Arizona republican., 1902-07-01
In the Public Eye

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 Mnae Melba is about to visit her native city, Melbourne, Australia.
 William Clark, head of the Clark thread industry, who has been suffer ing from eout and influenza at Bath, England. is now improving in health. Congressman Heatwole of Minnesota has a trout brook on his farm, and iS the only private owner in the United States of white trout with gold spots- Mrs. Howard Kingscote, the English T. novelist, says that American audiences are anxious to hear facts. while Eng fish audiences demand to be amused A movement is on foot in AlabaN | to erect a monument to the memory oY the late William Leroy Brown, who was president of the Alabama poly 1 technic institution.
 Daniel P. Bradford, seventh in lin from John Bradford, first governor of Massachusetts. has just celebrated his ninety first birthday at his home in | the village of Tyndall s. D. Congressman Norton Of Ohio is the i rossessor of a watch charm made from 1 one of the canons captured by the first i Napoleon in his famous Egyptian cam paign. and which was worn by Marshal ! Ney.
 As Q memorial of the late Queen Vic ! toria, Sir Peter Walker, Bart, has pre- sented the Derbyshire Royal infirmary with a complete apparat tus for the i treatment of lupus patients by the Fin sen light system.
 Rev. Silas $. Cummins, the venerable soldier preacher, we'll known through out New England from his long con tinued work in behalf of the home for : little wanderers. has just celebrated his eighty eighth birthday
 Mrs. We've of Guernsey, Channel isl ands, aged i'll. is said to be Edward WITS oldest subject. Her birth is on record in St. Peter Port parish church, on the island.
 Colonel Thomas Richeson. treasurer 1 of St. Louis in 1857, is dead, aged so years. He left his native state, Vir- i ginia, in 1S43, ewing to aversion to l slavery.
 Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks, presi- dent general of the National Society Of the D. \. R., is a descendant of James Cole, soldier of the Pennsylvania line, Of Captain David Blakely and of James Blakely.
 Dr. D. L. Kiehl, head of the depart ment of pedagogy of the University Of Minnesota, is about to retire from the position, which he has held for twenty 1 seven years. 4 Rev. Edmund s. Rousmaniers, w=h1l ! is likely to be the next rector of St. | Johns, Washington, was born on the ! same day in the same year as Presi- dent Roosevelt, October 2, 1858.
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has asked the house to appropriate $10.OO0 for the purchase of the late Hermann Strecker's collection of butterflies and moths for the Smithsonian institute. i Senator T. H. Carter has presented to the University of Montana his pfi- vate collection Of Congressional Rec ords,' which give complete history of government from the meeting of the
 first congress to the close of the last.
 William Lynn, residing southeast of
 Pana, H., celebrated the 10Sth anni-
 versary of his birth last week, with
 picnic and family reunion. Two hun
 dred persons were present, of whom
 1l5 were relatives of the man giving
 the picnic. Among those present were
 fifteen persons over 80 years of age.
 Alicia Adelaide Needham has won
 the first prize of HOO in the competi-
 t1on instituted by the earl of Mar for
 the best coronation march song. Mrs.
 NeedhaT'S music was composed to
 accompany the words of ''The Seventh
 English Edward," song written by
 Harold Begbie.
 Dr. George A. Barton. professor of
 biblical literature and Semitic lam
 guages at Bryn Mawr college, will go
 to Palestine in June to take charge of . the school of oriental research, wit headquarters in Jerusalem, an insti . tion supported by twenty-one school . and colleges in the United States , There is a revival of interest in ol . fashioned cameo jewelry this yea : One of the large manufacturing jd elry houses in New York says that . has done more work altering and : storing old cameo jewelry than it fer twenty years.