The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-05
NEWSPAPER NoroRigrv.
Personal Gossip Concerning Men and Wo.
men Whom the World Knows.

Personal Gossip Concerning Men and Wo'
| men Whom the World KnowA
The queen OF Italy employs as her den.
fist an American, DIR. Chamberlain oy
name.
King Milan of Servia threatens to pub
lish his wife's letters to him during their
courtship.
The wife Of well known Vienna
banker lately displayed forty toilettes in
twenty-one days at Carlsbad
Mr.. Clinton Scollard, the writer Of
pleasant verses, has been appointed as
sistant professor Of rhetoric at Hamilton
college.
A female athletic club has been or.
gained in London for the purpose Of en-
couraging athletic sports among the
gentler sex.
There will be beauty show at Spa,
Belgium. Entries must be between
20 and 30 years of age, and show a Ger.
tificate Of good character.
1t is said that DR.. Margaret Crumpton,
who has just been elected delegate from
Pittsburg to the Pennsylvania Medical
society, is the first woman in the United
States to receive such commission.
Queen Regent Christina of Spain is ex.
ceedingly superstitious, and is a great
believer in what is called fate; she has,
moreover, great faith in "affinities" and
the influence Of one person over another
for good or evil.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, writer Of" Rob-
ert Elsmere, " is niece Of the late Mat
thew Arnold. She lives with her hus-
band in London, and their home is the
model of a literary household. Mr..
Ward is an editorial writer for The Lon
don Times.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth's imagi-
nation in sensational novel writing does
seem unlimited. Now 70 years of age,
she is about to publish her forty fourth
novel, From a pecuniary standpoint her
work has certainly paid her richly.
The important information that the
Prince of Wales and the car of Russia
are no mean performers on the banjo is
communicated to gasping world. The
prince, it is added, can, after returning
from opera or opera bouffe, pick out the
tunes on the banjo with remarkable "a
cility.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that
he usually replies to the request for his
autograph when card for the signature
and stamped envelope are inclosed.
Among the requests that he did refuse
was one addressed to Miss Olive w.
Holmes" He thought the writer of that
knew too little about him to have a gen.
uine longing for his handwriting.
Mrs. Senator Brown, of Georgia. knits
all her husband s socks and knits also the
old fashioned purse in which he carries
his money, recalling the boast that every
American ought to ''see his gold and
silver cleaning through the meshes of
his silken purse"
The widow of President Polk is in her
87th year. She is feeble and rather for
getful, but she maintains her cheerful
ness and her interest in the world about
her. Of late she has been taking her
meals in her own room, and leaves it
once day to take an airing on the porch.
Here she sits and receives her visitors.
A few years ago well dressed, fine
looking stranger called on Professor
Packard of Bowdoin college and asked
permission to look over the college build
ings. The professor courteously showed
him all about the institution, and when
the stranger went away he left his card,
on which was the name Henry Winkley.
A short time afterward the college re-
ceived Mr. Winkley's check for $4,000
with which to found a professorship Of
Latin, and now upon his death the col
lege receives 100000 more.
Mrs. w. M. Dills, of Springfield, Mo-,
is said to be the best judge of horsefesh
in that valley. Mrs. Dills is a southern
woman, and comes from the blue grass
region of Kentucky, famed for its horses,
its pretty girls and its whisky. Mrs.
Dills has not neglected her household du-
ties for her stock farm, and she has
reared an interesting family. 1t is re-
marked by one who has made some study
of the subject that when southernwomen
are thrown upon their own resources
they show an energy that used to be at
tributed only to the daughters Of New
England
Miss Nellie Gould is an artist of no
mean ability, and her collection of brio
a-brac, adorned by her own brush and
pencil, is much admired. She is proba-
bly, the richest heiress in America, and at
her fathers death will come in for
twenty or thirty million dollars. Like
her mother, she is not too proud to wait
on herself. She does not mind riding in
horse cars, and does not put on nearly as
many airs as the wives Of some of the
men who serve her. Last spring she took
to Atlantic City several little girls from
New York charity hospital and cared for
them with great kindness and considera-
ton.
NJ. Salaza, the young French tenor and
prizeman of the Conservative, about
whose engagement the authorities of the
Paris Grand Opera and Opera Comique
have been wrangling, was two years ago
only humble shoemaker in provincial
town. One day as he was going about
the streets singing passer by stopped
him, and asked him to call at the for
mer's house. This Saleza did, with the
result that he at once abandoned shoe
making forever and set to studying his
scales. Later on he entered the Con-
servatoire. If the minister of fine arts,