The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1890-12-17
PERSONAL.

A London editor recently returned
New York letter to the writer, saying that
the Goulds, Astors, and Vandcrbilts mem
toned in it were persons whose names
were unknown to him and to English
readers.
The Empress Eugenie Is reported to be
a heavy loser by the recent depreciation
in South American securities as she had
invested very largely in them.
Child iinitators of Carmencita and
Otcro are the most recent developments
in the lower order of New York amuse-
ments.
Lord Tollemache had possibly the honor
Of possessing some time or another, the
most patriarchal family in all Europe.
or his twenty-three SONS, however, only
eleven survive him, rs well as one daugi-
ter.
There is much anxiety at the Vatican
over the condition of the Pope, who has
been seriously affected by the extremely
cold weather. DR. Ceccerelli, who is in
attendance on His Holiness, is prepared
fer the worst.
King Milan, late of Scrvia, has been in
Scotland for ten days on visit to Lord
Abinger at Inverlochy Castle, Inverness
shire, where the party included the
Barons Il. and X. Erlanger and Sir Fred
erick Stephenson.
Little "Phip' Sheridan, who is Just now
10 years old, is said to be n perfect coun-
terpart of his father. He gives promise
of exhibiting the pluck and endurance of
the great cavalry leader He is destined
for West Point.
cided that Marcus Morton, and not Ed
ward Everett, should be Governor of
Massachusetts,. Judge Morton had been
a candidate for office thirteen successive
years when he was chosen by this mea-
gre majority.
The l0-year-old Queen of Holland is by
no means unlike her aunt, the Duchess of
Albany. She has been brought up in tn @
simplest possible manner under the direct
personal superintendence of her mother
Queen Emma assisted by II professor and
an English governess, Miss Winter. She
has always been accustomed to play with
the children of her late fathers humber
neighbors, and was never so happy as
when entertaining her little friends so,,s
.fdcoa at the Loo.
Patti was only seven when she first
went on the stage to sing. Her initial
appearance was at concert in Niblo's
Garden, December 3, 1851. Her formal
de6Nt in opera was made ut the Academy
of Music on the night of November Fl,
1859, when hesung the title role in Lucia
di Lammermoor. She was then only
15years old.
BY the side of NIillets famous work,
the "Angelus," now in New York, has
been placed his portrait by himself at the
age of 30. This work, owned by Pierre
Millet, the painters sculptor brother, who
resides in Boston, is of exceptional inter
est and of striking quality. The painter,
whose face is turned little to the right,
| wears a mustache and short beard His
hair, as in the portrait in Sendiers life,
falls below his ears, where it becomes
curly. He wears a black coat, buttoned
up, which has high velvet collar.
The venerable General Francis q. Spin
ner, ex-Treasurer of the United States,
writes as follows, from Jacksonville, Fla,
to the Hon. John NJ Francis, of the Troy
Times 1.-THE cancer has eaten u broad chan
mel across my nose, exposing both nostrils
through which oritices | breathe. ! try
to stand up sturdily against the pains that
ailiict me, and | am greatly sustained in
the effortsyby the sympathetic letters and
newspaper notices that | receive from
friends and the hope that death will soon
end all my sufferings."
Madam Kartzon, who was found MUIR
dered in her house in Moscow Dec. 13,was
an aunt of the Russian consul-general in
Paris, toward whom the Nihilists have
long entertained hostile feelings. The
head of the murdered woman was nearly
severed from the body. Her mouth was
stuffed with n stocking and her hands
were tied behind her back. Everything
in the room was in perfect order. The
smell Of burning bed-clothes, which had
been set ON fire by the assassin, first
alarmed the household.