| Show NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE Dr S Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia has contributed to the records of med ical science no less than 135 separate papers and books He has also found time to write a number of novels President Angell to whom the latter success of the University of Michigan is due Is reported to be about to retire from the head of that institution retre Captain Sigsbee when forced to make a speech at a New York reception the other day said that the three things a sailor thinks he can do thoroughly well on shore are riding a horte managing a farm and holding a baby John Ruskin in his undergraduate days was thus described by Dean Lid del A very strange fellow always dressing in a greatcoat with a brown velvet collar and a large neckcloth tied over his mouth and living quite in his own way amongthe odd set of hunting and sporting men that gentlemen gentle-men commoners usually are Those distinguished Americans Richard Rich-ard Croker and Tod Sloan are losing prestige on the English turf so rapidly that they will soon have to return home for a new reputation Cdcilia Beaux the Philadelphia painter paint-er has sent to the internatioi exhibition bition in London the large canvas of two dancing children called Dorothea and Francesca which was seen at the academy portrait show last winter The girls are daughters of Richard Watson Gilder editor of the Century Magazine and the work is Uagzlne attracting much attention The balloting at the electrical show in New York for the most popular American actress resulted In Maude Adams being the winner The prize awarded was an automobile cab J |
