Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-27
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIEE.

IT is said that General Boulanger has grown
| tired of London and contemplates making a
short trip to this country.
The Oriental gifts sent by the Sultan OF
Morocco to Kaiser William IL turn out to have
been manufactured in Germany.
| MARTIN IRONS, who at the time of the strike
on the Gould lines five years ago was too arro-
| CANT to grant General Manager Hoxie an inter.
view now earns scanty living from a little
| fruit stand in st. Louis.
| JACQUES MEYER, the bucket shop broker of
Paris has been sentenced to one years impris-
onment and fined 81, ,0OO Christine Nilsson was
let in for nearly $30l0O0 and Mademoiselle Jane
Hading also for a considerable amount
EMPEROR WILLIAM has commissioned Koch
| to paint picture representing the scene at the
moment when he led the Foot Guards past his
father at Charlottenburg on May Is, 1885, This
was the only occasion upon which Frederick
inspected the troops as Emperor.
IT is generally believed by ex-Secretary Bay
ards neighbors that he will soon re-enter poll
tics, beginning with the next State campaign in
Delaware. Just at present, however he seems
to be wholly engrossed with his domestic
affairs and in improving his residence at Della
more.
The Crown Princess Stephanie, Of Austria,
Is soon to leave Vienna for the Riviera and for
Switzerland, where villa is being built for
her ON the shores Of Lake Lucerne. The house
in which her dissipated husband killed himself
at Meyerling has been pulled down by the or
der of the Emperor, with the hope that the
midnight tragedy may be the sooner forgotten.
TENNYsoN was always absent minded and
the progress of time brings him no relief in
this respect. 1t is told of the poet that once
when In full conversation with Robert Brown
ing he said, apparently apropos de bottles, Il
wonder how Browning's getting on" "Why,"
exclaimed Robert, 81 am Browning" "Non-
senser' replied Tennyson, with almost an at
tempt at roguish raillery; II know the fellow
well, SO you can't tell me ysu are he"
GENERAL SIMON CAMERoN's secret Of sue
cess was that he never acted without knowing
all the facts obtainable Although desperate
and shrewd fighter he seldom wasted his efforts
In support of weak men. Here is his own ex.
PLANTATION: "When l found the man who was
pretty sure to win with the little support could
give him he was made the Cameron candidate.
got all the credit for the victory, and the can
didate himself believed that his success was
entirely attributable to me-"
SAYS the London Globe: When festival
occurs only once in ten years it is rather vexa-
tious to have it interfered with, as was the case
with the Passion play at Oberammergau in 1870.
Preparations are on footnow to have it enacted
with great eclat in 1890, but there are prophets
of evil who are confident that the same cause
as on that occasion will this time interfere with
the performance. The cause referred to was
the Franco-Prussian war. Even those who are
not deeply interested in a reproduction of a
passime of the Middle Ages under the electric
light would devoutly pray for its success if a
European war is the only obstacle likely to
wreck it.