The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-10-22
PERSONAL.

Henry Ward Beecher Will sail Tor home on
Oct ".
Ex-Attorney General Brewster has returned
from Europe.
The czar of Russia has an abnormal fear Of
hydrophobia
NJ Chevreul went to the theatre on his
Tooth birthday.
Lieut.. Greeley says he misses the good old
north pole draughts
Henry Irving has sent $500 TO the Charles
ton relief committee.
Secretary Bayard will spend part Of
October at Saratoga.
A. r. Spofforl, the librarian Of congress,
has sailed for Europe.
Gen Miles, the Indian fighter, is tax ng
holiday in Now York.
Millionaire Walters, of Baltimore, has just
paid $500 for an orchid.
Charles A. Dnnas salary as editor of The
New York Sun is $4,000.
Gambetta's body is to be removed from
Nice to the Pantheon in Paris
Gen lIozen is on the way from San Fran
cisco to the lsthmus of Daren.
1t took $1,000 soldiers TO protect the czar Of
Russia on his journey to Poland.
John Bright is fishing for salmon in Scot
land. He is an enthusiastic sportsman.
The king of Portugals marriage has finally
been settled with the Princess Henriette.
1t is now announced that Henry Watterson
will not reach home before the 1st of Novem-
ber
DR.. Marcus Whitman, the Oregon pioneer
and martyr, is to have monument at Port
land.
Bismarck, according to personal friend,
never knows one day what he will do the
next
Extra Billy" Smith, twice governor Of
Virginia, although 30 years old, is hale and
hearty.
The presidents new country place, outside
of Washington, will not be occupied until
next spring.
Mr. Evarts describes the state dinners under
the Hayes regime by saying "water flowed
like champagne"
An enemy, doubtless, says that Chief JUS
tice Cartier shutters so badly that he spells his
name with two t's.
George Gould is "going to wait till the
newspapers forget all about it" before start
ing on his wedding trip.
Sir Charles Dixie has got back to London.
He will become proprietor and editor of
London daily newspaper
Henry Irving says that he has never been
better treated than he was while in the
United States this summer.
Roscoe Conklng is said to have agreed to
lecture in the big cities this coming winter,
but his theme is not named.
Postmaster General Villas says that Presi.
dent Cleveland has made up his mind to go
west on a long tour this fall.
1t is proposed in Portland, Ore. to erect a
monument in memory Of DR.. Marcus Whit
man, the pioneer and martyr.
The Rothschilds and the Barings have given
$4,000 each to the London fund for the bene.
| fit of the Charleston sufferers
The Gen. Burnside estate at Bristol, r. L.,
has been purchased by Mr.. Howe, who in
| tends to erect u summer hotel there.
Stephen w. Dorsey announces through a
friend that he is rapidly making money in
| New Mexico and will not go back to political
| life again.
At the Hotel de Vile banquet in honor Of
his Tooth birthday, Professor Chevreul drank
few drops of champagne, the first that he
| had ever tasted
Prince Bismarck is credited with the state.
ment that little blood letting by Russia
| Just now would be conducive to the general
health of Europe.
Henry Ward Beecher, during his recent
visit to Wales, discovered that Mary Roberts,
who left Llanddewi Breh for America in 1925,
was his grcat-grandmother.
Edwin Booth has turned over a new leaf,
The Boston Home Journal says, and has be-
come charming and delightful man, whom
it is great pleasure to meet socially.
Baron Rothschild rode by special train
| from Glasgow to London at sixty miles an
hour when he heard of his mothers alarming
illness in Paris. In London he learned of her
death.
Professor Gneist is curiosity among Ger.
man professors, whose habits are usually
migratory. He has taught for forty-seven
years without interruption in the University
of Berlin
John C. Emo seats his guests at his resi-.
dence near Quebec, on satin-cushioned ham
moclls, while his wife drifts about clothed in
dainty morning wrapper of foulard silk
and yet he is not happy.
Charles Monckey, inventor of the Monckey
wrench wrongly called monkey wrench, is
living in poverty in Brooklyn. He sold the
patent for 5000, and now millions are made
annually out of the invention.
Far famed Editor Cutting is nearly desti
tute, his half interest in the Mexican paper
FL Centinel, which he owned in Paso de
Norte, having been absorbed by the expense
of his imprisonment and trial
Geronimo is described by correspondent
of The San Francisco Chronicle, who ha!
freqently been in his company, as youns
brave, under 80 of handsome figure and tin'