The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-01
PERSONALITIES.

The German emperors income Is put
down by experts at 100000 per annum,
his civil list alone amCu uniting to s3.S52Soo.
Louis Vasquez, the champion billiard
player of Spain. Is on his way to New
York. after a year spent In Mexico. Cuba
and South America.
G. ]. Hamlin, of Buffalo, has presented
East Aurora, near that city, with land
costing over $500. to be used for a pub
lie park and athletic field.
Miss Helen Long, who has presided
over the home of the secretary of the
navy for two years. has the degree Of
NJ. d. from Johns Hopkins.
Cardinal Moran, the Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Sydney, Is an up-to-date
prelate. The angelus bell of his cathe-
dral Is now rung by electricity.
Howard Pyle, the well-known illustra-
tor, has turned an old mill near Chadd' 5
Ford Pa. into a picturesque studio. and
worked there through the warm days.
The gift to Admiral Dewey while in
Boston of the Massachusetts Daughters
of the Revolution was an immense bou-
quet of $50 American Beauty roses stand
ing 5ia feet high.
Miss Cecilia Beaux. of Philadelphia,
has been appointed as the only woman
on the jury to select exhibits for the
United States fine arts department at
the Paris Exposition.
DR.. Henry ]. Schenck has just COM
pleted his twelfth year as dog constable
of Boston. during which time he has
killed over 10000 unlicensed dogs. He
gets 81 for each dog he kills, but his ex-
penses are not small.
The Degree Of Doctor of Philosophy
honors causa has been conferred on Mrs.
Agnes Smith Lewis, of Cambridge. Eng
land, by Halle university. Mrs Lewis
discovered the Syriac Gospels on Mount
Sinai and edited them.
Commissioner William A. Jones, after
careful study Of the subject. has come
to the conclusion that "a full-blOoded In
dian lunatic never lived" He holds that
insanity was not known to the red man
until he began mixing with the whites.
A new writer has risen in an Indiana
town whose stories seem to appeal alike
TO children and their elders. Her name
| is Clara Yawter, and she lives in Green
field, the same little Hoosier town from
| which James Whitcomb Riley first hailed.
King Humbert, of Italy. is said to me
| the most highly insured monarch in the
| world. He carries policies aggregatinG
$7,O0O,O0O. and has $2O,00O,o0O invested
through the Rothschilds in London. He
Is said to have saved most of this out OF
| his civil list of $2650,000.
The only reason announced for the
giving by Nine Patti of a full perform
| ance in her theater at Craig-y-Nos OF
| the opera '1raviata" Is that she desires
| to bring pleasure to her husband. who
with the exception OF a few invited
friends. will be the sole spectator.
| In reply to letter of inquiry from
the editor of the Christian Advocate
| General Frederick Funston. of Kansas
writes that he was born in New Carlisle
o. He says his mothers family was from
| North Carolina and that he Is related
to the Virginia family of his name.
Lionel Decle, the author of '"rroopel
$500" which has made "a stir, revealing
as ii does conditions In the French army
| has been principally known heretofore a.
| an African explorer. In 1891 he started
| on a journey from the Cape Of Uganda
| and thence to Zanzibar. lie has been II
| Africa several times since.
| A recent arrival at San Francisco was
| Miss Pauline Drollet, who is looked upor
| by the natives of Pepeiti Of the South
| Sea Islands as their Queen. AS a direct
descendant of a former King of the
! islands she would be Queen In fact hat
| il not been for an edict of the French
| government in her childhood.
| A quarter of a century ago Charlie:
| Broadway Rouss. the blind millionaire
was imprisoned in New York for debt
and Mr. Rouss likes to tell about 1t Il.
an example of the workings of an absurd
law long since repealed. On the walls
| of the Ludlow Street jail may still bt
| seen the inscription he then cut there
"When leave here I shall be a rict
man."