The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-11
PERSONALITIES.

The Duchess of Fife likes angling, and
spends hours ON the banks of the Dee,
sending her catch to the poor of the dis
trict.
Ex-President Pier ola, of Peru, is said
to be the richest man In South Africa,
being possessed of a fortune estimated
at $4,000 900.
The Emperor Of Russia Is said TO be
the most liberal dispenser of fees among
the monarChs of Europe. II Is not un-
usual for him to give a coachman or mes
sengcr 50-ruble note.
1t has now become knonw that. before
his recent death. Roswell L. Flower had
formulated elaborate plans for investing
an immense sum Of money In the zinc
fields near Springfield, Mo.
a movement is on foot in Montana to
give the Republican nomination for gov
crnor to Colonel II. G. kessler, of the
First Montana, now under orders to re-
turn home from the Philippines.
The Austrian explorer, II. Leder, who
visited the ruins of Kara Korum I'm 1892
Is back again In Central Asia, and writes
that he has good prospects of reaching
Lhasa, With the aid OF the Ruler of Urga.
Mayor Malster of Baltimore, who has
| been in New York in conference with the
Porto Rican Central Relief comittee, has
| returned home and expressed himself as
astonished at the suffering brought to
| light.
Richard Croker is said to be an ex-
| pert swimmer. When the steam house
| boat London touched at Atlantic High
| lands recently Mr.. Croker entertained n
| large crowd by diving several times from
| the rail
Lord Wolseley has now entered upon
! the forty-eiEhth year of his military ser
! 1Durinp
war medals and eight other decorations,
| and about a dozen clasps for battles and
actions.
Governor Bushnell, of Ohio. recently
conveyed n silver service to Boston and
| presented it to the gunboat Marietta I'm
honor Of her second birthday. 1t was
| the gift of the Ohio town whose name
| the gunboat bears.
Captain Blackburn, who recently made
a daring voyage to England alone in a
| little 4-ton cutter, suffered severely or
returning to America in the same way
I'm about two years.
Miss Braddon, the famous novelist, who
| has Just published her sixtieth book, re-
| joices in the fact that the only picture of
her ever printed was from photograph
made so long ago that no one can now
recognize the original
During the reception to Senator Bev-
! eridge in indianapolis the other evening
some one called out "IIow are the Phil
! ippines, Senator?" Lets not talk about
the Philippines" answered the Senator.
| Let's talk about home"
Princess Fredcrica, of Hanover, is one
Of the most musical of European royal.
ties. Music was the great passion and
solace of her father, the blind King of
! Hanover, and he transmitted his tastes
as well as his gifts, to both his daugh-
ters.
Congressman BoutelIe, of Chicago, who
delivered the English address in that city
at the celebration of the one hundred and
hftieth anniversary of the birth o'
Goethe, only recently returned from an
| extended tour of the homes and haunts
of the great poet.
DR.. Ekholm, who had intended to ac.
company Andree on his balloon trip I,
! the North Pole, is convinced that the un
dertaking failed because his ideas in re-
gard to the meteorological conditions
near the pole were not needed. He Is
now In Paris trying to arrange for new
| balloon trip.
Hon. j. Addison Porter, secretary tC
the president, gave a cordial greeting e
number of friends in Washington 9
day or two ago. MIR. Porters three
months sojourn in Europe evidently
agreed with him, as he is looking in fine
| health, the result as he laughingly said
of Scotch porrdge and Highland scenery
| The story that he had resigned his posi-
| tion at the white house was given ar
emphatic negative by Mr.. Porter, who re-
| marked that he had come back to resume
his official duties, and expected to star
in right away,