The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-05-18
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Pan, de chaillu has settled for good |,
England.
Robert Louis Stevenson was paid q, 600 .fol
his last.nove
Senator Stanford affects the low nut YES
!, Of ,olden times IL
Gladstone is said to have got fo5o for 4
magazine article
The Duke of Marlborough is again In
pecuniary difficulties. [i3sft
Speaker Carlisle has just paid s94, 600 for &
house In Washington.
Minister Phelps viii not return to England
until the middle Of June.
Tennyson Ia again ut work, and, It Is stated
at O poem Of some length. l
Governor Rusk, of Wisconsin, stands six
feet three in his stockings.
| Postmaster General Dickinson Is extremely
fond Of the game Of tenpins. itla.
"Ferdinand the Sillsen" is the nickname at
Vienna for the prince Of Bulgaria.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, the great engineer,
Is extremely fond of taking cold baths.
Mr.. Balfour, the Irish secretary, used to be
nicknamed '.Clara" at school and college.
selling apples on train, at the early age of o.
President ingalls, uses sand glass to time
speakers when tho senate enforces the five
minute rule
Frank SaItus, brother Of Edgar Saltus, the
novelist, has command Of twenty-one differ
ent languages ~ve,rrs. v.f-.- .
The sultan went into mourning for EN-
peror William. although it is contrary to
Turkish custom
The papaI jubilee has turned out to have
been very expensive. 1t cost the Vatican
about $l,0O0,O00.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, now
In his Seth year, is very feeble, and his end is
fast approaching. ......
Confucius Is visiting England. He is q
Chinaman and claims to be a direct descend
ant in the seventy -second generation of the
famous Confucius who gave China a re-
ligion. sNWG tfttt e lltlesttt
Karl Formes, the famous basso, who has
lived in America for the past thirty years,
has been engaged to sing at the approaching
London season of Italian opera. He is 70
years Of age .bytf# t#
Justices Lamar and Harlan are the only
who do not own houses in Washington. Mrs.
Lamar, however, is wealthy, and intends to
buy or build house at the capital.
DR.. Carlo Gardini, husband of Mime. Gerster,
the opera singer, has received the order of
the Crown of Italy from King Umberto in
recognition of the value of the DOCTORS work
on the United States-two large volumes.
California papers are holding Israel Mat
thewson up as sample case. Ten years ago
he found a So bill on the streets Of San Fran
cisco and restored it to its owner. Today he
is worth $S0,000 and runs the biggest faro
bank In Montreal
Senator Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, was
first sent to congress in 1860. There is not
man in either house whose congressional
career dates back SO far as his. He has
served two terms in the senate and is ready
to run for another.
Mr. Isaac Pitman, the 'father of shorthand
writing" is now rs years old. He is almost
an ascetic using no wine, beer, spirits, to-
bacco nor animal food of any kind. In re-
ligion he is an earnest Swedenborgian. He
is an early riser and a hard worker
Now that Gen. Boulanger has been turned
out of the army, he is entitled to pension of
10, 600 francs year and 1900 francs addi-
tional as a grand officer of the legion of
honor. His parliamentary salary will be
Q, 900 francs, leaving him 81 900 francs in all.
Vienna bread has made many fortunes and
one of Sc, OOO,O00 came o;Count Fang, who
died recently in Vienna. In 1919 he estab-
lished the first shop for Vienna bread in
Paris, and from that gained his wealth. The
shop exists still as the Maison Fang, on the
Rue Richelieu
! "Gen" Booth, Che Salvation Army leader,
Is one Of the sharpest business men in Eng
land and has accumulated large fortune
Tickets of admission to his daughters we'd
ding to Mr. Fakeer Tucker were sold at IS
apiece, and hundreds were purchased by the
Of London. - b F EG XII
7 Immrdiately after Emperor Frederick left
San Reno thesultan sent him a collar, con-
sisting of nine hazel nuts with inscriptions
from the Koran, over which the dervishes
and she.ks of the palace had prayed, and
which, as the sultan assured the crown
prince, wonld cure him as If by magic.
The wealthiest man in the northwest is
james } HILL of st. Paul, president of the
Manitoba railroad. His fortune of SIC, 000, 900
has nearly all been made during the past ten
years in railroad speculations and real estate.
Mr.. Hill is 81 years old, and bids fair to
double his wealth before departing this life.
Crown Prince William, of Germany, had
IN opportunity of displaying his hatred for
everything English the other day, in which
dislike his own mother is included. He had
a sudden attack of nose bleeding, and several
of his suite Offered handkerchiefs to
stay the flow He refused assistance, with
the remark; THE more of this English blood
/ lose the better"
Oscar Wilde and his wife are very ordi-
nary looking pair of mortals, according to a
London correspondent. He has grown so
stout as to be absolutely unpicturesque, and
the latter, while she dresses with Q degree of
is by no means tho picture of
artistic loveliness that one might reasonably
demand that the wife of the apostle of the
should be.
Rev. Robert Collyer was 81 years old when
he came to this country. He brought his
bride over with him in the Storage. For
nine years he worked as a blacksmith in
then he became local Meth
odist preacher, but later he became Uni
tartan, and went to Chicago, where he soon
made reputation, and was then called to the
Church Of the Messiah in New vn-',