| Show PERSONAL MENTION It Is proposed in Birmingham England to raise a memorial to Cardinal Newman the present year being tho centenary of tho cardinals birth o CO Representative Glenn of Idaho Is telling tell-ing tho East that whatever success ho attained Is due to having read when most of his neighbors slept or while he was waiting the preparation of His meals as he seldom had the opportunity i to study during the daytime O > S 4 Patti and her young husband are as happy as can bo after having been married mar-ried two years According to gossip In Swedish papers their life Is one Incessant honeymoon despite tho disparity of their age Patti was born In 1813 Baron Ralf Ccderstrom In 1STO besides this Is tho divas third matrimonial experience 0 5 I Is fifty years ago this December slnco Galusha A us Pennsylvania was first sworn Into CongreEs and ho has outlived every other member who took the oath with him at that time The only reason why = he Is not now the father of tho House Is because his membership has not been continuous S S 3 Henry C Payne tho new Postmaster General began his business career as n clerk In tho dry goods store of Sherwin Now nil Pratt of Milwaukee When tho firm dissolved ho became n member of tho company that succeeded to its business busi-ness After several years ill fortune compelled com-pelled a suspension and Mr Payne went Into politics He became postmaster of Milwaukee and subsequently obtained control of tho street cur and electric light franchises out of which he has made a fortune 9 00 Rudynrd Klpllpcr tells this story against himself He had been presented to n young lady who almost Immediately began be-gan to whimper and whoso eyes were so lull of tears that ho folt compelled to ask If I she were Ill or If anything wero the matter Looking at him between her sobs the disappointed maiden broke out dlsaPwlnted Oh I thought you were so tall and so handsome S 4 M John Riley an engineer on tho PIUs burg division of the Pennsylvania railway rail-way has been presented 0 check for 3CO and a gold watch valued at 1000 by the officers of the company for signal bravery brav-ery in stopping a runaway train last spring S 0 0 Capt Horace E Bixby who taught Mark Twain how to pilot boats down the t Mississippi iald the other day that tho most obvious peculiarity = of young Clemens Clem-ens was the drawling way In which ho spoke Whnt makes you pull your words words so9 tho captain asked him on one trip Youll have to ask my mn was the answer she always pulls them tho same way1 |
