The National tribune., 1909-02-11

Eeyenings there gathered not only the
fashionable people. but all the literary
lights and other distinguished persons
| Mrs Otis's rather small house was
open from basement to attic. and hel
guests were at liberty 20 visit every
room. She was woman of consider
able public spirit, and was largely in.
fnential in having Washngton's birth.
day made a legal holiday in the State
of Massachusetts,.
! David Rankin, of Scotch Irish de.
scent, born in Indiana, is said to bt
| the owner of the biggest farm in the
world. This is situated in the neigh.
borhood- of Tarkio, Mo, and embraces
| 25,64O acres. on which he has 1900
fattening hogs, 5000 cattle, 500 horses
more than 100 cottages in which his
employees live, and great quantities of
| machinery 1t is 40 miles from one
end of his farm to the other. He raises
1 900, 900 bushels of corn annually, but
fodder. His farm is valued at $4,000
600.
On Feb. Is, IL all goes well, there
will seat themselves around the ban
quet table in Philadelphia a group of
men each of whom is minus an appen-
dix. The guest of honor viii be Dr.
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gers and sharp knife they owe their
freedom from the apparently unneces-
sary and extremely troublesome small
organ. One hundred and twenty-five
of this goodly company will be them
selves members of the medical profess
sion, and the others grateful patients
who will come from all over the coun-
try to do honor to their preserver
What the dinner will consist of we are
not told. Surely such select class
will not content themselves with the
fare of the ordinary. unfortunate, ap-
pendixburdened mortal. Dr. beavers
disciples will never be content with
merely swallowing the grape entire We
wait anxiously for the menu of that
dinner.
Mary Anderson, the former fmeri-
can actress, has taken her bright-eved
little nine-year-old boy and sailed
for England, leaving her hus-
band, Antonio de Navarro, and their
little daughter behind on account of
the illness of her father-in-law, who
has just died. Jose Francisco de Ma
varro was well known in this country.
Altho a native of Spain, he had been
resident of New York over half a
century. He built the first iron stea ~
ship constructed in the United States,
and it was thru his efforts; that the
nTSC elevated railway OF New 1ork was
built. He created the Portland cement
industry in America. Mr.. de Navarro
was II years of age.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the Ameri-
can woman who spent so many years
in an English prison for the supposed
murder of her husband, has been sue
cessful in the suit brought by her to
recover some $4,000 which her lawyer
had failed to hand over to her, and
which represents the proceeds of the
sale of a part of the valuable land
owned by her in Virginia, West Virginia
and Kentucky. This property is val
liable for its coal deposits, and came
to her mother, Baroness Won Roques,
from her first husband Darius B. Hol-
brook. Mrs. Maybrick has also recov-
cred her title to these lands, which she
had decided to the lawyer on the very
day when she was convicted, and when
her mental condition was such as rem
dered her irresponsible for any action.
1t is doubtful if any mother could be
found to consent to the experiment
which was made on poor little found
ling recently to test the efficacy of the
out-of-doors treatment for pulmonary
troubles. The little baby, who was
suffering from pneumonia and in a bad
physical condition generally, was well
wrapped up in blankets and taken to
the roof of the Sheltering Arms Hos
pital of Richmond, where it was placed
in a box. with high sides and surround