Evening journal., 1889-09-10
WIT. WISDOM AND GOSSIP.

Mrs. Maybrick's mother says she will
stay in England until her daughter is set
free.
Miss Agnes Longfellow, daughter of
the celebrated poet, is a skilled photo
grapher
Amelia B. Edwards is to deliver sixty
lectures In America selected from 300 ap-
plicRtions.
James Whitcomb Riley has been i'll all
the summer and has not done much lit
erary work.
Miss Helen Gould instructs four music
pupils (members of her church) at her
home. She believes it is her mission to
teach.
Professor Max Muller thinks that II
language were taken away man would be
lower than the dumb animals OF the field
and forest.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is devoting her
self to prose writing, She says that the
nervous strain Of composing poetry is
too great.
It is said that Kate Drexel is perfectly
happy In her convent home She has
taken no vow and it is thought that she
will ultimately return to the world.
Mrs, Harriet Beecher Stowe eats very
little, now; combining her diet almost TO
entirely to bread and butter and fruit.
She sleeps during the day and is wakeful
at night.
President Harrison was kind enough to
inform certain young ladies at Deer Park
recently that Baby McKees name is Ben
amin. He had been annoyed because the
girls called the youngster Benny.
Senator Evarts says he buys more high
hats than any man in public life, and al
ways takes great pains to brush the nap
the right way notwithstanding the fact
that the comic artist always portrays him
with shabby hat.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, nee Edincott,
OF Salem, astonishes people in London by
the thoroughness with which she has
acquired the peculiarities Of English pro
nunciation, which are very difficult for
Americans to attain.
Lady Mccartney wife Of Sir Halliday
Mccartney, secretary of the Chinese
Embassy in London, has been fined $2j
for i'll treating her servants. Whenever
they displeased her ladyship, she would
tear out handfulls Of their hair
As Perry Thrall was dying last Friday
at Macon, Mo he confessed that in 1856.
colored man named DAILY had beer
hanged for the murder Of William Van
derventner and his wife near Florida
Mo-, crime which Thrall himself ha,
committed
Miss Sanger, a typewriter in the EN-
ploy of President Harrison. is one Of tn
successes of the administration, as it i
said she has been Of more assistance 4
the President than any other clerk has
She is rapid worker and can copy on he
machine 100 letters a day.
Mrs. James Brown Potter has decide
not to come to America. 1t is probabl
e that she has come to the conclusion tina
8 it would be q risky matter, financially, I
venture out with only the backing fun
nished by herself and her partner, an
leading man Kyle Bellew.
Miss Olga Brandon few of in pet tn
other day when Mrs Kendall undertoo
!, TO advise her in a delicate personal mat
. ter while out riding, aud refuses to az
= company the Kendall company to Amer
! lea. Her resignation from the compan
: has caused great stir in London.
> The Canadian weather prophet has
3, clever wire. IL Is limited that she writ
k his prophisies and he reads them on
lie One morning bust of Mrs. Wiggii
il was found among The statutes OF eel
a. brites in the Ottawa Parliamentary Iii
N rary, and no one knew now it got the
n except Virgins.
g The champion absent minded m,
Ia lives in Kingston, n. Y The other evei
~ ing he desired 20 see man on bushes
le who lives not far from his own hous
lg He started on his errand and walk
&c around several squares and came back
re his home, rang the bell and when d
NJ son ans wered the ring he calmly ask
ne the lad if his father were home.
n The rumor comes from Milan that t
IN Baroness Can't, beautiful young Ia
nd of nineteen, celebrated for her startli
IA originality. has announced her INTENT
les of undertaking journey into the
nd terror Of Africa She will be cecompani
va by relative, an elderly lady belongi
IRE to the Austrian aristocracy, and attenC
M. by several male and female servants.
Iez officer of the Italian army will lead
is. expedition and the party win set out
November l, the tour lasting about
year.
Hoe your own row, and keep on hoeing SO