The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-30
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

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 MR. WILLIAM D. HowrILs is expected to spend next winter iI- Jn.
 Mrs. CLEvELASD's col: 2 r-I of dia- monds is estimated to be worth at lcast $500
 MRs GLADSTONE alw-y ys attendsmeet- ings of Parliament wh lthor L-r bus band or her son Herbor, Is l. peak.
 Mas. LELAND STANFORD recently paid ss5 fer fifty menu car6s r.- 92" If her swell dinners. The IT,. t5ed States was stamped in silver on the back of the cards.
 THE Berlin Locksniths' Child, in making Prince Bisma x it honorary master. declared him De '-l;e-Iaany's $ greatest artistic lock. es3 made the key that openzI --e ,se- Jf the Kyfhaeuscr and handed IL U ole Empe- TOT, William I"
 THOMAS HART. resi}ont oF Austra- lia, who is eighth in de l-3-1 5haks- peare's sister Joan, is tAg l,..-gst living relative of the great poet. 1t is curi- ous fact that there are no direct descend ants of Napoleon, Wellington, Washing ton, or Sir Walter Scott.
 TIE Baroness Klara von der Decker of Tifiis has issued a circular to the beautiful women of the world" asking for their photographs in order to place them before a committee of artists which shall choose those to be placed in an album entitled: Types of Female H,1 Of teenth Century,"
 GUsTAvE BoURcAUD, a citizen of Nantes, has a hobby for bills and posters. He made an exhibition of his collection last spring for local charity of Nantes and was able to produce de- signs in this neglected but not humble line of art by large number Of artists who made some mark in their day. A catalogue was supplied by the collector.
 EDISON, the inventor, who began life as a newsboy, and is now Count and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, lives in a sumptuous house on Orange Mount ain, N. J., which the splendor of it's electric lighting converts at night into a veritable Aladdin's palace. Mrs. Ed ison is a beautiful and accomplished young woman of twenty-four, one of whose greatest difficulties in life is making her absent-minded husband re- alize the necessity of eating when he is hungry and resting when he is tired.
 MR. GLADsToNE's rule against Sunday travelling, according to the Manchester Guardian, placed him in rather incon- venient position when at one time the Queen took to inviting him to dine and sleep at Windsor on Saturday night, and did not extend her invitation over Sun day. When this occurred Mir. Gladstone used to remove himself on Sunday from the castle to the Deanery, and remain till Monday as the guest of Dean Well lesley. This came to the Queens ears, and more considerate arrangement was adopted.
 MR. AND MRS. STANLEY have solid silver dinner service consisting of 30 table-forks, 24 tablespoons, 24 dessert spoons, 24 dessert forks, q teaspoons, soup ladle, 2 gravy-spoons, sauce ladies, IS dessert-knives, IS dessert forks, IS ice spoons, helping spoons, pair grape-scissors, pair sugar tongs, 4 dessert-dishes, 1 epergne, entree- dishes, 9 candelabra, ? chased beakers and sauceboats. These desirable arti- cles arc presented by the Emin Pasha Relief Committee to Henry M Stanley on his wedding day, July 12, 1890, in commemoration of duty nobly done and 2 great enterprise splendidly achieved in Darkest Africa"