The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mrs. Hetty Green in recent inter
view said, 1.-THE idea that the way to
financial success is o hard one is all
wrong. The road is not rough. 1t Is
easy to find and to travel. People
look for it in out-of-the-way places
and so miss it,"
Chauncey NJ. Depew was recently
quoted as saying that Lieutenant. Gov
ernor Woodruff, Of New York, was to
be the vice-presidential candidate on
the republican ticket. When asked
about it later Mr.. Depew declined to
either affirm or deny the report.
Judge j. G. Long, the newly ap-
pointed consul general of the United
States at Cairo, Egypt, was formerly
republican co mmitteeman from Flori-
da. He lived in Egypt for several
years and knows like native the Ian
guage and customs of the country.
Judge Isaac Story, Of Summerville,
Mass, relative Of the famous com
mentator Of the constitution, is the
second oldest Judge in his state. The
other day he celebrated his S1st BIRTH
day in vigorous health. He has been
on the bench twenty-six years, and
has rarely missed session OF court.
The suit for damages for libel
brought by James J. Phelan against
the New York World for certain
charges made by that paper against
the plaintiff as dock commissioner OF
New York, has resulted in verdict
for the plaintiff. The jury awarded
him damages to the amount OF 6 cents.
He asked for $75, 900.
Thomas Sidney Cooper, the English
artist, entered upon his 9th year the
other day. He has been an exhibitor
at the Royal Academy since 1833-four
years before the queen came to the
throne-and he has not yet joined the
ranks of the retired n. AS, for sew
eral of his works were to be seen at
the recent exhibition at Burlington
house.
Princess Stephanie, widow OF the
late Grown Prince Rudolph of Austria,
will, after her marriage with Count
Lonyay, take up her residence with
her husband in London, where they
will remain permanently. She will
formally renounce the dignities OF an
Austrian archduchess, but will retain
her title as Belgian princess.
DR.. James Henry Breasted, the
Psychologist whose discoveries of early
writings have created such stir among
Orientalists, is native of Chicago and
graduate of its high school and OF
Northwestern college. He first stud
led and then taught the Semitic Ian
guages at Yale, and later became pro-
lessor of Egyptology in the University
of Chicago. He is not yet 45 years old.
In memory of the wedding of his
daughter, Lady Margaret Primrose.
Lord Rosebery has placed silver-gilt
altar cross and pair of vases in West
minister abbey. On the CROSS are five
medallions, on four of which, in re-
lief, are the figures of ST. Peter, St.
Ed aard the Confessor; st. Margaret
Of Scotland, and Lady Margaret,
mother of King Henry VII. On the
fifth is an appropriate inscription in
Latin.
We Ting Fang, the first Chinese
minister to America able to converse
in English, has already begun to pay
the penalty for such knowledge. He
has been interviewed by the reporter
concerning his opinion of American
women, and being as yet stranger to
the particular brand Of diplomacy
needed in such cases, he said that
'gentleness is not an American quail
ity," and that he prefers the women
OF China to those of this country.
Gen. White, the British commander
in Natal, is by no means sound OF