, 1888-05-17
PERSONAL PlcklNoS.


The late rzar Is to have o monument In the
Krernln costing $650,O00.
The king OF Portugal will make tour Of
nor.he Europe for his health.
Tho Prince Of Wales Is again undergoing
treatment to reduce his obesity
The owner Of The London Times, Mr. Wal.
ter, is now on the verge Of peerage
Paul Phillippoteaux. the cycloramic artist,
has just celebrated his thirty-eighth birth
day.
Gen. Boulanger has completely passed out
Of existence Us far as the French press Is con-
cerncd.
Mr.. Lorilnrd, the tobacco man, is hunting
in Florida with costly yacht and several
g., 500 dogs.
Senator Cockrell is credited with having
used three gallons of ink in his private cor
respondence last year.
Senator Riddleberger shows no signs OF
age. To use an athletic expression, he seems
10 be in very good form.
John James Piatt, the Buckeye poet, has
returned to his post Mt Queenstown, Ireland,
where he is United States consul
Pasteur's plan Of extermnating rabbits by
lnoculating them with chicken cholera hos
been tried at Rheims with success.
Kaiser William has contributed 100000
marks to nelp along the Berlin opera. It
was precisely tie amount of last years de-
tlcit
Berry, the English hangman, has executed
ll3 persons up TO the present time, sixteen Of
them having been in Ireland and two i'm
Scotland.
King John, of Abyssinia, hates the sight,
taste and smell of tobacco, and ho cuts of
noses and lips of smokers and chewers in his
iom!nons.
The most costly private collection of pict
ares in the west II said to DO that OF Mr..
Nickerson, president of the First National
Bank Of Chicago
Ex-senator David Merriwether, OF Ken
tncky, the appointed successor OF Henry
Clay, has recently been visiting Washington.
lie is so years old.
Ex-Governor Alger, OF Michigan, is said to
own over 100 square miles of forest land near
Alpena, bearing more than SOC, ,000, 900 feet Of
standing pine timber.
President Carnot Is credited with saying
that any Frenchman who would declare war
against Germany while Moltke and Bismarck
are alive ought to be shot.
Professor Van Benschoten, of Wesleyan
owns one of the rarest gems OF
Greek pottery in existence. 1t Is an Athenian
vase, which was made 1000 Is. e.
There arc four men in the house who part
their hair in the middle They arc Raynor
and Belmont on tho Democratic side, and
Phelps and Long OH the Republican side.
The German embassador at Rome gets
fj, 900 n year, while the st. Petersburg and
London embassies each pay G7,500. The
Spanish representative is to have 95 900.
Forty-one thousand chasublcs formed ono
portion of the pope's jubilee gifts. The Char
treuse monks sent E2O, 900 in cash, aud Cali
fornia sent staff filed with gold dollars
A California millionaire named Buckley,
nys The Irish Times offered to make Mr..
Parnell his heir and, on being rebuffed.
asked Mr.. Parnell to name somebody else.
Prince Eugene, of Sweden, has been study
ms art in Paris under All incog Sometimes
he is recognized under this thin disguise.
and seized upon by fashionable reception
givers,
All efforts 10 induce Governor Hill to try
lhe toboggan slide at Albany this year have
been vain. He took ono ride down the chuto
last season, and he says that no never wants
another.
Gen Longstreet, the Confederate soldier,
Is living ut his country seat near Ganesvillc,
Ga. lie Is said 60 be growing gray and old,
but he is active and looks after his farm with
= watchful eye.
Tho author of tho famous forged letters
which caused SO much trouble between Rus
MA and Germany is said TO be Count do Kat
ssazy, who was formerly Russian minister
st Washington.
One of the latest of Mr. Whttier's birth.
isy presents was n balsam pillow. Tho bal
nm which ii contair7 grew by tho grave OF
uelen Hunt jackson, in Colorado, and tho
pillow was nado by nm Indian girl.
Hannibal Hamln refused to don an over.
coat even during the recent severe blizzard
In Maine, when the mercury sunk out OF
sight. He 40 far compromised himself, how
sver, as to put on u new pair of woolen nit
lens
II Is said that George Gould does not spend
over 81 900 year ON clothes. He Is very
modest in his taste and always selects good,
plain cloth, but il very particular regarding
the fit His youL ger brother Edwin is more
Of n dude
The most cha, ..cteristic pnrt Of the per.
sonal adornment OF Senator George, OF Mis-.
s;ssippi, Is an old fashioned, open faced silver.
watch about as b.S as n tin dipper, which no
carries in his breeches pocket, hung upon the
end of shoe string.
Sardo., tho French dramatist, Is building
q magnificent villa Mt Nice for tho special
benefit of Sara Be-nhar1t The three larg-
est and most magnificent apartments of tho
villa have been designed and furnished and
set apart for her.
Prnccton's class of '79 was the wealthiest
sver at the institution. It's members are now
considering tho project Of presenting the col
ege with an elegant bronze statue of DR.. Nc
Gosh, to be made by II. Gaudens The cost
will be about s25,0lO.
James Whitcomb Riley began his career
Is a sign painter, md for tme Travelled
through Indiana with a patent medicine
man. He looks more like comic actor than
ipoet, and he adds many of the qualities Of
tic former to those of the latter.
Cant Smith Cool, who 10 m candidate for