The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-07

Mataafa. the Samoan claimant to royal
honors is passionately fond of Moody
and Sankey's hymns.
The official stenographer in the trial of
the criminal case of Senator Quay will
receive Sl,45O for his services.
T. H. Price. the New York millionaire.
is. facially, the exact double of Congress
man joe Bailey of Texas, and the one
is frequently mistaken for the other.
In Berlin they have the news that Ad-
miral Dewey has written very kind let
ter TO Admiral Diedrichs. regretting the
false reports" regarding their relations
at Manila.
a movement has been started in Phila-
delphia looking to the erection in Fair
mount park OF $4,000 monument to
Richard Allen. founder of the African
Methodist Episcopal church.
A college of Journalism is to be started
in Paris, and it is said that very soon
journalists like lawyers and doctors, will
be debarred from practicing their profess
sion unless regularly graduated and Ii
censed-
Sir Henry NJ. Stanley has expressed to
French journalist his opinion that, after
was the greatest African explorer, his
expedition being one of the finest on rec
ord. and one that must be followed by
immense results.
At the recent wedding of Miss Lydia
Faeber to Mr.. John Patterson, both of
Philadelphia, six generations of the
brides family were present. The great
great-grandmother, Mrs. Mary e. Faeber,
is over So years old, and in good health.
Our new. American citizens of Porto
Rico will have to keep their eyes open
for English idioms. Joseph Faudies of
that isle is said to have come all the way
to st. Benedict's college. in Atchison:
Kan, in the hope of beginning school
work there on June last, which he saw
announced as commencement day"
The old woman who tends the railroad
gates of a grade crossing where DreyfuS
was expected to pass on his journey from
Rabelais to Rennes, when told she might
get a glimpse of the famous prisoner.
manifested the traditional curiosity of her
sex by inquiring: Who is Dreyfus?'
Then she added: Il have never even heard
of him."
Anna S. Douglass of New York caused
the arrest of a man who sold her
Cripple Creek mine last year and sued
for the purchase money. 5000. on the
ground that she had been buncoed into
buying. a worthless property. She lost
her case, and now the ore being taken
out of her mine runs from $1,000 TO $lcO,OD
to the ton, and the vein is about eight feet
wide.
The most picturesque figure at Yale
commencement is the Marquis Nabe-
shima of Japan. He is a graduate of
Cambridge university. England, and
member Of the highest nobility and of
the most artistocratic family in the
mikado's realm.
A clerical calendar published in Ger
many declares that Goethe was great
poet, but vile man; that it is absurd
to speak of his friendship with Schiller,
for whose death he was really respon-
sible. and that Leasing was "a shame
less literary thief"
Twenty-eight postoffices in as many
states have been named Dewey, after
the hero of Manila. This is only four
less than those named after Washing
ton. over 300 other applications are on
the postal files.
Anna S. Douglas of New York caused
the arrest of q man who sold her a
Cripple Creek mine last year and sued
for the purchase money, $1,000, on the
ground that she had been buncoed into
buying a worthless property. She lost
her case. and now the ore being taken
out of her mine runs from $4,000 to
$4,000 to the ton, and the vein is about
eight feet wide.
Two of the most famous living
Scotchmen are cripples-Lord Kelvin,
who is the greatest living Scottish
scientist and DR.. James Macgregor of
Edinburgh, who is said to be the great
est living Scottish preached.
Mr. Alfred de Rothschild would ap-
pear to have a horror of London water
He has every pint of water used in his
London house brought up every day in
special cans from his wells at firing,
in Hertfordshire.
Major General Otis wife receives a
cablegram from her husband regularly
on the LIST and 18th of each month.
THE LAST KISS.
Games Whitcomb Riley)
put by the half-written poem,
While :he pen, idly trailed in my hand
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