Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-10
WHEELING SUNDAY REGIsTER-EIGHT- PAGEs:

Curtin. sister of the Ex-Governor OF fenn-
svjyania: third, to Mary Quincy, OF Boston,
q member of the historic Quincy family
and fourth, to Mrs. Anna n Gamwln,
widow of 4 prominent Philadelphia mer-
chant
Misses Belle Bledsoe, Mary Grattan and
Annie walker. of Staunton, Va, are de-
lighting numerous friends In LevisouLg:
Greenbrier county, w. Va, with the hsn'
of their countenance.
Potter Palmer, ESQ, of Chicago, HIS, Is
building house which, in size ana sPien-
dor, il is said, will rival that OF VanoeroIr
as we'll as those of the noted bonanza KING
on the Pacific Slope. 40 -
Club snobs will next be caricatured IN
comic opera w. s. Gilbert has been BLACK
bsiied in a London club. The wealthy son
of retired butter merchant had been IN.
formed that Gilbert worked for living ana
is, therefore, not respectable.
Mime. Wilson's drawing-room in London
is full of beautiful paintings. portraits,
busts, china, carved ivory and bronzes:
Among the bric-a-brac are pieces OF oio
Venetia and Persian embroidery. clasps
that once belonged to Ivan the Terrible,
and the picture OF monk for whose head
the brother of the Queen Of Spain sat-
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Br azil, rides out,
IL is said, in plain black coach, which, IN
point of style, would scarcely bare com par
ison with the average public hack OF New
York The vehicle is drawn by SIX mules
and followed by twelve calvary guards,
most of them negroes, and some OF them
smoking cigars. The Emperor wears plain
black clothes, bows 10 all who bow to him,
and even raises his hat when saluted IN IKE
manner. He looks many years Older than
when he visited this country in 1876, and
wears a detected expression, as though dis
appointed and despairing in his hopeless
attempt bring his subjects TO sense OF their
backwardness and inspire them to seek
such a plane of civilization as exists In
some of the lands he has visited.
-. Prince Alexander de Wagram, whose
marriage to Mile. Bertha de Rothchild has
been announced, is q grandson OF Marshal
Bertbier. He is now in his 46th year, de-
voted to the pleasures OF country life,
and is famous huntsman. In addition TO
his splendid estate of Gros-B ois, he owns
princely mansion in Paris, and has pri-
waite income of $50, 900 year from invest
ments in the funds. His bride will receive
from her family an annuity OF $2O,Ooo, ana
she has besides, private fortune OF some
5000, 900. She has just been visiting frlnce
Alexander's family at Gros-Bois. .
At Cape May Oscar Wilde wore his ns-
thetic suit with "the sweetness OF maid
en-, !" but being posed to his liking in h!s
arm chair, waiter was asked to be good
enough to bring bottle Of wine ana a box
of cigars. The wine was old and the cigars
were as black as ink; but be smoked, drank,
and chatted until midnight. Some one
who got glimpse OF the merry company
and startling array of open: mouthed bot
ties in an atmosphere Of smoke, says the
Philadelphia Times, started the rumor
that wicked attem pt was being made to
get Oscar drunk. But the wise did not in:
ierfere. for they knew that the apostle OF
beauty could put the whole crowd under
the table and yet keep his own head as
clear as bell"