St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-01
PERSONAL POINTS.

Mrs. Parugini, second daughter OF
Charles Dickens, paints children'S por-
traits, and is now making series of
sketches for al English magazine.
Mrs. Harrison presented plate dec
Grated by herself to fair at Washing
ton to be ratified at 81 chance; also a
dolI-baby and trousseau valued at $500.
Eduard Strauss, in Baltimore inter-
view, declares America to be Paradise
and the newspapers simply miraculous.
The crown princess of Sweden is at
Nizza on account of very bad brOn-
ehial trouble. Is this the NiZza re-
ferred to in the remark: Uneasy lies
the head that wears crOWn?"
Gen. Benjamin F. Buffers reminis-
cences will be ready this fall. 1t is safe
to predict that they will make what
Horace Greeley used to call mighty in
teresting reading"
Artist Whistler was told by an ac-
quaintance that there were only two
painters in the world, himself and Velas-
quez, and he Immediately replied, "Why
drag in Velasquez?"
DR.. J. FurnivaIl has gone back five
generations in the ancestry of Robert
Browning and discovered that he
had fOrefather who was head butler
at Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire. How will
the Browning clubs like this?
Stephen b. Elklns' new ninety-nine-
room house in the town named after
him in Randolph county, West Virginia,
will be completed about June L. 1t will
require Star-route map to locate the
rooms.
Senator Stanford is a great fayorite
with the pages of the senate chamber.
He gave sixteen of them dinner at his
Washington house, and is now in their
estimation bigger man than Benjamin
Harrison.
Stephen A. Douglas owns a planta-
ton in Mississippi which cost his father
$4,000, and from which the present
owner realizes only about 500 year.
He can raise almost that much wool be-
tween his ear mutf5.
Andrew Carnegie paid $4,000 for the
flowers and decorations alone at the re-
cent big dinner which he gave in Wash
ington. This fact will have a sweet
fragrance for the noStrilS of the men
whose wages he reduced 10 per cent.
Miss Annie Page, who took promi-
nent role in the .'AntigOne" in Boston
recently, has been favorite model for
artists and possesses reputation as a
writer of short stories. She is an inter-
esting Page of American literature.
Princess Victoria, sister of the en-
peror of Germany. has announced her
intention to pass her life in single bless
edness. She will set up an establish
meut of her own in London. Ameri-
can heiresses have made the competi-
ton too lively for her.
Fritz Reuter- is the Charles Dickens
OF Northern Germany. His works are
composed in the idlom of the North,
and are very witty character sketches.
A monument is being erected to him at
New Brandenburg. Monuments are
not SO hard to get in the old world as in
the new.
Lady Anne Blunt, her husband and
their daughter, are living on the bor-
ders of the desert in Egypt. about six
miles from Cairo. They have adopted
the Arab dress, with the primitive Gus
toms of that race, and live life of sim
plicity. How Lord Byron's veins would
throb if he only saw his granddaughter
attired as Bedouin!
Miss Virginia Long, granddaughter
of Gen. Sumner and daughter of the
Confederate general, Armistead Long,
the biOgrapher of Robert E. Lee, is a
brilliant bruno, and one of the diStin-
guiShed beauties of Charlottesville, Va.
She is an intrepid horsewoman. Her
father is now quite blind, and she acts
as his amanuenSlS.