Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
PERSONAL JoTTINGs.


EMIN PAsHA's real name is Eduard
SchnitZler.'
ANTONIO DE NAVARRO, tie husband of
Mary Anderson has just come into legacy Of
$3.50. .OOO left him by the late Francis Dykers, of
New York.
THE country place of G. w. Chllds, at Bryn
Mawr, Is said to be one of the finest in the
United States The payroll for servants alone
averages about s., 900 month.
MRS JoHw W. MACKAY opened the autumn
season in the American colony in London this
week by reception given in honor of her
father. Colonel Daniel Hungerford.
CHAUNCEY DEPEw learned while in Europe
that Bismarck did his best to bring a war
between Germany and the United States at the
time of the Samoan troubles, but Emperor
William overruled him.
ROBERT ADAMS, JR., ex-United States Min
lister to Brazil, divides with ex-Select Council
man A. Haller Gross the distinction of being
the beau ideal among the bachelors of Phila-
delphia's best society. Mr.. Adams is q Colonel
on the Governors staff and . prominent figure
in the Philadelphia Club ndthe Q Union League.
RUDYARD KIPLING came by his very uncon-
ventional Christian name in rather romantic
way. The future parents of the brilliant nov
elist plighted their treth on the shores of the
well-known English Lake Rudyard, and COM
memorated the occurrence later In life by the
novel method of christening their son with the
name of the place.
DIR. KoUCHARsKY, a professor of medicine
in St Petersburg. completed a lecture on acids,
and then poured some drops from vial in
glass Then he said to his class: Attention,
young men! In two minutes you will see man
die. Good-by to- you all?' He drank the
liquid, took out his watch, and counted the Sec
onds until he dropped dead.
REV. HOWARD MAcQUEARY, the Canton
Episcopal clergyman, whose book. Evolution
and Christianity" created such stir in church
circles and who was accused of heresy on ac-
count of his views on Christ's divinity and
resurrection, will be tried next week by
church commission of which Rev. Dr. Ganter,
of Akron will be Chairman.
JOHN T. FORD, of Baltimore. the veteran
theatrical manager, looks 20 years younger
than he actually is. He was well advanced
along life's highway when President Lincoln
was shot in his theater at Washington City.
Mr. Ford is said to be the oldest theatrical
manager in the country in consecutive years of
business, and has brought out more great
dramatic stars than any other manager.
AMONG the young unmarried ladies who
shine in New York social circles by reason of
their beauty is Miss Bruce Price, the daughter
of Bruce Price. the distinguished architect.
Miss Price is handsome and statuesque. and her
belleship at Tuxedo, Newport and in the city is
unquestioned. She is very tall and stately. has
soft brown eyes, lustrous brown hair, and is an
unusually clever and accomplished girl.
"IHAvE written much and am tired" That
is NJ Ludovic Halevy's excuse for putting an
end while still living, to a Tong and prosperous
career of authorship; and it is probably as gooo
an excuse as any that could be offered. Yet
HF II &c hvr, O1d hoir
still under gO His plays have brought him
fame and money. and his voluntary retirement
from the literary field was entirely unex-
pected.
THE mother of Marie Bashkertseff has
erected a wonderful monument to her daughter
near Paris, that looks more like house than
tomb. The interior, which can be plainly seen,
contains the young artists rocking chair, little
table and favorite books. and the names of her
paintings shine in gold letters on the wall. A
perpetual light burns before her bier, which
her girl friends heap every day with fresh
flowers and her portrait, life size, hangs
above it.
REV, DR.. JOSEPH PARKER, of London, is
making a crusade against old methods of wor-
ship and exhortation. He says that preaching
is no longer an effective instrument of the
gospel. Preachers, he thinks, are living in a
fools paradise driveling theology instead of
dealing directly with tno daily lie Oh the peO-
ple. DIR. Parker has invited correspondence
from all classes of persons for the purpose of
learning what the public think of the pulpit
and its methods.
FOSTER COATES tells ludicrous story of
how his ideas of Ward McAllister, leader of
the Four Hundred, were destroyed by his first
visit to that magnate. He had imagined the
social magnate as man who arrayed himself
in purple and fine linen-silk stockings lnclud-
ed, of course 1t was during the morning when
Mr. Coates called, and the society dictator re-
ceived him in a greasy old shooting coat wear
ing on his feet pair of slippers that Topped
up and down on his heels as he walked, reveal
ing white cotton hose. Mr.. Coates conclusion
was that silk stocking gentry do not necessa-
rlly wear silk stockings.
CAPTAIN DAVID A. LYLE, of the United
States Ordnance Department, is thoroughly
qualified to speak on the subject of Worlds
Fairs, having been military assistant to Com
missioner Franklin during the Paris Exposi-
tion In referring to the forthcoming Colum.
ban display to be held in Chicago he says we
need not hope to rival the Paris Exposition
from an artistic standpoint but in magnitude.
in scope, in magnifcence and variety of natural
products, in machinery, in invention, and many
other ways he thinks our four hHndredth ami
versary celebration will 60 ahead of anything
ever attempted in the line Of international
fairs.