Show NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE Miss Avery a Boon belle shook hands with Admiral Dewe and has framed the glove which the admiral touched Ira D Sankev the singer who used to be associated with Mr Moody Is to become an evangelist on his own account and will conduct a series of revivals in various cities this winter Benjarnire Swift whose real name is W R Patterson has decided to abandon fiction writing for a while He is thinking think-ing of preparing a history of Italy during the Middle Ages The Queen Mother of Holland has given a dofiatiod of 10505 to the fund 5whlch is beingraised ot Amsterdam to send a Red Cross ambulance to the Transvaal for the succour ofthe sick and wounded Boers 1 Professor Rudolph Scbwlll who has beest appointed praeoro languages lan-guages at Bucfrnehi unversfty was for tome years a student itt Germany where he became a fast friend of the present Prince Bismarek The Rev It 3f Lowrey a otored preacher and philanthropist one of the a most intelligent men of his race is making mak-ing a visit north for the purpose of purchasing looms to weave the silk he raiseS on his farm in Birmingham Ala John N RuSts United States consul to Paraguay says Americans attach too little importance to the trade of these countries in South America This will be our best field for commercial operations in the tutpre and we ought to commence now Mr Kegan Famml says that one of the last books read by Cardinal Manning was The Pickwlck Papers A few weeks before his death he asked for a complete set ci Dickens works I have never read Pickwick he said and I dont think I should like to die without having done so The youngest royal grandmother iii Europe is the Grand Duchess Anastasia of MklenburgSchwenin whose eldest daughter was married a little more than a year ago to Prince Christian of Denmark Den-mark anti who is nest the proud mother of a son The grand duchess was 38 at the time of her grandsons births birth-s |