Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-27
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Dimitri Merejkowsh Is looked upon as the
logical successor TO the literary leadership held
so long BY Count Tolstoi In the event OF the
Baron Adolphe de Rothschild's legacy OF
almost priceless gold and silver plate has been
Installed in the room in the Louvre set aside
for that purpose.
Hannis Taylor. minister TO Spain under Pres
ident Cleveland and writer Of constitutional
law, has accepted the degree Of LII d. offered
by the University Of Dublin.
Marquis Ito, who has just returned homo
toast at Kobe, that japan must redouble heri
efforts to keep abreast OF the other nations.
F5ueTor am has presented 70 Ros ts
City Council at recent meeting proposed to
Dante.
Mrs. Dewey stilI continues indisposed, al
though the temperature Of Palm Beach, Fla,
has worked Improvement in the throat trouble
which caused her TO leave Washington for
the winter.
Queen Alexandra of England has ordered
from the Countess OF Limerick consignment
Of shamrock foE St PatEick's Day. She Win
General Eugene Griffin has in his possession
the American flag made by the sailors IN |
leu t, sFte tbei rssca frop ,hs o.
surgents in the widest part OF Luzon.
Prince George. OF Prussia, seventy-six years
old, is the oldest member OF the house Of Ho-
henzollern. and is known the "Hohenzol-
Tern Poet" He has written under the pseudo
edies. notably ''Phaedra.'
Captain William Driver, q Salem, Mass,
skipper. Is credited with the bestowal Of the
name ''Old Glory" to the stars and stripes.
It was in 1851 and the flag to which he gave
the name was carried by the brig Charles Dog
gett all around the world and Is on ex-
hibition at the Essex institute, Salem
Leon Lewis. Of Winstead, Conn. a writer OF
some considerable repute on scientific subjects,
says glacier at the south pole, 5000 miles in
diameter and corTespondingly thick will some
day break and melt, deluging the earth, begin
ming at South Africa Just at present, how
ever, the glacier is growing and strengthening.
Frank Bemis of Columbus, o., cannot keep
warm, though he wears suits of underclothing
the year round and sleeps in ulster and
wooden CAP He usually carries about forty
pounds Of clothing, besides $4,000 life In
surance, and says he can pass better medical
know what Is the matter with him.
Solomon J. Solomon. A. r. A. has painted
of his most successful pictures by gas
light. Indeed, he af1rms that he can obtain
by daylight. According to Mr.. Solomon, every
artist should accustom himself to artificial
light, especially II he lives In England where
sometimes for days together the sun fails to
make its appearance.
Philip Pienaar, a Boer who has written a
book entitled with Steyn and DeWet,' says
that the latter general is uncouth in manner
and careless to a degree In matters OF dress.
Lack Of tact and abruDtness in manner add
to his unattractiveness, but he has an abun-
dance Of shrewdness and IL is not without
and Steyn that the var did not end with the
fall Of Pretoria
Miss Marie Corelli, speaking recently at
that the English passionate love for the Ger
mans had manifested itself in such ways
clothing Tommy Atkins in a copy OF a Teutonic
English pogI1s stamps. with the result that
there had been produced excellent though
somewhat fattering likeness to Leopold king
Of the Belgians.