Milford chronicle., 1888-11-02
MEN WRITTEN ABOUT
Bits of Personal Gossip Concerning MeE
of Newspaper NOtoriety.

Bits of Personal Gossip Concerning Mon
of Newspaper NOtoriety.
The Duke of Oporto has been taking lessons
in photography.
Hokusai, japanese author, has published
a new novel in ninety volumes. He is evi-
dsntly writing for posterity.
DR.. Metzger, who treats the mouarchs of
Europe with massage, was first a butcher,
then teacher of athletics.
A portrait has been painted OF the baby
king of Spain mounted upon rocking horse.
It shows him to be handsome, manly look
ing little fellow.
DR.. 7. Maccall, Of Morecambe, England.
has patented hydrophobia virus destroyer.
The instrument is in the form Of pencil,
and can be attached to a key ring.
Perhaps with view to save his voice, Mr..
Gladstone has quite recently acquired habit
of speaking rapidly-very different from the
measured tones in which he used to address
an audience.
r. H. Stoddard, the poet, has a lock of
hair believed to have been cut from the head
Of Milton. 1t is light brown or golden and
has been successfully owned by DIR. John
son, Leigh Hunt. George H. Boxer, and
others.
The mournful information comes from
Paris that II. de Brazza thinks that Mr..
Stanley is wanting in prudence in his ex-
plorations, and that he will not succeed in
his present enterprise Ho condescends to
say, however, that his opinion of Mr.. STAN
ley is very high one.
Prince Bismarcks favorite apartments in
his country palace at Friedrichsruhe are very
simply furnished In his bedroom the furni-
ture is of pine, with no trace Of covering or
other ornalnentation, and is not nOticeably
different from that found in any poor peas
ants hut in the neighborhood.
Lord Lonsdaie, who is somewhere up in
Canada, on his way overland to the Arctic
seas, IS keeping diary for publication. He
sends it home in sections to certain friends,
who are instructed to keep it for his future
use. He thus saves himself tho writing of a
lot Of merely personal letters, and gets the
manuscript of his book up at one sand the
same time
Wong Chez, a San Francisco Chinaman,
purchased a dIslwing room ticket to Chicago
week ago. He is the first one OF his ma
tionality who ever committed such an ex-
travsgance. The privilege of riding in a
drawing room car from San Francisco to
Chicago cost him S5S extra. HIS country
men in California consider him daft.
Montgomery Sears, who is among the four
wealthiest men Of Boston, was the son OF a
grocer who lived on half dollar Il day and
slept in his store. He acquired some real IS
tate, and when he died left his moderate fort
lne to his son under the care Of trustees.
Young Sears chafed at this, and finally sue
ceeded in breaking his fathers Will He has
gone on acquiring property until hisswealth
is estimated at many millions.
NJ. Arthur Meyer, editor Of lie Gaailois,
Paris, is said to have declared in his youth
Il shall be gentleman Of society. shall
force my way into the most carefully guarded
drawing rooms shall be the equal Of
princes. / shall kiss the hands of duchesses.
shall be on intimate terms with the greatest
houses Of the Faubourg st. German. In a
word, shall be the Beau Brummel Of the
Jews" He has realized his ambition.
Some one took advantage-of the eccentric
acoustics Of tho statuary han in the national
Capitol to play cruel joke the other day. on
John J. Joyce, the poet, who claims to have
written one Of Mrs. Wilcox's poems Mr..
Joyce was standing uncovered in the middle
Of the hall when suddenly q voice from over
the marble clock, another from the arched
roof overhead, and yet another directly un-
der his feet repeated in measured tones the
first lineof tho disputed poem; Laugh, and
the world laughs with you" A look OF great
distress came over the poets face and be