The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-03
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
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Andrew Carnegie has an income OF sio'co
a day.
| WD. Howells receives 5000 and upward
| for short story.
Bret Hartc is expected to join his family At
Block Island in August.
Walt Whitman has so far recovered as to
resume his literary labors.
Lord Albemarle, the Waterloo veteran, Is
a small, spare man, with bright eyes.
Senator Hiscock is said to read every new
American novel As soon as published.
There are $4,000 subscribers to the monu-
ment recently dedicated to Gambetta.
The Duke of Westminster is the richest
peer in England. Ias income is $3.50 per
minute.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Homes will be one Of
Sir Lionel Sackville Vests neighbors at
Beverly Farms
John @. Turnbull is one OF Australias
wealthiest citizens. tie is worth $50, OoO, QUO,
all made out of railway construction.
The king of the Belgans is immensely rich,
but speculation Oh the Congo has compelled
hin. to mortgage some Of his estates.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and wife, Sir
Lionel Playfair and Lord and Lady Churchill
ara expected at Newport this summer.
At u dinner given to the prince OF Wales
it was agreed that 100000 year was the
maximum man could make with his brains.
The president OF the Imperial Academy at
Pekin has undertaken, by command OF the
emperor, 10 translate Hamlet into Chinese
The youthful emperor of China rises at
O'Clock III the morning, breakfasts at d, dimes
al noon, sups at o'clock and goes TO bed
Bye
Typewriter Frank L. McGurrin, Of Salt
Lake City, has written 5, 700 words in ninety
minutes. This is much faster than the av-
eragc man talks.
The crown prince of Italy IL is believed,
will certainly marry daughter of the
Comte de Paris. He will meet Dhe princess
in England next October
The duke of Westminster is at Mount dor,
France He does not like French mutton, 50
he has ordered twenty Of his finest sheep to
be sent TO him from one of his English farms.
Air. Clifford Lanier a brother Of Sidney
Lanier, who is making name for himself in
literature, has a story entitled Tho Mates
Race with the Banshecs' in the current mum
Der Of southern magazine.
Robert j. Burdette has been taking a
ramble through the Rocky Mountains. lie
says he waited a long time Tor the mountains
to come TO him, and finally made up his mind
that he would have to follow in the footsteps
Of Mahomet.
The butter which Senator Palmer. " |
Michigan, uses on his table Is made from the |
milk of his own high bred Jersey COWS and |
costs him 50 pound. But the senator Is u
millionaire many times over and can afford /
such luxuries.
Count Tolstoi has obstinately opposed the ]
marriage OF his son with daughter Of the |
lately deceased KatkoG. The reason Tor the |
opposition to the match is the belief that
Katkoff's large fortune had not been accumu-
lated by legitimate means.
Herr Won Bulow has lest England in high
dudseon His piano recitals were not appre-
age until an English newspaper remarked |
that Great Britain wanted but little Herr
Bulow. Then ho exclaimed, Mem Gottr
and disappeared
Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon are both III. Mr. /
Surgeons physician says that he IS suffs-
ing from nervous debility, and must do no
work that he can possibly avoid for tho next
three months. Mrs. Sturgeon Is said to DO
utterly Frustrated" but her illness is not
described dangerous
DR.. j. W. Porter, of Kansas City, claims
to be the orr. inator OF the standard time sys-
tenn He says the subject was first brought
to his mind in lslS, when he was in the coast
survey, by noting the variation Of clocks and
watches He finally marked off "a standard
time map and his theory was unanimously
adopted.
It was one OF the hobbies Of Governor
Young, OF Ohio, whose death occurred re-
Gently, to keep what he called black
book, IN which he pasted every mean thing
that waseycr said about him IN the news
papers Nevertheless no was a great friend
OF the newspaper correspondents, among
whom no had a wide acquaintance
Prince Butcher, a descendant OF Marshal
Vorwarts," recently brought suit for 500
damages, which he said he sustained by the
erection OF stands for spectators in front Of
his house on the occasion of Kaiser Wilhelms
funeral The stands blocked the view from
some windows which tie prince intended to
rent to spectators. The suit was decided
against him