Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-03-24
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than is generally supposed. From the
| Berlin Opera House alone he had re-
| ceived upward Of $3.50, 0OO His musical
| copyrights, too, for some years past have
| been bringing him an income of 5000 a
year, and this his family will enjoy thirty
years after his death, if the popularity
of his music continues.
Edwin Booth is quoted as saying re-
Gently, in Berlin: There is one kind
of men | don't like o meet. It is those
me if think Hamlet was really mad!
They get beyond me, and don't care to
go into abstruse facts"
Professor Schliemann's house is one
of the sights of Athens. 1t is built of
white marble, and adorned with numer-
Gus statues of The same material. He and
his wife talk ancienl Greek together,
and called their two children Androm-
achl Agamemnon. Around the pl ofessor
circulates large body of erudite Ger
mans-in fact the Teutonic element is
omnipotent in the Hellenic capital
DR.. Clemenceau, who may be premier
or even president of France one of these
days, spent four years in the country;
taught French down at Greenwich; mar
ried an American wife speaks and writes
the American dialect of English like "a
native; admires our political institute ons
Immensely but pities our ignorance in
the matter of coffee; drinks nothing
stronger than water: and no sooner
throw away one cigar than he bites off
the end of another.
A correspondent Of Bells Life reports
this incident: Not many DAYS ago a
friend of mine was walking down Bond
street i'll the company of the home sec
rotary. They were closely followed by
person of stalwart proportions, whose
appearance attracted the attention ofmy
friend. ooh, it's only my guar lian,"
remarked Sir William Harcourt, and |
have two more like him at my house.
By the way. don't you think it rather
dangerous to be in my company? Are
you aware that every morning l receive
abont half dozen letters containing
threats of assassination"
The Prince of Wales, at Cannes, made
his first visit, after he had 'paid the
necessary respects to Mr.. Gladstone and
the Comte de Paris" to Monte Carlo,
where after breakfasting with Sir Fred
eric Johnston, he tried his luck with 100
franc gold pieces at the table, leaving
about thirty of them behind him. One
day of MS stay merry party of four,
one of whom was Miss Chamberlain,
the mountains side twelve miles from
Cannes. The beauty of the weather
must have ''added TO the ! oignancy of
the Princes grief at leaving Cannes and
his many friends, and there was quite
touching scene at the station" where
the Dowager Duchess of Montrose, Mr.
Alfred Montgomery, Mrs. and Miss
Chamberlain, Mr.. Augustus Savile and
several others had assembled to take
leave. Pathetically added the letter wri-
ter, 80 we are left to console ourselves
as best we may"
Mrs. Welsh, a rich widow in New
York who lives in fiat, was awakened
the other night by noise in the hall
way. Getting up and looking out she
saw man stuffing her elegant dresses
into bag. Going silently back she
brought her pistol and fred at him. |
The whole colony in the building was
reused. The man was traced by his |
blood half block when the traces sud- |
denly disappeared, the police conjectur-
ing that he got into a hack or wagon at |
tIdG pOIIlG hCCpCT Will u Dis
tol ball in his cheek was afterward ar
rested, though he claims that he shot |
himself accidentally while fooling with |
a pistol.
Some English writers are astonished |
at Gambetta's funeral. Says one of them
IN the Pail Mall Gazette: 1t was such |
funeral as no emperor ever had-a day
when all France helped to bury the one
Frenchman who had stood before
Europe as Bismarck and Gladstone
llone of living men stand before Europe
o-day. From first to last in that vast |
hrong there was no emblem of Christ; |
10 priest of God; not one mutter of |
heaven; no appeal to the res
erection; no thought but for the great
human loss and human sorrow. Surely
his was something to think over. It |
vas the first time in the history of
Europe for a foremost man to be laid to
lis rest by. nation in grief without
PRIEST or church, prayer or hymn.