Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-04-19

at what time she is due here.
MARY ANDERSON was recently the
guest of Prof. Max Muller at Oxford,
England Perhaps Mary contemplates
bringing out play in Sanscrt.
The interesting news comes from
England that Edward Peacock is writ.
ing q novel. Mr. Peacock ought to
present the public with very poly
chromatic tale.
A BUST of James Russell Lowell by
the weli-known sculptor Cyrus L,
Dallin has just been completed. The
only other bust of Lowell was made
BY Story in 1854.
SENATOR BUTLER of South Carolina
claims that New York, Pennsylvania
and New England drink three times
as much liquor as the gulf states. ac-
cording to population.
Now it is asserted that Prince Ferdi-
nand of Bulgaria wants to become a
king 1t would seem as though his
head must be uneasy enough now with
out assuming q crown.
MINISTER GENNADIUs, who came to
this country in the interests of Greek
currants. is delighted with the currents
of American life as he finds them in
Washington society.
If Sardou really took the main situa-
tons in La TOsca" from Maurice
Barrymore's "Nadjezda' there is every
reason for asserting that Barrymore
ought to be ashamed of himself.
Hague, Mr.. Isaac Bell, is expected
home this spring on leave of absence,
and he will probably occupy his villa
at Newport during the coming hot
season.
JAMES f. MURDOCH, the tragcdian.
author and dramatic reader, recently
Il resident of Cincinnati has been
elected President of the Faculty of the
National School of Elocution and Ora
tory of Philadelphia.
PROF. CLEVELAND ABBE is now in
charge of the weather predict ons
which emanate from the Washington
Bureau His predictions are verified
so constantly that they speak of him ut
the capital rs the Able Constantn.
The news that Nina Van Zandt is
not go ng on the stage after all is one
of the most cheerful and inspiring re-
ports which the early spring has
brought forth. Nina seems to he grad
ually recovering her mental health.
j. Z. CAMPBELL, United States Con-
sui at Auckland. New Zealand. says in
his latest report to the State Depart
ment that 10000. 600 have been ex-
pended in New Zealand in the last
eight years in the effort TO overcome the
rabbit plague.
FOLLOWING hard upon the assertion
that John Ruskin can find no poetry
written by an American comes the news
that Victorien Sardou considers Shakes
peare Hamlet idiotic. "All Gaul
is divided into three parts, "and Sardou
is one of them.
In recently published poem James
Russell Lowell speaks of champagne
in the air." There is some disappont-
ment felt because he did not mention
the locality in which he had discovered
this inspiring atmospheric phenomenon.
Doubtless it was in country where
the climate is extra dry"
A CAPITALIST in Omaha was gwen n
h ance n few years ago to buy tho
Coronado Islands, in San Diego Bay.
for S75 900, but refused it, and they
were sold to a syndicate soon after for
$110, 900. The Syndicate has since
sold 81, 800. 900 worth of lots from the
tract and the balance is held at S10 =
900, 900.
THOMAS F. BAYARD is the only living
man who was balloted for in the st.
Louis Convention in 1876. Tilden.
Hendricks, Allen, Hancock and Parker.
all of whom had enthusiastic supporters
for the nomination, are dead, and John
Kelly and John Morrissey, who were
prominent figures at the conventions,
have followed their chiefs.
SENATOR STANFORD is said to DO the
most umassumingly dressed man in
Washington. This independence in
the matter of personal decoration is
one of the advantages of being rich.
Russell Sage. it is said, walked into n
Broadway clothing store the other day
and tried on and purchased twelve
dollar suit of ''hand. me downs"