St. Paul daily globe., 1889-07-16
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

Mrs. benjamin Har-
Mrs. Harrison rison is continually
buying pretty forms
as an Artist. in French china or
English tiling, which
she puts away in her closet for future
decoration, says an exchange, Many
vases. platters, bowls and odd pieces
they are frequently presented long
time afterward embellished with a
spray of heartsease, rosemary OF sea
flowers. Mrs. Harrison makes child's
play of butter patties, but of late she
has been decorating bread and milk
sets for baby favors. Some very beau
tiful designs have come from her brush
in the shape of pOt-rests for breakfast
and tea tables. A white tile is selected,
on which she scatters garlandS, WreathS
and clusters of lotus, pOppies, convol-
vuli, laurel, bay and myrtle flow
ers immortalized in verse and his
tory. Corresponding to the remarque
adopted by famous artists, Mrs. Harri-
son employs little four-leaf clover,
which she tucks away under she'll or
bud for love or luck. a wall paper, a
piece Of furniture cloth, artists silk.
and occasionally napkin will attract
her attention, suggesting something for
a new design, while fancy cards are
carefully preserved, and pretty sketches
cut from magazines and papers are
pasted in scrap-book for future ideas.
Candlesticks, cracker boxes, frappe-
bowls, saucers for flower pots, choco-
late jugs, buttermilk pitchers and
dome-shaped covers for cheese and bis
cults are some of the quaint pieces on
which Mrs. Harrison has been engaged
of late.
She painted several nursery tubs, in
one of which the pretty Mckee babies
take their daily plunge. The decora-
tions consists of conventionallZed mag
nolia blossoms done in pink and finished
with gold bands. Master Benjamin
has an eye for color, and mischievous
habit Of wanting to kiss the pink roses
every time he is put in the water. One
day when this homage was being paid
to his grandmamma's talent, the little
porcelain tub tipped over, spilling the
baby and the bath all over the floor.
A desire to repeat the operation may
have something to do with the young
mans enthusiasm.
Ex-Secretary Ex-Secretary BaYard
is frequent visitor to
Bayard. New York. and when
not visiting relations
he always stops at Broadway hotel IA
nous as resort for Southerners of dis
tinction. Though there are many Bay
ards in New York, there are few of the
name here who are closely allied by
blood to the eX-secretary, and fancy he
has never been on terms of close init
macy with these distant cousins. De-
spite all reports to the contrary, Mr..
Cleveland and Mr.. Bayard are close
friends. On a recent occasion Mr..
Cleveland said of Mr.. Bayard: ''He is
the most unselfishly patriotic public man
[ have ever known" Early in the life
of the late administration, Mr.. Bayard
came to hold his chief in extremely
high regard. He said to friend
in DelaWare: Il regard 1t as
highly providentiaI that Mr.. Cleve
land should have been elected
president, and my own candidacy in OPP
position to him now seems to me to
have been presumptuous." Mr.. Bayard's
second marriage is regarded with salts
faction by most of his friends. His
children have grown up, and they have
many interests which necessarily de-
prive him of their society. The new
Mrs. Bayard will find awaiting her at
Wilmington charming old-fashioned
home on the outskirts of the city. The
house is one in which the girlish days Of
Myra Clark Gaines were passed. 1t
commands noble view of the Della
ware, and Of the two tributary streams
upon which Wilmington is built. The
main entrance admits to a great square
hall, from which doors lead to the inner
apartments and open stairWays to the
upper stories.
Ike Murphy, Isaac Murphy, the
famous negro jockey
the Jockey. who came all the way
to New York to ride
Salvador for the big Lorillard stakes at
Monmouth park, Tuesday, and who
gets SIS, 900 year from Lucky" Bald
win. is one of the most remarkable col
ored men in the country. Murphy
would be senator from Kentucky if Joe
Blackburn and Beck could make him
so," says Col. Tom Ochiltree. laughing.
He is a slender, goOd-looking young
man, of a bright copper color, beard
less, noticeably regular in features,
quiet in manners, and of integrity un-
questionable. He got $4,000 from Mr..
Haggin for riding Salvador to victory.
He once walked away from "Plunger"
Walton, at Saratoga, because, as he re-
marked to Mr.. Walton in very quiet
way: ut would hurt my reputation to
be seen talking to you, Mr.. Walton, as
innocent as our conversation might be;
so you will excuse me for leaving you"
And leave he did. Murphy is only
about thirtyone years old, and his wife,
who is almost white, is beautiful
woman of excellent manners. He owns
handsome residence in Lexington,
Ky, the paradise of racing men, and is
universally respected. He rides down
to Ia pounds, and leads regular life,
saving and Investing his money.
A Bonanza Mrs. Mackay's en-
tertainments, say
Queen at Marshall Wilder in his
book, are delightful.
Home. Although as rich as
the richest, and the
owner of beautiful house, to which
the best people i'll London like to come,
she never forgets her nationality to the
extent of forgetting Americans-of the
right kind-in London. Many of our
people get letters of introduction to
Mrs. Mackay when going abroad, and it
is amusing to note the astonishment of
some of them when they meet the lady.
Because she is the wife of a bonanza
king they seem to expect her home to
look like Aladdin's cave. and to see her
arrayed like an Oriental princess. Well,
it would be impossible to find anywhere
house where there is less attempt
at display; everything is there which
taste and comfort suggest. but
nothing designed only for show. AS
for the warm-hearted hostess, never
saw more unassuming lady, nor did l
ever see her wearing jeWelry of any
kind. She never says or does anything
to remind person that she is richer
600 peers, and that she knows every one
in England worth knowing. Besides
being a society queen, she is very en-
terprising and nobly charitable; where
some one else hearing of case of suf-
fering, will sigh ''Poor thingw and
think her duty done, Mrs. Maekay will