The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-11-14
Personal POINTS.
The Sultan of Turkey is threatened
with nervous prostration.

The Sultan of Turkey is threatened
with nervous prostration.
Another astonishing story about
Amelia Rives- Chanler comes from Ed
rope. 1t is said that she has become
devoted to the violin and often rises
at night to play upon it.
Justice Stephen J. Field looks none
the worse for his exciting experience
in California 1t troubles him, how
ever, and he discourages all allusion
to it. His friends understand that he
is t'speak of it first.
Sweden has had her Christine Nils
son, and now Norway possesses sing
er of absolutely the same name. The
new and young Mademoiselle Chris
tine Nilsson has soprano voice sha-
ded with timbre similar to Lucca's,
and sang with great success at Copen
hagen lately.
Belva Ann Lockwood called on
President Harrison at the White
House on Tuesday. She called him
her "late opponent" and magnani-
mously congratulated him upon his
rise in life. Mr.. Harrison greeted her
cordially, but made bad break when
he called her clark horse"
Gen. Raum, pension commissioner,
will be so years old in December. He
is one OF the three men in Washington
who are called Shakespearean in their
type of head and face, the others being
Justice Field and Congressman Reed.
Of the three Raum is the handsomest,
and looks most like the portraits of tie
bard of Avon.
Lilli Lehman will no longer be de-
barred from the Germa: opera house
for having broken her contract to ac-
tept an engagement in America. She
sent petition for pardon to Emperor
Wilhelm, who, being the head Of the
Wagner Society, could not but grant
it to SO eminent an Isolde and Brun-
hide as Lehman is.
Mrs. Eliza j. Nicholson, the pro.
prietor of the New Orleans Picayat,se
has fancy for collecting inkstands.
She has every inkstand in which she
has ever dipped her pen. They are
kept in regular china closets. Some
are of handsome cut-glass, some are
gold or silver -stoppered. Then there
are leather covered ones, ordinary
common stone ones, and many vary
ing in value from one penny to TWEEN
ty dollars.
VIM. D. Howells, is a short, thickset
round -shouldered man, having more
the appearance of bowery boy than
a graceful humorist His iron gray
hair falls in unkempt masses over a
low forehead, and his eyes have more
sullenness than intellect in their ex
preston. He receives 100000 yeal
from Harpers Magazine. He write.
with great rapidity, turning out ter
printed pages day on stretch. Since
the critics, big and little, have begur
to speak plainly about his novels, HI
is not so sweet tempered as he wa
when every rything he wrote was praised
to the skies.
Henry G. Bunner, the editor O
Puck, is quite a young man. He be
gan life IS a clerk in New York cot
ton brokers' office, but having litera
ry taste, he wrote verses, stories, etc
for the weekly papers, which attracted
attention by their cleverness and orig
inality. When "Puck" was starte'
he was asked to become its editor, with
liberal salary as an inducement, AM
he tgladly exchanged thu counting
room for the sanctum. He is abou
thirty-fve years old, and although h
writes dainty verses, praising tn
pleasures of country life. he has live
in New York nearly all his life.
The rumor that the Prince OF Wa.e
is suffering from Bright's disease seem
to be confirmed. There is no dout
that the English royal family
plunged in gloom, and that Victori
| is worried about the succession. AZ
cording to the latest reports, tn
Princes physicians have informe
him that he has not more than tw
years lease of life. His trip to EgyE
will be undertaken to relieve, if po
sible, his mind of its present dispair
ing tone. He has always had a pre-
sentiment that he would never be Kin
of England, and he is now convince
that his fOrebolings we're correct.