The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-28
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Mark Twain is n baseball enthusiast.

Mark Twain is baseball enthusiast.
Boulangcr Is travelling through France
under an alias.
Justice Stanley Matthews will summer at
Pittsiiold, Mass.
Judge Tourgee, the author, has patented q
metal fence post
The czar Of Russia plays the trombone us
well as the autocrat.
Cardinal Gibbons was a bishop at 80 and
an archbishop at a..
Lord Shrewsbury has made big thing out
Of his uoiSoleSs tire cabs
DR.. McCosh is preparing set Of lectures
on Fundamental proof"
The late Marshal Iebnuf was physically
the finest man in the French army.
President Dwight, OF Yale has received
the degree OF L. ID. from Princeton.
Bishop O'Sulliyan, Of Mobile, was at one
time sexton Of church in Jersey City
L. z. Roe entcr;ains guests by reading to
the,u chapters from his forthcoming novel
WUsie Collins letters are beaded with
monogram in which a quill perces the
letters
Master j. Miller, ID years old, is the organ
r.. of St Clements Episcopal church III
Fl, ladelphia
ar. McCosh, ex-president OF Princeton col
i@s,,, will spend the summer IN Aaino aud
N~~ Hampshire.
Sheridan knew nothing OF his mothers
death and the old lady knew nothing Of her
goat sons Illness
The fine imposed upon Gen. Caiiarel, inn
p.'cated in the French decoration scandal,
has cen RENTED
A. " Longfellow, OF Portland, BE, is 70
yenrs old and bears strong resemblance TO
hia brother, the poet.
rhe prince of Wales has seventeen brothers
in-aw. sixteen uncles, fifty-seyen cousins and
fifty -eight nephews and nieces.
Sfr Walter Besant is II small, animated,
bright eyed and black haired man, fond
o. the theatre, caret and a pipe
Tie emperor OF Brazil's dill for one months
living expenses for himself and suite at
Milan, Italy, amounted to $4,000.
LOU " Al-Elef Idp llkf'itith Nffi "a Ai''AAh-
t. consider military cycling and pronounced
the bicycle military instrument of great
promise.
So far Pasteur's receipt for killing the Aus
tralian rabbits with chicken cholera has
failed The rabbit, inoculated showed no
signs Of disease.
The father Of Mr. Blackburne, the great
chess player is a professional phrcnolosist,
and predicted Of his son, when a child, that
he would become exceedingly proficient in
chess
Mad King. Ohio, Of Bavaria, no longer
amuses himself by peeling potatoes, but now
imagInos himself mole and hides in dark
corners or crouches beneath beds and other
articles Of furniture.
The word bandana comes from Hlndus-
TAM Band hnu band ma, to tie, mods
of dveng in which the fabric Is tied IN knots
80 ~ t. exclude the color from the knotted
J. ,rtions, and thus produce white spots.
When he was offered u baronetcy Mr.
George F. Watts declined it. 1t would, he
said. make me paint neither better nor
worse. nor would 1t affect ia any way the
quality Of my work, 50 where Is the use Of
itN
Mr.. Donald Crawford, whose name was
connected with the famous Dixie scandal,
has become very deyout Of late. She has
joiped the Wesleyans Ia London, and is an
enthusiastic adherent Of the Rev Hugh Price
Hughes
Sir Moreil Mackenzie, it is ruInored, l.
likely u he made a baronet by Queen Vic
toria, a. an additional mark Of gratitude for
his services to her daughter, the empress,
and her ionin-iaw, the late German en-
perOr
NJ de Blowitz, the eccentric Paris CORE
spondent OF The London Times, Is inclined TO
think that the new French rife is Il wonder
full weapon He says that it Is both noiseless
and smokeless and sends a bullet with perfect
accuracy Il distance Of four miles.
Mayor Filter, Of Philadelphia, Is a rope
IGaker and he sometimes exhibits TO his
friends a curious rope cable that he keeps IN
IN, office. 1t i, made vi hangmens ropes,
each strand having been taken from rope
by which some poor criminals neck vas
broken.
Prince Rupert, heir presumptive - tue
throne Of Bavaria. mas been orderei 70 re-
mote town Ia mad King Oluos domiuions,
with instructions u report for duty Is subal-
tern Of an artillery regiment TIC Is IN dis
grace with the regent for having run of for
a weeks spree eParis without asking leave.