The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-10-08
PERSONAL.

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Prince Bismarck Is on his back with laao
nc,
The Marquis of Salisbury has gone to
france.
Justin Mccarthy Is to give 100 lcctures In
this country
DR. Ilostetter says he is not buying rail
roads just now.
John Bright, the British Liberal is salmon
fishing in Scotland.
Rev. Robert Collyer is lecturing in the
towns of Yorkshire.
Abdul Hamid has occupied the Turkish
throne FOR ten years.
Michael Davitt is in Sacramento, where ho
Is TO linger until Oct /,
Edward Airing, the English Socialist, is a
cousin Of Henry Irving
Chaunccy NJ. Depew is the guest of Cor
nellus Vanderbilt at Newport.
Emperor William is accompanied in all his
travels by three court physicians.
No hopes of BARLEY Campbells recovery
nre entertained He is a raving maniac.
A bronze statue is to be erected at Mel
bourne to the memory of Daniel O'Connell.
Gen. W. s. Harney is going to settle down
in Orange county, Fla, to pass the rest of his
life.
After nearly fifty years of absence .he Hon.
George Bancroft is visiting Worcester, his
native place.
"Old Prince Albert once told me-" said
Liszt, "thut he looked upon music as an ex-
pensve noise"
Blondin, the tight rope walker, is living
quietly in Paris, with hair somewhat silvered
by his GO years.
Roscoe Conklng is said to have agreed to
lecture in the big cities this coming winter,
hut his theme is not named.
Prince Bismarck is said by a bold Berlin
journal to be equally fond of the Bible and
the latest bad French novel"
Thomas Bailey Aldrfch, who has just come
homo from Russia, says the civilization Of
Moscow emphasizes savagery.
The census shows that NJ. Chevreul is not
the only centenarian in France, there being
126 others who have lived 100 years.
Attorney General Garland's vacation has
done him much good, and his face is now as
brown as that of cgar-store Indian.
Revivalist Sam Jones wants to build a col
lege for himself at Cartersville, Ga, and has
raised $4,000 in furtherance of the scheme.
An old clergyman once said to p T. Bar
mum, 81 hope to meet you in heaven" you
will if you are there" answered Mr.. Barnum.
Charles Francis Adams, who went west to
look into railroad matters on the Pacific
coast, will not return home until November.
John NJ. Bookwalter, the Ohio patron Of
the fine arts, writes to his friends that he
will extend his trip abroad to Egypt and
India.
Mr.. Fanstabe, who is president Of the I'M
perial university of Japan, is about to set
out on a tour Of the United States and Eu-
rope.
A new billiard table ordered by W. X.
Vanderbilt will cost $4,000. 1t will be Of
solid oak finished in inlaid work of Moorish
design.
Cen Abe Sawyer, a candidate for mayor
of Key West, Fla, is only twenty inches
high and weighs twenty-eight and half
pounds.
Robert II. Coleman, of Lebanon, Pa, paid
$4,000 for safe deposit vault and The Read
ing Herald says this is just one weeks income
to him.
Mr.. Labouchere says that the queens SON.
in-law, Prince Henry, hasn't money enough
to buy railway ticket from Ballater to
London.
Professor Adolph Frank has resigned his
| professorship of philosophy at the College do
| France, after having lectured there for fifty
| four years.
Whenever a child is born to Mark Twain
| the happy father has stone watering trough
| for horses put up on the road near his summer
house at Elmira,
| Joachim, the famous violinist requires all
| pupils applying to him for instruction to be
over l6 years of age, and they must pass a Sc
| we're examination.
John W. Mackay and large party Of
friends are on the way from San Francisco to
| New York by the way Of Puget Sound and
the Canadian Pacific railway.
Americans arriving in London from the
| continent speak of seeing the Prince of Wales
| at Hamburg, where he was drinking heavily
and seemed pretty well used up.
John Russell Young whose own health is
| somewhat better, says that Mr. Watterson
still shows the marks of his recent illness, and
is living in the most abstemious way.
DIR. Steibng, the premier of Saxe-W eimar,
who has just celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary of his entrance into public life is
grandson of the famous poet, Herder.
| Rossini, the great composer, was a high
| liver, and believed in elaborate cooking. He
studied the art himself, and always insisted
that his proper sphere in life was that of
| cook
| Maj, PopoH is the name of one of Prince
| AleXander's bosom friends. Said he when
the prince was making a speech at Sofia
ave will always stand by you. Courage, and
| go onl"
Miss Helen Wadleigh, daughter of ex-
| United States Senator Wadleigh, of New
Hampshire, and Mr.. Samuel Hoar, of Con-
| ppr1 Mass 10 ,a al i,,
| Oct. 90
| Gen. Sheridan, Gen. Horatio C. King, Ben:
Perley Poore, Benjamin p. Shillaber Mrs
Partington) and ex- Governor Waller, of Con-
necticut; Crane the comedian, all began life
| as newsboys
| Eli Perkins vouches for the sobriety of the
feminine portion of Saratoga's population by
asserting that he saw as many as forty ladies
drinking champagne there every night during
the season just closed.
Senor Miguel Velasco Velasco, the new
minister to the United States from Salvador,
has arrived in Washington, accompanied by
his secretary of legation. He succeeds Senior
de Peralta, who is now in Europe.
Succi, the italian faster, has accomplished
his task of subsisting thirty days without
| ordinary food, on mineral waters and an ex-
tract from African root He finished his
task without being at all exhausted.
There must be an attraction in criminal sta
tistics for Detective Henry Weyl, of Phila.
delphia, for he has 1000 portraits of the most
noted criminals in the country, with scrap
books of remarkable trials and crimes.
People at Mt. Desert Island say that Mr..
Matthew Arnold recently made his appear
ance among them arrayed in a corduroy
coat, wide trousers, pearl colored kid gloves,
patent leather shoes and Scotch cap.
The Prince of Wales dined yesterday at
the "Palmengarten." After he had left ali
English family bought at a very high price,
the tablecloth and the knives and forks that
his royal highness had d.-Frankfurter
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