Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-30
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIEs.


THE attempt to raise funds for statue of
schumann, at Zwickau. his native place, has
miserably failed; as have recent efforts SINH
larly to honor Weber and HummeL
THE Matthew Arnold fund now amounts to
$1,000, 81 900 of it having come from America.
Six hundred guineas will procure bust for
Westminster Abbey, and the remainder will be
given to Mrs. Arnold.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS TANNER left
Washington last evening for Canandaigua, N.
Y, where he will to-day attend the funeral of
L. P. Thompson, of New York. Mr.. Thompson
was a comrade of the Commissioner In the late
war.
The report that the Berlin court will adopt
the dress of Frederick L (l70l) is confirmed.
Emperor William will wear that dress at the
visit of the King of Italy and the Czar. The
costume consists of knee breeches buckle
shoes, sword, three-cornered hat, and
periwig.
AT the request of Governo~ Robert L. Tay-
lor, of Tennessee, Mr.. George W. Childs has
consented to loan to the Scotch-Irish Congress
the harp of Thomas Moore, now to be seen at
the Philadelphia Ledger office. The instru
ment will be on exhibition at Columbia. where
the congress will assemble on May s.
WHILE the Queen-Regent of Spain was enter
tanning Queen Victoria at San Sebastian, by an
odd coincidence the Duchess Of Madrid was
extending similar courtesy to Princess Louis
of Bavaria at Viareggio. The Duchess is wife
of Don Carlos and, in LegItimist eyes, rightful
Queen of Spain, and the Princess is direct
descendant of Charles L, and would probably
be Queen of England to-day were it not for the
act of Settlement.
PooR old Dhuleep Singh is evidently hard
up. He has written to the Queen, asking her
to give him the famous Koh-inoor diamond or
its market value in ready cash. He wants the
money to use in India against the peace and in
tegrity of the Empire, circumstance which,
coupled with the fact that the gem doesn't be-
long to him any more than to a score of other
Sikhs, makes his request seem uncommonly
cool. The son Of the Punjaub Lion is in a pretty
bad way.
CARDINAL GIBBONS will leave Baltimore
this afternoon for New Orleans in President
Mayors private car. Among those who will
accompany the Cardinal are Major John D.
Kelley, of New York; Bishop Kain, of Wheel
ing, W. Va. and Rev. Messrs Boland and
Caughrey. They viii remain in Cincinnati one
day to see Bishop Elder. Bishop-elect Jensens
will receive the pallium May s. On May u the
Cardinal will leave New Orleans for the Hot
Springs, N. c., and will reach Baltimore on
May IL,
'No one," says Manchester Courier writer,
''need be surprised If Lord Londonderry presses
his resignation of the Lord Lieutenancy of Ire
land. happen to know that the noble Marquis
contemplated this step as long ago as the sum-
mer of 1887, and he may fairly urge that he has
now satisfied the demands of patriotism. Lord
Londonderry is In full accord with the Irish
policy of the Government, and it will be re-
membered that in his speech at Belfast last
autumn, he described Mr.. Balfour's admins
tration in the highest terms of eulogy. But his
private affairs make it difficult for him to be
constantly on the other side of the Channel and
Lady Londonderry has made no secret of her
wish to return TO England"