The Washington critic., 1886-01-15
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Mn. BooTn and Signor salvlni are TO play
Jointly In Boston next May.
MRs. LANGrE has invested 5000 IN
Boston real estate this week.
Miss LOUISA MAY ALcoTT will pass the
winter aud spring in Boston with her father.
NINE pE LEssErs is the mother of twelve
children. the oldest boy Of 10 years, aud
the youngest an infant one month.
A. A. Low, the father Of cx-Mayor Low
Of Brooklyn, is building in that city Sl0,-
Geo hospital as a memorial TO his deceased
daughter
In IS thought that Tom Keonc, the actor,
who Is now at his home in Brooklyn, will
he wei enough to 20 upon the road again
ny March /.
MINISTER PHELPS introduces to his Lon
don dinner parties oysters, terrapin and
game from his native land, his cook being
described as an artist.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE has decided TO per
NIT the use Of the billiard table In the insti.
tuition. Amherst boys have played billiards
In the college gymnasium for year or two.
TnE VENERABLE Irish patriot, Stephen J.
Mcany, is seriously III with erysipelas, aud
his friends of the New York Press Club are
kindly caring for him at the Manhattan
Hospital.
Mr.. STALIo, the American Minister at
Rome, is astonishing the people there by
the facility with which he conversos not
only IN English, German and French, but
in the old Greek ana Latin.
L. p. FABBRr, the retiring partner Of the
banking house of Drcxel Morgan e Co., is
an Italian and viii hereafter reside at
Florence. lie was eight years In the firm
and goes out with about Si,OO0,0OO
SLAUGHTER ". FIcKLIS, many years
prominent as q stock raiser and agricutur-
list in Virginio, died Of paralysis yesterday at
his fine country residence known as Bel
mont in the suburbs of Charlo ttesville
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND, who comes
from Arkansas, furnishes the JeiGcrsoniau
simplicity for the Cabinet, and the New
York and New England members furnish
the magnillcence.-LSt Louis Republican.
THE QUEEN has commanded the produc-
tlon of NJ. Gounods oratorIo, "Mors ct
Vita" at the Royal Albert Hail. and will
come from Windsor to attend the perform
ance. This will be the Queens first APP
pearancc in public in many years.
Ar A recent charity fair in Berlin the
Crown Princess of Germany sold small sa,l-
sagos at fifteen dollars apiece. No wonder
that Bismarck will not admit the American
hog, when the royal family are concerned in
such a corner in pork New York Star.
MIR. DANIEL DouGHERTY of Philadelphia
is in receipt of many congratulations on the
appointment of his son Charles A.
Dougherty TO the Secretary of Legation at
Rome The latter, together with his
mother and sisters, have been domiciled at
Rome for several months
SAYS the New York Nomin1 Journal ::
"The residence of James G, Blaine Is only 100
yards from the river bank, and the Maine
statesman is one of the most persistent of
ice-yachtcrs. Clad In big fur overcoat and
fur cap, he always insists upon steering the
yacht himself, and his ice-boat, the Kenne-
becker, is one of the aeetest crafts on the
riyor.n
The SALE Of the art collection of the late
Governor Il. d. Morgan was begun last
night at Chickering Hall, New York, about
5000 ladies and gentlemen attending. The
lowest price bid was S., and the highest
$3.50. Seventy-three oil paintings, water
colors, chromos, two bas-relefs and two
pairs of vases brought the sum of the even
ing's sale to S29,00s.
LOUIS KossUTH, at 81, is still erect and
vigorous and comfortably situated in his
Italian home. He enjoys the daily com
panionship of his only remaining sister,
Nine. Ruttkay, and occasional visits from
bis two SONS, both of whom are well to do
In tlta world His innntpo
from his literary works, is said to be ample
for his support. One of his sisters, Emilia,
was the wife of an Austrian officer, by
whom she was ill-treated and abandoned.
She died in Brooklyn, N Y, in 1862 and is
buried in Greenwood Cemetery.