The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-01
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MT. Schwab called on three kings while In Europe. Large sums of money have been won on smaller hands than that.
 J. H. Tappan of San Antonio, Texas. breeder of polo ponies. has shipped George Gould eleven of the best ponies on his ranch near there. It is supposed these will go to participate in the inter- national polo tournament to be held at Hurlinghame during the coronation cere- monies of King Edward.
 Richard Ellxins, son of Senator Stephen
 B. Elkins, Is described as a chip of the old block. On January l he sold his father tract of coal land In West Vir- ginia and cleaned up $l2,00O on the deal
 A friend secured the option for young
 EIkins and he engineered the deal with
 his father.
 The Rev. Dr. w. s. Coffey has just celebrated his golden jubilee in the Epis- copal ministry at Mount Vernon, N. Y. He is at present rector of St. Pauls
 Protestant Episcopal Church at that
 place. At the communion service the sacrament was served from the old com munion plate used by him fifty years ago.
 Boston is elated over a special invita- ton extended to the Baroness von Ollen- hausen of that city to meet Prince Henry when he visits the Hub. This Is con sidered as offsetting the Mrs. Jack Gard
 ner episode. Emperor William l of Ger
 many presented the countess with the
 Iron Cross because of her work as nurse
 in the German army.
 Members of the American colony in London say that after Miss Alice Roose- welt has concluded her attendance at the coronation of King Edward she will go to Berlin as the guest of Ambassador White. This 1t Is said, is at the sugges- ton of Emperor William, who wants to
 see the young woman who christened his yacht.
 J. A. Howelis, a brother of William Dean Howells, still edits the paper, The Ashtabula Sentinel. upon which the novelist worked when a boy. MT. Howells says: T was born in the room next to the one in which nay father worked on the St. Clairsville (Oo | Gazette, and 1 have never been much | further from a printing office since" The Paris Matn says that ex-Captain | Dreyfus recently engaged a flat in the l Boulevard Haussmann, in a house of ! which Baron Rothschild is the owner, and that the baron. who is in Australia, | cabled to his representatives in Paris to | cancel the lease at any cost. Dreyfus
 agreed to abandon the flat on condition | that the expenses which he had con-
 tracted were paid by Baron Rothschild. l The staff of the Harvard College Obser- vatory presented Professor F.. c. Picker | ing with d silver loving cup in recogni- | ton of his twenty-five years service as | director. Professor Pickering is high
 authority on astronomy. For contribu-
 tions to science he holds two gold medals from the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain and the Rumford and
 Draper medals awarded in this country. General O. O. Howard, in a recent in-
 terview. said that only two of the twen- ty-seven commanders of Union armies now survived, himself and General Scho- field, and that of the forty corps com
 manders only ten were left. On the Con-
 federate side there still survive five Lieu tenant Generals Thes9 are General simon Bolivar Buckner. General James S. Longstreet. General Stephen D. Lee, General Wade Hampton and General l John B. Gordon.