Milford chronicle., 1888-10-12
NEWSPAPER NoroRlerY.
What the Press Says Concerning Men
More OF Less Famous.

what the Press Says Concerning Men
More or Less Famous.
Gustav Freytag, the German novelist, pre-
fers not to use the title Of nobility which has
been conferred upon him.
The emperor Of Austria is very fond Of
chamois shooting, and in that sport uses an
old fashioned muzzle loading gun.
The car has ordered that henceforth all
the dramatic artists Of the Russian imperial
theatre are to wear a uniform in public.
Byron Salesberry, the Delaware peach
grower, recently made a profit Of two cents
on a carload ofpeaches that sold for 81, 40.
Zola's residence at Medan is magnihcently
furnished and the grounds, in season, blaze
with orchids, rhododendrons and geraniums,
The mikado of Japan gets publicly and
uproariously drunk in broad daylight and
swaggers around his palace Ikea common,
every day drunkard-
During the Prince Of Wales recent visit
to Homburg he initiated some wheelbarrow
races, with ladies in the barrows trundled
along by the highest English nobility.
The richest and most influential Chinaman
in Chicago is Hip Lung, the mayor of the
Celestial colony there and the laundry king
Of the city. He is little man physically.
His fortune amounts to S20OO0O
An old gypsy named Rafael has asked the
emperor Of Austria to invest him with the
dignity of king of the gypsies, because he
can prove his direct descent from King
Pharaoh. He promises to make the gypsies
cease their vagrant habits and become
orderly people, fit to enter the army.
A negro by the name of Ross, who was
lately convicted Of murder in the first degree
and sentenced to be hanged at Brandenburg,
was granted new trial on the ground that
he had not been convicted by a jury of his
peers. There was no colored man on the jury
that tried him.
It is related of Prince Bismarck that while
inspecting the harvest work on his fields not
long since two of the reaping women, fol
lowing an old custom, seized him and bound
him with bands made Of straw. The chan
cellor submitted with good grace, and ex-
tricated himself by paying liberal ransom.
lie rode away in his carriage with the straw
bands still fastened round his arms.
Historian Bancroft visited Mrs. Polk at
Nashville, Tenn, not long ago and borrowed
the late presidents state papers. He returned
them to her a few days ago with note in
which be said: Il hope my life will be spared
to complete my history to the close Of your
husbands administration. That will close
my life work. am engaged with corps Of
typewriters and clerks, and believe will be
able to accomplish the task"
Dinizulu, the rebellions son Of Cetewayo,
is an enormous black with development Of
brain above other African chiefs He is a
total abstainer from intoxicants, but makes
up for this asceticism by maintaining large
number of wives He IS q warrior by heredi-
tary taste, and his tremendous physical
strength and wonderful swftuess Is a runner
give him great influence over his soldiers. 1t
is said of him that, unlike his kind, he has a
sense Of humor and is a hearty laughor.
But he sometimes thinks things funny that
to a white man are quite otherwise.
81 see Cen. Crook on the floor Of the board
the trade nearly every day" sold one of the
FOUNDERS the other day, "but no ono who
doesn't know him would take him for an In
dian fighter Heis of medium height, but is
well built, broad shouldered and deep chested
He wears full beard below a pair Of we'll
bronzed cheeks, His eyes are quick and
penetrating, and he has the nose of q hawk.
It is the nose Of a warrior-like Wellingtons
or Napiers. He wears light sack coat Of
grayish silk, dark trousers and a straw hat.
He is seldom without gloves. He comes on
early, generally in tow Of Jimmy Boyd or
some such man, and stays quite long while"
At Kissingen the chancellor breaks through
the general rule, and appears out Of uniform,
his favorite dress being a long black over
coat and a soft felt hat with n wide brim.
Another characteristic feature Of the Kis-
singer house is an outer court yard, which is
filled with a noisy assorted family Of ducks,
fowls, turkeys, geese and other birds, not one
Of which does Bismarck allow TO be removed.
He is understood TO spend hours in feeding
and watching his curiously assorted family,
in whose raids and quarrels and feuds he
may possibly find an pathological parallel
for much that is passing among the members
OF the still more curiOusly assorted European
"happy family" with its Bear and Lion and
Eagle and Turkey and proudly growing Cockl
Robert Louis Stevenson's voyage on the
South seas goes to show some of the pOssibil-
tiles Of American enterprise nowadays. The
whole trip was got up by the scheming brain
of O manager Of newspaper syudicates. Mr..
Stevenson hires the yacht, well equipped,
thoroughly seaworthy, and supplied with all
the modern luxuries, and sails away on a
voyage of interest and novelty. Meanwhile
all bills are paid by tho man who manages
the newspaper syndicate. When Mr., Steven
son returns he will pass over to him the man
uscript embodying the novelist's reflections
and discoveries on the voyage, and the sale
of this manuscript in America, England and
Australia will more than reimburse the syn
dicate manager. Times have changed since
Milton sent Paradise Lost" begging among
the publishers.