National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-07-21
ABOUT PEOPLE.

The Duchess of Albany has been deliv-
cred of son.
Ulysses S. Grant, jr., is going to try to
become Pennsylvania farmer.
Minister Lowell hopes not to be $50
English" as to have the gout any more.
Representative Shaw, of the sixteenth
Illinois congressional district, is seriously
ill.
Col. Wellesley, who was recently di-
vorced in London, has married Kate
Vaughan.
Henry Willard was given compll-
mentary dinner by English admirers in
London the other day.
Mary Anderson says that she intends
to excel anything ever done by Mr., Irving
in the staging Of Romeo and Juliet"
Gen. o. o. Howard is back In Paris
after an extended tour and pronounces
Greece the pleasantest spot he visited.
Hon. Jamos G.. Blaine arrived ut Ellis
worth, Me-, Saturday night from Augusta.
Hc is the guest of Senator Hale.
Lolita will engage Messrs. Weaver and
Brand and Kate Chard, of tho Savoy the
ater, to play leading parts in an American
tour.
Gen. Robert Toombs. who is now "A
years of age, stoops considerably, has
an iDfirm walk, and cataract growing
in one eye.
The emperor of Germany will leave
Gasten, where he is now sojourning, on
Aug. 5. He will meet the emperor of
Austria at Ischl.
The soourn of Mr.. Manton Marble at
Augusta, Me-, is not political, but he is in
Daniel Williams.
Andrew Mclean, editor Of the Brooklyn
| Eagle, and John Foord, of the Brooklyn
Onion, are both unnaturalized Scotchman.
Both naturally oppose Blaine.
John L. Toole, the English comedian,
announces that the coming season at his
theater in London will be devoted to a
round of Shakspearian comedies
Mr.. Gye has engaged the following
artists; Nilsson, Reggiani, Castelmary,
Monti, Galassi, and Vianesc. He is ne.
gotiating with Campanini and Ravelli.
Victoria will permit her daughter
Beatrice to leave her long enough to put
herself under treatment for rheumatism
in the hand of DIR, Mstzgor, Of Amster-
dam.
The thrifty Mrs. Frank Leslie has had
large electrotypes Of herself and hel
future husband, the Marquis do Leuville
made for the use of such papers as care tc
publish them.
Mai Kaun, the young Sismese noble
man, now visiting DIR. Samuel House, Ii
Waterford, N. Y, is said to have beer
hiding in the country for four year
past for fear of being beheaded at home
Theodore Roosevelt, the young reforme
of New York, Is the gueat Uf Henry Cabo
Lodge, in Massachusetts,. He Intends Il
pass tho summer on his ranch in tho ives
and probably will take no part in tn
campaign.
{ The Rev. p. J. Ryan, the newly.ap
pointed Roman Catholic archbishop o
Philadelphia will be welcomed TO tina
city by monster torchlight parade q
: seventy ve societies of tho Q, I. A. Arch
DIOCESAN union.
Widow Marie Durand, OF Aubeime, i
the department Of Isere, France, shows
, baptismal certificate stating that she wa
born 1913 years ago, March 10, 1861, an
claims to have lost her husband ninety
ak years ago, which makes her tho mos
remarkable widow on record.
Lucky" Baldwin and his bride are {
Q Saratoga, whore their dashing turnout
\ send the dust into the faces Of morta
' loss favored with luore. Their stable
a racers contains eleven blooded horse
' Tho New York Mail and Express brings
light the fact that while Mr.. Baldwin
! white-haired Mrs. b., who is less than 2
0 wears short dresseg.'