The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-05
PERSONALITIES.

PEhSONALlTlES.
NJ Dupuy, three times premier OF
France, was the son of a hotel porter.
Professor Rush Rees has accep.ed n
call to the presidency of the University
of Rochester.
Miss Mary Love Lawless, who died
recently at Lexington, Ky, was Abra-
ham Lncoln's first sweetheart.
Miss Clara Barton, president OF the
Red Cross, Is I'm failing health owing to
her extra -onerous labor5 in cuba.
Marcus DAILY, the copper king, Is to
take a trip to the Philippines IN u new
yacht now building for him in San Fran
cisco.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts is said
to be worth about 100000 and her in
come is set down as being close upon
$500 a day.
Addison Cammack, the Wall street
bear. is a born lightning calculator and
amuses himself and his friends by the
exercise of this talent.
John Burroughs the critic. is quite a
hermit and lives by himself IN little
cabin on tho Hudson, half way betw6 en-
New York and Albany.
HoEarth and wringe, the men who will
sail the Shamrock, are but little over 30
years of age, but have been sailing in
yacht races for several years.
Verdi wears long, loose, double
breasted sack coat and baggy trousers so
that at first sight it seems ds If ;he great
maestro were clad in paJamas.
Ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle has been
invited to deliver an address on this cur
rency of this country before the students
of the University of Chicago next fall.
oliver Wendell Holmes, I'd, whom Gov
ernor Wolcott has just appointed to the
state supreme court bench. is at work
editing a new edition of Kents Com
mentaries.
Visitors at Nantucket, few days ago.
were surprised to see John Fiske in golf
clothes. The historian has in fact, be-
come an expert golfer and is very fond
of the game.
President Eliot, of Harvard, is credited
with being opposed to the recent order
of the Harvard Law schools faculty
which admits women to the law courses,
provided they are graduates of Rad
Ciffc
Sieveking, the Dutch pianist, who was
imprisoned for a while in Austria last
summer for disTcspect to a religious
procession, has, It is reported, eiuped
| with the daughter of a Vienna hotel
Keeper.
Miss Ellen Beach Yaw, whose rhencm.
| email voice has gained new qualities OF
| richness and sympathetic timbre since
| her last American tour, has been one OF
the greatest favorites Of the season in
| London.
EX-Postmastcr General James 4. Gary
| declares that he not q candidate for gov.
| ernor of Maryland, and that he will work
| for the re election of Governor LOwndes
| who will Drobp hlV ia nv tEf
| Republicans.
Professor o. II. Corson, the new presi
| dent of the National Education society
was born in Preble county, o., AZ years
! ago. He was educated at the Ohio Wes
| leyan university and recently declined
the presidency of Athens college.
| Daniel Frohman, the theatrical man
| ager, was newspaper man, when i'm 1871
he was employed to manage walking
| match The receipts from this undertak
| ing were more than $4,000, and this sue.
cess started Mr.. Frohman in theatrlcals
The late Captain August Ligowsky, o.
| Cincinnati, was the Oldest German editor
| In the United States He raised com
| pany and served with Carl Schurz il
the War of the Rebellion. One of hi
sons was the inventor of the clay pigeon
Frank Chopin Bray, who has succeeded
| DR.. Theodore l.. Flood as editor of tn
| Chautauquan is Cnly SO years old. H
| graduated from Wesleyan In 1890, having
first served an apprenticeship as print
er and using his earnings at this trad
to work his way through college.
The Chinese emperor must never turI
q corner when out for a drive. If he il
| seized with IL fancy to drive out, which
| fortunately, does not occur often, as I
| means enormous expenses, all the street
| mn hp f1na Ia OF 18Th i'm
terfere they are promptly swept away
| while even a dried-up water course mus
| be spanned with a bridge.
One of Funston's men writes that ii
| the latest engagement near San Fernando
the general went into battle at the hca,
of his brigade, composed of the Kan
! sas, Montana and Utah troops. Whel
| the fight started, however, General Funs
ton forgot that he was in command of
| brigade, and, leaving his staff. orderly
| horse and all, he joined the Kansas boy
on foot and personally gave them order
as he led them to the charge.
Colonel Charles e. Jones, the Georgi
historian, has compiled a list of the sur
| Vivng Confederate generals, which shoN
| that out of the original 10 lieutenan
| generals, 7 survive; of the 81 major gen
erals, 16 are living, and of 365 brigade
| generals, % survive. The living lieuten
| ant generals are James Longstreet, Alex
ander +. Stewart, stephen ID. Lee, Simo
Il. Buckner. Wade Hampton, John /
| Gordon and Joseph Wheeler.
President Harper, of the University o
Chicago, when, as frequently, his physl
clan advises a rest accepts an invita-
ton to speak out in Colorado, or dis
covers some business which requires hi
attention in New York city. He Jump
on the train, travels night and day
reaches his destination, transacts hi
business or delivers his address, an
boards the next train home. This sort c
work which would tire most men ou
gives him a delightful rest" He say
that he never sleeps so we'll as he doc
on the train, and he comes back quit
| refreshed"