, 1888-12-06
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.


very truthfully advertises Homemade
bread"
A German professor holds that only
those who have to do manual labor require
meat for breakfast.
Mrs. Amele Rives.C .Chauier contemplates
writing novel which shall rival Lola'S
lie Reve" in It's purity
Prince Bismarck has been made q d. y.
The Germans consider him the divinity
that shapes our ends.'
Nora Perrys right hand IL almost
| wholly disabled from writer's cramp.
There is nothing the matter with her
poetic feet, however.
The public has been informed that Ben.
jamin Harrison has no ear for music. But
the politirians don't care, provided he has
an ear for them.
Mrs. Berenice Chouteau, who died at
Kansas City. NO., on Tuesday, at the age
of eighty.seven, was the first white woman
to settle in that city.
The late William Warren, the actor,
left an estate valued at S2l2, 900. This
breaks the record for actors. Think of
Shakespeare dying poor!
A little girl In DeKalb county. Georgia,
rejaices in the name OF Susan Julia Me-
linda Maria Savannah Sophia Elizabeth
Lady-BuR Towers.
MIR. Liks has been left at Washington as
charge d'affaires of the Corean legation.
It is pleasing to sea Corea putting in her
best Liks in this country.
The emperor of Austria has learned the
American game of poker, and the edict
against that game which is now in force
in Austria is to be rescnded.
Bar Harbor papers never get left in the
way OF announcing distinguished visitors.
One of them has already selected cottage
for President Harrison's occupancy next
summer.
John Dillon will visit Australia during
the coming winter. his main OBJECT In
making the trip Is to recover his health,
but he intends also to do some work in the
interest of the Irish cause.
At the breakfast given to the czar and
his wife at Paku recently by Mr.. Rohel,
Russia's petroleum king" the host pre-
sented the czarina with a diamond bou-
quet-hoder worth 100000.
A procession of the London cabs would
stretch forty.five miles. There is only
public standing room for twenty-three
miles of them. The other twenty-five
miles have to 90 wandering about the
streets
An English newspaper calls James Rus
sell Lowell The Sweet Singer OF New
port that Mr.. Lowell recently acknCwl-
edged, in an unHuarded moment to Lon
doner that he was an American by birth.
1t is related of Joseph Chamberlain that
when surprise was expressed that he had
no best man at his late wedding, he re-
marked: "Well, you see, when fellow
has the courage to marry third time he
does not need anybody to brace him up"
Emperor William of Germany has con.
sented to stand as godfather to the ninth
son of poor workman at Marienburg,
and to have his august name entered in
the baptismal register. He has cent q
present of thirty marks to his prospective |
godson.
The largest professional fee for limited
service il said to have been paid to Sur
geon-m jor Freyer, Of the Indian Medical
service, for treating the Nawab of Ram
poor for three months suffering from
rheumatic fever. The Nawab gave him a
lac of rupees, $50 900.
There is q little town in France in which |
there are forty-three young women who
want TO get married, and only two mar
riageable young men, of whom one Is en-
gagged to nonresident girl. There is no
doubt that marriage is failure In the
case of these maidens anyhow.
There is one woman journalist. and only
one, reporting the proceedings OF the Par
nell commission at the London law courts.
She is said to be none other than Mime.
Ventura, the we'll known friend Of Maz-
zini She holds the seat allotted to an
Irish newspaper aud corresponds with
some continental journals.
Mrs. Langtry is going to bring her di.
vorce suit at Newport, Rhode Island, and
remembering an obstacle which another
woman, on like errand, met there, she
Ix.-., lA.. nal tn md
become fully feGAed resident. When
all this happens the way aristocratic noses
there will turn up will be sight.
The late Starr King. the famous lecturer
and theologiau. has evidently lost his grip
on English in the other world. A sermon
delivered by him, as it was claimed, ut O
spiritualistic ssance in Albany on Sunday
night, contained such lapses from gram
mar as the following: IL met young
NAN yesterday which do not doubt but
that he did the best he could, etc.
Postmaster G. General Don M. Dickinson
is said to be supesrstitious on the subject Of
that his whiskers have u reddish tinge. At
all events he believes that the sight of
white horse always brings him bad luck.
He says he never saw 40 many in his life
as On election day, and by night he felt
convinced that his party had been beaten,
though he had heard no returns.
John Harris OF Grassy creek, Kentucky,
died of JOY on hearing the news of Harri-
sons election. He was 20 years of age,
and had always been republican. One
night drum corps and fifty mounted men
went to Harris secluded home and in.
formed him that there was no doubt that
Harrison and Morton had been elected
The band played my Country, tits of
Thee" and Harris, carried away ny ex.