Connecticut western news., 1889-10-02
PERSONAL.

Judge Field has declined dinner rendered him by prominent citizens of San Francisco.
 The report that Chief Justice Peters is to retire from the Maine Bench is pronounced to be incorrect.
 NJ. Eiffel is expected in Quebec shortly to build $5, ,OOO, 900 bridge across the St. Law renee, it is reported.
 x Son of North Cambridge, Mass., has gone on a six months trip to California.
 Ex-Gov. c. H. Sawyer, of New Hamp- shire, Mrs. Sawyer and Miss A. M. Sawyer are at the Vendome, Boston, for several weeks.
 Rev. A. A. Livermore, D. D., has re- turned from Wilton, N. H., to his duties as School.
 Mir. Edison's gift of 10000 francs to the Paris charities was accompanied by a charm ing letter, which has much pleased the French.
 Messrs. Cassell X Co. are to publish the After Dinner Speeches of Chauncey M. De pew, the best orator on such occasions that this country has produced. Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World offers to be one of 9 persons to subscribe $l00,O0O each as q guarantee fund for the Worlds Fair, if held in that city. 1 A dispatch from London via the Direct Cable says that MT. and Mrs. Edison and MT. FUlSOnS SlSteF-ln-laW, MISS Mlllcr, nave Deeu staying week at Sir John Tenders country residence, Foots Cray, Kent. Sir John in- vited many scientific friends to meet Mir. Edi- | son.
 A large number of the friends of Mir. and Mrs. Peter H. Bullock of Concord, celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their marriage last week in Warner Hall. Officers and | Instructors of the Reformatory, of which MT. Bullock is Chief Engineer, made the event the occasion of q silver testimonial of their esteem. and there were also many | presents in china.
 Chay Gwok Yin, the new Chinese Minister | to the United States, who arrived in San Francisco few days ago, is described as a tine-looking man, about 50 years of age, with strong features and rather imperious man. ner. He is also Minister to Spain and Peru. The British Press of China assert that he Is "curiOus mixture of modern ideas and an- cient oriental prejudices." Comedian William II. Crane received a l genuine surprise last week at the Chicago | Opera House. At the conclusion of the first piece, "Papa Perichon," the actor was called before the curtain, greeted by Hon. William K. Mason. and presented with a magnificent | gold locket, set with diamonds and turquoise, as token of the high estimation in which he is held by the people of Chicago. When the story of the 4G0,O franc price paid for the "Angelus' reached Berlin, some one set in motion a tale that the German
 
 400, ,O00 marks for painting the royal family But the painter at once sent note around to all the journals begging them to contradict the statement, and offering to prove from his books that he had not received the twentieth part of such an immense sum. The Grand Cross of a Commander of the Legion of Honor has been bestowed upon Mir. Thomas A. Edison. NJ. SpulIer, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in conferring the decoration upon Mir. Edison, said it was given in honor of the services rendered by him to science, and for the part taken by him in the Paris Exposition. M. Spuller also said that America was splendidly represented at the exposition, and that the presence of her exhibits testified to the indissoluble bonds which bind France and America together.
 Sir Edwin Arnold, who is the guest of President Eliot at Cambridge. said to an in- terviewer: 1T have so many ties binding me to the United States that feel thoroughly at home here, although this is my first visit, and, as said the other day to President Har- rison, I consider myself half Ameri,an." He also added, ''My wife, the daughter of the Rev. w. II. Charming, and grandniece of Dr. Charming, used to live at Boston, and my father-in-law was a student at Harvard. Besides that, am an Oxford man and have a feeling of friendship for this younger uni- versity."