The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-03
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Secretary Endicott has forbidden the us
Of tobacco in the war department.


Secretary Endicott has forbidden the us
Of tobacco in the war department.
Mr. John A. Logan will spend year
abroad. acting rs the chaperon Of ths Mise.
Pullman. who will study music at Berlin.
Empress Frederick is greatly pleased With
SIR Morcll Mackenzie's book, and has written
a letter Of nearly twenty pages to tell him 50.
Three Englishmen now have statues in
France Lord Brougham at Cannes. Jenner
at Boulogne sur-M er and Shakespeare OF
Paris
Editor Burbsnks, of The New Orleans
Picayunc, has eleven children seven horses
pack OF dogs, pet camel six parrots, a
steam yacht, an orange grove and S2,0oO,Ooo
IN bonds
Senator Hearst Of California, is said 70
have at least one mine to every mining state
and territory in the country. Ho began
his mining ventures as a day laborcr in the
mountains
Elder T. W. Evans, the able leader Of the
Now Lebanon ~. " Shakers, iS an English
man who came TO this country in 1875. He
Is now eighty years Of age, but vigorous in
miud and body
King Khoulalonkorn, Of Siam, has just
forwarded BIS wedding present TO his royal
brother Of Cuina. II consists of a footstooI
of massive gold, studded with large rubies,
and represents o value Of 100000
Prince Constantine, Of Greece, is only
Duke OF Sparta 10y toe creation of his father,
the king Tho Greek parliament decline TO
permit any titles Of nobility and only allow
their monarchs SOILS TO be called princes by
courtesy
One afternoon as the Prince Of Wales was
walking across the Place de Ia COncorde
Paris, ho met Gen. BOulaBger They ney'W
speak as they pass by, as they have never
been presented 20 each other. They looked
at each other very sharply.
In n crowded car in Cincinnati, recently,
Gen. Sherman carried likely young colored
maiden ON his knees for five blocks She
was snatchiug at the straps, which wero just
out Of her reach, when Gen. Sherman gently
seated her on his martial knee
The London Academy speaks enthusiastic
ally Of the merits Of James Whitcomb Riley's
book Of poems, sold Fashioned Roses" 1t
says. among other things, that "it can hardly
be denied that the average Of American
books of verse is higher than the English
DR.. Morell Mackenzie's three daughters
havo q cottage OF their own on bis grounds,
with special apartments, in which they pur-
sue their studies and occupations. The
youngest is giving her time to music, and the
second daughter to painting, while tho eldest
is in journalism.
Count Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, was
found by a visitor at his country place en-
gagged in repairing the cottage Of one Of his
tenants The count was kneadiDg clay IN
large Tub, into which a peasant woman was
shoveing IT, The counts daughter was
spinning string for binding straw to thatch
the root.
King Milan. Of Servia, had a very cool re.
ception in Austria apart from the official
ceremony observed at the visits of foreign
soyereigns 20 Vienna. II is asserted that the
Emperor Francis Joseph seriously remon-
sirated with him for rot paying his gam
bling debts and for allowing his quarrel with
Queen Natalie to becomea public scandal
Marshall p Wilder tells that at a big recep-
ton in London he got into conversation IN a
corner with a quiet, steady, middle aged
gentleman. III would rather talk TO a plain
person like yourself" he said in a quiet
fashion, than TO the Duke OF Teck, who be-
hove is here" Mr. Wilder found later OH
that his Quie. companion was the Duke of
Teck himself.
Miss Elizabeth Gardner, the American art
isl, IN private letter from R0yat, France,
say: This summer / have much enjoyed
the society OF Rosa Bonhen and her sister,
who have been NY near neighbors. Every
day they 60 oily TO tic surrounding villages
10 make studies. This splendid woman is
still fullo energy and Of enthusiasm Tor her
art Size has tAat simplicity of lifo and con
vorsatlon which gives such charm TO inter
course with the most If the French masters
Usually unsociable, IN sympathetic company
she is mos. alIablc"