Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-01-01
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Editor Dana says the only kind Of novel b.
6k.s Is one 'chock full Of love"
George Kennan has been elected president
Of the Literary society Of Washington. ID Z.
Or tanner the famous faster. is really to
marry the daughter Of q Partisan million
aire
John Wanamaker has been chosen presi-
dent Of the Presbyterian union Of f'hiladei
phiA
Dom Pedro. emperor Of Brazil. has been
enjoying very good health since he returned
from Europe
Cassius n Clay, who IL now in his 18th
year, lives q retired life on his estate near
Richmond. Ky.
The present Earl OF Granville's father was
famous for having lost $lio.0O0 At whist In
single sitting
Bowling takes up all the spare time OF
Senator Reagan Of Texas, according TO
Washington correspondent
At9a years Of ago Ex-Governor Berry, Of
New Hampshire, is in vigorous health and
goes out walking or driving almost every
day.
Emperor Francis Joseph feels compelled to
state, for the Information Of the reading pub
lie, that the cheapest cigar be smokes costs
Eve cents
The sultan of Turkey, who is a most fckls
man regarding bis fads, has become inter
ested in typewriting and Is practicing the
art sedulously.
Grand Duke Alexis Of Russia, who visited
Philadelphia some year, ago, has for years
been the morganatic husband OF the Rus
sian poet, lonkoffiki
Rider Haggards friends complain that,
while he received only $50 for the original
edition Of king Solomon's Mines, the pub
lishers have made S., wv out Of the book.
Mr. Liz, who is in charge Of the Corean
legation at Washington, has disappointed
lovers of the picturesque by adopting the
hats, trousers and coats Of An American
The Rev Henry White Of the Savoy
chapel. London, states that out OF l,UOO
couples which he assisted to join together
only one pair had found marriage failure.
Soon after the young emperor's departure
from Rome his holiness was heard to speak
of him as "a very odious fellow" and to say,
HE is bad son, and he will be bad ruler
Professor Prudential, Of Breslau, is in
great luck. The Berlin Academy OF Science
study the philosophy Of the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth centuries in England.
At o recent sale Of autographs, held at the
Hotel Druot in Paris, letter from Henry
" to Gabriel distress, dated 1898. and
closing with the ardent p rase, II kiss you
a hundred thousand times" brought $40
francs
Speakin of Radji Hassein Ghouli Khan, a
Washington correspondent says: "The Per
siah minister is in rather u disconsolate mood.
He knows no language but his own, and there
is but ono person in Washington who can
speak Persian"
There are more than twenty Russian
princes who are entitled TO be styled grand
dukes. There are five Grand Dukes Nicholas,
three Grand Dukes Michael and two Grand
Dukes Alexis, Sergius. George, Alexander
and Constantine.
The Grand Duke Paul Of Russia, youngest
brother Of tine ear, has made public his In
tention Of presenting dots to hundred young
women Of Athens to celebrate his betrorhal
to the Princess Alexandra Of Greece. The
Athenian girls are inclined to thhak that
Paul is Russian matters.
Church and stage were brought into closer
communion when Bishop Carl Sass wen ,ha
prize for dramatic works established by q
wealthy hungarian, by his tragedy in verse,
The Death of Attila." The play wiil lie
brought out ct the National theatre Of buda
Pesth this winter.
Robert Garrett, Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, is q remarkable man in some re-
spects, when viewed from q tailor's stand
point He has always had an irresistible
love for sack coats Of the pepper and salt or
dark gray pattern. He must have had
seventy or . hundred suits of them i'll his
wardrobe.
Consul General Russell, Of Liverpool, has
been calling upon President Cleveland at the
White House. Russell was the first appointee
Of the consular service under the present I'D
ministration. 1t is said that Mr.. Russell and
Ex-Governor Waller will GO into business to-
gether in London at the expiration OF their
terms Of Office.