Salt Lake Herald | 1899-08-24 | Page 4 | Notes About People

C 0 NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE Sarah Bernhardt refuses to disclose her age further than to dolare that she never intends to gel old I When SenatOrs Hanna Lodge Yol I entt Hoar Jones and Spooner were In London recently Hso happened that they all called on Ambagsadcr Choate at the rome time After the amb3Sa dor had greeted them he asked thorn to be seated and await the arrival of a quorum Victor Newcombe once presIdent of the Louisville Nashville railroad and formed a uccESlful business man of I Louisville was deolared Inzane by the New York court the other day on application I ap-plication of his wife and son He Is addicted to time excessive use of drugs I I Major Girouard D S 0 the irectc genera of the Egyptian railways Is a I Canadian by birth a Eon of the Hon r Desire Girouard D C L one of the I leading supporters of the late Sir John l A Macdonald The majcr was gradu aterl from the Royal rI1Itnry College I of Kingston Ont In 18SG i The fati1lr and brother of Elihu Root l have both held proftssorshlps in Hamilton I Ham-ilton college where they were known among the students as Cube Root and Square Root I An Italian who PaS 35CO a year fe the shining privilege on the Staten Island fem line is reported to clea 12000 annually He emplpn a colon I I of boys of his On nationality I T W Davis of Peoria Ills although 72 years old Is lnveterate rider or the bicycle He did not take to the wheel until he was 61 and since then he has rlddcnr60OOO miles Sir W H White K C D director of naval construction and asolstant controller or the British navy has designed de-signed 212 ships for her majwt ExGovernor D H Hastings has offered of-fered to add 1 to every dollar raised by thc Veteran club of Center county Pennsylvania Co the lQngpropow monument to the late eGQvernor Andrew An-drew G Curtin and It is nOw hoped that the required sum oC money will be raised It is expected that It new ccm mlttee will be nppolnted to carry through the project General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton K C S 1 who dIed recently at the are of 97 lsthc oldest officer in her maj estys SECicc Henry Clews has a hobby for collecting collect-ing orchldu and not owns after sev erl years work upon i the best collection col-lection In the United States