Show MEN TALKED ABOUT Stepniak the Russian radical gives the czar credit for desiring to avoid a great European war but hints that it is poverty pov-erty not peace that inspires his actions Lord Monkswell Englands new undersecretary under-secretary for war has been c zealous member of the London county council He is as ardent a municipal reformer as any to be found in New York Henry Sterley who enlisted in the United States army the other day is 6 feet 6 inches in height and weighs 236 pounds He is said to be a perfect type of manhood and has had a curious military mili-tary career From November 2 iSis to September 1 1891 he was a member of I the First grenadiers I There is little danger of President Faure priving as thinskinned as his predecessor at the Elysee who resigned j his office because he was too sensative to bear any longer personal abuse The new chief magistrate began life as a tanner tan-ner and the major part of his existence has been spent in devising the most efficacious ef-ficacious means of hardening hides A Milan paper relates that the nculptor Giuseppe Grandi who died on December 1 literally worked himself to death Byway By-way of illustrating his conscientious realistic methods It relates that sometime some-time ago he ordered an eagle from the Alps and a lion from a Hamburg manag erie which he placed in specially constructed con-structed cages so that he could enter and anger them in order to get the desired ferocious expression |