The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-23
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Interesting Notes About Some of
Those Prominent Just Now.

interesting Notes About Some OF
Those Prominent Just Now.
Fifty years ago Henrik Ibsen was a
clerk in drug store.
The Shah of Persia has the finest COL
lection of cats in the world.
John Hays, 4the first white man to dis
cover the immense copper deposits of
Michigan, still lives in Cleveland, o., and
Is 81 years old.
Major F. R. Burnham. an American
scout who served with the British cav
airy in the Boer war, denies that he has
applied or the place of instructor of
scouts at Aldershot.
DR.. Conan Doyle has scored a complete
failure in his attempt to get German
publisher to take up and circulate in
that country his pamphlet on the cause
and conduct of the war In South Africa.
/ Some of the out-and-out New York
chappuies have taken to wearing the
monocle, which at present is in greater
favor than ever among London dandies.
Eastern opticians notice an appreciable
increase in the demand for single glasses.
1t paid the French Fourier to spend
his time getting reputation as an au-
tomobilist. The Fourier Automobile
Company. has given him $4,000 for the
use of his name. -
Henry Kayton. the veteran artist of
Baltimore has just celebrated his 93rd
birthday. Among the best works as an
artist were his portraits of President
John Tyler and Governor Iredell Of North
Carolina.
Father NJ Raskiewicz of Otis, Ind, the
oldest priest in that State, has been made
n monsignor. He will be the first priest
west of New York to receive the title.
lie has been pastor OF the Otis Church
since 1871.
A. H. Wynn Wordsworth has invented a
celestial astronomical clock, and Queen
Alexandra has one of them in her bou-
dolr at Marlborough House. 1t is likely
that the Kaiser will see that patent is
applied for it in Germany.
Benjamin F. Jacobs, who was the orig
inator of the international uniform les
son series, which was adopted at the
Indianapolis convention in 1872 has just
retoired from Sunday School work after
4 service extending over forty-six years.
Charles Edgar Jennings, a cousin of w.
]. Bryan, is an aspirant to the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in the
Twenty-fourth District of Illinois. Cover
nor William Sherman Jennings of Flor
ida Is brother, and his law partner
at one time was Judge Silas Bryan, father
of the recent Presidential candidate.
Mr.. Krugers new abode is called Or
angelust. 1t is separated from the high
road by an iron trellis and ii stands in
a small garden planted Win DuSneS ana
with a piece of rock work in the center.
All around tulips have been planted in
such a way that their blooms will re-
produce the Vierkleur, or Frahsvaal nag.
Just under Dom Pauls window
Alphonse G. Caron lived as clown
for quarter of a century, travelling with
big circus shows in this country and
abroad. Now he has stepped from gay
to grave with a vengeance, having OPEN
ed an undertaker's establishment up town
in New York. Carons father was a clown
and his mother was Zanfretta, known to
half of Europe as a clever dancer and
trapeze performer.
The staff of the Harvard College OBJ
servatory has presented Professor E. c.
Pickering with silver loving cup in
recognition of the twenty-five years
service as director. Professor Pickering is
a high authority on astronomy. For con-
tributions to science he holds two gold
medals from TIE Royal Astronomical So
ciety of Great Britain and the Rumford
and Draper medals awarded in this coun-
try.
During the hearing at Albany on the
proposed bill prohibiting the shooting of
ave pigeons from traps Horace e. Hen
derson, master of St. Rauls school, in
Garden City, l.. l., where many such
shooting contests take place. declared
that fleqquently he had found wounded
pigeons In the tower of the school chapel,
and he and his neighbors had found doz-
ems of MANNED birds on the window stills
and doorsteps of their houses.