Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-16
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Gen. Horace Porter h the youngest looking
man Of his age In the country
Ex-President Cleveland is said to have in.
vented q new fly for trout fishing
Lord Tennyson received a royal order for
poem on the recent Fife wedding.
Attorney General Miller will not enter any
carriage unless he can handle the reins him
self.
Secretary Blaine spent twenty eight years
Of his life In Washington. and never joined
club
Milan Obrenovitch, ex-king of Servia, has
an income Of $4,000 and Is steadily running
into debt
The amount devoted by the Prince Of Wales
to the provision Of his daughters trousseau
was $4,000
Mr.. Ernest Longfellow has Just developed
q beautiful set Of views taken during recent
trip through Italy.
Joseph Chamberlain once wrote a comedy
which was Immediately rejected as 'unsut
able TO any stage"
Col. A. f. Jones, who was murdered in
Cincinnati, was an uncle Of Robert Bur
dette. the humorist
Senator Quay is said to receive more let
tiers than any other man in the United States
except the president
Phineas T. Barnum's activity and energy
at this period Of his life are surprising, even
TO the people who know him BEST.
Martin Farquhar Upper, the famous au
thor Of "Proverbial Philosophy" lives in a
handsome country house in England.
NJ Renan declines all offers to write for
foreign periodicals. He says that he must
devote all his time to French literature
The shahs present visit to England has
brought out the fact that at his last visit be
tried to buy the Duchess of Manchester.
NJ Jules Simon, the eminent French states
man, has quiet dignity, ease, cool head, and
the faculty to simulate warmth and genuine
emotion.
Marshal Mac Mahon, ex president of France,
now in his slst year, Is as fresh as a boy, and
has never yet had from a natural cause a
days sickness
In summer Louis Kossuth lives at villa
near Rvoii, In winter in the Via del Mile at
Turin, and is always accompanied by his sis
ter, who adores him
T. Wemyss Reid, who drafted the Liberal
clubs address to Mr.. Gladstone on the occa
aAOu Vi ub &oiutn WeuulnR, Is one Oh the Deet
whist players I'm the world
President CArnot Of France is dreadfully
sti6 and correct in everything, rather, in
short, too conscientiously gentleman like and
too scrupulously well bred.
It ID rumored that Chauncey NJ Depew
has invited Gladstone to visit the United
States and to make a trip to Alaska, and
that there b some prospect Of his acceptance.
Count Tolstoi, the famous Russian novel
writer and philanthropst after being an in
veterate smoker recently stopped entirely
He says that ever since he can't write and Is
helpieo without tobacco.
King Alexander Of servia Is only 10 years
old, but looks like an English boy Of sixteen.
He has bright features. His forehead Is low.
his eyes are large and soft. but his nose and
mouth show indecision Of character
n. Jules Simon, the eminent French states
man, has dignity, ease and the faculty to
simulate emotion. He is good speaker and
stssrs clear Ut defamation, using vein Of
irony and sarcasm that can completely over
throw his opponent
Robert Browning has been very generally
condemned in England for his hasty attack
on the memory Of Fitzgerald He is at work
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tects, written In the semi- humorous, philo
sophica1 vein Of "JocossriA
The Duke Of Fife can never Be quite at his
ease with his wifes relations, - under no cir
cumstAnsss must he ever turn his back to any
of them, not even TO Princess Louise's SISTERS,
with whom it Is reasonable to suppose he en-
Joys fair degree Of intimacy
Joseph skipsey, the new custodian Of
Shakspaares birthplace. was . miner before
b became . poet, beginning as a trapper boy
st ths age OF T. That was Just fifty years
ago He learned to read on Sundays, not at
Sunday school. but At home In his fathers
gArrse
Wheo Ar. Andrew Clarke entered Lon,ion
hospital - an assistant be was in poor health.
Poor Scotch beggar,r sid one Of the facul
~, 'Ist him have plalse; be cannot possibly
live more than sx month";" He Is now. after
thess many years Of eminent service, Sir An
drew Clarke. perhaps the most famous ply
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