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Show NOTES ABOUT MEN. Secrelary Corteljnu and Judre Day will prepare a life of William McKlnley. It wilt to an exhaustive and uuthorltatlve work. Mr Carnrgie hfls taken steps fdr the formition of a private llbnry at Sklbo rislle The work of selection has been Intrusted to !,ord Acton, professor of history his-tory at Oxford The library will probably number HXO volumes Tho Crown Prince of Ocrmany, at present pres-ent at school at Itoiui. plava tho piuno snd sings well nnd bus Inherited his father fath-er a poetto tutent, as is shown in a little poem reiently printed In German, entitled enti-tled "bplrlt of Lveiihig" lltisseil Sage cmplnjs a bouncer" now. ailajs--n giant who stands within reach of every one admitted lo tho aged mil-llonalrrs mil-llonalrrs private otllee The other day a man while talking to Mr Sago rrached for his hip pocket. 'I ho bouncer bad him In an iron grip In about a second The man was onlj reaching for a handkerchief. Jacob bpavTr, who built the first bouso In Lexington, 111 , haB Just celebrated bis :iith Writ day annlverrirj. He frequently had as his guests Lincoln and Douglass, and has voted for every President since John Qulncj Adams The Georgia commission has Informally egrced upon Alexander 11 Stephens, tho Congressman, and Dr Crawford W. I.oiig ns the discoverer of anaeHthesla, for the subjects of the State's two statues to ho plieed In blatuarj hall In the Capitol ut Washington 'Iho selection cannot bo detlnltelv ratified unlll a meeting of tho conunUtilQii, lo be held In Julj, Lord Mount Stephen Is not so much In tho public eyo aa his lrother Canadian peer, Lord Strathcona llolh aro Scotchmen Scotch-men I.ord Mount Stephen was taken from tho parish school to work aa a herd-bov, herd-bov, liecamo un apprentice in the drapery huslnet-s in Aberdeen and eventually found his way to London At 21 he emigrated emi-grated to Canada, started business In Montreal as h manufacturer of woolen goods, and met with remarkable success Ha lirgely financed the construction of tho Canadian Pacific railway and was mado a baronet He took his title, from ono of the highest peaks of tho Canadian Rockies, named after himself. |