The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-16
PERSONALITIES.

George W. Gable is at work upon a new
Southern novel.
Sarah Bernhardt refuses TO disclose her
age, further than to declare that she
never intends to get old.
Ex-Governor l.. Bradford Prince, of
New Mexico, has a collection of over
1000 stone idols once worshiped by the
Pueblo Indians.
William Durant, Of Boston. who has
just celebrated his eighty-third birthday.
has been newspaper man for the past
siXty-tve years.
James Clark, of Quincy, H., who cele-
brated his one hundredth birthday last
week, Is now the only bona fide oldest
Mason in America.
While on his way to Manila, General
Wheeler is preparing matter for "A re.
vised and enlarged edition of his history
of the Santiago Campaign"
Bjornsterne Bjornson sperds four hours
of every day in looking after his farm
after he has given the first three hours
following breakfast to literary work.
Professor Roentgcn, of Roentgen ray
fame, is to be transferred from Wuerz-
burg to Munich University in October
next, to succeed the late Professor Lom-
mel.
Harry Farieon, eldest son of the novel
list and grandson of Joe jefferson. has
composed the music for a two-act opera,
"Fluretta," for which his younger sister,
Eleanor, wrote the book.
William r. Smith superintendent of the
United States botanic garden in Wash
ington, has promised to bequeath his
Burns library, one of the finest known, TO
Mr.. Carnegie for the Carnegie library at
Pittsburg.
Mrs. William r. Lowe, president of the
National Federation of Women's clubs,
has sailed for Europe to make prelimi-
nary arrangements for an exhibit by the
womens clubs of America at the Paris
exposition.
John Morley is now living at Hawarden,
where he will remain for several months
In order to have ready access to the pa
pers at Hawarden Castle, which he will
have to examine i'm order to complete his
biography of Mr.. Gladstone.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has
addressed an autograph letter to Gen.
Won Kreighammer the AustrO Hungarian
minister of war conEratulating him on
his service jubilee and comforting upon
him the hereditary title of baron.
Daniel T. Hunt, the successor of Charles
T. Yerkes as president of the Chicago
Union Traction company, was born in
Rutland, n. Y, So years ago. For 80
years he lived in Rochester, and during
IL years of that time he was postmaster
of the city.
During some recent rehearsals, Sir
Henry Irving was dspleased with the
work of one of the minor actors. what
have you been doing before you came
here?" he asked of the delinquent. Il
was two years with John Hare" "And
what did you do in his company" asked
Sir Henry. Not act?'
II. W. Davis, of Peoria, ILL.,. although
| y years old, is an inveterate rider of the
| bicycle. He did not take to the wheel
until he was 81, and since then he has
ridden 60O0C miles. To commemorate his
career as a cyclist, he has erected a
monument over the sDOt where he is to
be buried, and on the shaft a large BIZ
| cycle is carved
Liluokalani. former queen Of Hawaii,
| is keeping house in Washington, just as
| thousands of other widows with small
incomes. She now calls herself an Ameri-
can. She recently said to caller: Il
am a thorough American. | love the his
| tory of the country. 1t is the heir ap-
parent of all that former nations have
had to fight and perish for"
Lewis G. Tewksbury, the New York
millionaire banker, graduated from the
| Manchester N. H., high school at the
hours out of the twenty.four as an apo
| thecary's clerk at a salary of $50 a year.
When II he passed the examination before
| the state board of pharmacy. making an
average Of 9S He asked his employer
what he would take for the store, offered
| two-thirds of the price asked and in two
weeks had raised the money and bought
the store.
Countess Tatiana Tolstoi the daughter
of Count Leo Tostoi, is at present an in
| mate of a Vienna suburban sanitorium,
| where she is being treated for an obsti-
| nate throat complaint Countess Tatiana,
who is about thirty years of age is "A
woman of remarkable intellectually and
| individuality, and has long figured as
| Tolstots right hand. She bears a strong
| resemblance to her father in face and
| feature, form and limb, and when ut
| home follows the plough, and is a first
rate hand at curing piggy. OF muscular
| build, she thrcsheg the corn with the best
| Of them: and, besides being a no mean
| limner, poses as an cmateur authority
in many ar artistic and scientific contr1-
versy. and with it all is neither a blue
| stocking nor man-hGter.