Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-10-29
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Mark Twain IL . baseball enthusiast.
Boulanger is travelling through Frano.
under an alias.
Justice Stanley Matthew'S will summer Al
PittsAeld, Mas.
Judge Tourges, the author, has patented .
metal fsncs post.
The csar Of Russia plays the trombone a.
we'll - the aut6crat.
Cardinal Gibbons was bishop at ss and
IN archbishop at A.
Lord shrvwsbury M made big thing out
Of bis noiseless tire cabs.
Or. MeCosh il preparing Get Of lectures
on fundamental proof"
Tho late Marshal Lebuuf was physically
the finest man in the French army.
President Dwight, of Yale, has received
the degree Of LII D. from Princeton.
Bishop O'Sullivan, of Mobile, was at one
time sexton Of church in Jersey City.
e. P. Roe entertains guests by reading to
them chapters from his forthcoming novel.
wilkie Collins letters are headed with
q monogram in which quill pierces the
letters.
Master J. Miller, 13 years old, is the organ.
ist of st. Clements Episcopal church in
Philadelphia.
DIR. McCosh, ex-president of Princeton col
lego, will spend the summer in Maine and
New Hampshire.
Sheridan knew nothing Of his mothers
death, and the old lady knew nothing of her
great sons illness
The fine imposed upon Gen. Caffarel, i'm.
plicated In the French decoration scandal,
has teen remitted.
A. w. Longfellow, Of Portland, Me-, is 70
years old and bears strong resemblance to
his brother, the poet.
The prince of Wales has seventeen brothers.
in-law. sixteen uncles, fifty seven cousins and
ffty-eight nephews and nieces.
Mr. Walter Besant is small, animated,
bright eyed and black haired man, fond
of the theatre, claret and pipe
The emperor of Brazil's bill for one months |
living expenses for himself and suite at |
Milan, Italy, amounted to $4,000.
Lord Wolseley has presided over a meeting |
to consider military cycling and pronounced |
the bicycle military instrument of grea
promise.
30 far Pasteur's receipt for killing the Aus
tralian rabbits with chicken cholera has |
failed. The rabbits inoculated showed no
signs Of disease.
The father Of Mr. Blackburne, the great
chess player, is a professional phrenologist,
and predicted Of his son, when q child, that
he would become exceedingly proficient in
chess
Mad King Otho, of Bavaria, no longer
amuses himself by peeling potatoes, but now
irnaginss himself mole and hides in dark
corners or crouches beneath beds and other
articles Of furniture.
The word bandana comes from Hindus-
tani. Band hnu band hna, to tie), mode
Of dyeing in which the fabric is tied in knots
portions, and thus produce white spots.
When he was offered baronetcy Mr..
George r. Watts declined 1t. ''It would,n' he
said, make me paint neither better nor
worse, nor would it affect in any way the
qnAlity Of my work, so where is the use Of
itf'
Mrs Donald Crawford, whose name was
connected with the famous Dixie scandal,
has become very devout Of late. She has
Joined the Wesleyans in London, and is an
enthusiastic adherent of the Rev. Hugh Price
Hughes
Sir Molel Mackenzie, it is rumored, is
likely to be made baronet by Queen Vic
toria, as an additional mark Of gratitude for
his services to her daughter, the empress,
and her son-in-law, the late German en-
psror.
M de BlowitE, the eccentric Paris corre-
spondent of The London Times, is inclined to
think that the new French rife is wonder
full weapon. He says that 1t is both noiseless
and smokeles and sends a bullet with perfect
accuracy q distance of four miles.
Mayor Filter. of Philadelphia, is rope
maker, and he sometimes exhibits to his
friends curious rope cable that he keeps in
his Office. It is made Of hangmen's ropes,
each strand having been taken from rope
by which some poor criminals neck was
broken.
Prince Rupert, heir presumptive to the
throne Of Bavaria, has been ordered to a re-
mote town in mad King Otho's dominions,
with instructions to report for duty as subal-
tern of an artillery regiment. He is in dis
grace with the regent for having run off for
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