The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-02
PERSON NALITIES.

Washington from Korea, speaks Engllsh
fluently.
Senator Beveridge is expected to reach
his home in indianapolis from mis- Phil.
ippine trip next Thursday.
Lord Brassey, owner of the yacht Sun
beam, has figured out that he has spent
eleven years of his life on the water.
Dr. Max Brener. of Buffalo, has been
decorated with the cross Of the Legion
Of Honor for saving the life of French
seaman.
General Leonard Wood is partial to
cigarettes, rarely smoking cigars, fact
which commends him to the Cubans in
his province.
The Queen Of Roumania, whose nom
de plume is Carmen sylvia, has just com
pleted her first play, which is called,
"A Pair of Shoes"
John X. Cowen, the new president Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COM
pany, was graduated from Princeton at
the head of his class in 1866
Albert C. Hopkins, who during the Mes
siah craze in 1890, appeared among the
excited Sioux and proclaimed himself
their Messiah, has just been pronounced
insane.
Joseph chamberlain, the well-known
English statesman, was Il Sunday school
teacher some thirty years ago in con-
nection with the Church Of Messiah, in
Birmingham.
The Rev. DR.. Elias Riggs, Of CONTAIN
tinOple, who has laborod in the cause of
missions for siXty-seven years, is the
oldest alumnus of Amherst college. He
was graduated in 1929.
Queen Margaret has promised to climb
Rocco Melone, one of the highest peaks
'of the Italian Alps, to take part in the
dedication of a statue of the Virgin, of
which she was a sculptor
John Ruslin has not had his photo
graph taken for thirty years, and John
Hare has allowed himself to he caught
by the camera once only. This was at
the express desire of Queen Victoria.
NJ. Jean de Reske prides himself quite
as much on his Polish stud farm as on
his triumphs at the opera, although his
income derived from the operate stage
amounts to about $4,000 a year clear
profit.
j. c. Blunt, c. F., Great Britain's
new consul general for New England,
has a splendid record of service in the
Crimean War and was twice thanked by
president Lincoln for services to Amer
leans in Turkey.
Robert BuckclI who has been mayor
of oxford, ENGLAND for four terms and,
for years, has been leader of the Lib
eral party, is now making visit to
Terre Haute, Indiara where he lived
for seven years.
David Rankin, of Talkio, Mo, who is
said 10 be the richest farmer in the
world, made his beginning with no other
| capital than "A horse. He owns now, at
| the age of -, $1,000 acres of land, worth
from $50 to 800 an acre.
Coils p. Huntington says that when he
began life peddling hardware in Cali
fornia in 1S49 he laid down as a maxim
| by which he has since continued to live,
do what you think Is right and stand
| by your own judgment"
Fred W. Tpham, president of the Chi
| CaGo Board Of Review, is the leader III
the campaign against tax dodgers in Chi
| sago. He is a nephew of Governor Up
| ham, of Wisconsin, and has been in the
| Windy City only five years.
| DIR. W. a. Ellston, of Stoke Hall, lps-
wich who has been chosen President OF
the British Medical Association for 1900
is a wel-known East Anglican physician
| For the last 80 years he has been on the
| staff of the East Suffolk Hospital.
| The Sultan of Turkey has a great af-
| feCtiOn for Switzerland. Il love II" says
| the Sultan, beyond all the other States
| in Europe, and for good reasun--be,
cause 1t sends no ambassador to Con,
| stantinople to worry me with its grlcv'
| ances."
| Inc NtllltH Emperor ndS tblS'nNtu u
| stand godfather to the twin sons of a
coachman at Giesorf. He has also made
| their parents a handsome present OF
money, and has given permission for the
| babies to be Christcned William /, anC
| William II.
The British government keeps clever
vessels at work sounding and Chdrtina
the ocean beds to find out where dangers
| lurk. Last year 10000 square miles were
ft1lt ltNv oh ri 4 In, Al lgta "a,
the wOrld-Asia, Africa and the Soutl
| Pacific.
Ears of corn can be rapidly huskcd 10y
a Kansas mans pGtent glove, the palm
| being covered with a series of interlaCe(
rings of wire, which form a surface %
sufficient fieXibility and roughness to en-
gage the husks and strip them from tn,
ear.
Nikola Tesla, who is working on I'M
new death dealing machine i'm Colorado
| Springs, leaves his hotel at II i'm tn,
| morning and does not return until afte
midnight. All this time is spent I'm hi
| workshop, where he has his lunch anC
supper served.
Sir Moses Ezekiel, of Rome, italy, tn
| well. known sculptor. who is visiting II
Cincinnati, was, during the civil war il
this country, member of the cadet corp
of the Virginia Military Institute anO
took part with the corps In the battl
| of Newmarket.
Queen Victoria gave Nine. Suzann
Adams a bangle with the imperial ciphc
I'm diamonds as souvenir of her singing
at Windsor. TO Mr Collins the queer
gave blue-enamel sleeve links, to Signor
Ancona and Plancon silver cigar AM
cigarette boxes, and TO all the others con
cerned suitable gifts.
Rocco Bruno, who died recently Il
New York, was one of the most oXper
harp makers I'm this country. The great
est disappointment Of his life was hi
failure to have "A harp exhibited AT IN
Philadelphia centennial in 1876, So m
tent was he on the making of this hdr
that, unconsciously he allowed the IRE
scribed time limit to expire and sent 4
his instrument too late.