Show NOTABLES OF THE DAY l ROllEJtT ROBERTS HITT Chairman of the committee on foreign I relations of the House of Representatives Representa-tives was born at Urbana 0 slxtv one years ago His father who was a minister of the gospel removed to Mount Morris Ill in 1S37 Young Hitt became a law and newspaper reporter in 1857 and settled in Chicago He reported I re-ported the famous LincolnDouglas debates in 1858 and was official reporter I er of the Illinois supreme court 1859 1860 He then traveled extensively in Europe and in December 1874 was appointed secretary to the American legation in Paris by President Grant and was continued in that position by President Hayes Was made secretary of state by President Garfield In 1882 was elected to ongress from Illinois and has been continuously reelected re-elected since that time Mr Hitt married mar-ried Miss Sally Reynolds In 1874 Mme Jeanne Hugo the granddaughter of Victor Hugo who was recently divorced di-vorced from her husband Alphonse Dau dots son is about to marry a young doctor doc-tor of Paris When Mile Christine the twoheaded colored woman rides on the European railways she has heaps of trouble with conductors who try to levy two fares from the freak Among D Donaldson Smiths discoveries discov-eries in the region of Lake Rudolpn Is that of the existence of fifteen new tribes of Africans one of them dwarfs none over 5 feet in height Mrs Mercy Thorndlko of Roeklanrl Me has been a pilgrim here below for ninetytwo years She has moved her place of residence ilttyseven times and isnt permanently hettted even now Emperor Wlllian if Germany received from the empress several Chnstmis presents of great appropriate l Hhe gave him a set of porcelain plates ivHh paintings on them of naval scent1 six drinking cups each holnlug a jjohien I spoon and two large landscapes painted by a German artist A good deal of interst Is manifested just now in an old document on exnl bitlon in Bucksport Me It Is a commission commis-sion signed by Thomas Pownall governor gov-ernor of Massachusetts appointing Jonathan Buck first lieutenant of a company com-pany to invade Canada and bears the date of March 13 175S One of the most Interesting of tne now Cardinals Is Gottl who was lately Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil He is the son of a Genoese longshoreman and was brought up In poverty and selfsacrince He was educated at the Jesuits Cot lego in Genoa became a membar of the Cajmelite order and eventually the general of the order the Highest post attainable |