Show PERSONAL MENTION President Maclean of tho University of Iowa believes that church congregations conSr ntom should adopt the practice of applauding sermons which they like I applaudlnS Madame Wu Ting Fang goes about In a push chair made In this country and looking In some respcets u good deal llko tho wheeled chairs hi general use only vastly more expensive ue a e C Richard Henry Stoddard ono of the br > sl of the living American poets Is lying dangerously ill at his homo In New York city Since the death of his son Larimer the rapidly dramatist and actor he has failed A h a Sir Edwin Arnold has just hud printed a poem In London written apropos of the ratlllcatlon 0 the canal treaty He depicts Balboa with the Spanish stool rod In his conquering hand viewing tho Pacific Pa-cific ocean and thanking the Queen of Heaven for tho glorious victory Dr Samuel Smiles tho author of the SelfHelp series and well known to American readers celebrated his 00th birthday last week Ills lat book A PubllRh and HLs Published Il onB netted him JIOOOO which he FInd ChriHtmnK gift to his four nn a and daughters surviving sonn a Franklin Irond an elderly farmer Ing near Paincsvlile 0 holds fnncr IK dinMnr lon of having Inltlalrtl John D PlockefM ftockertl let Into thu oil business This buslncls waa in i rj and Mr Breed takes delight In the first Immersion delsht telllrcr O r thl frat lon the Standard Oil nnlo had In 01 inie hnr a bayou near Tltusvllle Pa that year Tltuslu Most persons arc unaware that the trait on tho 10 nor trit new bill known as bi tho buffalo bill because of the remnant flguro of a bison In the 1nl 1J1ro 1 center of u u that of a man who committed suicide commltNl c it Is n picture of Morlwcthor Lewis 0 I mous explorer and men private secretary to President Thomas Jefferson Pcret3T ward made him Governor of Missouri Territory In a lit of deep dcspnndcncv o dCSfnndenc ho killed himself whon Z years old Mr Robert Louis Stevenson wife of the celebrated novelist IB visiting In noellt hlilng the City of Mexico In an Interview with tho Herald aha says In regard to the contro vcrsy growing out of the critIcism In Mr Henley book I would critcism very peculiar kind of friendship that 1 would prompt n person to say what ho has said The best appreciation of mv hGnbnndi character and of his life work ftTjto ba found In the life written by Mr Balfour a cousin of Mr Stevenson S a Mrs Humphrey Ward Is spending her srcndlng time between her dramatization ot Eleanor and various sociological Inter ests of tho Passrroro Edwards Settlement Sll ment which grew out of her novel Rob rt Elsmere a I t Tho present Marquis of Salisbury years ago nroso to speak In tho House of Com mona as Lord Uobort Cecil and sat down Viscount Cranbourne and nnt to a Mar 0 OUlsatc While he was speaking n mes senger arrived announcing tho death of his elder brother S S S Chief Justice Josiah Given of DPS Molncn Ia will retire at tho close of thn present year having spent a quarter of ci century on tho Iowa bench lie Is l a veteran o both tho Mexican and Civil war and was examined for the CI1 1 Edwin M Stanton President Lincolns Secretary of Var Baron Ednioml do Rothschild has had built ii n elKhthorsepower delivery wagon designed especially for the trans portatlon of flowers from his suburban cnstlo ouLsltlo of Paris to his slJonco In tho city The cost of the volilclo VMS J20CO and UK Interior I is heated bv hot water which has passed through the mo torcooling apparatus S S Mrs Leslie M Shaw met the orrnor of Iowa now appointed Secretary of tho Treasury when they both became Interested Inter-ested In the Methodist Sundnypchnol at Donlson In In 1S7I They wero mnrrIM throe years later and have three children Enid Earl and Erma lie oldest of whom Is just out of college Emperor William Is snld to bo the richest rich-est monarch In Ihe world now that Queen Victorias estate has been divided Ho Inherited about 30000000 from hIs grandfather thirteen years ago which was well Invested and has since rapidly Increased In value Ho Inherited another fortune from his father lie Into Emperor Em-peror Frederick The Empress Is also rich |