The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-12-22
PERSONS or PROMINENCE.
Fred Douglass is worth $4,000.

he first struck of the solid south" phrase.
It is said that President Cleveland has
saved about s25, 900 from his first years
salary.
Mr.. Spurgeon the great English preacher,
has gone to Mentone, where he intends to pass
the winter.
Judge Ogden Hoffman has served continu-
ousIy ON the federal bench in Gan Francisco
for nearly thirty years.
Vice-Chancellor Bacon, just retired, is the
only English judge who remained OH the
bench up to the age Of 81.
United States Consul Wingate, Of Foochow,
China has just presented Dartmouth college
with two likenesses of Confucius.
Henry Ward Beecher is fond of attending
public dinners, but eats very little. He never
drinks anything stronger than appollnars
Mrs. Cleveland chats with her mother b'
telephone every day, a wire having been
stretched from Red Top to the White House
Col. Ben Folsom, consul to Birmingham
sailed from New York Saturday. Mrs. Cleve-
land paid flying visit to the metropolis to
see him off.
Senator Don Cameron and his wife are
back in Washington. They occupy the Tay-
lor mansion which Don Cameron bought last
year for so 600
Gen. w. T. Sherman has taken up his resi-
dence in New York city. His wife and two
daughters are with him, and they have half
dozen ROOMS in the Fifth Avenue hotel.
Oscar Wilde has degenerated altogether.
His long locks are no longer curlcd, bis face
has grown chubby ami his legs are encased
in long trousers, and for good reasons. They
won't stand inspection.
Of President Arthur's cabinet, Freing-
huysen and Folger are dead, HattOn Is edit
Ing The Chicago Mail, Lincoln Is practlcing
law in Chicago, Gresham is on the bench.
Brewster Is taking care of a large law prac-
tice, and Teller Is in the United States senate.
President Dwight, Of Yale, is said to have
a prejudice against going to bed for the night
without taking long walk Ills usual habit
is TO sit until 10 or II o'clock porting over bis
books or driving his pen and then tramp
across New Havcn's old green and through
the deserted streets of the town. He finds
a walk the best,thmg in the world to induce
sleep after study
Senator John p. Jones, who used to be
bonanza king from Nevada has been little
down on h.s luck" Of late years. He ishappy
again, though. tor he made a cold 9I,00,OJJ
pie in one day. a week or two ago. Immense
ney deposit, of ore were on that day found
in The Virginia Consolidated" and the stock
jumped from f. to 80.
The king Of Cambodia, according to the
correspondent OF Paris Journal, has 300
wives. chosen from the handsOmest women III
TIE whole country. The entire population
and territory belong to the king. All the
raniodams are the kings carmen" or
slaves. and pay in rents. The king himself
belongs to the French resident general
The Princess of Wales lately got from Paris
a winter costume trimmed with fine dark
gray fur, which she greatly admired. You
are a sportsman" she shortly afterward re-
marked TO her husband; tell me what kind
Of fur this is" 81 don't hunt rats and mice,
he replied, laughing: 81 leave that sport to
the sewer men, Andnow the princess doesn't
like the costume 10 well as she did.
NJ. Rouvier declined TO be the successor of
Paul Bert in Tonquin because he could not
get the life insurance companies to issue him
a policy to go there NJ Greyy tried hard to
persuade him to go. "Only think" he said,
you will have $4,000 year salary, $4,000
for your funeral, and 81, 400 year pension
for your widow" But even that presenta-
ton of the case did not prevail
Henry Clay was very fond Of poker Ben:
n T.. i
that while Clay was visiting Boston, u 1918,
and lodging at the old Exchange cohee
house. in Congress street, servant rushed
into the parlOr in which he was at the poker
table with few gentlemen OF Che old school,
and announced that the hotel was Oh lire.
"Ch. there viii be time enough, think, cried
Mr. Clay, ito finish our game" ana finish It
tbcv did before the hotel was burned 10 the
ground.
Charlie, Dudley Warner and his fellow
travellers Of the Harper party the other day
scattered the shells in the broad walk that
leads up TO the old-fashioned southern house
Of Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson. The author
Of ~Beulahn and "Vashti' was at home, and
at tap of the knocker came out with far
greeting. one Of the taking things served at
tie luncheon was "gumbo' as the Cvolcs
make it, The party is at New Orleans this
week. 1t has found the latch string out all
along the line.
Frank Hatton, once postmaster general,
now editor Of The Chicago Mail, enlisted IN
Uncle Sans army when but boy. and
thought it would be fun to run away from
bis home in Cadiz, o., and join a regiment at
Xenia. in which his brother-in-aw was zap
tain 1t was awfully rainy and muddy, nd
after night in camp the boy had enough
and asked the captain TO Telegraph 10 his
father, saying that he was in camp ana ask
ing what to do. Frank confidently expected
To get orders to return home before he was
sworn in: but, to his horror, the telegram
that came from his stern and patriotic father
real Swear him in, and he was sworn III
and served four years with honor.