The Dickinson press., 1883-09-22
Mere Mention OF Persons Of Note.

The death is reported of Mgr. Polo,
bishop Of Avacucho, in Peru, while try
ing to settle a row..
A very artistic and pretty souvenir,
in form of bronze medallion Of himself
| has been presented to friends and pa
irons 10y Mr.. 7. w. Keene. 1t is really
what it seems, not %pasteboard faced with
Dutch metal, and as a memento OF the
actor, worthy of preservation.
The Princess Dolgorouki is still in
deep mourning for her royal lover, the
car of Russia. They threw her out Of
| st. Petersburg, and her gripsack after
her, but they couldn't deprive her Of
her loyalty to the memory of the stern
old monarch she loved.
John Gould, the father o Jay, wa the
was known at school as "bawl baby"
Monsignor Capel Che requests that his
name be pronounced Cay-ple, and not
Capple) expresses to a reporter q wish
to have been born q Jew, and then to
have become a Christian.
Gov. C%rittenden, of Missouri, says he
has made Frank James no promises. II
Minnesota demands Frank james for
trial on the charge of completely with
the Mortified robbery and murder,
Missouri will have to give him up or
Cri.tenden will be stultitied.
The Boston Globe denies with some
warmth the intimation that Sarah Bern
hardt wears pasted in the crown of her
Sunday bonnet this old quotation from
Marguerite de Valois: 1--WE shall all be
per ectly virtuous when there is no
longer any flesh on our bones"
1t is said that the return OF Sir Evelyn
Wood to England is not SO much due to
the anxiety of the ministers to confer
with him in regard to Egyptian matters
as to ascertain his willingness to proceed
to South Africa i'll the capacity of COVER
nor of Natal.
The young American ladies who assist
ed Lady Waterlow in the American stall
at the great fishery fete, among whom
were the daughtersof Mr.. John Bigelow,
all wore the stars and stripes in shout
der knots.
The Boston Herald is inclined to sus-
pect that Mrs. Langtry's notion, that a
married lady can be adequately chape-
roned by her ::"maid" and a club man
protected by bis valet, while they are
travelling around together in a private
car, is too innocent to have been picked
up in America.
The eminent German author, Levin
Schucking. whose death was recently
announced, l%eavestwo brothers in WASH
ington-Alfred Schucking, consular
agent of the German Empire, and DR..
Prosper L. Schucking, Of the depart
ment of state.
A Mr.. Ansorge, of Wisconsin, has
adopted a novel way of advertising his
wife. He warns people not to trust her on
his account, as she has left his bed and
board, and winds up with the following
wicked stab at her reputation: "She
having left q number of small children
request their respective fathers to call
and identify their W and take them
away, as l feel that I have supported
them long enough"
Willie Russell, the four-year old son
of Mr.. Sol. Smith Russell, the commedi-
an, is dead.
Mr.. Joseph Hatton, while preparing
for the press Mr.. Irving's impressions
Of America" will also workupon a biog-
raphy OF the actor, which he has in
hand.
Mr.. Robert Goldman has been chosen
temporary president of the Fit :hburg
railroad. He is the Oldest member Of
the board of directors, having been elect
ed in 1874.
Col. Alfred Aylward, commander of
the English forces in the Transvaal in
1877, in the war with the Beers, has fur
nished the Associated Press with an
the Irish Nation, calling on him to az
point within ten days five or seven arbi-
traitors from the Irish National Benevo-
lent associations of Illinois, to try and
decide as to the truth or falsity of the
charges against Awards character,
made in the editorial columns OF the
Nation. In this connection he gives an
account of his service in the Transvaai.
The Live Oak (Fla.) Bulletin states
that the other day Captain Powell, of
the convict guards, was surprised by re-
ceiving q message from Wi liam Tyner,
an escaped convict, to the effect that if
he would promise not to punish him for
escaping he would voluntarily return.
The captain made the promise, and next
morning in walked William, armed with
a huge pistol, which he untouched and
handed Captain Powell, saying: 'There,
captain, take it and put me to work. I
have come to serve out my sentence"
He has about eighteen months to serve
yet.
eft has been particularly noticed late
ly." says London Truth, ''that the
daughters of the prince and princess of
Wales are always dressed with great
neatness and with charming simplicity.
1t would be we'll if the mothers Of manv
of the other children, and what Lord
B~eaconsfieId termed unf1edged girls,
who are constantly seen about, were to
initiate the princess in this respect,
and array their offspring in a quiet style
which would be more in accordance
with their years than the gaudy cos
tunes which their distem. cred fancies
lead them to think becoming"
Tom Thumb died comparatively IL
for a dwarf. Richard Gibson, miniature
painter ahd court dwarf to Charles /.
lived to be seveuty-five, md his dwarf
vie, Ann Shepard, to be eighty.five.
Sir Geoffrev Hudson, dwarf and diplo.
matist to Charies H., expired at six "
three, and the little s%entleman's life was
shortened by his Incarceration, on s,s-
picion of his %connivan e in the Popish
plot, in the gatehouse at Westminster;
where he died. The far-famed Polish
dwarf. Count Borulawski. for whom
George ~. provided. died also at an adj
vanced age. Dwarfs are letter consti-