St. Paul daily globe., 1890-05-20
PERSONAL POINTS.

NJ. Jules Ferry has shaved off his side
WhlskerS which the carieaturiSts have
made so familiar. He now probably
thinks himself disguised.
DIR. Gatling, inventor of the sulphur
shower bath gun which bears his name,
is eighty-SiX years old aud lives at Hart
ford. Inventing deadly weapons must
be conducive to longevity.
Prince Rupprecht, of Bavaria, has be-
gun his studies at the University of
Berlin, the first prince of a reigning
house to enter that institution. The
course of study may have to be trimmed
down to fit his royal brain.
j. r. Pitman, prompter at the Boston
museum, has filled the position for
thirty-tive years, and is probably one of
the oldest prOmpterS in the United
States. He has seen many actors in
hard lines in his time.
Sir Julian GoldSmld has returned to
England with a very good opinion of
American newspaper men. He saws
he found them to be generally san in
telligent and most polite set of men,"
Sir Julian must be gentleman and
scholar.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, one of the
surviving heroes of the Lost Cause, is
eighty-four, but as buoyant and as ac-
tive as man of fifty. The whole
Southern people feel a great pride in
him, and he doeSen't turn wheel for
lottery either.
NJ. Nacquet, the French deputy, who
is an intimate of Boulanger. is hump
back, and was in great request at Monte
Carlo by luck hunters during his stay
there. Boulanger might change his
luck by rubbing his friend Nacquet's
back.
William Dean Howells lives in an
apartment house on Commonwealth
avenue in Boston. He and his wife
have lived retired life since the death
of their eldest daughter. Mrs. HoweIIs
is fond of painting, for which she has
great talent. Mr.. Howells likes to take
long walks through the crooked streets
OF the old part Of Boston.
Theodore Hallam, of Covington, KY,
who is mentioned TOR John q. CarliSle's
place in congress now that the latter
goes to the senate, is "a fellow of in
finite JEST and rare StOry-teller. If
he goes to congress he will inaugurate
new era of buttOn-burSting there. In
addition to being good lawyer he is an
excellent newspaper writer.
Richard VauX, the Philadelphian who
is to succeed to Samuel j. Ran
dalFs seat in congress, danced in the
same set with Queen Victoria at court
ball forty years ago. A man who has
swung corner, with Queen Victoria in
his youth must have some terpSichorean
stun in him, and it is no wonder to find
him dosydoing with the ballot in his old
age.
70 cf, foi xr,y,O
the Poole of Paris twenty years ago,
owning magnificent shop in the Pas
sage de Princes and being patroniZed
by the dandies of the day, gave too
much credit and became bankrupt. He
worked at his trade until few days
ago, when he killed himself in miser-
able garret. Giving the Fren CHI dudes
credit cooked his goose.
Bret Harte is a careful. even faStidi-
Gus worker. He called at a friends
office in London the other day and filled
the waste basket with epiStolary at
temptS before he was satisfied with
letter which he left on his friends desk.
1t sometimes takes a pretty good letter
to satisfy man who opens it in the eX-
pectatiOn of finding another kind OF in
closure.
Louise Michel, the ''stormy petrol of
French politics." has t1aring red face,
an egg-shaped forehead and struggling
ringlets of hair falling loosely on her
neck. She dresses in black, and wears
neither flowers nor jewelry. Nobody
would buy ticket on Louise. straight
or for place, in beauty contest, but
give her fair dash at a tintype and
she'll make it look like page of the
! history of the French Revolution.