“ -. rg i at THE DAILY EXAMINE VOL 38 THE LISTENER. w. R. Pre in, Wins ma Ind wil smuarried 2,897 couples, lhe late John M. Langston was the first negro to enter a theological school in the He was born of slave par- » justice of the peace at is 94 years old, has lL nited States. epts Colonel J. J. Ayres, who died recently in Los Angeles, founded the first paper in the state In 1851. This was the Calaveras (hronicle, It issaid that Henry M. Stanley is go- ing to resume his journalistic work. He is going out to Bulawayo as a guest of the chartered company. Prince Krapotkine, the famous Russian anarchist, isa small, benevolent looking old gentleman, preaching brotherly love and deprecating violence. Senor Joaquin Carci, the new Spanish eonsul at Philadelphia, was a successful lawyer in Madrid until he entered the dip- iomatic service some years ago. William Penn Nixon,.who has just re- tired from control of the Chicago Inter Ocean, has been identified with that paper for over a quarter of acentury. He was formerly a lawyer in Cincinnati. Henry RK. Pritchard of Indianapolis, who is the oldest living preacher in the Church of the Disciples of America, has preached 6,000 sermons. He has known Ueneral Harrison ever since the latter was a boy. Thomas Arnold, father of Mrs. Hum- phry Ward, the novelist and social re- former, has lived for many years in Dub- lin, where he is a professor in the Catholic university and a fellow of the Royal uni- versity. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Canada, is described as ‘‘tall, moderately slight, smooth shaven, with a graceful bearing and one not to be overlooked.’’ He speaks with a strong French accent and is always courteous. The Rey. Henry Scheib, the pastor emeritus of Zion Lutheran church, Balti more, who has just died at the age of 96 years, became pastor of Zion church 62 years ago and was universally known and | loved in Baltimore. Prince Louis Bonaparte is so popular in France that it is said the government is seriously concerned, but is afraid to banish him lest it incur the displeasure of the czar of Russia, who treats the prince as a rember of his family. Hugo Wolf, the Viennese composer, has developed such eccentricities that his friends have been obliged to put him in an asylum. <A society formed in Vienna to spread his works made it its first rule that none of the members should have anything to do with Wolf personally. General John TT. Wilder, pension agent at Knoxville, Tenn., was born at Hunter, N. Y., in 1830. He was living in Indiana when the war broke out, and enlisted, serving with great Nantry through the war. Atits close he went to Tennessee, and has probably done more than any man in the state for the mineral develop- ment of eastern Tennessee. PEN, PENCIL AND BRUSH. Tne French sculptor Falguiere has completed a gigantic statue of Liberty for the Pantheon in Paris, It is 33 feet in heicht. Emile Zola delivered the oration at the recent unveiling of the memorial to the late Guy de Maupassant in the Pare do Monceau, Paris. William Dean Howells, who recently made a trip to Europe for the benefit of his health, is said to have overtaxed his ener- gies y lately by his hard work. Alfred Ordway, the well known painter, who died not long ago in Boston, was the founder of the Boston Art club and the Paint and Clay club. He was 78 years old at the time of his death. Although she refuses to permit the pub- lic to sew her photograph, Miss Marie Co- relli does not object to an oil painting of herself being placed on exhibition. The painting is now to be seen in a Londen gallery. 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OR J AYERS DEN‘TIST. Painless Extract.on of teeth 4898. c Sa ——-——- ee os Single Copies two cents, « NO 2 _ . THE TATTLER: “Mile. Mark Twain"’ is what Figaro of Paris calls the daughter of. Samuel L. Clemens. Mary Anderson Navarro is not going to sing on the stage professionally... Never- theless she is going to Paris for: the pur- pose of cultivating her voice. Mrs. Kate KE. Johnson of Norton, Kan., has been elected county treasurer on the Republican ticket. She owns two good farms and manages them profitably. Miss Nellie Salome Thomas of Boston while in England went to Malvern, and, after decorating the grave of Jenny Lind, started a fund for a memorial window in the abbey. Mra. Lon V. Stephens, the wife of the governor of Missouri, has published ina newspaper the diary she kept when a schoolgirl and since her husband’s polit- ical elevation. Miss Susan B. Anthony, while tn St. Paul not long ago, was given a flower for each year of her life. Seventy-eight chil- dren filed before her, and each one dropped @ full blown rose into the suffragist’s lap. The Boston Advertiser tells of two wom- en, Mrs. Nellie Kimball and Mrs. Emma Hamilton, who own coal and wood yards. Both women are prospering and both at- tend personally to the details.of.the busi- ness. Mme. Josefa Humpal Zemamef Chicago isthe only Bohemian aewspaper woman in this country, and she was recently hon- ored by the male members of the National Slavic Press association by being elected secretary of that organization. Miss Augusta Main of New Berlin, Conn., charged with an assault with in- tent to kill, declared in court: that there were two things in the world ghe hated, and they were men and dogs. “I never see either,’’ she said, *‘but what I ache to kill them.’’ Countess Hermann Zichyds about tc open a tobacconist’s shop at’ Budapest. Her husband was obliged to resign from the Hungarian parliament on: account of his debts and for a time edited a Hun- garian newspaper in New York. The countess has sung on the musia hall stage. Lady Marcus Beresford had a recent ex- hibition of cats at the Crystal palace cat show. It is said that she has the most re- markable collection of tabbies in the world. All the cats are named and know when they are called. They are devoted te their indulgent mistress, who has a man specially to care for them. It is a fact worthy of note: that Mrs. C. B. Lincoln of Plattsburg, Mo., who has won so many medals for her wholesome bread, as exhibited at several fairs, exposi- tions, etec., is not a graduate ef any cook- ing school. Her mother taught her te make bread when she was about 12 years of age, and she in turn has taught her lit- tle daughters. CURTAIN RAISERS, “The Cat and the Cherub’? will shortly be produced in Paris. 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