Show NOTES ABOUT MEN Lord Kitchener has Just completed his lilrtyrtrst year of army u V service Herbert Spencer Is said to bo in wondcr ully good health A change of air from his Brighton homo to an Inland place wrought a striking Improvement lO his condition lton TO Rev Dr Charles Nichols who achieved notoriety by publishing n list of whom ho regarded nn the elite of society In tho United States has been overwhelmed with offers from lyceum bureaus and lecturing assocIatIons to define his views of what American society should consIst w u M Do Wllte tho Russian Minister of finance has drawn up a decree making ho use of the metric system obligatory In Bush Tho decree Is now under the con llcdation of tho Imperial Council t a A Chicago man who Is well acquainted with Col Dan Lamont declares that the Now Yorker Is ono of the most Indus rlous men he ever saw I went to see him on business hays tho Chicagoan the last ray of Clevelands first term lo had lib coat off and was nailing up his household goods In boxes nnll1 attended at-tended the business about which I called but kept right on Jutting nails on tho head and I guess ho has kept at It ever J5lncclj > 0 S F Augustus Helnzc known ns tho I voung mining Napoleon o Butte Mont fR Just now in tho foreground of that city UIR dinners are said to be tho handsomest ever given In tho West He Is a bachelor and takC pleasure In being a royal entertainer enter-tainer He gels yuppllcs tor most of his dinners from luprJcs a Dr Conan Boyle was born In Ifo9 ands and-s a nil heavily built man whose open man air life Is I evidenced In his face Ho may perhaps be beat described as typically BrlilHh Before devoting himself entirely r hllsel enLrely to writing Dr Doyle had been 0 slips doctor a nillltun doctor u general prac titioner In both town find cpuntry and u Impole street specialist p V William F Glenn of Atlanta Ga In a content wioto 120P7 legible words on 0 postal card consuming seventy hours in the task The record before this feat wan ftCO words The wrIting was in Ink and no lines cronsed each other b + 4 Kermit Rooflevelt and some of his on n ma were lately discovered fishing If tim Government aquarium east of tho White HoiiKe This Is slocked l by the fish coinmlHslon eory spring1 and when tho Old wealhor comes on the 1 water Is drawn oil nnd the fish are removed to tho warmer finks of the commission Wb si dclcctru 1 the boys were in possession of Several I poodsized lobsters and wcrp bout lo I sflne tile gold g fish 1 HeriislorffSclirodcr the Danlstj Journalist who IK making1 a tour of the World eirnlng his own way hnndeuffcd baa arrived In Milwaukee several days ahead of schedule time Ho will go rtU fnct to Sim Francisco thence to Yoko hama Ilnngkonp the Su < v canal and 2th homo where he lo duo to arrive August t a I A movement Is 1 on foot In Indianapolis to erect f monument to IIW f Co fling who In th stirring times Immediately preced Rtrr lug the Civil war was nt the head llrccll C Wil nt Indiana I nrpaulzntloi connected with tile underground railroad through lila mr uiuin o which hundreds of negroes cs rapcd from alavciv to the nClroes Mr Coffin died near Cincinnati In 1S77 While living In NOt ho aided In tho escape of fame Ellza 1 Harris of Inclo Tomu Cabin d A V I Senator Uepew says when the mnrrlngo rcrcmojiy for him and his wife was per formed by roiiBiil Van JSurnii thero was a silk American Hag on the table In front of them 0 Bible on ono Hldr of it and 010 110 Constitution of the Tnlled Stales on Iho other HO that nn thnt IB nil there Is to thin country ve wore really married mar-ried In ihe rnltcd Stales |