Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-10-29
wELL-kNowN PERSONS.

Verdi has just entered his seventy fifth
year in health and wealth
The Browning Club Of Boston has
begun another season in excellent form.
Professor James Hall, the New York
state geologist, is to prepare an elaborate
report ON the geology Of the Niagara
Falls region.
up their quarrel, and the accomplished
reader IS now giving a course of enter.
tainments at that city.
Charles Stuart Parnell has long refused
to have his portrait painted. He cannot
endure the tedium of "sittings." He Is
now, however, in the hands of Mr.. ii. j.
lhaddeus, the young painter whose por-
traits of Mr. Gladstone and the Pope
have lately attracted a good deal of at
tention
Miss Amanda Delmas is one of the most
successful sugar planters in Louisiana
She is Creole and was hrouuht mn ~ i
life Of Incidence until the wheel Of for
tune took u backward turn and She was
thrown upon her own resources. To the
surprise of her friends she took the slim.
alton by the horns, and undertook, tbe
arrangements of the plantation that he
longed 20 her Every morning Miss Del
mas may be seen riding horseback with n
PIG sunshade over her head, inspecting
the gangs Of workmen on her estate.
Prince Bismarck residence Mt Friede.
rlchsruhe is in appearance common and
Insignificant. a red brick wall separat a
It on three sides from the road. ana on
the fourth II is bounded by a dirty little
river. The principal entry is wooden
door, which might ftly belong
70 stable or coach house &
thick mass of foliage rising abovetbe
wall prevents even glimpse of tbe
house beyond IT, This house, which Il ~
ugly as the wall inclosing it. was oriei.
naily built by Hamburg hotel keener
for country retreat.
The splendid Rothschild mansion II +bo
hue Latitte, Paris glowingly described
by Disraeli in "Coningsby, has been
transformed into museum as a meme
rial Of Baron James Rothsehild. who diad
IN 1865. II was built in the time ~
Loms Nv, aud was for some time the
residence Of Queen Hortense mother ~
the Emperor Louis Napoleon. The Rotbs
childs bought it in 1922. Since the Rar.
oness James died, in 1885. it has stood
untenanted. Baron Adolph. the head ~
I ~ french branch Of the family. lives in
Prince Talleyrands old mansion IN tho
Rue st. Florentin.
The new revelations" about Kin,
Ludwig Of Bavaria and his disinclination /
TO have his kingdom Incorporated into
the herman Empire which are published /
m the Bayerische Naterlaud. are not
likely 70 please Prince Bismarck
Ihey fully confirm the statements IF 1
the Emperor Frederick in Ills diary /
that the King Of Bavaria was not in 4 +
situation to Withstand the incorporation /
me 'Naterland" states that when M /
project OF restoring the German Fmnire
was hrst mentioned King Ludwig turned
nfst TO the Empire Of Austria: next be
wrote from Stuttgart, not from Mnnicb
70 the Russian Gar Both declared ~
once that they would not interfere Is the
business. Consequently, left HELPLESS and
without any counsel from his feilov-sov
ereigns, he called his Minister of War ana
asked, Can rely upon my armvfa Herr
ven Pranekh was amazed. and renliod
our Majesty / cannot saw. This
was sufficient answer and after n com
ference OF some hours with The Austrian
Count Benst, in Hohensebvar-
gaa. the proud Bavarian kim 4vrote n
ne rrusslan hing, asking him TO assume
ne imperial German Grown.