Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-06-22

Adelaide Ristori, countess del Grillo,
is fond of company, in spite of her
advanced years. She always carries a
charm, which she believes has protect.
led her against the evil eye. 1t is a
tbird's claw set in gold and it has bnt
zone rival in her affections. With it She
always carries the pen with which, at
'Ristori's request, Queen Isabella, OF
Spain, signed the pardon of con-
demned man. The cN-crminal lives
In Barcelona and often writes to Bis
tori, addressing her as "Madre
Guardida."
In the eulogistic addresses which
Rev. Archibald ID. Brawshaw delivered
at the obsequics In connection with the
Seventy-tirst New York regiment. of
which he is chaplain, the speaker used
almost word for word several passages
winch appear in the eulogy which Col
onel lngersoll uttered over the re-
mains of his brother, Ebcn Ingersoll,
who died twenty years ago. Mr.. Brad
shaw acknowledges the plagiarism,
'complacently adding that in some
places he improved upon the original.
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While General Lew Wallace was mr.
gning civil case in an Indiana court
a few days ago he lighted cigar.
When he was told that such practices,
though once prevailing there, had re-
Gently been abolished he asked 10 be
allowed, as the oldest member of the
local bar the privilege of continuing.
and further declared that smoking was
necessary to his health. Then tho
Judge smiled and formally extended
the courtesy and the incident was re-
corded on the minutes of the court.
The will of Prof O. G. Marsh, late of
Yale, leaves his entire estate to that
institution. with the exception of $1O,-
600 which goes to the National Acad-
envy of Science at Washington. Yale
also gets his house and gardens, his
great library, his scientific collec-
tions and his collection of more than
1900 rare orchids. On the house and
gardens the university is required to
spend at least $4,000 Il wear Prof.
Marsh left no family.
For years members OF the cabinet In
Washington have had oil portraits of
themselves painted. at n cost 10 the
government of from $500 to s 900, to
be left as relics in the departments
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural
department, refused to approve tho
customary expenditure for this pur-
pose, but finally compromised ON a
crayon portrait which, with its frame,
cost $50.
Musical composers of royal blood
are not extremely rare, but Prince
Henry, of Reuss, is believed to be the
first to attempt an orchestral SYM
phony. A work of his in b minor has
been produced in Cologne, the royal
author himself welding the baton. 1t
was. OF course. sympathetically re-
tceived, but even the loyal hearers We're
unable to get UP any enthusiasm.
! Peter A. Il. Widener, the Philadel-
iphia traction magnate, has an art gal
!,ery valued at S2.5Oo,000 and believed
to be fully worth that amount Ii is
now at his residence in the Quaker
city, but is shortly 10 be removed to
4le mansion which he has erected a
Ashbourne. There are single paint
ings for which Mr.. Widener has re-
fused 100000 each
that chemically pure water Is poison
10 me human stomach, upsetting some
hitherto accepted theories regarding
distilled water by the argument that
in distillation the water loses sundry
salts that it greedily abstracts from
the animal tissues when it is swal-
lowed, thus constituting protoplas-
mic poison.
The splendid new monument to Vic
tor hugo, which is TO adorn the grand
palace of the Champs Elysees at the
Paris exhibition next wear is ap-
preaching complexion Mr.. Barrias'
statue of the poet is already surround
ed by the -four great figures represent
and the whole work will be finished by
July
The British soldier is the best fed
individual of his class i'm Europe. He
receives for his daily rations sixteen
ounces of bread, twelve ounces of
meat, two ounces of rice, eight ounces
OF dried vegetables. sixteen ounces of
potatoes, and once a week he receives
two ounces of salt, four ounces of COT
fec and nine ounces of sugar.
To celebrate the anniversary of the
liberation of Switzerland i'm the com
ing summer a series of performances
of Schillers 'William Tell will be
given in .tltdorf. the town where the
chief incident of the drama took place.
A theater holding 1900 persons will
be built for the occasion and ten per-
formances will he riven