Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-07-08
PERSONALITIES.


 Tx-senator M. W. Ransom has be- come the largest cotton raiser in North Carolina.
 Paderewski will make another tour of this country next season, beginning early in October.
 The German emperor has consented ta stend as godfather to the twin sons 54 1 ae8@s ran at Giesorf.
 GAs s.4seA of Spain is most ad- mirnble ssedleWoman, and her daugh- tsrs take after her in this respect.
 The great French composer.M. Saint saens, is by turn philosopher, com poser, arehaeologist, and astronomer.
 Phil May, the caricaturist, made sensation at the initial performance of "Robespierre" in London by appear E Ing in his shirt sleeves.
 An interesting gift has just been made by Princess. Bonaparte, widow of Prince Lueian Bonaparte.to the library of the University College of Wales, con- sisting of the valuable case of polyglot Bibles collected by the prince.
 "Thrums" has grown too strict even for it's minister. The Rev. W. 2. Conn has resigned from the Original Seees- sion Kirk at Kirriemuir and applied for admission to the Presbyterian church of England, being in search of "a larg- CT outlook" The number of "Auld Lichts" in Thrums is now thirty-seven.
 Mrs. Theodore Sutro of New York is henceforth entitled to write Mus. Doc" after her name She is one of only two women in the English-speak ing world with the same distinction. The other is the princess of Wales. A fortnight ago she received this rare distinction from the hands of Dr. Ernst Eberhard, president of the Grand Con- servatory of Music of the city of New York.
 The four members of the law firm with which Speaker Reed Is to be asso- ciated are John H. Simpson. son-in- law of the late George I. seney, banker and philanthropist; Thomas Thacher, Yale '71, son of the late Prof Thacher; William M. Barnum, Yale TT, son of the late Senator Barnum of Connecti- cut. a millionaire who was prominent in the councils of the democratic party, and Philip G. Bartlett. Yale 'S1.
 TEMPERANCE NOTES.
 Rev. Theodore Cuyler, D. D, sis1ed the total abstinence pledge when 10 years old, and has kept 1t ever since.
 On the west coast of Africa and far inland, bottles of gin and demijohns of rum are used as the common currency; and on the Congo, one-half of all that the natives produce is ps@ for with liquor
 Two hundred women at Chattanooga, Tenn, went to the city council cham Der and defeated a movement started by saloonkeepers to extend the closing hour at night from 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock.
 Hoopeston, IL, boasts of never hav- ing saloon within her border, and yet visitors declare she has more paved streets and good sidewalks than any city of her size in the state She has electric lights, water works, Greer Col lege spIendid high schools, and the largest canning factory in the world.
 A movement to exclude liquor deal CTS from church membership has been started in Louisville, Ky, by Rev. T. T. Eaton, D. D.. pastor of one of the wealthiest churches in that city. Res olutions were passed urging them to give up their business and allowing one year in which to abandon it or leave the church.
 The famous Benedictine monks at Beatty. Pa, have discontinued brewing beer for the market For forty years they have brewed this beer and ped- dled 1t among the saloons all over the western part of Pennsylvania. The growing temperance sentiment among Catholics is responsible, though it is said they will still brew beer for their private use.