The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-16
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Mr. Henry James IL quite unwell In Lon
don.
ODonovan Rosa has taken TO writing
poetry.
William Gladstone says he will never sit
for another portrait.
William ID. Howells will spend the summer
in the neghborhood of Boston.
King Charles, Of Roumania, is one Of the
most expert trout fishermen in Europe.
Boulangers book appears to have fallen
fiat and is already drug in the market.
Robert Browning recently refused $1,000
from Boston publisher for short poem
Robert Louis Stevenson considers Henry
James the greatest Of living American novel
lists.
Senator Sherman's estate at Mansfield, o.,
including stocks and other investments, IS
estimated at 100000.
Alan Arthur, son of the late president of
the United States, was presented" at the
lcyee held 10y the Prince of Wales.
rhe Vanderbits spend enormous sums on
furniture, bric-a-bra and artistic decora
tons, but comparatively little on jewelry
IL is said that c. A. Dana's royalty of l2J1
per cent. on each volume sold of the Ameri-
can Cyclopndia has yielded Mr.. Dana over
100000.
Lee Figaro, Of Paris, announces the cleo
ton OF the younger NJ. Coquelin as president
Of the Society for the Protection Of Beautiful
Cravats.
Henry Willard confirms the statement that
he il about to undertake an expedition to the
South Pole DR.. Neumayer, of Hamburg,
will cooperate with him.
Mrs. Langtry now owns 5000 acres of farm
land in Lake county, Cal, and NJ. Frederick
,iebhardt is credit. with the possession OF
8. 900 acrcs more adioining.
Bristol cathedral in England has just been
adorned with large white marble medallion
and tablet in memory Of the late Mr. Samuel
Morley, the eminent phlanthropist.
The sultan of Zanzibar has a German wife
and by singular coincidence Germany OH
tains valuable concessions from his majesty
government denied to other powers.
Mr. j. Seton Carr, the English explorer
and writer has set out on journey across
this continent by the way of the Mackenzie
river and the Hudson bay company's pos
sessions.
NJ Daniel Wilson does not dare TO enter
the chamber Of deputies, but he holds on to
his seat for Tourane and pockets the salary
attached thereto; and under the present law
there is no way of getting rid Of him.
DIR. A. l.. Chaplin, the venerable ex-presi
dent OF Belot college, who was recently
stricken with paralysis, was graduated at
Yale in 1887 and seven years later went TO
Milwaukee, where be was a Presbyterian
pastor for twenty-four years.
The Duke Of Westminster is returned in
"Bateman's Landowners in Great Britain as
her majesty's richest subject; and the young
! Viscount Belgrave, grandson Of the duke, II
he lives to inherit his patrimony, will, 1t Is
stated, be the richest man in the world.
President Diaz OF Mexico is making ali
honest effort to keep on friendly terms with
the United States The Mexican govern
ment has announced that it will punish with
death interferences by its soldiers with
| American citizens or American laws when
committed on their side OF the border
Mr.. Melville w Fuller, who has been
nominated for chief justice OF the United
States supreme court, is reported to have
visited San Francisco recently in secret. He
went there on business, and kept his identity
hidden from the public because he wished to
avoid being talked with by newspaper men
The Duke of Sutherland has become 50
impoverished by the agricultural depression
In England and Scotland that he contem
plates selling Stafford house, the wonderful
mansion which. when Queen Victoria en-
tered. struck her as being so magnificent that
she said to the duke; Il came from my house
70 your palace"