The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-05-30
Positive Facts.

Personally the Duke of Connaught is
one of the incest of the Royal Princes.
Quite unaffected, and yet unspoiled,
though over twenty-eight, with the
pleasing manners of his family, vet by
no means forgetting his dignity; he is
fond of his profession of arms, and
favorite with all who know him. The
Duke of Wellington was his godfather.
The Dean of Windsor, the Hon. and
Very Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley,
was nephew of the Duke of Yelling
ton, consequently would not be likely to
starve for want of preferment in the
Church, and the food which never fails
the young ravens would not be wanting
to him. He and wife have had the honor
of nursing the religious convictions of
Queen Victoria. He is sixty-nine, and
beyond being martyr to his liver, has
not suffered for the faith.
John Brown, the much-abused, though
harmless gillie of Queen Victoria, is a
tall, thick-set, raw-boned Scotchman.
He has an easy time of it, and his social
was valet to the late Prince Consort.
Brown is always armed with a card
bearing the signature, Victoria Regina,
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casions, much to the annoyance OF
various parties. Brown has good food
good whisky, large pay, and many
perquisites.
Mr.. Jacob Bright, M. P, is Johns
brother. He is decent person, full oil
beliefs and open to all convictions, but
overladen with the ballast of the prac
tical Philistine, yet not rendered crank
by the sails Of a powerful ora+ory. He
Is the man to lead party into the desert
and starve it there for want of transport
but he lacks the prophets repute ever
out of his own country, and no party
follows him. Nevertheless, he has 8
handsome head and an inspired gaze
and he has been married twenty-thret
years.
Viscount Newry is by nature soft
hearted, and by inclination generous
He adores art and athletics, curses card
and cotton, delights in dancing and thu
drama, hates horse racing and humbug
and worships women and works of art
He may frequently be found dusting hi
collections of crockery in his lodgings
, or airing his collection of anecdote am
!, ideas at the club with power ahC
quantity of discursive talk of which b,
r seems to have caught the knack from
his Irish connections. He is six foo
in his hose, and a regular assistant a
first nights" in various parts of tn,
globe.
, The Rev. Henry Parry Liddon, D. D
. d. G. L., is a rhetorician with notions
AS preacher to theologians be stand
high, and the women of that kind ad
mire him beyond the verge of alteration
! He has a beautiful voice, which b
nurses conscientiously with man,
/ comforters, and his eloquence, forme'
, on the model of the great Frencl
| preachers, is in rowise marred, bu
: rather ornamented, by the clear falsett
into which his tones, naturally low, soft
: and caressing, pass when they issue fror
r the pulpit. He is now London's fash
e ionable preacher, and Mr.. Gladstone ha
t made him Canon of st. PauPs Cathedral
The Earl of Rosebery was born with
. silver spoon in his mouth he has plent
of cash, and recently, as all the worl
e knows, married more. Charles !, @
= sacred memory, found Primrose, an
:. made him Clerk of his Privy Counci
I whereupon Primrose honorahly stood b
his master through the civil wars, an
:, the Primroses became family; but thei
genealogy is a little confused. A
!, twenty-one Primrose made a speec
!. upon horses, in the House of Lord
q which suggested hope; since then he hs
found something to say of men. At on
time he was favorably thought of for
E royal alliance. He is very fresh an
!, pretty, very popular, and dresses wei