Connecticut western news., 1889-08-28
PERSONAL.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox is devoting herself almost entirely to prose writing.
 MT. Gladstone has written to express his sympathy with Sara Bernhardt upon the death of Damala.
 Joaquin Miller contemplates purchasing watch and leaving San Francisco for a cruise to the South Seas.
 Corp. Tanner addressed the largest audi ence of the season at Chautauqua on the 24th. Two thousand veterans were present.
 Dr. D. T. Brown, the famous New York alienist, long reported dead, has been on a farm near Batavia, Ill.,, two hours from Chi cago.
 Warren Humes is the oldest guide in the Adirondacks. He has hunted there 45 years, and has killed over 4OOO deer and more than 200 bears.
 Sir Edwin Arnold, author of the ''Light of Asia," and editor of the Telegraph, sailed with his daughter for America on Thursday, en route to China and Japan.
 There is at least one funny police justice in Philadelphia. His name is Smith, and he re- gently sent MT. Sault to prison with the re- mark that Sault was ''too fresh."
 Josef Hofmann has 8 rival in an infant phenomenon of nine years, Alice Liebmann, who plays the violin. She made her first ap- pearance at Her Majesty's theatre in London, Friday.
 Lady Colin Campbelps new novel, s'Darell Blake," will treat of contemporary society in | London. People who have seen the proofs say that several prominent people will be | recognized.
 The famous yacht Irex, which has this sea- son occasionally given the Valkyrie both | time and a beating, has been sold by Mir. | Jameson to Russian prince. She will still | be seen sometimes in English water. Hon. J. H. Rowell, ,member of congress for | Illinois, will depart for New Orleans on | Monday to take part ill the campaign ill the | third congressional district of that state, un- | der the direction of the national republican 1 committee.
 Senator Manderson, whose pension was re- written the Commissioner asking to have a medical board examine him, in order that his critics may be silenced, or that he may be as- sured that his pains are but imaginary. | The delegates of Scripp's league of work ingmen were banqueted Saturday by United States Minister Reid at Paris. Among the l special guests were Gen. Franklin, United States Commissioner to the Paris Exposition, | and Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York.
 Mir. Dion Boucicault has filed claim op- posing his wife's claim for $35OO back and future alimony. He says he is 67 years old, I infirm in health, has not been ill business for a year, is now only a dramatic professor, and earned last year only $40O0. He claims he has American copyrights of small value only, having received only 5000 royalty in 30 months. The English copyrights are inn pounded ill court.
 Sarah Bernhardt, after the public funeral l over her late husband, M. Damola, had real funeral according to the Greek rite. The dead man, dressed in full evening costume, was placed in an arm chair, around which were lighted candles in large numbers. Pray CTS for the dead were recited by Archimand- rite, assisted by four priests. The only per- sons present were Sarah, her sister Mime. Gregorie, and Cooper, friends of the de- ceased, and the police inspector of the dis | trtct.
 Colorado College has just added to it's scientific department Dr. A. J. Cajori, who was post graduate student at Johns Hop kins University and professor of mathe- matics at the Tulane University at New | Orleans. It has also called to it's department of modern languages Miss Elizabeth w. Eaton, daughter of Dr. Horace Eaton and niece of Hon. John Eaton.
 MT. Frederic Remington, whose spirited 1 pictures of wild Western horses and un- tanned cowboys have become familiar to the readers of the Harper periodicals, and who obtained prize at the Paris Exposition, has been spending the summer in the western | part of the Adirondacks. Instead of going fishing and hunting, as everybody else did, Mir. Remington devoted his time to making pictures of hunters cabins and picturesque camps. After he had become tired of the woods he went to Canton, N. Y., where he established studio in a barn.