Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-21
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
The Prince OF Monaco Is 20 years old and
has an income Of 500 900

The Prince OF Monaco Is 20 years old and
has an income of $4,000.
Bill Nye, it is said. made 3, 60 last month
by beirg funny IN various western cities.
The Prince of WAKES is just under feet Z
inches in height. He weighs $50 pounds
The archbishop Of Gran. the Hungarian
primate. has an income of 100000 year.
DIR. Hansen, of Bergen, is preparing for
snowshoe trip across the center Of Greenland
from east 10 west
Mr. Gladstone has discarded the shabby old
victoria which he used to drive, and now
drives spanking turnout
Mr. Carl Ze,rahn. the eminent Boston mu-
sician. thinks josef Hofmann is tie most re
markable musical prodigy since Mozart
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria is not a big man.
but it tegins TO look as though be would
eventually overturn the peace OF Europe
Joss.1h Chamberlain expects to have baron
hoslors thrust uron him when be gets 70 Lon
don. Ii Lie is not made baron he may De
knighted-
Cardinal Gibbons is said to be the favorite
of English. German and Russian cardinals
for the highest office in the church when
Pope Leo dies.
Gen. Bragg, United States minister to
Mexico. is now on his way to the Land OF
the Montezauls. He is accompanied by his
wife and daughter.
Col Valentine Bakers friends. including
the most distinguished soldiers ami sailors OF
the British forces, are getting up subs',rip-
ton for his widow.
stagg. the famous pitcher of the Yale nine,
will twirl the sphere for that team during the
coming season. lie enters the tale Iheo-
logical seminary IN September.
1t is pleasant to observe that in his last
fight OsInan Digna was only wounded In the
left foot Hitherto he has been killed SIX
times and fatally wounded three times
Ion Gennadius, the Greek minister, is
bachelor. He is d. c. l.. of the Oxford
university. and wears a short jacket and
multifolded stiff white petticoat for full
dress.
Baron Hirsch de Gerenth, who has been
raised to the Austrian house Of peers by the
Emperor Francis Joseph, is the first hebrew
to receive such an honor. 1t cost hun 3d.
100000 i'll charity
Secretary Whitney has two sons old enough
10 be away at boarding school One of them
wrote home the other day: ave have Il de
batting society. and one of our favorite sub
jects is: The United States navy and how
might it he improved y"
The mikado, according to japanese
lecturer in the Berlin Academy of Oriental
Languages. is descended from the gods, and
is the l2lst OF his race The national reilglon,
Sivtois,n, possesses 100000 gods and saints,
and there are l36, 600 temples.
At 10 years OF age the Hon. Hugh McCul-
loch looks and acts like man of 81. lie re-
calls with satisfaction that during his six
years at the treasury department, two as
controller Of the currency and four as secre-
tary. he was not absent in all two weeks
Mr.. Browning has added short notice to
the new edition of his wfes poems just Is
su.l Ii tells thut Mrs. Browning was born
at Carlton Hill, Durham, her uncles house,
in 1865 She was at the time OF their mar
riase 40. while he was her junior by SIX
years.
W. r. Hughes, of Manchester, England,
hns in his house Dickens Room. which
contains from 1000 to 5000 articles relating
to the famous novelist. Among these are
sixteen portraits, 200 volumes Of Dickens
works. with no less than eighteen editions OF
"Pickwick" and a copy of the "Autocrat OF
the Breakfast Table with an inscription by
DR.. Holmes, bought at the sale of the Dickens
library