St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-06

the banjo is not so difficult to learn as most
other instruments and to its superior quail
ties as all accOmpanist OF the voice..
VI recent years music OF the best character
has been adapted to it and this. together
with the improvements Of the recent models.
has done much to make 1t a favorite for
parlor entertainments. All the latest
operas are arranged for the banjo and
among the recent popular pieces are LA
Paloma" and the ''Stephanie Gavotte. "
Among the players in this city is Mrs. L..
| S. Madison of Twenty-first street. Miss F..
| Whitney of Massachusetts avenue plays
very nicely. DR.. Tyler and Dr. Stone
thrum the strings in fine style. Miss Gil
tillan is a good player, and Mrs. Loring, the
wife of the ex-commissioner of agriculture,
also plays the instrument very nicely
Misses Kate Bayard, Mamie Redfern and
Ida Collins. Miss Walker, the daughter of
Commodore Walker, Miss Beveridge. Miss
Ida Thompson. Mrs. Reynolds, the wife of
Lieut.. Edward Reynolds. Mrs. Whelan and
Mrs. John +. Mclean are devotees Of the
instrument.
Miss Cleveland has resumed her custom
OF seeing visitors previously acquainted.
Miss Alice Denver OF San Francisco is
the guest of her uncle, Gen. Denver.
Hon. j. G. Ballentne of Tennessee and
daughter and Hon. F. G. Barry of Missis-
sippi are at the Ebbitt house.
Mrs. Dahlgren has decided to remain at
her country home all winter, so as to give
greater attention to the education of her
daughter and her own literary labors.
Col. and Mrs. Bonaparte's journey to
France last summer was to have their little
daughter Louisette make her first com
munion in Paris. The Empress Eugene is
the godmother of this child.
Miss Kitty Beach, who was reported as
engaged to Allan Arthur, but whose deli
cate health was the source of much concern
to her mother, was entirely restored by
their Sojourn in the south of France last
winter.
1t is reported that MI. James Bayard.
son OF the secretary of state, is engaged to
Miss Deakins of Fort PendIeton.
Assistant Secretary Hunter has partially
recovered from his recent severe illness, but
is still confined to his house.
Some interesting changes, it is said, are
to be made very soon in the personnel OF
several legations here. The most important
are in the departure of the French and
Russian ministers. The first has already
received notice of his transfer to Tunis as
governor, and NJ. de Strive is liable to be
recalled at any moment.
Miss Mary Evarts was in the city to put
her fathers residence in order for the re-
ceptiOn OF the family, which will arrive in a
few days.
According to the Boston Gazette, among
the rising generation of ''swells" the singln
eyeglass is used more than ever, Some
magnify, but the great majority are of the
kind of glass used for window panes.
Washington is more conservative and such
fooleries are left to the foreigners.
Grant Parish, formerly of the Post and
Republican of this city, will represent sew
eral prominent daily papers at the Ameri-
can exhibition to be held i'll London, Eng,
next May.
The whist parties that met weekly at diff
ferent houses of the supreme court circle
have not been regularly resumed yet, as the
mourning of the family of Justice Matthews
and the absence in Europe of Justice
Woods wife and daughter make large
break in the list.
At tea party given recently by Miss
Nellie PairO. the table was pr0fusely deco
rated with chrysanthemums. The bouquets
were tied with white satin ribbons, one end
of which bore In gold letters the name Of
the guest, while from the other depended q
miniture cup and saucer. A tiny spoon
was slipped through the knot.
The British minister. Hon. Lionel
Sackville-West expects to be recalled if the
Liberals return to power in England, the
reason being that at the capital of a coun-
try whose commercial relations are so i'm
p0rtant as ours with Great Britain, their
diplomatic representative should be in
thorough accord with the prime minister at
home. Sackville- Vests political prediec
tons being Of the truest Conservative blue.
The Sunday Capitol tells story of an
attache of one of the foreign legations who
is very much in love with young lady.
and she is quite as badly smitten with him.
But as she cannot talk his language, and he
knows very little English, they are very
heavily handicapped in their courtship.
The way they do is to sit down together
with pad Of paper and lexicon. He
hunts out the words he wants to use and
writes them out in English; then she re-
plies in the same way. They have lot of
fun. and appear to be getting along pretty
well. She says that while he makes some
funny mistakes she never fails to ''catch
on to his meaning, and supposes her
blunders are quite as great.