The Mineral argus., 1884-10-09
PERSONAL Goasin-

OAuOo halSJeaQ, OF
Piinceton College, is going to the Uni
Verslty OF Texas, where he has been
onered the Senior P~rofessorship of
mathematics, with a salary of 81, 700 a
year.
The Raiah Mansour from the Straits
settlements, who was recently presented
to the Prince of Wales, expressed him.
self thu concerning the heir apparent
OF h British crown 'He is a nice
chap, stands straight up, and bows and
smiles"
Labouchere, in London Truth, saws
Queen Victoria has made a new will.
She has plenty of money to give away.
Prince Albert, her husband. left at
least 5000, 900. A miser named Mel
son b~equeathed to her majesty 81, $780,.
OOO, and all her life she has been saving
tho greater part of her annual income.
The leader of the reported insurrec-
ton in Mexico, Marcia Iglesias, is the
old rival of General Diaz, who, on the
retirement of Lerdo de Tejado in 1876,
took up arms as his successor. He was
defeated by Diaz early in 1877. This
victory of DIaz led to his election as
president in February, 1877, and his
party has been in power ever since,
A dispatch from Berlin states that
Able Franz Liszt, the famous pianist,
has become blind at Bayreuth. It is
stated that the cause of his blindness is
smoking and brandy. 1t is said he
consumes daily a frightful quantity Of
liquor, and often falls asleep in the
theater. He has broken off with the
Princess Wischtenstein, who has be-
come a devotee. Able Liszt will retire
to Weimar and end his days there.
Mrs. Wilbur Fisk, widow Of Rev.
Wilbur Fisk, who was the first Presi-
dent of Wesleyan University, died re-
Gently in Middletown, CT. She was SO
years and 10 months old, and her death
was due to old age. Her husband died
in 1889. The property which she has
occupied so many years now reverts to
Wesleyan University; she had the privi-
Iege OF occupying it as long as she
lived.
That Indian agent with the esthetic
name or McGillicuddy is in trouble
again. Chief Red Cloud openly calls him
a liar, and accuses him of a great deal
of wickedness,
Social circles of the Russian capital
are exercised over the dismissal from
the military service of q popular young
noble. He did not resign under ques-
tionable circumstances, but was actual
w 1Isahornn1 on1 HE n ~ hoe hoo,
stricken from the list of aides-de camp.
Nothing positive is known, although
the prevalent opinion is that the young
mans harsh sentence is due to his con
firmed habit of gambling. Our national
authorities might follow the example of
the M~uScovites.
Mrs. William Cook, of Philadelphia,
although she has not been able to walk
at all for three years, and, whenever
she m into the parlor at the Grand
Union Hotel, Saratoga, is in a wheeled
chair, attended by a maid, dresses more
and has a greater variety of ell
egant toilets thqn almost any other lady
at Saratoga. One evening, lately, when
she appeared in the parlor and was, as
usual, the center of a group of ladies
and gentlemen, who enjoyed her merry
chat, she wore a ball dress OF
white guaze, with broad stripes OF
white satin, combined with PLAIN
white satin and trimmed most elaborate
ly with white bugle passementerie. The
skirt had a long train trimmed with the
passementerie. and on the sides a heavy
silk cord was laced over narrow-plaited
satin rufias endinO with lono oimD tas-
sells. Around her throat were two strands
of large pearls, with a crescent of dia.
monds as a pendant, and in her ears
hoops of diamonds, and OF her arms
glittered bracelets of diamonds and
pearls. With this toilet she carried a
huge fan composed of twenty white os-
trich plumes, each near half a yard long,
and set on long sticks of clear amber,
each stick made out of a solid piece Of
amber.