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Strive, who represents Russia. He
gets a big salary and has a liberal
allowance for entertaining. He Is a
tall, light-haired, striking-looking
man, with cultivated and a
diplomatic air. He was for a long
time minister at Japan, and | think,
but am not sure, that he came from
there here. He has an accomplished
wife. who is in Europe at present.
Nine. de Strive is looked upon as n
of the brightest women Washington.
society has known. Mrs. Blaine call.
ed her the cleverest woman in Wash
ington. She is not handsome, but is
highly cultivated, and her repartees
constitute the best bon mots of Wash
ington society gossip. Baroness de.
Strive is a great student of medical
subjects, and is interested highly in
educational matters. She has q very
brood of children, and like the average
little Russians they speak three or four
languages.
Another minister who has a great
number of children is Senior Don LUIS
L. Dominguez. of the Argentine Re-
public. His sons were great favorites
in Washington society, and the family
managed the legation. He has a wife,
three daughters, and two sons, and as
he has now been transferred to Spain
the whole family will leave the capt.
tai.
The Austrian minister is a bachelor,
as is also the minister from Peru.
This last man. Senior Gilmore, held on
here during the Chilli-Peruvian wal
without pay. He is short, dark, and
looks like a Spaniard. He speaks En-
gllsh well.
The Mexican minister, Don Matias
Romero, who has attracted so much
attention lately as the friend of Grant,
leading him 81, 900 when Grants own
countrymen failed to come to his own
support, is a very accomplished gen.
tleman. He does not go much into
society, but is a fine diplomat, and is
very useful to his government. He
receives SIS. 900 a year and has his
rent free. He was here during the
civil war as minister. Grant and he
had been acquainted for a long time,
and they have had some railroad inter-
ests in Mexico together. Minister
Romero's wife is a beautiful American
lady, and she comes, l think, from one
of the old families of Philadelphia.
The minister from Chilli, Senior Don
Joaquin Godoy, has also al American
wife. The French minister is Mon
sieur Theodore Roustan, a man vino
has made a reputation as one of the
great diplomats of the world. He
gained great notoriety by beng the
means of bringing about the annexa-
ton OF Tunis 70 Algeria. He does not
speak much English, but he gets a
big salary, and as he is q bachelor and
only about As years old, he is one of
the greatest catches of Washington.
The new Spanish minister's name is
Senior Don Juan Valera. He has a
house furnished him by his govern
ment, and his salary is SIS, 600 a year.
He is a noted literary man in Spain,
and is looked upon as the greatest
novelist of his country. He is a life
senator in the Spanish congress and
was the Spanish minister to Portugal
before he came here. Minister Valera
does not speak much English, and
what he knows of the language he mas
acquired since he came to this coun-
try, about a year and a half ago. He
is a married man, but his family is in
Spain.
The Hawaiian minister Is an Ameri-
can. His name is Carter, and he went
from New England to the Sandwich
islands as a missionary. He became
very influential there, and now comes
back to this country to represent that
government as its minister. A case
somewhat similar is that of the minis
ter from Switzerland, Col. Emile Frey.
Col. Frey came to America as a young
nan about the time of our late civil
war. He entered the union armies,
and did so well that he rose to the rank
of colonel. He became a naturalized
American citizen. Later however, he
renounced his allegiance to the United
States and returned to Switzerland.
He rose there in influence, and now
represents that country here. Col.
Frey is very popular here. He is n
of the finest looking public men ]
know. Tall, broad-shouldered, and
~weli-rounded, he has a brave, open
face, a full, bushy, faxen beard, and a
kind blue eye. He wanted to resign,
l understand, lately. but the Swiss
government thought SO much of him
that they refused to accept his resig-
nation.
Senior Don Manuel Peralta is the
minister from San Salvador and Costa
RIGA. He is a fine fellow, and has rIs-