The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-10-04
NEWSPAPER NoroRETY.


Personal Gossip Concerning Men and wo-
men Whom the World Knows.
The queen Of Italy employs as her den-
tist an American, DR.. Chamberlain oy
name.
King Milan of Servia threatens to pub
fish his wsfe's letters to MIN during their
courtship.
The wife of q we'll known Vienna
banker lately displayed forty toilettes in
twenty-one days at Carlsbad
Mr.. Clinton Scollard. the writer Of
pleasant verses, has been appointed as
sistant professor of rhetoric at Hamilton
college.
A female athletic club has been or
ganized in London for the purpose Of ca
couraging athletic sports among the
gentler sex.
There will be beauty show at Spa,
Belgium. Entries must be between
20 and 30 years Of age, and show a GER
tificate of good character.
1t Is said that DIR. Margaret Crumpton,
who has just been electeda delegate from
Pittsburg TO the Pennsylvania Medical
oOCACty, 10 tAtS iIot WOu1tAl tkl6 OIAleu
States to receive such commission.
Queen Regent Christina of Spain Is ex-
eeedingly superstitious. and is o great
believer in what is called fate, che has,
moreover, great faith in 'affinities'' and
the influence OF one person over azo&hM
for good or evil.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, writer Of. Rob-
ert Elsmere," is niece Of the late Mat
thew Arnold. She lives with her hus-
band in London, and their homo Is the
model Of a literary household. Mr..
Ward is an editorial writer for The Lon
don Times.
Mrs. e. D. E. N. Southworth's inagi-
nation In sensational novel writing does
seem unlimited Now 70 years Of age,
she is about to publish her forty-fourth
novel. From pecuniary standpoint her
work has certainly paid her richly.
The important information that the
Prince of Wales and the car Of Russia
are no mean performers on the banjo is
communicated to gasping world The
prince, it is added, can, after returning
from opera or opera bou1fe, pick. out the
tunes on the banjo with remarkable IA
cility.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that
he usually replies to the request for his
autograph when card for the signature
and stamped envelope are inclosed.
Among the requests that he did refuse
was one addressed to Miss Olive W.
Holmes" He thought tho writer of that
knew too little about him to have a gen.
uine longing for his handwriting.
Mrs. Senator Brown, of Georgia, knits
all her husband s socks and Anits also the
old fashioned purse in which he carries
his money, recalling the boast that every
American ought to ''see his gold and
silver cleaning through the meshes of
his silken purse"
The widow of President Polk is in her
S7th year. She is feeble and rather for
getful, but she maintains her cheerful
ness and her interest In the world about
her. Of late she has been taking her
meals in her own room, and leaves 1t
once day to take an airing on the porch.
Here she sits and receives her visitors.
A few years ago well dressed, fine
looking stranger called on Professor
Packard of Bowdoin college and asked
permission to look over the college build
ings. The professor courteously showed
him all about the institution, and when
the stranger went away he left his card.
on which was the name Henry Winkley.
A short time afterward the college re-
ceived Mr.. Winkley 3 check for $40, 900
with which to found a professorship OF
Latin, and now upon his death the col
lege receives $50, 600 more.
Mrs. W. NJ. Dills, of Springfield, Mo-,
is said to be the best judge of horsehesh
. in that valley. Mrs. Dills is southern
woman, and comes from the blue grass
region of Kentucky, famed for its horses,
its pretty girls and its whisky. Mrs.
Dills has not neglected her household du-
ties for her stock farm, and she hes
reared an interesting family. 1t is re-
marked by one who has made some study
of the subject that when southern women
are thrown upon their own resources
they show an energy that used to be at.
tributed only to the daughters of Now
England.
Miss Nellie Gould is an artist Of no
mean ability, and her collection of brio
a-brac, adorned by her own brush and
pencil, is much admired. She is proba-
bly, the richest heiress in America, and at
her fathers death viii come in for
twenty or thirty million dollars. Like
her mother, she is not too proud to wait
on herself. She does not mind riding in
horse cars, and does not put on nearly as
many airs as the wives Of some of the
men who serve her. Last spring she took
to Atlantic City several little girls from e
New York charity hospital and cared for
them with great kindness and considerA-
ton.
NJ. SalAza, the young French tenor and
prizeman of the Conservatoire, about
whose engagement the authorities of the
Paris Grand Opera and Opera Comique
have been wrangiing, was two years aga
only humble shoemaker in a provincial
town. One day as he was going about
the streets singing a passer by stopped
him, and asked him to call at the for
mer's house. This Saleza did, with the
result that he at once abandoned shoe
making forever and set to studying his
scales. Later ON he entered the Con-
servatoire. If tho minister Of fine arts,
with whom lies the fipsL award in the
matter, should decide, as seems prob
able. In favor of the Grand Opera against
the Opera Comique, there will be some
danger of Saleza unduly straining his
voice, as it is as yet hardly powerful
enough for large housa
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