The Mineral argus., 1884-01-31
Personal ropics.

ANNf 0AN1At AAAS OetoAA0g III
mt of the T%ichborne estates, now serv-
ing a 14-yesri imprisonment, is about to
be released, and many OF his faithful fol-
lowers, whose stupid faith in his cause
makes a curious chapter in the history
of impositions, propose to buy a public
inn and set him TO earning a ivil z.
The denial OF Miss Jennie Flood. the
daughter of the California millionaire,
that she is engaged to marry an English
peer, recalls the fact that she once re-
fused a New Yorker because, as she con
~tempuously told him. he HAD not energy
enough to spatter the mud on his trous-
ers IN rainy weather.
List is now seventy-twe and vi
vacious as he was at forty. He seldom
touches the piano, be- at unexpected
moments, in the presence of some timid
young girl overpowered with the hon
or of al introduction, or alone with a
friend when old days are spoken of, he
will sit down for a few minutes and
recsll a phrase of Chopin, or q quaint
passage from Scaalatti. and then, for
getting himself, will wander on until a
flash of the old fire comes back to his
eyes"
Queen Victoria and other members of
the royal family have been greatly an
noyed Of late by the persistent efforts of
franks" to get an audience with them
in order to secure their approval oftheir
new inventions. A mailman, who said
he had come from America, and had a
wonderful invention for allaying storms,
tried 10 get into Windsor Castle the 9TH
er day and was only ousted after consid-
cradle talking between himself and the
guard.
Matthew Arnold" says a reviewer in
the English illustrated m gazine," "as
a poet, is rather singular; he takes his
place among the most fortunate writer's
OF our day who have expressed them.
selves in verse, but his place is some
what apart. lie has an Imagination of
his own, but he is less complete, less in
evitable, as he says in his essay on
Wordsworth that that poet said of Goe-
the, than the others. His form at mo-
ments is less rich than it might be, and
the Woldsworthian example may per-
haps be accused here and there of hay
ing sterilized him."
A fortnight ago q man walked into a
German jewellers shop in London
whose wife only was at the counter, and
pOcketed las he thought unseen by herr
a couple of watches. Presently her hus-
band entered and while the thief stood
unconsciously at the counter, thinking
of what he should steal next, she gave in
German a description of what had hap
pened to her spouse. Whereupon, with
out the least fuss, or go much as an un-
pleasant word he beckoned a police
man, and save the o~ne-languaged indi-
viduai into custody.
Albert f. Kent, the San Francisco
millionaire, has added $25, 900 to his re-
cent gift of $50, 900 to Yale College for
the purpose of erecting.a chemical labor
atory for the academical department.
Mr.. Kent was a member of the class oil
'59.
E. G. Stedman, the poet, who became
financially embarrassed some months
ago, has again returned to Wall Street.
Gen. I. B. Bunting, who recently re-
signed from the Guatemalan army, is
now in Chicago. He denies that Presi-
dent Barrios rules the people with a
rod OF iron," as has been printed, but
says that in that country a man must
either ride or be ridden on, and Senior
BaTrioa prefers to ride. "He has done
more for Guatemala In the last eight
years than all his predecessors have
done before him. When | first went
there there were no schools to speak of;
now there are more than 10000 Indian
children being educated at government
expense. There are also higher schools
and colleges in the cities of Guatemala
and Quezaltenango."
The st. Louis Post Dispatch is certain
ly mistaken in Its ASSERTION that the car
of Russia is a richer man than our VAN
derbilt. The czar's bank ceount is
small compared with Williams. He can
help himself to whatever he gees, and
he can execute and exile his subjects at
will, but in other respects he is a poor
man.