The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-11
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Some Notes Of Those Prominent in
Public Eve

Some Notes of Those Prominent in
Public Eye.
Tufts College recently conferred the
honorary degree of master of arts upon
Miss Sarah l.. Arnold. dean of the new
Simmons College in Boston. Formerly
Miss Arnold was supervisor of the Bos-
ton public schools.
DIR. Brooke HEREFORD. who is seriously
Ill in London. before entering the minis
try was in the insurance business and
says the lesson of his business exptri-
ence was very useful to him in learning
how best to deal with men.
John Z. MilhoIiand Is trying to get the
Federal Government to purchase for $50,
, 900 the ruins of old Fort Ticonderoga and
restore 1t to the exact status 1t bore when
Ethan Allen demanded its surrender. EIe
formerly was editor and proprietor of a
Ticonderoga newspaper.
Miss A. z. Bennett of London has at
tanned the honor of equal to the thir-
teehth wrangler' at Cambridge this year.
Miss Bennett is Girton student. The
significance of the success that las been
attained by Miss Bennett in mathomati-
cal study will be appreciated Il 1t Is
borne in mind that there are only about
as many hundreds of women students as
there are thousands of men at the uni
versity.
The Oldest mayor present at the IA
nous mayoral banquet given in Paris
during the 1900 exhibition was M. Rigaud
who can still lay claim to the distinction
of being the doyen of all French mayors,
celebrated his ninety-fifth birthday re-
Gently. He has been chief magistrate of
HIS commune for more than forty-five
consecutive years and hopes to continue
until she shall be 100.
II is stated by the Bookman that Bret
Harte gave many of the last months of
his life to work on an opera libretto for
Emanuel Moor. Hungarian composer.
The hero is an American who, for
lark, plays cowboy in the wild west show
and presently drifts across an old French
chateau and falls in love with its young
heiress. Bret Harte is said to have great
ly enjoyed the work and some of his
lyrics are charming.
1t Is now declared that Jules Verne, the
French writer is not in danger of becoin-
ing totally blind, as has been reported.
For some time he has been troubled by
a cataract growth, but he is able to go
on with his work. declaring that he does
not mean to stop until he has written
100 books. His latest work published is
the eighty-second but about "A dozen
more are nearly or quite ready for the
printer. M. VERGE is now "a years Old.
Leon bourgeois, the new president OF
the French Chamber of Deputies, rep
resented France at the peace congress at
The Hague, and gained there repata-
ton as diplomat. He Is an orator and
possesses all the arts, of tile trained par
lame ntary speaker. To NJ Descha acl,
whom he had beaten In his new Office. he
said: Il succeed you; l shall never re-.
place you That was a delicate way of
scftening defeat which is not habitual at
the Palais Bourbon.
A Utrecht correspondent tells this story
of the way ex-President Paul Kruger
spends his nights: He retires at p. m,
but gets up at l a. m. "d0ns dressing
to read his bible. smoke and drink tea.
The teapot is set over little spirit lamp
and he brews il strong. And thus he sits
from / until 8 o'clock, reading and COM
menting aloud on the bible texts. At 3
o'clock he returns to his bed to finish the
nights rest until 5. when he rises for
fresh days labors,"
James Fergus. a Scotchman OF lewis
town. Mont. called the pioneer Of four
States died at his western home a few
days ago in his eighty-rinth wear. He
came to America in 1882. lie spent some
time in Chicago. In 1910 he went nn to
Iowa and founded the town of Sabula.
founding the town of Little Falls, build
ing a dam across the Mississippi at that
place. Then he assisted in founding Fer
gus Falls. In 1862 he Joined an oApedi-
ton to Bannock Mont, and spent the
rest of his days in that State.
E. @. Rathbone, whom Hanna succeed
ed in having released from Jail in Cuba
after his conviction for postal irregulari-
ties, has been instructed by the Ohio boss
not to talk too much. to wait patiently
for the Senate investigation of his con-
tract and to stay, out of Washington.
While in the capital Rathbone was much
sought after by newspaper men in the
what he knows regarding General Wood ;
administration of Cuban affairs He adj
mits having valuable information, docu-
mentary and otherwise. but will no;
make any of it public, and 1t is believed
his reticence Is dictated by Senator Han