The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-28
AGRIsT OF GOSSIP.

PRINCE BISMARCK sleeps ten bou1s a
day. but he is the widest awake man
In Europe the other fourteen.
MRS. KUKI. the wife of the Japanese
minister at Washington, is said TO spsak
lish."
THERE is not a cross eyed baseball
player In the country. 1t is a general
superstition that a cross-eyed man
would irretrievably hoo-doo the game.
MRS DR.. SCHLIEMANN won the love of
her husband when she was girl of Is
She talked Greek to him, and he re-
piled with passages from Ovid.
De. d. III. CoLT recently lost $50 900 in
Wall Street. Now he is in an insane
asylum, and imsgines that he is jaw
Gould's partner and worth $50, GOO, 900.
IT'S said that every year Worth, the
Parlslan dress-maker, allows each of
his lady employees to choose dress and
have 1t made ny according to her own
taste.
GENERA BotLANGER recently sent
his autograph to Chicago collector
| thus: General Boulanger a simple
soldier in the French army and a friend
OF the Americans.
Ex-GovERNoR MERRILL, of Iowa, who
went 10 California less than two years
ago. Is said to be several times a
mlllionai already, his land and min
Ing speculatlons having all been sue
cessful.
The home of the late W. w. Corcoran
at Washington is now deserted save by
the care-takers. The servants have
been dismissed, and the members of
the family have scattered themselves
far and wide.
CAROLINE HERsCUEL the discoverer
OF eight comets, and the accomplished
partner of her brOther's astronomical
labors. never could remember the null
upllcatlon table, and always had to
carry copy of it about her.
DR.. MoRELL MACK ENzIE is friendly to
reporters, in which respect, as we'll as
in others, ne differs from his colleague.
DR.. Bergman, who, when recently sp-
preached by a would-be interviewer,
said, abruptly: Get out! or I'll have
you arrested"
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was 50 years
OF age on the 22d, Wsshington's birth
day. In recent letter he saws: I'll
had the misfortune to be born on the
22d, and thus to be brought into COM
peutlon once a year with the most
august figure i'll our history"
THERE are but two original portraits !
OF Edgar AlleI. Pee in New York City. |
One is an oil painting of the poet in his |
better days, and hangs in the gallery of |
the Historical Society; the other is !
small water color of him in after life, I
with mind and body nearly wrecked,
and belongs 10 a private collection.
PEOPLE who keep posted on such
things say that Mary Anderson has at |
last lost her heart to big
German student IN Heidelberg, who |
has q mustache that he can tie in |
a double bow knot at the back of his |
neck, and who has fourteen scars on his
aquiline nose. as result of a score of |
duels-student's duels.
Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD has been tell
ing English audiences what he thinks
of this country. The only cheap .lux-
uries that he discovered, were oysters |
and ice. What most displeased him
was American town nomenclature and
''GrlggsVllle, "Briggsville," and the
like set his teeth on edge. Mr.. Arnold
has good taste.
Mr.. AND MRS. w. 4. VANDERBILT are
said to have been frightened out of their
Bavarian castle by ghosts. They had
leased the royal house for several
months, but only remained in it two
nights. Their rest was disturbed by
peculiar noises that could not be &C
counted for, the lease was given up. and
the disturbed couple returned TO Paris.