Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-26
About Noted People


Judge Isaac Story of Somerville, Mass,
relative of the famous commentator of The
constitution, is the second oldest judge in
his state. The other day he celebrated his
eighty-first birthday in vigorous health. He
has been on the bench twenty-six years and
rarely missed a session of court
.
Robert Barr, the novelist, has escaped the
early trials through which, according to
tradition, most literary men must pass. He
says that his first article was gracefully
accepted by the first magazine to which it
was sent, and that unvarying success fol-
lowed. His only struggles he adds, were
with the English language.
Judge Albert G. Norrel of Utah, formerly
of Mississippi, speaking recently in his home
state of Congressman elect Brigham H.
Roberts, said Roberts is really man
of considerable ability. Physically he is one
of the finest-looking men 1 ever saw, and
were it not for his plurality of wives he
would be regarded as a good citizen any
where
Richard E. Brooks, the sculptor, has COM
pleted for the Boston city hall a series OF
medallion portraits of the living ex-mayors
of Boston. They will be hung in the may
traits hitherto customary. They represent
DR.. Samuel Green General A. P. Martin,
Thomas N. Hart, Nathan Matthews, jr.,
Edwin U. Curtis and the approaching "ex-
mayor" Josiah Quincy.
H. A. London of North Carolina who was
a member Of Confederate General Bryan
Grimes staff, reiterates in recently pub
lished letter that General Grimes planned
III Iol H.
mattoX, and that General w. r. Coxs North
Carolina brigade fired the last volley there.
The distinction has been claimed for other
southern troops, notably the sharpshooters
of General Evans division, under command
of Captain William Kaigler.
Spain is forgetting the disasters of the
war in the tragedy of the retirement of the
most famous of bullstickers, Guerrita de
Cordova, before whose sword over 5000 vic
Tins have fallen. He is still in the prime
of life, and his retirement is said to be due
to religious conversion. He attended re-
ligious festival and as he gazed at the i'm
age of the Virgin he was overc me by a
sense of the blood he had split and of the
injuries he had brought upon his colleagues
So he went home and shipped off the lock
of hair that marks the toreador.
An incident which is probably unique in
Mr.. Chamberlain's parliamentary experience
occurred during the special session of par
Lament. At one stage of the colonial secre-
tarys three hours defense of his policy in
the Transvaal he suddenly lost the thread
of the argument he was pursuing looked up
at the ceiling with curious expression, and
then exclaimed: Where was II" Mr.. Bal
four in an undartOna SuDDlied tho nua and
Mr.. Chamberlain, with jaunty "Oh, yes"
Immediately recovered himself and resumed
at the point where he left off. The incident
was so rapid in its action that 1t doubtless
escaped general observation.
One of Mr.. Hobart's neighbors tell how
the vice president made his first fee as a
lawyer. He was employed to write the will
of we'll known manufacturer of Paterson,
who was wealthy. Asked his fee Mr.. Ho-
bart, the legal fiedgling, replied: "One hun
dred dollars" 1t was from this that he
received a significant hint how to succeed
as lawyer. The manufacturer was well
pleased with his attorney and turning to his
desk drew out a package of bank checks
that had come in during the regular course
OF business Taking up one for $500 he in
dorsed 1t and handed it to Mr.. Hobart
with this start in life," said the narrator
of the story. "Mr. Hobart married the
daughter of Socrates Tuttle, who has been
his helpmeet through all the years that have
followed. Years afterward Mr.. Hobart
learned that the granddaughter of his first
client was about to be married, and that the
family had been reduced to financial straits.
He sent to her his check for $3.50 to assist
in purchasing her trousseau and took steps
to provide other members of the family with
employment"