The Washington critic., 1890-03-04
PURELY PERSONAL.

Rev. Sam Jones is going TO turn
farmer at Eminence, Ky.
DR.. McCosh, it is said, is not likely
TO deliver any lectures in Princeton
after the present term.
On the day that the late Sultan of
Zanzibar died the Emperor of Ger
many made him knight of the Red
Eagle.
Mr.. Froude, the historian, is passing
the winter at Salcombe, England. Mr..
Froude is engaged upon his book on
Lord Beaconsfield.
Emperor William has caused an or
der to be issued prohibiting the eXhibi.
tion of portraits of himself his ances.
tors or any of his family without his
sanction first being obtained.
The CZar of Russia is now the largest
land holder in the world. Three weeks
ago he purchased one single tract larger
than the State of Texas. He has also
bought in the lands of the Hohenlohe
family, which they had inherited, but
were not allowed to occupy, in Russia
Nicolai Uspenski, who was forty
years ago poet and writer, rivaling in
Russia Turgeneff himself, has just
died. Along in the tifties he became q
slave to drink, and ever since has been
wandering about the country playing
and singing in small entertainments and
in the streets.
Jean Hosmer, the once brilliant
actress, who died in obscurity the other
day, was a great admirer of j. Wilkes
Booth as an actor. She said he was a
hni Il mir,
and more like his father in fire aud
vigOr, but he did not possess the grace
and refinement of his brother.
Florence Percy few years since was
a popular American writer, but some
newspaper having said that her success
was owing to the gallantry of American
publishers and the pushing of her titled
friends, she went into literary hiberna-
ton, and has only recently appeared
again under the pen name Of Katherine
Armstrong. She is frequent contribu-
tor to the best English magazines and
literary journals. Just now she is re-
siding at Rouen, France, studying the
labor question as 1t concerns women.
She is very clever with her pen and has
strong individuality.
Mr.. Cleveland s friends have observed
of late that he is growing fatteT than
ever. He never buttons his frOck coat,
as he did when he was in the White
House, but allows it to hang in long
and ample folds, and as he walks to and
from church with Mrs. Cleveland Sun
day mornings his lounging and shape
less figure is in sharp contrast to her
slim and symmetrical form. Mr..
Cleveland's hair is long and he has lost
much of the neatness which character
lied his appearance while in the White
House.
Charles J. Bonaparte is the grandson
! Of king and the grand nephew of an
emperor, but he is plain American
lawyer Although millionaire he
rarely enteItains, dresses plainly, looks
plain and is plain. He is short, stout
and swarthy, and his appearance on
the street is very remarkable. His
head shakes from side to side like the
pendulum of a clock. He is married
but has no children, and, unlike his
brother, Jerome Napoleon, he does moi
| pose before the world as an imperialisl
| Bonaparte His ambition is in the way
OF his profession. He would like to be
Judge, and Is something of an orator
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