News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-12
PERSONAL.

Secretary Blaine, having recovered from
| his sr ecent attack of lumbago, has resumed
| his duties at the State Department.
Gen. Boulanger has sublet his residence In
| Paris, with the stipulation that he shall be
| allowed to take possession without extended
| notice.
The announcement that Queen Victoria has
! placed Bushey Park at the disposal of the
eX-Emperor and Empress of Brazil Is I'M
| founded.
| Hon. George A. Marden, while descending
the stairs at the Algonquin Club House, Bos-
| ton, the other day, made Il miSstep and fell,
! breaking one of the bones in his left forearm.
The Servian Cabinet has forwarded COM
! plant to Milan in regard to his public utter
ances, with hint that unless he ceases to IN,
! terfere with Servian affairs his allowance Will
| be stopped.
Madame Adelina Patti, accompanied by
! her husband Nicolini, arrived at New York
a few days ago on the White Star steamer
| Tcutonic. On the same vessel was also the
famous singer NOrdica.
/ Rufus Thompson the venerable father of
/ the well-known actor, Denman Thompson,
Was married few days ago to Mrs, Sarah
A. Walker of Westminster, West VT. Mr.
| Thompson is SO years of age, and the bride
is eight years his Junior.
The Empress of Austria is in such bad
health that she is quite unequal to any social
| duties. and there will be hardly any court
| festivities and no State balls at Vienna this
winter. The result is grand migration of
| fashionable folks northward to Berlin.
Baron de Penedo, Brazilian Minister to
| England, has been dismissed from Office and
had his name removed from the diplomatic
| list because his hostile attitude to the Bra
| lillian Republic was doing an injury to the
state. Senator Itajuba will succeed him.
The egotsm of the young Emperor Of Ger
many was displayed recently when, not hay-
| ing knife with him, he borrowed one from
a forest keeper to cut off the ends of cigar,
and on returning it said impressively: "Take
| back your knife. 1t is now historical relic.'
Stanley has been absent from civilization
| since April, 1887. During all the time that
he was in the interior of Africa he received
no news at all from any of his friends, and
he had two years and eight months of news
to make up when he got into communication
with the world again.
William Allingham, the Irish poe, who
died recently, was afriend of Carlyle, but the
old fellow used to sit on him heavily from
time to time, and once he did it in this wise
| "Allingham, ye're no bad fellow. but I'd
| lust have We know that q man can never get
| in a word of sense for your everlasting jab-
bering."
The Empress of Austria has been yachting
in the Mediterranean for some months. = She
has transferred her fondness for horseback
riding to sailing Ger the sea. Being an in
valid, she Is unable to take equestrian exer,
else, and having love OF adventure, found
yachting the most available substitute Tor her
former fad.
OF all royal personages, the Prince of
Wales is the most noted for the enormous
quantities of luggage which he causes to be
| sent with him on his journeys He takes
whole boxes of hats and huge trunks OF
dress suits, morning coats and other changes.
He makes point when visiting anywhere of
not being seen twice in the same coat, and
the variety OF ms garments Is as astonishing
as the tallors Dill Tor them must De long.
The death of Samuel Wilkeson, the Secre-
tary of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, will be mourned by large circle of
| friends. He had been an invalid for several
wears. and it will be remembered that he was
| racantlv GRANTED Indefinite leave of absence
| - ny g 1900 a W - - - - :, 81 az,
| with 1ull payment OF MS salary anu the aHec-
| Tomato iniun ction of the Directors to do MOTH
| inc but rest Mr.. WiIkeson. in his early life,
was n welI-known Journalist
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paVPefa! 81 ~ e5n 600 and a. ftoau reorS mr..
ehaSe fTbiS has infnriated his neiobbors.
nc now f;nd r. imnossihie to get n Iaroer
nrice for their land and thew cannot afford TO
fpaiI Of tho+ n,ica Tbe ,rovernment scheme