Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-08
PERSONALS.

SENATOR JONES will return to Nevada
this week.
THE income the Pope could have from
the Italian Government, if he chose to take
the money, is S65O,0OO.
THE Prince of Wales has accepted the
honorary membership of the Deutscher
Verein fur Kunst und Wissenschaft Ger.
man AthenGum).
EDWARD HANLAN, the famous Canadian
oarsman, says he only learned to smim
last summer. He can now swim only a
little, the muscles of his arms quickly be-
coming tired.
THE health Of Captain Hoxie, husband
of Winnie Ream Hoxie, the sculptor,
has been somewhat impaired of late. His
wife and he have gone to Florida for
rest.
w. A. BARTLETT BURDETT.CoUTTs, the
husband OF Lady BurdettCoutts, has aban-
doned his connection with the Conserva-
tive party, and is seeking a constituency
where he can stand in the Liberal interest.
THE Presidents destination South is
Anastasia Island, the property OF ex-Minis-
ter Sanford. 1t lies on the east coast of
Florida, Just off of st. Augustine, and the
hunting and fishing are said to be exceed
ingly good there.
1t was Paul Carpenter, son OF the late
Wisconsin Senator, who, when asked in
Washington number OF years ago what
he would be when he grew up, replied:
oh, would like to be coachman, but
>upI ose I've got to be Senator
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH, of Austria, has
now Joined the number of European SOW
ereigns who are on the sick list. This list
is never entirely cleared, and even those
who are temporarily discharged from it are
often soon back among the patients.
THE Marquis de Biron, president Of the
French Jockey Club who died fortnight
ago in Paris, aged eighty years, was once
page of Louis XVII. and afterward an
officer of the Royal Guard. He had been
president of the Jocky Club thirty-two
years.
THE German Emperor William has or.
dered four special commemorative perfor-
mances in honor of Wagner at the Royal
Theatres of Berlin, Hanover, Cassel and
Weisbaden. Over 800 applications have
already been received for the first perfor-
nance OF "Parsifal" at Bayreuth.
WnKIE COLLINS is fond of Scott, Cooper
and Reade, but not of George Eliot, and he
cares little for the new American "analyt-
ic" novelists. He says that Longfellow
was perhaps the greater writer of his age,
and that William Black and Bret Harte
might do much better than they are do.
ing.
Ar the Victor Hugo banquet, where
gathered some $50 men Of letters and jour
nalists, NJ Edmond About said: at is no
small satisfaction to us, small and great
writers of France, to see that the greatest
OF the men of our country, the most ad.
mired, the most applauded, the most lot I'D.
is neither man of war, nor a man oil
science nor a man Of money, but a man Of
letters"
Mr.. CLARK, the architect of the capitol
at Washington, suggests to Governor Fos,
ter that the Ohio statue of Mr.. Garfield, to
be placed in statuary Hall at the capitol
shall correspond in size with the other
statues there. He calls attention to the
general condemnation that the statue oil
Ethan Allen has provoked on account oil
its collosal size, which dwarfs the surround
ing statues.
MILE LIMA BRAUN, at whose villa at Ba
den. Baden Prince Gortschskof died. will
sue the sons of the late ex-Chancellor fol-
the 5000 marks per yeur which her CUES,
bad promised her. 1t is now said that the
sons bad hard work to prevent the father
from fulfilling his frequently given prom
ise to marry the woman. who had com
pletely fascinated him ever since the Der.
lin Congress.