The daily critic., 1890-12-05
IERSON4L

Irac.odaucs with The will ut tba
.air August Belmont the great rlaiug
arG BREEDING stud owned hy him is o.
te sold s.me time next summer.
The 1ichberue claimant is at present
engaged 1s @ laImIu in public house
iu Birmingham lie makes himself
generally useful. and in the evening be
Lectures iu tlU smoke room. if Is aid
THAT Ec gets lfg q week and a.i found
President CetEot 6 said 10 De- one Of
ihe most n-uii#u. cisirun1uers To-
Franco i'is .a.f is one of the most
noted men of hi. craft In the world, anil
is lhe Inventor .f number ot culi1lry
Vlf q .HNts.
oliver Wendell Holmes ON his recan,
hiuhdav anniversary received a teIe.
gram ON which be was required to pay
gOcCu's j ana much obliged 20 him
for hi- good wishes. said the au'ocrat.
ais be lail the message on his desk.
"lut ] wish he bad paid for them IN ad
vance
sidney Cooper the famous British
pointer. is DOW 81 years old He siill
possesses excel lnt health and gives five
nr SIX hours "a day 10 painting lie
sleeps rinc hours out Of The tweniy-four
and lives abslemiously.
Scnatorclect Gordon, at The battle Of
Seven Pines, received three bullet
wounds, and at Antieiam bc got two
bullets tn The leg. one In the arm. one
in the shoulder and ono IN the right
cheek lie also had horse killed
under him. the butt Of his pistol
smashed, his cautecu pierced and his
coat torn with bullets.
Il notice, said an English Glad.
s'Oucan now In New York. "that pc1.
pie here speal, of the short remnant OF
Gudstouc's lifc But when ! saw
Gladstone last summer he looked ls
/ though De- h4l the stuff 10 him fnr ten
| ltm- 60 wCrk Vet, and be can do m ,ru
| lu,irtss at mis- time Than m rsJ men
/ Who have not lived half bis ytars.
would NOT be- surprised if iht nee
chopper If Hawatdon should be
lrsdtr In imperial politics till the CLOSE
Of The nineteenth century
SrCakiug of Birchall. tue murderer.
Professor Goodwin Smith says. "ilm
be, Instead Of being sent % college.
l,,n kept steadily 10 work az some
useful calling, he might have gone
dCccutly aud perhaps crgdiiably through
The world. Sending him 10 college.
where, having no literary tastes, he
was sure not 10 study and where being
Idle. be was sure also To be dissipate
was a mistake which scaled his doom.
That no boy should be sent 10 college
who does not show decided inclination
% study Is a lesson which BirchqlI
preached 10 rs from a felou's grave
Judge Crisp of Geurgla. who Is one
al lhe most prominent Of tue younger
generation Of 5 u'hern Congressman.
ISL a descendant of a family Of actors.
Err tAurly years prior tn the war his
immediate relatives formed a band Of
,lIul'irE players, Who travelled through
the South When only ~ years old
young Crisp enlisted in the Confederate
army and served through the war.
Professor ShaIer Is one of the most
popular men In the faculty of Harvard,
and the bnysaTe always delighted when
they can get him tu make a speech.
After the football victory at Springfield
there was, Of course, big jnllidcation
al Can bridge, and one Of its most sue
cessful features was a Characteristic
speech 10y PrOft ssuT Shaler. In the
peculiar drawl for which be is famous he
De gan "l-wish-t0-say,- gentlemen
Thai many of you have 80 rc
Ceiyed yeIy-lOW marks i think
this-is f. due - somewhat - to- the
football enthusiasm -- which II has
been -preyalent-here- -I-can't-
say-ihat - - blame - YOU. - gentle
meB.-l-wcut-to- - Springfield - my
self-l-se -setlled-myself - quletly-On on
ts-and-hoped d-ihat-the-
men-peXt-tO-mg-WOuld-not-be-
too - bOisieTous. - Pretty soon Il
found = had - gotten-up.- - gentle
men, n,-tbat-my-ha was in-the -
gentlemen. - and strange to-
say,-gentlemen,- ,-I-didn't g. seem-tl
-CaTe-Wh Whether-it - came - down
ae aeain-OT-HOt --l-lntend a. to- go ~
to-spriug gield- next year, - gentle
men.
The Countess Pahleu, 10 whom Count
HeItert Bismarl4 IS engaged 10 De mar
Titd, viii inherit q very large flrtIne
from her father Count Pahlen, who Is
ibe proprietor Cf an immense estate ue lT
Mutau. The Count Pahlen Of a hun
died yeHTs ago, an ancestor Of the pres
eHt bead Of the family. was actively
engaged IN on the Russian Court ia
tTiguts of that period and was con
ceTned in The plot which ended iu the
assassination 0f the Emperor Paul
The father of the present Count Pahleu
vas Russian Ambassador 90 France
during he early part 0t the rcigu Of
Louis Philippe, and on one occasion. 90
ISIS De refused % dine at q state ban
luet 81 The Tuilgries If the King aud
Queen rf The Belgians ,Eh0 were not
recognized hy Emperor Nicholas ap
peaItd 40 table and Louis Philippe
made them uiue ia their own apartments
in nTueT t1 avoid OiICuding The suscep-
abilities Of the Russian Court