The Society news. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-18??, 1883-10-13
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Hughes, Tom Browns" mother
will continue to live at Rugby, Tenn.
Secretary Chandler will return to Wash
ington and the Navy Department on Mon
day.
A life of John c. Calhoun is being written
by Colonel Pinckney Starke of South Caro-
lima.
John Russell Young, Minister to China,
writes that he is now able to speak Chinese
readily.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Meigs, of Washington, to Mr.. Archibald
Forbes.
Mr.. F. H. Cushing, the Zuni has discov-
cred that the prehistoric Indian smoked
cigarettes.
NJ. Jules Verne is go years old. His hair
| and beard are turning white, and hefis grow
ing feeble.
1t is rumored that Architect Hills resig-
nation will be accepted, and that he may be
re-appointed.
1t is said the willy Bismarck has advised
King Alfonso to exercise a forgiving spirit
| toward France.
| Jay Gould protests against the new New
| York acqueduct running through his prop
erty at lrVington.
Matthew Arnold, wife and daughter, will
leave Liverpool fer the Unitod States on
Saturday, 18th inst.
In Paris Edwin Booth was mentioned by
the newspapers as the brother of the assassin
of Monsieur lie President.
Mary Anderson refused to receive the dis-
mond necklace sent her by the Prince of
Wales, and we are glad of it.
President Barrows softheWillimantic of Linen
| Company has resi- 9ned to go into the service
of the Pullman Car Company.
Returning good for evil, King Alfonso
last week sent present of 10000 francs
to be distributed among the poor of Paris.
Mr.. John G. New, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, is en- route for Northern Wis
consin, where he will take his vacation fish
ing.
Irving will play to people who pay, in
New York. Three-fourths of the seats for
his performances are in the hands of specu-
lators.
Pliny T. Sexton, a well-known politi-
clan, is spoken of by a Buffalo paper as
''the gentleman with the classico-funereal
name"
Leon Albeit, the New Jersey Democratic
candidate for Governor, used to be known
as Leonidas when he was a Philadelphis
high-school boy.
l Mr.. John Tennial, the cartoon artist o
-@NAAS% I tsNtstt - ~ } Geko tAAs W Auu NiA
G exception of week or two, some years ago
: his drawings have appeared regularly sine
l 1851.
Bob Burdette was the guest of Max AIDE
Ter the other night, and people who saw tn
, two humorists together took off their hat
and solemnly asked the neighbors "Who il
: dead!"
f A recent letter from Paris states that Mrs
I Mackey, who has dazzled the Parisians, haV
ing tired of France, will come to Washing
4 ton early in 1884 to see something of tn
h capital city.
! The Marquis of Lorne, Governor Genera
is of Canada, has given tive-hundred dolla
/. purse to the Dominion Rifle Association fo
" provincial competition, the conditions to
le settled by him.
r Among the hotel guests in New York al
al Secretary Chandler, Senator NJ. c. Butle
1t vile West, Chief Justice Waite and ho'
of Congressman.
The trustees of Lafayette College yeste
day afternoon elected Rev. j. H. Knox
~ Bristol, Pa, president of the college, to SUI
VI ceed DIR. Cattell, whose resignation goes int
70 effect within three weeks.
h Mr.. McCune, editor of the Buffalo Courie
II is a son-in-law of the late Mr.. Fargo of tn
q express company, and brother-in-law of IL
10 present Mr.. Fargo who has embarked
~ two-cent morning journalism.
r. A Boston letter writer says that Whitt
X received S100 for his latest sonnet, and TIL
r, the publishers of the Youths Companit
as are to pay Tennyson $1,000 for a poe
in which they will publish in that paper tn
as year.
ed James H. Beard, the noted painter
al animals, was asked on Broadway whether
la, NOT hoe "a
n. eyes" he said, "she is as beautiful as
he cow" He meant this as a sincere, comp
ne ment.
Is Professor Paul Passy of Paris thinks tn
IS America is the dustiest country he ev
IT. visited. He thinks that our high schools a
hg not practical. "Too much Latin, he sa,
sis the bane of modern educational instit
tons."
Of Mrs. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, t
,e, Princess Winnemuoca, is in Providence, {
lee comuanied by Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody
of Boston. The Princess delivered an addrt
on at the chapel of Grace Church Tuesday
M ternoon.
ur Mr.. Charles Frohman, the theatrical ms
IN ager, is reported to be engaged to Nj
an Sarah Jacobs the youngest daughter OF t
rts well-known diamond merchant of Chicas
ng The young lady is very beautiful and is 81
,u, to be worth S75, 900 in her own right.
"A Josie Batchelder, who has sued Bart
to Campbell for arrears of salary, will be
no membered Ia Philadelphia as the widow
lft- the late James w. Norris, the leading m
e." of Gemmill, Scott Il Co.'s first stock co
- pany at the Chestnut street Theatre.
m Mrs. Edison is the originator of wi
ert promises to be a very popular idea in the
Ike rangement of the electric light in chi
sed deliers, that of making the bulb containi
err the incandescent loop appear as the STAN
ro. of a cup shaped Hover, OF Drass OF oti
polished metal.
Mrs. Zerelda Samuels considers herself
abused woman. To Kansas City repor
ety who had asked elbow is your son, Fra
on James?" Mrs. Samuels said: ''You are {
ans of those theological students of the me-
for paper press, aren't you9 You are all al
ror- strangers to the truth" Speaking
A Lawyer Wallace, who conducted the pre-
we'd cution in the James trial, she exclaim
the "Ah, he is a smart young man-with he