the signs of age in his face. his brown
eyes shine lustrously, his voice is steady
and his step is firm. He says he takes
the best care of himself, going to bed
early and getting up with the sun. He
works hard and sleeps Well
Among the table decorations at a re-
cent dinner given to Ambassador Choate
in London, We're four books which the
host said had done more to bring Eng
land and America together than a cen-
tury of literature" The titles of the
volumes were Bryce's american Com
monwealth," Captain Mahan's "Sea
Power" Henderson's "Stonewall Jack
son" and TreVelyan's American Revo-
luton"