Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-30
PERSONAL MENTION.

RUDYARD KIPLING keeps rifle and de-
canter of whisky in his sanctum.
RUSSELL B. HARRISON has been proposed
for membership in the New York Press Club.
MRS. OSCAR WILDE is compiling an alpha-
petical dictionary of Shakesperean quota.
tons.
No crowned monarch in Europe is more diff
cult to get at for an interview than Arthur
Balfour. the Chief Secretary for Ireland.
1t is feared in Washington that General Bel
knap's estate will prove to amount to but very
little. He was not thrifty, ard he was very
generous.
MISS MILDRED FULLER, the daughter of
the Chief Justice of the NJnited States Su-
prem Court, will be married to Hugh Wallace,
of Tacoma. about JanuaryL.
HON. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN dined with the
Saturday Club, in Boston, Saturday afternoon.
Dr. Holmes. Mr.. Lowell, and Frederick Law
Olmstead were among the guests.
SIR JOHN PULEsToN'S younger daughter,
Alice who was born in the United States while
her father was partner with Jay Cooke, will
soon marry Francis GafoTd Brenton.
BISHOP KEANE, President of the Catholic
University in Washington who delivered
divinity lecture at Harvard last week, is the
first of the sect 10 appear under such auspices.
seriously i'll, is better, and his daughter and
other relatives think that he will soon be en-
tirely we'll He has concluded to sell all his
race horses.
Miss A. B. CLEGHoRN Hawaiian Princess,
and in the line of succession to the throne of
Honolulu arrived in New York from Europe
on Sunday. She is shortly to wed well-known
Englishman.
LOUIS KosSUTH is still engaged at his home
in Turin. Italy in writing his memoirs the COM
pletiou of which is made slow work by his great
age-he is now IS years old-and his habit of
running into diffusive details.
SENATOR STANFORD tells his California
friends: ~ have no doubt that about next
August the Presidential party will come out
here and shall try to fix the date for the
opening of the university at Palo Alto in order
to secure the Presidents presence"
THE latest of the society writers is Mrs.
Ruth Dana Draper, who has a pretty little
story in one of the November monthles. Mrs
Draper is a daughter of Hon. Charles A. Dana
and the wife of DR.. William H. Draper. She
is exceptionally clever and brilliant
FRAULEIN MARIE EssIPoFF has received
as a wedding present from her father, a
wealthy Viennese merchant book which is
said to be the costliest volume in existence
The binding is OF the richest tooled morocco.
and each of the 100 leaves is a bond of LOOO
gulden.
THE son of Senator Hiscock, an able young
lawyer, Albert K. Hiscock, is in Syracuse Just
now, packing up his household effects to re.
move with his family to Tacoma, Wash. He
went out there about year ago to look over
the State of Washington. and decided that it
was a good place to live and grow up with the
country.
THE health of young Mrs. Blaine is mending
very rapidly. She now goes about with no
other aid than that of a cane. and she does not
have to lean very heavily even on this for sup
port. Her face has filled out so that her pretti-
ness-much of which consisted of the plump
outlines and dimples-has returned and there
is decided improvement in the cheerfulness
of one of the most widely discussed invalids of
the year.
THE report that Prince Ferdinand of Hohen-
zollern, heir presumptive to the crown of
Roumania, is to wed Princess Victoria of
Wales cannot be verified, although II is likely
that the Princess Maud will be betrothed to
the Duke of Augustenburg, only brother of
the German Empress, who is a nephew of
Prince Christian and granddaughter of Queen
Victoria through his mother. Princess Adelaide
of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.