Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-17

Personal.
Emma Abbott will essay Wagnerian
opera this season.
The Car Of Russia spends an hour n day
chOpping down trees.
The Empress Of Austria has been drown
ing her great griefs IN the study OF Greek,
in which she has made admirable pro gress.
The Empress Of Germany viii make her
first visit. IN company with her husband.
TO Rome in the fall. She will spend some
time also IN Greece.
The wedding between Miss Clvmer and
ex-Secre tary-of-State Bayard. which was
sad 10 be set for Monday last, viii not
take place until the autumn, il 1t takes
place at all.
Or. Charles Theodore Duke Of Bavaria,
the philanthrOpic physician, recently cele,,
DRAFTED at Tegcrsce, in Bavaria. his removal
Of the thousandth cataract from the eyes
Of his poor patients 10 was made the oc-
casion Of great ovation.
Tho Turkish minister was sca-sick during
the yachting cruise I'm which President
Harrison INDUCED at BGr HarbOr. Some
body remarked TO him that they hoped the
internal relations of Turkcy were peaceful,
whereupOn hegroaned aloud.
George Parsons Iathrop and his wife,
formerly Rose Hawthorne. have private
bath-house on the beach as New London.
Conn. fitted up as "a study. IN which they
! 90 most of their literary work. hlrs.
| IathrOp wears short skirts, bl0usos. and
stout boots during her ccuutry walks.
General Crook says that Sitting Bull has
no reputation among the lndanSas brave
but only as mediciue-man. He ran away
~ the Custer fight, and his war-like repu-
tation has been principally given HIM by
eastern whites. General Crook adds Chat
he does not see how any one could make q
hero of him.
The marriage contract botweon the
Crown Prince Of Greece and Princess
Sophia of Russia wcs signed 40 POtsdam
few DAYS ago. The Princess is TO receive
1000 coo marks from the Hohenzoll'rn
funds and 900 marks from her mother.
She also retains her rights os one of nor
mothers heirs.
Lord Tennyson's ciqhticth birthday has
boon celebrated b. the English press witt
o characteristic grum1le because the poet
still draws his pension of $1,000 which was
awarded TO him forty years ago. His books
sell by hundrcd5 OF Thousands and !e -
rich man. Why should lac take public
money. Of which other writers are IN sore
! Attt rs dShtl.
Mrs Mark Hopkins, of Mob Hill, San
Francisco, and Great Darlington, Mass, -
worth $50. OOO, 600 Miss EliZebcth Garrett
inherited one third of John y. Garretts
| ~37 900 0C0. Nine. BarrilS. now 40 New
/ port. hos nearly ~5.0J0.00O 10 keep the WOLF
from the door. She is young, pretty, and
n widow, and her condition Is reproach
| to American enterprise.
Prince Joseph Sulkouski. who was al
Quoted from an insane asylum IN the neigh
/ n1fhoOd OF Vienna few weeks ago, now
occupies an unique place. He was cap
| tured in Zurich and returned 10 IN asylum
near Bonn. The physicians Of the latter
institution declare that he Is IN full pos
| session of his mental faculties and has
never been insane As be is hereditary
peer of both Prussia and Austria, tins deer
sion makes him n law-gl1er IN one State
and powerless imbecile III the other.
On recent morning n young robin, in
| trying 10 fly from its nest IN one OF the tall
! tree, in front of the courthouse AT Kings
! ton, n. Y. fell on the grass plat. 4 large
! cat spraug into the yard. AID taking the
| bird IN H., mouth started with 1t toward
the barn. The bird gave a cry,
when the parent robin flew from the
! tree and :ttackcd the cat with such
| frmness that puss dropped the bird. The
| eat then backed up against the fence and
| showed fight. The old bird. not one bit
/ dismayod, with bill wide open. feathers
rnhled. aud screaming with rage, struck
| The feline twice. The fur flow. The cat
was SO frightened that IL ran away as iast
| as il could and crawlcd under the ccrnerOf
u building.
A partv Of four Sacramento anglers went
up the river the other day - catch some
. i lot ss.l.
| should land fish each of the others should
nav him quarter One Of the quaItctte
was especially unlucky in his piscatorial
! venture and was soon out OF pocket
St25 and down 20 his last quarter.
| He wanted 20 break up the compact. but
The others wouldn't LEI him. Just then he
stole one of the fishes caught 10y another
of the party. slipped it upon his hook and
/ into the water. He soon landed II with
great deol Of splutter and noise. and re-
/ ceived six bits. When the Others were not
! looking be replaced It On his hook and
I AGAIN went through the act Of landing
! fish. He managed to work the dodge until
ne had not only got back his Sab, but
| broke the rest Of the crowd.
Since its first year the Thirteen Club Of
| New York, has gone on Tidiculng minor
| -uperstitions with all its might, aud if IL
| has not succeeded in hurting The superstl-
| tons, the superstitiOns do not seem to
have hurt the club. Among the other
achievements Of which the club is proud is
the alleged rehabilitation Of Friday-a day
whose reputation has been Of the worst
| from time immemorial. It published some
| time ago list of notable events, 10y 10
means baueful ones which happened On
/ FRIDAY. For instance, the clubs archlyist
Processes to have discovered that OF Fri
| dav, August q, 1872. Christopher Colum-
! nus sailed for America. On Friday, Octo-
/ Der Il. l492, he first discovered land. On
Friday. December %. 1929. the hay1ower
! landed the pilgrims on Plymouth Rock.
/ bismarck, Gladstone, and host If great
! men were born on Friday. And 40 on
through q long list.