The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-05-24
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
ord Charles Beresford is bow legged.

Prince George of Wales favorite sport Is
bowls.
Baron James de Rothschild once sat for n
beggar.
The king of the Belgians manages to live
oil 500 900 year
Henry Clcws is building a bathroom en-
tirely fitted IN onyx.
Simon Bolivar, the Bolivian liberator, will
have monument costing tIOO,OO.
Prince Henry Of Germany has had 700 diff
fcrent photographs Of himself taken.
Baron De Helm. a chief justice of the Aus
trian empire. has seventeen children.
Chauncey Depew aud Adam Forepaugh
mi-ht he mistaken for twin brothers.
Pao Yum. president Of the Pekin academy,
is translating Shakespeare into Chinese.
Senator rarweIl gives fortune annually
to various religious missions and charities.
Archbishop Benson, Of Canterbury, Is
warm advocate of the use OF bicycles 10y the
clergy.
Wilkie Collins, Professor Huxley. George
Il. Pendieton and Dom Pedro viii pass sixty
three tins year
Joseph w. Ffer, the Republican candidate
for Governor OF Illinois, i six feet tall ana
very spare IN fesiL
Tho amecr Of Afchanistan is said to be
mcditatng a Journey to England to call on
the empires OF India Tins summer
President Seelyc. Of Amherst college, is
ablo to greet by name every living graduate
OF tine college whom he has ever met.
Father Moriara, the young priest who IS
creating such sensation with MS sermons at
Madrid. speai, twenty two languages
Professor Frank g Woodward, OF Woford
colle~.. South Carolina, has been elected to
the chair a. English literature IN the uniVer-
sty OF flat state.
Mr.. Gladstone has accepted the dedication
OF tac Ea.u,h edition OF Professor \liaIls
.Iil.ot s.,an4o.l.r This work Is no" be-
in. translated uto English Dog Mime Niilari
Senator Palmer. OF Michigan. is tho owner
of auc homestead farm and be- plants q tree
tlr.c. l.r,.cly -ei.atYr who visits AIM. III
tntl.I- g., "a b,a,u. Jones mulberry and
Sh.ru.u'.u -,i, Eastwood.
Th u.u. Ch,rs, GayaIm, who was "a
n,ub. rH tue United states senatciiIty-1nIee
y...sa.o. b., ..n living m View Orleans lie
WIS luln I'D that city m l'U5. and IS SAID 10
h.. nalsu- encyclopaedia of Louisiana
hlt,r.
$ IS Burhlm. OF Chicago, who is pres
entity .Dm- O, California % take charge oI
the .r.it telescope 1T the Lic, observatory,
has phenomenal eyes, which are said to have
naturally as -reat light eraspins power as
ordinary eyes get through q SIX men tee
scopc
Pr,.iIelt Adams. Of Cornell university.
onI President HYDE oi Bowdon college. are
s,ii O., o.. tine only two college presidents
who play tennis, Maine folks claim that
President Hyde is the better player \
match to decide the question would he very
iDtcre-,ins
,,r John Noah. Of Washington, has been
dre-.,,l iu OBJ, clothes worn by George WASH.
inctou when rc,iuug his commission, ana
ploto.ruphcl into fair counterfeit present
mont of the father OF his country at "a lie
has also successfully posed for Gen. Jackson
in All, after EcN Orleans clothes, 50 he mas
b. SIT down 20, a young man OF gifted ana
most oblsu- counteuance.
John Wanamakers brother has. been Civ
ia, some reminis,ence, Of the boyhood OF the
GREAT Philadelphia merchant His first work
WAS done 10 the clothing store OF BARCLAY
It.tiu..s.t. where bee received "A salary az
81 80 week, all of which be gave TO las
mother. tbs dinner, when he had amy, CON
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