The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-02-16
TALK ABOUT PEOPLE.
Personal Paragraphs and bits of Cos,
Clipped from the NewspapeYs

Personal Paragraphs and bits of Gossip
Clipped from the Newspapers.
Oscar Wilde is of the opinion that tho
Twentieth century will see intellectual
development all in the hands of women.
Extra Billy Smiths daughter has
been given the right by the Virginia leg
islature of placing the state seal ON the
monument over her fathers grave.
Professor Van Benschcten of Wesleyan
university owns one of the rarest gems
of Greek pottery in existence. 1t is an
Athenian vase which was made 1000
B. C.
The present queen regent of Spain.
Christina of Spain, has never been able
to endure the final and bloody spectacle
of the bull fights, but attends tie earlier
scenes of the brutal show.
Queen Victoria dislikes the electric
light and refuses to have it in her
palaces. She has at length permitted one
of the royal yachts TO be fitted with cleo
trio lamps, except her sleeping cabin and
salon.
| Nine. Gerster, whose recent failure in
opera created q sensation in musical cir
cles, is now living with her brother, DIR.
Gerster, in New York. where She is I'M
dergoing treatment in the hope of recov-,
ering her voice.
John Brown, of New York, has been
| the tailor of every president since Andrew
Johnson's time, and still his shears go
marching on. He recently spent three
hours with President Cleveland and took
| orders for seven suits.
Henry Fielding Dickens, son of the
late Charles Dickens, the novelist, is a
lawyer who has high reputation for
wit and oloquence in the London courts.
| He is clever in cross examinations and
| epigrammatic in his oratory.
The queen of Portugal is an accom-
| plished potter. When staying at the sea-
side last year she constantly visited an
| important factory close by and was so
| interested that she took lessons in the
| whole process of manufacture.
/ Probably the richest woman in New
England is Mrs William Gammcll. of
Providence, whose fortune is estimated
at from $12, 900, 900 to $40. 600, ,O0o The
| foundation Of it was laid in tlic days
| Wlieu DCotOll IlflSl lllaili WIS III
| its glory.
Charley Hawkins of Americus, Ga.
| has recently been experimenting in rat
raising, and by caging the common black
rat with number of white ones, has
produced an entirely new breed Of ro-
| dents. From tile center of the body back
they are perfectly white, while the head
and shoulders are black, Ike the common
rat. They are very gentle and run about
at will all over the town.
DIR. o. w. Holmes is one of the familiar
| figures ON the Boston thoroughfares. His
| genial face and rotund form are recog-
nized by most of those he meets, aad
even though they may never have been
| formally presented to him, they recognize
him with a bow as he passes by. 1t may
not bo generally known that DR.. Holmes
amiabIe wife is still his faithful counselor
and friend. She is not i'll the best of
health, SO she did not accompany him to
England last year, but she is far from be-
ing an invalid. Mrs. Holmes is one OF
the dearest of OLD ladies, and she is al
ways on hand in the Beacon street home
to welcome the many visitors who come
to pay their respects to her distinguished
and popular husband.