The Washington critic., 1890-04-23
PERSONAL.

George B. Evans and wife of New
York, Daniel L. Lornoz and wife of
New York, j. A. Bryan Of North Caro-
lima and Miss Manley of Baltimore are
registered at the Langham.
Louise Abhem Il, the French nainter,
arrays herself in male attire, and is very
much of dandy.
James Russell Lowell RECEIVERS very
slowly from his recent Illness. He is
still unable to do any work.
The Duchess of Marlborough and
Mrs. Cleveland had tables at the recent
bazar for st Mary's Hospital in New
York.
Emin Pasha acts $40, 900 q year from
his German employers for his services
in Africa. He speaks twenty seven
different languages and dialects.
Henry George is having a cordial wei
come in Australia. He has been enter
tanned at grand banquet at Sydney, and
his lectures on the land question have
been attended by crowded audiences.
Herr Johann Orth, the former Aus
train archduke, has given the command
OF merchant vessel, recently purchased
by him, to Captain Sodie. Herr Orth
serves in a subordinate position on the
same ship.
Professor Brooks, the director OF
Smith Observatory at Geneva, N. Y,
has just been awarded the medal of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific for
his discovery of the comet now in the
eastern heavens.
King Oscar of Sweden, who is well
known as an author, has turned his pen
from poetical to military themes. He
has just published a minute study of
the Swedish army, based on his Oh
servations during the autumn man.
muvres.
One of the prettiest women at the
Spanish court in the days of Queen
Isabella was the Duchess of Medina
Coch. She is now a grandmother and
a noted patroness of art and music.
Her grandson, boy of 10, is the rich,
est nobleman in Spain, having a for
tune of $25, ,000, 600.
William Black, the novelist is man
Of less than medium height, muscular
and compact of build. His hair is
black, worn closely clipped. and he has
a sweeping mustache that a cavalry
man might envy. He lives in plain
rooms in Buckingham street, London,
overlooking the Thames.
Prince Charles Trauttmansdorf, a
wealthy and popular Austrian, has been
declared bankrupt, owing to losses at
Monte Carlo. Recently he dropped
100000 fiorins at baccarat. Afterward
he lost $1,000, 900 florins in wheat The
Prince is middle.aged man, with vast
estates in Bohemia and other parts of
Europe.
Benjamin L. Farjeon, the novelist, is
a dark faced, piercing, eyed, intensely
intelligent,looking man of genial man
ner and Jewish extraction. He began
life as journalist in New Zealand
where he became proprietor Of news
paper, but having received a friendly
letter of encouragement from Charles
Dickens, cast the cares of editorship to
the winds and went to England, since
when he has turned oW some twenty
novels.
AT sale of autographs in Paris the
other day letter from Balzac to David
| dangers, the famous sculptor, came to
light In il Balzac gives an interesting
account of his working processes. He
said that when engaged on an import
ant novel he wrote from in the morn.
ing until 4 in the afternoon; then he al
lowed himself an hour of recreation,
and in the evening he read and corrected
proofs until his early bedtime.
Nine. Patti is said to have been over.
whelmed with invitations in New York,
but she has remained in strict seclnsion
when not singing
NOW is THE CHERRY IN BLOSSOM.
/ Now Is the cherry in blossom, Love,
Love of my heart, with the apple to
follow:
/ Over the village at nlghtfall now
/ MeTily yeers aud darts the swallow.
/ At nightfall now in the dark marsh grass
Awalles the chorus that sings old sorrow,
The evening star is dim for the dew,
And the apple aud lilac will bloom to-
morrow.