The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-20
PERSONAL GOSSIP.


y best Of healsh and spirits.
: Edwin Booth does not like Newport, am
ill sell his cottage there.
;. Prince Bismarck has been presented with
d valuable yacht by Stuttgart admirers.
= DR.. William A. Hammond asserts that tb,
g brain Is not an organ absolutely essential L
r life
= hlnong the poverty stricken kings Of thi.
world Milan, of Servia, is said to wear the
d crown.
Bishop Vinton's place as manager of Chau
tauqua is being taken this year by his son
George.
= The earl of Buckinghamshire was Sl5 a
? month farm laborer In this country some
: seven months ago.
English gossips still claim that Joseph
Chamberlain and Miss Endicott are to be
married in the fall
stagg, Yale's great pitcher, is at the head
Of the baseball nine at Chautauqua. The
nine is still invincibls.
Sitting Bull, the renegade Sioux, says he
is getting to be an old man. He has been an
old rascal good many years
Sir Richard Owen, the great comparative
anatomist, has entered his eighty-fifth year
in capital form, mental and physical
Nictorien Sardou says that Alphonse
Daudets most relentless enemy is not the
French academy, but the French grammar
They say Sam Jones is capital illustration
OF his own remark that ''when God wants a
| good man he makes him as ugly as mud
fence
Sir John f. Mllais is popular with his
models. He pays them well, treats them
kindly, and never sends one away without 3
good dinner.
1t is said that Gen Won Moltke kisses all
L. babies he meets in the course Of his morn
ing walks, and that he is much pleased when
fond mother waylays him with malice pre-
pcnsc
John Detwiler, of Mansfield, O.. claims to |
be the Oldest active travelling salesman west |
of the Alleshanie5. lie has been on the road |
constantly for thirty-live years.
James Payn, at nearly 90 years of age. is
square headed, broad proved and specialized,
looking Ike prosperous doctor rather than
ali author. He has eleven daughters
Emperor William III assures Frau Wagner
that lie considers it his sacred duty TO protect
the Wagnctian performance at Beyreuth. 1t
will be remembered that William has an
affection OF the ears.
Lieut. \. &. C. Quay, son OF the senator
from Pcunsy lvania, who was graduated a
lieutenant from West Point last June. has
been assigned 10 service in the Eighth cav
airy, and will be given a chance to win his
spurs in Dakota.
The deaths Of Emperors William and Fred
erick has cost the princes Of Thun and Taxis
the enormous sum Of $4,000. because. as
feudal lords Of the Prussian domain of Kro-
toszyn, they have 10 pay $50, 900 on the de-
cease Of every king of Prussia
Gen. c. b. Fisk the Prohibition candidate I
or the presidency, is an epicure in sea food !
fishes, and nothing tickles his palate SO much
Is a delcately prepared fish dinner. From
having made his fortune in the fish ard y
'yster trade he is sometimes known as 'Clam
Bake" Fisk
King Ja-Ja, of G,obo, the deposed West
African sovereign whom England exiled to
he West Indies, is being somewhat feted at
It. Vincent. He is invited 10 lawn tennis
'arties and various social functions, where
e struts about in an admiral's uniform and
i'd gloves, bearing himself with kingly dig .
ity.
Baron Albert Rolhschild has purchased
ne largest mirror telescope that has been
at Paris for 1000 forms, and j
resented it to the Vienna observatory. A :
allery for it has also been built and en- +
owed by the baron. The total cost Of the s
,ieRtific gift viii I1s:.r- ~ SsOFe than \
S ,0O0
\ noted old time statesman who is occa-
onally seen in Washington is Galusha A.
row, Of Pennsylvania, who was speaker Of n
e memorable war congress which was 6
died in special session Oh July 4, 1861 He
well preserved and although politically on
e shelf has lost none of the amiabiiity for
hich he was distinguished. q
The man behind the parliamentary scenes .
Us in a London weekly: The courtshp Of s
/. Chamberlain with Miss Endicott goes on 4
ace and the marriage will take place prob IA
ly at the beginning Of next year. 1t is =
ely the bride room elect will 90 to Amer =
| about the end of Septemb TO pay an- 7
ler visit. ~,
the Marquis Tseng, formerly Chinese min
or to England and the United States, has J
It celebrated the marriage Of his daughter, -iv
dy Blossom, after asking her consent to a =
sband. This is a reversal of Chinese Gus
n. Tho marquis kept up other customs as, -
example, Leading the procession carry II
l40 tables of presents about the streets of a.
Kin O,
Inc 70 d Of the sultan of Turkey is cooked
one man and his aids. 1t Is prepared in
-er vessels, and each vessel is sealed by r
} OF paper and stamp after the meal is
ked. These seals are broken in the pres ny
C of the sultan by the high chamberlain,
D takes a spoonful OF each dish before the
an tastes it, The annual expenditure of p,
sultan's household is over 81, 100000 mer
&c.
ASTRONOMICAL IT'D BITS.