The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-01
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

John L. Sullivan has just celebrated bis
Goth birthday.
Long John Wentworth was worth 5000
5OJ When he died.
Charles King, Of Midd'eto Mass. Is i17
years old and has over COZ living desceud
ants.
Misc rrah;.pe Hottal has just spent soj, 00f)
for bric-a-brac 10 orn rment her house a.
Lake HoPatcong
Tho young Duke Of Newcastle Is % years
old and ROT at all handsome, but lie has an
income + 5000 a year.
Mrs Fumi Anao, tho wife of the japanese
consul general at Honolulu, devotes her tinso
largely to temperance work.
Sir More Mackenzie was impcled to
study medicine and surgery by the earnest
advice Of his widowed mother
Henry Willard says he attributes hissuccess
as railroad man 10 the knowledge he gained
OF human nature 10y newspaper work
\ handsome offer has been made 10 Col
Robert =. Inscrsoll by foreign manager %
deliver forty lectures in Europe next spring
TIC tfliiAt--f '4t I III - isA' VtIftfh ft|V
small gold ross TO present 10 some Of the
most faithful adherents OF her husbands
family
John Rrskin has at lensth permitted
Photograph Of himself to be given TO the
public. Ruskin loves beauty, but he is not
beautiful.
john Ct. Thittier's great ambition when
be was a boy vas to become a politician
But the world gained By tho fact that be did
not lay his pipes but piped his lays.
Mr.. Gladstone is at work on bis own alto
biography Gays a Chicago newspaper Glad-
stone is "a great man, but he could hardly
write unosher mans autobiography.
The Duke and Duchess dAosta dispensed
with honeymoon and are living quietly at
the dukes palace They will shortly pay
visit to Empress Eusenie at Marlborough.
Dir. Hubert Herkomer, in recent lecture
rpon art, said that an artist had mo right"
to paint tho portrait Of man with whom be
had no sympathy or OF a woman whom he
did not admire.
Tho Rev f. L. H P0tt, a young Episco-
palian clergyman Of Greenwich, Conn, who
went out 10 China about a year ago, has
married Miss 5. n. Wong, whose father was
the first Chinese convert to Christia nifty
Cardinal Gibbons is a small man with steel
gray eyes, close cut gray hair and a genial
manner. He never refuses "A visitor and il
always willing, when interviewed on any inn
portant subject, 70 talk-abogt the weather
Tho late Mrs Burns Macdonald, men
toned by the queen in her journal as solo
hciress and descendant Of the Macdonalds OF
Glencoe, was fascinating little grand
mother at the age Of 40, excessively fond Of
dancing, particularly waltzing, and a beau-
tiful embroiderer Of her own evening dresses.
The news from Europe that Nine Nicoini-
Patti, not being able TO find purcha er for
craig-y-Nos, has decided 10 turn the castle
into an institution for the cultivation Of the
voices of poor but gifted girls. Ii she shall
carry out this design her farewell concert
tours and even her high prices will be for
given.
The Duke Confucius, linea descendant Of
China's greatest sage, Is ono OF the greatest
personages III Pelsin. Ho is about 20, and
of singularly aristOcratic AMI prepossessing
appearance His nose is Of kind very un-
common amongst the Chinese, being OF the
type known rs the Roman, but small and
finely chiSeled