Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-20
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Leo XIII always dimes alone.

Leo XIII always dimes alone.
Mr.. Russell Sturgis of the house Of Barring
Brothers left an estate of a2.000,000.
Mr.. Gladstone has decided not to go to
Rome to have an interview with Pope Leo.
The Italian Academy of Science has
awarded to M. Pasteur the great worlds
prize of 50, 400.
The lace curtains in the Robert Garrett
mansion at Baltimore cost 5000 a yard, and
some of the carpets are declared by an en-
thusiast to be actually worth their weight in
gold.
Cyrus Field began life as a clerk in a New
England store, and once worked for A. L.
Stewart for the munificent salary of $50 a
year. He left the dry goods kings employ
to sell newspapers.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, is one Of
the few college graduates not engaged in
teaching who keep up their Latin and Greek.
He is said to be a man who has an unusual
amount of "book learning"
Adam Forepaugh, the circus man, wears a
diamond for which a Chicago broker re-
Gently offered him $4,000. 1t weighs forty
carats He has also a fifteen carat diamond
collar button, for which he paid $1,000.
1t is related of Judge Clementson, of Ian
caster, Wis, who is now candidate for re-
election in the Third judicial circuit of Wis
consin, that to save time and oblige the law
yers he once held court on a railroad train.
The Duke of Newcastle's proposal to pre-
sent cross of gold and gems to the altar OF
st. Paul's cathedral has aroused storm OF
comment among the clergy of the English
Protestant church. The duke is an advanced
rituallst.
The Duke of Sparta, crown prince OF
Greece who is to marry one of the Prince OF
Wales daughters, is a very handsome young
man. devoted to athletics and field sports.
He is said to be in love with all three of his
cousins, but prefers Princess Maud
Charles Lyon, of Denver, has collection
of over 700 pens, no two of which are alike.
They are of gold, amalgam, steel, india rub
Der and other materials, of all sizes and
shapes, and the collection embraces speci-
mems from all quarters of the globe
Lord Esher, the English judge, cut short a
barrister the other day who was fighting a
losing battle with interminable persistence,
with the remark 1.-THE object of reply, Mr..
Blank, is to enable counsel to repudiate the
nonsense he has talked in his opening, but
you go on repeating it."
Stephen B. Elkins, Mr.. Blaine's friend and
adviser is man of cultivated literary tastes,
and is said to have remarkable memory.
He is voracious reader and is able, after
perusing an article once, to repeat it almost
verbatim. His library is large and contains
many rare and valuable books Mr.. Elkins
is 46 years old and millionaire several times
over.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage has his study on
the second floor of his Brooklyn home. 1t
has plenty of sunlight but other than that
is not an attractive place. The floor is OF
bare hard wood, and the walls are dead
white A big table is drawn up by the win
dow, and on this are strewn letters, newspa-
pers, books, paper, pens, and all the usual
litter of a man who writes. A stiff backed
cushionless chair stands by the table. Around
the walls are rows of book shelves and files
of pawSnanerS