The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-08-10
PERSONALITIES.

Commander Sturdee, of the English
cruiser Purpoise, who had direct charge
of all the recent fighting in Samoa, has
been made Il captain.
DIR. j. S. Adams, who died last week at
Oakland, Cal, was the first physician to
receive certificate from the board of ex-
aminers of the California State Medical
society.
DIR. Laborde, a French physician, in a
brochure on the subject, declares that,
unless measures are taken at once to pre-
vent 1T, the French working class in a
few years will become habitual drunk
ards.
Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind
girl, Is spending the summer at Wrcn-
than, Mass, where she is keeping up her
study of Greek and Arabic, writing her
exercises on a typewriting machine es-
pecially designed for those languages.
Max Seeliger, one of the instructors in
mural painting of the Imperial Berlin Art
school. has been selected as the artist to
execute the new copy of Raphaels
school of Athens" which the University
OF Virginia owes to the generosity of an
unnamed friend.
The former Inauguration of President
Hadley, of Yale, will take place Wednes-
day, oct. Is. Among those who have ac-
Cepted invitations to be present are
IItSluCul EnOl, Oh harvard, IfeSluent
Gilman, of Johns Hopkins; President
Harper, of the University of Chicago, and
Senator Depew.
There is to be a great gathering of the
royal family of Denmark during this
month and next, when King Christian
will entertain his relations at the castle
of Fredensborg, which is famous for its
charming gardens and its vast beech for
| ests, where the late emperor of Russia
used to shoot by moonlight.
The marquis Of Salisbury has for many
years been an earnest student of chemis-
try and found time to discover and COM
plete an important chemical process in his
private laboratory at Hatfield the results
of which will be made known to the world
on his behalf at forthcoming meeting of
one of the learned societies.
Prince Roland Bonaparte's new house
in Paris has been completed after seven
years of work. Nearly every room con-
| tains a collection of Napoleon souvenirs.
The library occupies three great rooms
each l4O feet in length, with a light iron
| gallery giving access to the upper shelves.
A corps Of five persons is employed to
attend exclusively to the books.
James Lane Allen, whose Choir Invis-
ible" has passed the 100000 mark, lives
most of the time in New York. His house
| is one of the old-fashoned, brownstone-
| front ones above Forty-second street
which decade ago was the center of
| Gotham's 100" Mr. Allen is a tall,
| specialized man, very retiring, who car
| ries his avoidance of personal publicity
| to the point of eccentricity.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale says that
when he brought home his first report
| from the famous Latin school 1t showed
| that he stood only nine in a class of Is.
Probably the other boys are brighter
| than YOU" said his mother, God made
| them so, and you cannot help that. But
| the report says you are among the boys
who behave well. That you can see too,
| and that is all 1 care about"
When, in 1861, Governor Kirkwood, OF
| Iowa, appointed Senator Allison colonel IN
| the volunteer service and set him to rails
| ing four regiments, the latter received
| most assistance from big Scotch Ameri-
| can college lad who offered his services
| In any capacity. This man brought a
| company of his college friends and did
| other good work in enlisting recruits. He
was David B. Henderson, next speaker of
| the house.