The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-04-03
PERSONALITIES.

Adelina Patti has taken UP the either
banjo, and plays her own accompaniment
frequently when singing before her int
mate friends
The wife of President Loubet, of
France, celebrated her New Years by
giving 100 widows enough money to pay
their January rent.
John d. Rockefeller says that his pri-
vate secretary, Miss Harris, is one of the
most valuable employees in his service for
sagaclty and good judgment.
Archbishop CorriGan has made the study
of the Italian language obligatory on all
theological students in his diocese in or
der that Italian Catholics may be reached
more effectually.
Neither of the three British soldiers
who have wen peerages on the battletic Id
has son. Lord Roberts has just lost his
heir Lord Kitchener is unmarried and
Lord Wolseley's only child is a daughter.
Queen Victoria has conferred a New
Year honor on Baron Cromer the British
diplomatic agent in Egypt, who has been
appointed a member of the privy council,
| which gives him the right to prefix his
name with Right Honorable"
Mrs. S. s. Platt, president of the Gem
eral Federation Of Womsn's clubs, says
the general federation biennial meeting, to
| be held in Milwaukee next June, will be
| the biggest thing of the kind on record,
| with over $1,000 women in attendance.
Serene +. Payne, chairman of the house
ways and means committee, has a voice
| which is the envy and despair of most
congressman. In carrying power it has
| no equal, and though every syllable is
| plain all over the house the tone are
never harsh or wearying.
! Ann Ruth Seneca an Indian princess,
is studying medicine at the Medico-Chi
! urgical hospital in Philadelphia She took
| a classic course in the Carlisle Indian
school, where she developed her love for
| nursing the sick. Two of her brothers
were on the Carlisle foot ball team.
| Chicago women have started a move
| ment to present Generals Joseph Wheel
| er and Fitzhugh Lee each with a sword
| costing 5000, and to petition congress to
make the two renowned southern fighters
| major generals. Miss Annie Marie De
Beck is the originator Of the project.
| BY the will of Caroline Brewer Croft
| who died I'm England some time ago. al
| most 100000 goes TO Harvard university,
TO be devoted to the investigation of the
| disease of cancer. Mrs. Croft was much
! impressed with the horrors of incurable
| diseases, and during her life had given
much money for the treatment of cancer.
| Colonel w. S. Metcalf, of the Twen-
| tieth Kansas Voluteers. who has Just been
| commissioned a brigader general by
brevet for meritorious services i'm action
! at Guigento river, near LuzOn, is said
to be the best pistol shot in the volun-
| teer army. He has practiced with a re-
| volver for over twenty years.
| Miss Estelle Reel, superintendent OF all
| Indian schools in the III tied States, is at
work on "A bill to be introduced in con-
| gress having for It's object the compul-
| sorry education of all Indian children. She
| is firmly of opinion that these wards of
| the nation should be taught useful trades,
| to the end that they may be able To earn
! their own living.
| Charles Algernon PartOns, the inventor
| of the Parsons steam turbine. was born
| i'm London I'm 1854, and Is the fourth sur
| viving son of the late Earl of Rosse, of
| Birr castle, Parsonstown, Ireland, well
| known as the builder Of the Rosse tele-
scope. Mr. Parsons was graduated IRON,
| Cambridge in 1876. and the year after en-
tered the works of Lord Armstrong as an
| apprentice,
| James l.. Whitney, who has been elect
| ed librarian of the Boston Public library
10 succeed Herbert Putnum, the present
| librarian of congress, is a member 9r
| the noted family OF the late Josiah ID.
| Whitney, OF Northampton, Mass, all of
| whose sons became prominent In the
| learned professions. The two best known
of the brothers were JOSIAH Dwight
| Whitney, the geologist, aud William
| Dwight Whitney, the philologist,