The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-05-31
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

of Boulanger's closest adherents and acts as
his valet
The foreign adviser of the state department
ut Toxic is Mr.. Henry Denison, a YOUNG New
Highlander of about IS.
George Washington received the de,S5p q
LII. ID. from Harvard Yale, University =
Pennsylvania and Brown.
Nj. 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
| or $500, 200 by the German government is not
sufficient for his African expedition.
One of the Duke of Buckingham's favorite
amusements at one time was to get into can
vas overalls and drive locomotive.
Mr.. F.J. Vinton is painting a portrait of
Senator Hoar, which is to be presented to
Harvard college by the class of 1886
Don Jose Zorrilla is to be crowned poet
laureate of Spain at the Ahambra palace on
the eve of Ills approaching Goth birthday
Chief Justice Fuller and Judge Harlan are
almost always together, and arc 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 S20, OO0,0 600 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 statue of
Schumann, at Zwickau, his native place, has
miserably failed, as have recent efforts SINH
larly to honor Weber and Hummel
Sir Richard Webster, attorney general of
En- tll2d, has been q most successful practi-
tiol. n. In his first year at the bar he made
300 i;;iineas; in the second thousand
The Rev. ]. S. Lindsay, who has been
called to the pastorate of st. Pauls Protest
ant Episcopal church, Boston, is as much Of
a giant, physically, as DIR. Phillips Brooks.
The late Professor William Gammell left
to Brown university, for its 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 u residence at G.atz,
in Syria, where they arc now living in very
modest fashion.
Mr.. Wolff, the famous violinist, who for
six years has been tho 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 eyes?n was
asked of Marshall r. Wilder few days ago;
'they look inhamed." ''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 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 no 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, tho 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 latters birthday anniversary,
a fine old engraved portrait of his ancestor,
the Provost George Frederick Won Bismarck,
born in 1897 1t is framed in oak, ornament
ed with the princes coat of arms, and bears
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 tho British army, is to go 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 simple ''call" or n chance meeting on the
street. Victor Hugo would never kiss lady's
gloved hand, and if tho hand were 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 tho British critics in costume
to laughter. He wore glossy silk hat and a
blue coat An admiring woman gave him
carnation for his button hole and another
presented him baby to kiss. 1t was thus the
brave general made his first appearance on
the British stage
While the queen regent of Spain was en-
pertaining Queen Victoria at San Sebastian,
by an odd coincidence the Duchess of Madrid
was extending q similar courtesy to Princess
Louis of Bavaria at Viareggio. The duchess
is wife of Don Carlos, and, in Legitimist eyes,
the rightful queen of Spain, and the princess
Is q direct descendants of Charles /, and would
probably be queen of England today were it
not fo,.t l,o ooto IF catfl