Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-31
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Mr.. Gladstone is writing his memoirs

Mr. Gladstone is writing his memoir&
Count won Moltke wears a yellow wig
Rev. DR. TaInage has 1. ls4 souls under his
command
The czar is about to build a palace near
Kazka, in Finland.
LTei BeacoIlstield's nephew, Mr. G. R. Dis
raeli. came Of age On Feb. =.
Buffalo Bill has been presented with gold
watch and chain By some Of his admirers
Henry jams the novelist, prides himself
OIL his resemblance TO the Prince Of Wales.
John Piatt, Miss Alcotts adopted son, has
Inherited all his adopted mothers copyrights.
Burdette. the ham0rist, Is alternating the
lecture platform with the pulpit in Cali
fort.ia.
Prince Bismarck, at dinner recently, pro-
pared th. health Of the car Of Russia in
French
The Prince Of Naples, the only son Of the
King of Italy, is to he married to a German
Princess
slr. W. H. H. Murray is going on tour Of
exploration 10 the extreme north Of British
America
Sir Charles Dixie will, in all probability,
beodn his political life over again during the
next eighteen months.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has ven memorial
chapel to Trinity Episcopal church, San
Francisco
William Henry Hurlburt Indignantly de-
MIA the rurnor that he proposes becoming
British subject.
Viscount Eversley, aged %, is the oldest Of
the English peers, and the Duke Of Albany,
who has ilst completed his ID year, the
youngest.
The story that Emperor Frederick III re-
GREETED the deprivation Of his pipe Is not
true. lie never smoked pipe except when
bunting or campaigning.
Oscar Wilde purchased Carlyle's book case
In an auction room. Ii is plain wooden
structure, made expressly for the philosopher
when he was young man
Exl-resident Andrew b. White announces
that the corner stone Of the new library
build.ng at Cornell university will be laid by
President Cleveland In June.
Gems. Sherman, Sheridan, Howard and
Terry are the only four men now living who
have personally received the thanks Of the
congress Of the United States.
Sir William Jenner, the English court
ply stefan, Is often called TO Windsor to see
tho queen. His visits are never mentioned
in tIc court circulars, but are always kept
secret
Senator Evarts Is said TO make from 81,
O0J - 1000 year out OF his law practice.
Senator Edmunds has income from the
law that is five times great as his salary as
senator.
The son Of W. W Story, the American
sculptor, has followed in his fathers foot
stets He has recently received very large
orGer from Baron de EothsChId, which will
PROBABLY take HIM five years to ill.
Thomas F. Baynrd Is the only living man
who was balloted for iii the st Louis con
vent.on Of 1896 Tilden, Hendricks, Allen
and Packer are dead, and John Kelly and
john Morrissey have followed their chiefs.
A great many drawing rooms in Washing
ton are now more or less adorned with large
sized photographs OF Joseph Chamberlain
The 81 nate chamber viii probably be adorned
with Josephs scalp when tue fish treaty
comes up
Mr. Gladstone is now TO take his turn in
dcmollshns Robert G.. lngersoll, the most
lannon's American a,saliaHt Ot the Chrstian
system OF which Mr.. Gladstone IL u CHAM
pioa. The British statesman viii work his
religious batteries through an American
ma- azine ueNt May.
The Grown Prince Nicholas of Russia, who
il cow / years old. Is described as IN aifec-
ttulltc warm hearted boy who is great
GIyur.te win every one and who possesses
vcry democratic notions. At the same time
10 has hi, tathers imper!ous will, and does
not like to nave his plans lnterfered with