Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-01-01
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Mark Twain Is baseball enthusiast.
Boulanger Is travelling through Francs
under an alias.
Justice Stanley Matthews will summer at
Pittsheld, Mass.
Judge Tourgee, the author, has patented q
metal fence post.
The czar of Russia plays the trombone as
well as the autocrat.
Cardinal Gibbons was bishop at 3S and
an archbishop at AZ.
Lord Shrewsbury has made big thing out
of his noiseless tire cabs.
DR.. McCosh is preparing a set of lectures
on fundamental proof"
Tho late Marshal Leboeuf was physically
the finest man in the French army.
President Dwight, Of Yale has received
the degree Of LII. D. from Princeton.
Bishop O'Sullivun, of Mobile, was at one
time sexton of church in Jersey City.
E. P. Roe entertains guests by reading to
them chapters from his forthcoming novel.
Wilkio Collins letters are headed with
a monogram in which a quill pierces the
letters.
Master J. Miller, 13 years old, is the organ
ist of st. Clements Episcopal church in
Philadelphia.
DR.. McCosh, ex-president Of Princeton col
lege, will spend the summer in Maine and
New Hampshire
Sheridan knew nothing of his mothers
death, and the old lady knew nothing of her
great sons illness.
The fine imposed upon Gen. Caffarel, inn
,,licatad in tbe French decoration scandal
has teen remitted.
A. W. Longfellow,'of Portland, Ne, is 70
years old and bears strong resemblance to
his brother, the poet.
The prince Of Wales has seventeen brothers
in-law, sixteen uncles, fifty-seven cousins and
fifty-eight nephews and nieces.
Mr.. Walter Bcsant is a small, animated,
bright eyed and black haired man, fond
of the theatre, claret and pipe.
The emperor of Brazils bill for. one months
living expenses for himself and suite at
Milan, Italy, amounted to $4,000.
Lord Wolseley has presided over a meeting
to consider military cycling and pronounced
the bicycle military instrument Of grea
promise.
So far Pasteur's receipt for killing the Aus
tralian rabbits with chicken cholera has
failed. Tho rabbits inOculated showed no
signs OF disease.
The father Of Mr.. Blackburne, the great
chess player, is a professional phrenologst,
and predicted Of his son, when q child, that
he would become exceedingly proficient in
chess.
Mad King Otho, Of Bavaria, no longer
amuses himself by peeling potatoes, but now
imagines himself mole and hides in dark
corners or crouches beneath beds and other
articles of furniture.
The word bandana comes from Hindus-
tani. Band hnu (band' hna, to tie), mods
of dyeing in which tho fabric is tied in knots
so as to exclude the color from tho knotted
portions and thus produce white spots.
When he was offered a baronetcy Mr.
George F. Watts declined it. ut would "he
said, make me paint neither better nor
worse, nor would it affect in any way the
quality of my work, SO where is the use of
itT'
Mrs. Donald Crawford, whose uame was
connected with the famous Dixie scandal,
has become very devout of late. She has
Joined the Wesleyans in London, and is an
enthusiastic ndherent OF the Rev. Hugh Price
Hughes.
Sir Morell Mackenzie, it is rumored, is
likely to bo made baronet by Queen Vic
toria, as an additional mark of gratitude for
his services to hor daughter, the empress,
and her son-in-law, the late German en-
peror.
NJ. dc Blowitz, the eccentric Paris corre-
spondent of The London Times, is inclined to
think that tho new French rifle is wonder
full weapon. He says that it is both noiseless
and smokeless and sends bullet with perfect
accuracy distance of four miles.
Mayor Filter, of Philadelphia, is rope
iuaker, and he sometimes exhibits TO his
friends curious rope cable that he keeps in
his office 1t is made of haugmens ropes,
each strand having been taken from a rope
by which some poor criminals neck was
broken.
Prince Rupert, heir presumptive to the
throne of Bavaria, has been ordered to a re-
mote town in mad King Othos dominions,
with instructions to report for duty as subal-
tern of an artillery regiment He is in dis
grace with the regent for having run off for
a weeks spree in Paris without asking lenye