Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-07
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Mrs. GOULD, the wife Of the American physi-
clan in Rome, established in that city an adj
mirgbla home and industrial school for little
Italians. She sacrificed her life 10 the work
and since her death it las been continued under
the name of the Gould Memorial Home and
Schools.
HOWARD VINCENT, who has charge of tho
detective service of England is thus described
by q correspondent Gin the middle of this
desk, behind a row of books of reference, such
as the Peerage, the Police Code and the excel
lent text book OF Extladition Law, written by
himself, sits the chief amid indexes, telephones,
telegraphs and speaking tubes galore, puttin2
him in communication with other COVE nment
departments and the police centers marked on
his map There is full sized army revolver
on the mantelpiece, but it is unloaded and
only remains where it is until it is removed to
the black museum at the other end of the yard
The energetic head of the only secret police
tolerated in this country is by no means like q
far western editor. He is completely unarrned,
has loaded revolvers under his blotting
paper, and wears the ordinary morning cos
tune OF an English gentlemen He is. in fact,
as well dressed rs an officer in or ok regiment
always is in multi, his solitary adomment being
the golden goat worn as Il breastpin by officers
Of the Royal Welch Fusileers, OF which corps
he was formerly member.
THE report that Leigh Smith wanted TO
make an Arctic expedition in the summer in q
vessel built for the purpose is untrue.
IT has been arranged that Queen Victoria
will start for the continent the first week in
April. The exact date will be kept q secret
as also the route by which she goes, as the
queen is still troubled with fears of possible
outrage. She will make the voyage in the
royal yacht Osborne, which will have tho ships
Alberta, Enchantress and Galatea, as nm escort.
The queen will be away from England month,
greater part OF the time at Darmstadt, where
She goes to attend the wedding of her niece the
Princess Victoria Of Hesse.
AYsKEH KAYAYAMA, a student at Wilbra-
ham Academy, who has been received into the
Methodist church, is a son of the commander
in-chief of the japanese army.
REV. II. w. BEECHER is going on a lecture
tour to Europe. 1t is twenty years since he
spoke in Engl md, being sent there by the gov
eminent, with Bishop Mcllvaine of Ohio, and
Archbishop Hughes of New York, to create a
public sentiment in Great Britain favorable TO
the North. This, it is said, will be positively
the last public ppearance-outside of his
church-ot the great preacher
GEN. GARFIELD ad everything, and his in
formation was prodigious. The record of the
Congressional library at Washington will show
| that he used more books than any member Of
| Congress. The number of volumes taken from
the library, examined, read and returned, were
never exceeded in one year by any member
who used the library except Charles Sumner.
But this reading was only small portion of
what he did. Histories, novels, newspapers
and wide range Of miscellaneous matter were
devoured Shakespeare was his tavorite poet,
and Tennyson was otener in his hand than any
song writer ofmodem times. Ho loved Burns,
too, and spoke often Of the enjoyment
he had derived in perusing Thackeray,
Scott, Dickens, Kingsley, Jane Austen
md Honore dc Balzac. His books all bore his
library MOTIF, "lnter Folia Fructus Fruit Be
tween the Leaves"
THE Empress Augusta of Germany num-
Der OF years ago publicly signiied her inten-
ton to bestow golden cross upon every
female domestic servant in Prussia and Al
sNco-Lonuine who should be found to have
served in one family for forty consecutive years.
Of these crosses, accompanied by diploma
with the empresss signature, IL OBJ were dis
tributcd during the seven years ending with
! last December