The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Some Interesting Notes About Thos, in the Public Eye.

 in the Public Eye. Miss C, L. W. French of Boston has presented to Nantucket. Mass, a church | n momery of her father, which was con- secrated June Il. J President Tucker of Dartmouth has ern Christianity" before the Harvard
 Summer School of Theology. | Mrs. w. A, French of Minneapolis. last week, for the first time visited Pike's Peak, named in houor of her great great grandfather. Zebulon Pike. Professor Morse of Salem, Mass, hsa been decorated with the Third Order of | the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Ja- pEn. an honor which he rarely bestows. President David Starr Jordan of Stan | the summer to make a collection of the | fishes of the South Seas for later study | and classification.
 Aged 92, Father CalIoux, as he Is known, is the oldest cyclist in France. He has just been presented with a medal | by some cycling admirers at a banquet given in his honor at Ambrose. near | Tours.
 | David Crosby Foster President of the
 Poughkeepsie. N. Y., Savings Bank, is president in the country. He has just passed his ninety-third birthday, but is at | his desk every morning unless the wealth closes at 3 o'clock. He was first elected Pa director in 1856 and became President | July l. 1877.
 Brother Eugene" the monk who re- ! gently left New Melleray, la. monastery, solitude subsisting on vegetables and rising from his hard bed at 2 a. m. in order to sing natins has been granted l patent on a tailboard fastening for wagons. Brother Eugene is now a resi- dent of Dubuque, being known to the world as Joseph B. Graham. Somebody sent Senator Burrows big bunch of roses one day recently and he had them takeh to his committee room. The Senator refused to tell who sent the flowers, saying mysteriously: They are from an admiring friend" A colleague raised a roar of laughter by remarking: "oh, bought them yourself, eh?'
 A Berlin dispatch says that Emperor William has given orders to stock his game preserves near Potsdam and Ber- lin with American quail as an experiment The Emperor is quoted as saying that he wants American quail because, like Amer surroundings. while German quail like great many German citizens emigrate every fall.
 The eminent German portrait painter Franz von Lenbach admires strawberry blondes more than any other type of women, though he declares that they arc so ethereal that they cannot be happy in marriage unless they are adored and petted all the time. As for his owh daugh- ters he takes care that they shall not learn too much for that. he thinks, would spoil them. For my girls, he said the other day. every day is a holiday. They learn only what is necessary and play the rest of the time
 On the last day of the Congressional session just closed Senator Spooner, while thing which Senator Patterson did not like. "I withdraw the remark" said Spooner. Patterson said he objected more to the Wisconsin mans manner than to what he said. 'I withdraw the manner" said Spooner promptly. The Senator from Colorado still seemed aggrieved, where upon Spooner said: ''I efface myself en- tirely. am expunged, Now will the Sem ator be satisfied?'
 A member of Parliamen is said to be cir culating about the London clubs 8 type written copy of an epitaph which he sol emniy declares is intended for John Pier pont Morgan and should be taken by him as a warning not to push his world-grab ping enterprises too far. The epitaph is as follows
 Here lies his head at last upon the earth;
 He now belongs to what he made his He bought the world for what hc thought
 1t worth
 And God once more is running things
 alone!"
 The astronomer who on September g, lS46 discovered the planet Neptune, is still living, On June 9 he celebrated his ninetieth birthday. Johann Gottfricd Galle retained his position as professor at the University of Breslau until he. was S5. Since that time he has lived at Potsdam. Leverrier had theoretically demonstrated that here must be an unknown planet where Neptune was found, but as he had no telescope at his disposal he wrote to Galle and put him on the track. Lalande had seen Neptune fifty-fQur years soon- CT, but without suspectingN that 1t was planet
 Perhaps no missionary ever preached in more parts of the world than the late Bishop William Taylor of the Methodist Church, whose death has been noted re- gently. He went to California as a mis- sionary along with the "forty-niners," then he preached in Canada. Thence he went to England and the continent, visit ing Egypt and the Holy Land, holding evangelistic services wherever it was pos sible. Later he worked in Australia, Tas- mania. New Zealand, India, South Af- rica, the Congo region, the West Indies and in various countries in South and Central America, thus covering every con- tinent.
 Although Russell Sage. the famous financier, will be S6 years of age on Au- gust next and has recently had a se- were turn of illness, he has expressed his determination to continue at his business the same as before. It was some five years ago that Mir. Sage was asked why he did not retire and take rest and en- joy what he had made. His reply then was doubtless what it would be now if he were asked the sane question: T don't know that I could stop If l would. I fear should not live long if I did so. I be- lieve I like work better than I do play. and l suppose my machinery will go on at this same rate as long as I live"