The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-06-24
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

| poem by "StonewaI" Jackson has
| been discovered among some old papers
| I'm Lexington. Va. Jackson wrote IL while
a young lieutenant in the regular army
The navy department has received n
| hne oil painting OF n. w Crowinshield
| who was secretary of the navy from 1914
| TO 1878, during the trying days of the war
| OF 1872, when NE Chesapeake. the Consti-
| tuition and the President gave the first
| Incentive to upbuildng in the American
navy.
The magnitude OF the opera tions carried
| on incidentally by David Rankin, the
Missouri cattle king, may be imagined
when II is remembered that at his ranch
I'm Atchison county this year he will plant
10000 acres OF corn alone, employing about
$50 men and utilizing GOO horses
Queen Wilhelmina and her husband
Duke Henry, are total abstainers. The
royal example has been followed by many
prominent courtiers and reformers hope
that as result Holland may be I'm some
measure relieved from its too free indui-
gence in liquors.
The German Empress is said TO be one
OF the most conscientious of royal diary
keepers. and the daily record no one ever
sees, not even the emperor himself Each
year new diary Is begun. and the old
one, with its locked clasp, is put away
with the preceding ones IN an iron safe
Dr. Walter J. Gregory, head OF the sci
entihc stan OF tn, English National An
tarctic expedition. Is the son OF a London
merchant lie was born I'm 1864 and has
recently held the chair OF geology In Mel
bourne University.
Carlos Ezeta, ex-president Of Salvador.
who has lived I'm California ever since he
fed from his native country, some time
ago negotiated "A loan on his own and
Nine Ezeta's iewelry, and being unable
TO redeem the valuables, will soon sell the
lot In San Francisco. His wife is the
daughter OF a wealthy Gautemaian who
refuses 10 give her any financial assist
ance, because sha refuses to return to
the land of her birth. Senior Ezeta left
Salvador because a price had been placed
on his head
AS an indication of Observation-Disclosures |
I'm famous men recent story about the |
Duke OF Cambridge and MIR. Justice Gran |
than has been causing no little amuse-
ment la London. IL is reported. that the /
duke aud the Judge each asked the other |
to lunch on the same day. accepting each |
others invitation, forgetting his own. |
and severally appeared at the appointed |
lhHts tue uuke dN the Judge ana the
Judge at the dukes hotel only to discover
the absence of his host
King Oscar OF Norway and Sweden Is n
keen sportsman. His majesty Is
kindly monarch dignined and
courteous, with genius for interesting
all Ia himself gained by the fact that he
interests himself In all with whom he
zones In contact When in California ne |
= 10 be seen daily driving out into the
or on fine days walking I'm dem
,cratic fashion about town attended only
~ a gentleman-n- waiting
Bishop Satterlcss OF Washington. pro-
roses 20 establish a school to train girls
or domestic service Several prominent |
women interested I'm the training school |
ire Mrs. Nelson a. Miles Mrs Letter, |
drs Lodge and Miss Paulding Chauncey
VI. Depew's niece.
Cardinal Vaughan is now IN hts seven-
icth year, having been born I'm Glousces-
er on April ~, lS32. OF that period |
orty-seVen years have been spent IN the |
acerdotal office and twenty nine wears
n the Episcopal Ordained when but % !
is Emiuence was Consccrated Bishop OF |
ialford at the age OF l0 and administered
hat busy and populous diocese for twen-
y years, when I'm iS92 he was chosen 20 |
uccced Cardinal Manning I'm the Arch
pscopal See az Westminster