Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-23
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIEs.

SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE has greatly re-
gained his health at Madeira.
THOMAS HARDY, the English novelist, is a
Justice of the Peace in Dorsetshire.
Mr.. w. D. HowELLs will spend the summer
near Boston and 60 to that city to live in the
fall
THE Gar of Russia has appointed the
Czarowltz member of the Council of the
Empire and of the Committee of the Ministers
COUNT sAvoRGNAN DE BRAZzA recently
had his famous collection of old gold and
silver plate melted into bullion by the burning
of wrecked railroad train.
The late Washington Irving Bishop might
have been very wealthy man. He made a
great deal of money, but did not possess the
faculty of keeping it. He was spendthrift.
Ex.SEcRETARY BAYARD's forthcoming mar
riage is regarded as an admission upon the part
of the distinguished Delawarian that it is do
mestic rather than foreign affairs that he is
best qualified for directing.
SOLOMON HIRsCH. the newly appointed
Minister to Turkey, is now at Carlsbad, Ger
many. That he will accept the post is not
doubted, but it is not yet known whether he
will return to the United States before assum-
ing Office.
THE excursion to Mount Vernon, which was
to have been given by Secretary Blaine in
honor of Sir Julian Pauncefote, the new Brit
ish Minister, and which was postponed on ac-
count of the death of Minister Rice, will take
place next Monday.
RUSSELL HARRISON is considering an offer
of w. ]. Arkell to take an active part in the
editorial direction of Frank Leslie'S Illustrated
Newspaper. The climate of Montana does not
agree with Mrs. Harrison and she is anxious to
move to New York
COLONEL FRED D. MUssEY, Washington
correspondent of the Commercial Gdzstte,
leaves the capital to-day for Cincinnati to en-
ter upon duties in connection with the editorial
page of the Commercial Gazette during the
absence of Mr.. Murat Halstead in Europe.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET is at work on book
which is to be called +Mes Douleurs." Itisa
study of his own physical ailments, which are
registered with the most minute care. An &C.
quaintance asked him few days ago when it
would be published. Daudet looked at his
questioner very seriously for moment, and re-
plied-"I am waiting till feel worse, for there
may be some fresh symptoms to chronicle"
The analytical school of literature is coming to
rather queer pass.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD has received yet an
other decoration. This time it is commander
ship of the Order of the Lion and the sun. and
the Shah of Persia is the giver. Sir Edwin,
who is charming, good natured old gentle
man, has a mania for collecting foreign decor
ations. He is not content with his C.S.I and
K.LE., but claps an additional star ~on his
poetic breast almost every year. He has been
decorated by most of the Oriental potentates-
the Khedive, the King of Siam, the Shah'of
Persia and one or two others,
THE New York Sun says: In conversation
with an acquaintance yesterday Mr. Chauncey
Depew referred to the time when he held the
office of American Minister to Japan % years
ago. 1t appears that some of MIR Depew's
friends are unaware that he ever enjoyed the
honor of an appointment to this high diplomatic
post. But he himself has not forgotten it. He
was appointed to it by Secretary Seward, under
the administration of Andrew Johnson, in 1885,
Mr.. Seward was desirous that he should accent
this Office at that time, and it was not until Mr.
Depew had taken whole month to think of it
that he notified the State Department of his
final determination to refuse it. He preferred
life in New York to diplomacy in Toxic.