The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-10-01
PERSONAL.


Senator Edmunds is angling In Maine.
Frederick Douglass has gone to Europe
President Cleveland is steadily gaining In
weight
Henry watterson is to start homeward on
Oct. %.
Chief Justice Waite is back from his long
Alaskan trip.
Senator and Mrs. Logan have returned to
their home in Illinois
It took Gen. Miles Just twenty-one weeks
to tucker Geronimo out.
Michael Davitt intends to visit California
before returning to England.
Senators Hampton, Vest and Kenna are
persistent and successful anglers.
Valentine Baker Pasha, who has been visit
ing in England, has returned to Egypt.
Remenyi, the violinst is charming the Ra-
jahs of India with his wonderful playing.
Senator Evarts has recovered almost en-
tirely from the effects of his recent accident.
William r. Morrison, of free trade fame,
has returned to Washington from his Illinois
home
Senator Logan made twelve speeches in one
day while looking at the natural beauties of
Oregon.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett contradicts the re-
port that Mr. Edwin Booth was to marry
his eldest daughter.
A correspondent says that since the election
Mr. Gladstone has been gaining in weight and
looks stouter and stronger.
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fornia again for three weeks on business con-
nected with educational affairs.
Henry NJ Stanley will undoubtedly be tho
most popular foreign lecturer who will visit
these shores during the coming season.
Charles Townsend, of the Smithsonian
'nStitu'ila, is going to British Honduras to
stuly the 'ltural history of that country.
ConErcssrHn Crapo is entertaining Jushu
RIM Il kui;i, the japanese minister to this
Gonntry, at his home in New Bedford, Mass.
Nili'er cox will arrive here during the
second wecl; / October. Whether he ex-
poets TO return to Constantinople is not
stated
Miles Ross is reported as saying that he
wouldn't go to congress again If a certificate
of election and $40, 600 were offered him ON a
platter.
The Earl of Lonsdale, whose scandalous con-
duct has given him an international reputa-
tion is the patron of forty-one livings Of the
English church.
Another "old public functionary" has been
discovered-the Hon. Alex. H. H. Stuart Of
Virginia, an octogenarian, who was men,
ber of Filmore's cabinet
Rev. George o. Barnes, the mountain evan
gelist of Kentucky, says that he has made
his trip around the world with his wife, son
and two daughters entirely on faith,
John c. Emo is not happy in exile. The
doors of the leading families at Quebec are
closed against him. He would like to COM
promise with his New York creditors.
The hat size of Mr.. Gladstone is7sk, Lord
j. Russell, ~; John Bright, ~; Lord Sell
borne, ~ the Prince Of Wales, Z. The
Scotch head is larger than the English.
The king of Portugal hates the French re-
public so much that he will not cross the
French territory to visit his friends and rea-
tves In Germany, but goes thither by water
It is said that Professor Chevreul, the CELL
tenarian savant never used wine or tobacco,
but drank coffee and tea and large amount
of milk and took cold bath every day in the
year.
Professor Richard A. Proctor says that
earthquakes show the earth to be still In its
infancy and that tens Of thousands of years
will pass before the beginning of the end is
seen.
Mr.. Edmund RUSSELL the American "tius-
tee of beauty" gives this advice: "Never
stand under light. 1t brings out lines and
makes even the young look careworn and
lined"
Whitelaw Reid and his father-in-law, D. o.
Mills, have been surveying the Owens river
valley, in California, near Reno, with view
to taking up 10000 acres of land for a wine
and grape growing colony.
The late Archbishop of Canterbury once
demonstrated with celebrated Parsee for
worshipng the sun, "Ahl your grace,n was
the reply, "you should see it once"-a pretty
good hit at English fog-and prejudice.
Mr. Whistler, the London artist, habitually
wears in one eye glass without rim As
this glass is likely at any time to fall on the
pavement and break, Mr.. Whistler carries
around supply of spare glasses in his vest
pocket.
A Connecticut man Just returned from
A1iBiiiih says Ihdt Lib WOulu
hardly recognize Ex-Governor, now Consul
General, Tom Waller. He has had his hand
some, bushy and wavy hair cut down almost
to fighting clip.
"Every day at l o'clock s30O, 100000 sit
around little mahogany table in an upper
room in the Western Union building and eat
plain but substantial lunch, says The New
York Sun. "The millions belong to jay
Gould, Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage and ex-
Governor Alonzo b. Cornell. All were
country boys and wore shoes only OH Sun
day
The Rev Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City
Temple church, London, who has been en-
tertaining Mr. Bcecher, writes to The Ad-
vance, "You must live with Mr.. Beecher to
understand him Before he came to bo my
guest / had viewed him with the wonder
which may be bestowed upon pianist, now
that we have lived together, accord him the
affection which is due to the tenderest manli-
ness and the most winsome modestyn