Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-05-17
PERSONAL GOSSIP.


LII. d. from Harvard, Yale, University of
Pennsylvania and Brown.
M. Damala, ex-husband of Nine. Sarah
Bernhardt, is said to be an almost helpless
victim of the morphine habit
Judge Holmes and his wife now make their
home with his father, DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, on Beacon street, Boston,
| Capt. Wissman complains that the grant
of S5O0,O00 by the German government is not
sufficient for his African expedition.
One of the Duke of Buckingham's favorite
amusements at one time to get into can
vas overalls and drive a locomotive.
Mr.. F. j. Vinton is painting portrait of
Senator Hoar, which is to be presented to
Harvard college by the class Of 1916.
Don Jose Zorrilla is to be crowned poet
laureate of Spain at the Alhambra palace on
the eve of his approaching Goth birthday.
! Chief Justice Fuller and Judge Harlan are
almost always together, and are daily seen
walking to and from the Capitol in Wash
ington.
Hugo Zreinaun, the chief of the White
House, said to friend lately that his most
artistic dishes were not appreciated by the
president.
The regular income of John D. Rockefeller
is 800, 900, 600 year, which makes him the
richest man in the United States, perhaps in
the world.
Senator Stanford hopes to open the great
university founded in memory of his son
next year. He has not yet found suitable
man for the presidency.
The attempt to raise funds for a statue of
Schumann, at Zwickau, his native place, has
la,- ~
larly to honor Weber and Hummel
Sir Richard Webster, attorney general of
England, has been a most successful practi-
toner. In his first year at the bar he made
300 guineas in the second a thousand.
The Rev. j. S. Lindsay who has been
called to the pastorate of st. Paul's Protest
ant Episcopal church, Boston, is as much of
giant, physically, as DR.. Phillips Brooks.
The late Professor William Gammell left
to Brown university, for It's library fund,
$4,000, the interest Of which Is to be used in
purchasing books relating to United States
history.
Prince Alexander, of Battenberg, and his
bride, now known as Count and Countess
Hartenau, have taken residence at Gratz,
In Syria, where they are now living in very
modest fashion.
Mr.. Wolff, the famous violinist, who for
six years has been the musician to the king
of the Netherlands, says that the king was
always good patron of music and a most
appreciative listener.
John Bright was the only cabinet minister
who never knelt to the queen, his reason
being that he could not render to an earthly
potentate the homage which he owed to the
Supreme Being alone.
"What is the matter with your eyesY' was
asked of Marshall p Wilder few days ago;
''they look infamed." YES" said the little
JOKER "they are. have been reading list
of the Danmark's passengers"
William Livingston Hamersley, New
York millionaire, has in his possession the
razor with which George Washington shaved
himself at Valley Forge, his silver punch
mug, and a jug of Jamaica rum 100 years
old.
Mr.. William L. Bright is thinking of re-
firing from parliament, to devote himself to
business, in which he is enormously success
full He is the only one of John Bright S
sons who inherits his fathers rare sense of
humor.
At dinner given by the Chinese minister
In Washington, the ministers from Japan,
China and Corea carried on a three cornered
conversation with pens and paper, for, al
though they cannot understand what each
one says their written language is identical.
The German emperor gave to Prince Bis
marck on the latter's birthday anniversary,
a fine old engraved portrait of his ancestor,
the Provost George Frederick Won Bismarck,
born in 1907. 1t is framed in oak, ornament
ed with the princes coat of arms, and bears a
dedication written by the emperor.
The late Rev. Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley,
Bart, professor Of music at Oxford had
probably the finest private musical library in
England. 1t includes the MS, partly in the
authors writing, of the messiah" from
which Handel conducted his first perform
ance Of that oratorio.
The Duke of Cambridge, commander-in
chief Of the British army, is to so to Brussels
in June to unveil the monument which has
been erected in the principal cemetery there
over the graves of officers of the Duke Of
Wellington's troops who died Of wounds re-
ceived at Quatre Bras and Waterloo.
George Bancroft Is very particular TO re-
move his glove before shaking hands, whether
at a simple "call" or a chance meeting on the
street. Victor Hugo would never kiss lady's
gloved hand and if the hand We're offered
with the glove on the aged poet very coolly
unfastened the glove and found the dies ired
place.
Gen. Boulanger's costume on landing at
Dover moved the British critics in costume
to laughter. He wore a glossy silk hat and a
blue coat. An admirng woman gave him a
carnation for his button hole and another
presented him q baby to kiss. 1t was thus the
brave general made his first appearance Oh
the British stage.
While the queen regent of Spain was en-
tertaining Queen Victoria at San Sebastian,
by 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,
the rghtful queen Of Spain, and the princess
is direct descendant of Charles /, and would
probably be queen Of England today were ii
not for the act of settlement.
HERE AND THERE.
Warrants have been issued in Washington
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