Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-03
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Mayor Grant takes horseback ride every
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Mayor Grant takes horseback ride every
morning before o'clock.
The Comte de Paris will spend the re-
mander of his days in England.
Thomas A. Edison, the Italian count, now
claims that his favcrite author is Dante.
Amos Stagg, the famous Yale athlete, will
enter the church soon. He is said to be a
good speaker.
Stanley's expedition has cost $4,000 thus
far, and additional expenses will bring the
total up to 100000.
Cardinal Haynold of Hungary, the famous
botanist, has suddenly lost the faculty of
reading and writing.
For his latest portrait of Gladstone paid
for by subscription of the women of Eng
land, Milas received the sum of $4,000.
Cardinal Bonaparte is one of the oldest
members of the Sacred college. He is the son
of Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon l,
and is 10 years of age.
The sole survivor of the battle of Trafalgar
is believed to be Emanuel Louis Cartgny,
who is living at Hyeres. He was cabin
boy on the French ship Redoubtable
Coningsby Disraeli, nephew and heir of
Lord Beaconsfield, shares his quarters at Ok
ford with member of Gladstones family,
who is his most LJimate friend and chum
Messoner, since his recent marriage, has
seemed to lose his ambition. He spends very
few hours a day in his studio, and does a
great deal of aimless sketching and daubing.
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt is asserted by the
London newspapers to have purchased from
the young Earl of Dudley Turner's master
piece, "The Grand Canal, Venice" for the
sum of $4,000.
Watts, the artist, and husband of Ellen
Terry has decided to give his paintings, about
fifty in number, and including portraits of
some of the most celebrated men of the time,
to the British gallery.
Speaker Reed has made collection of news
paper pictures of himself, and on his desk Is
large pile of these cuts. He takes great pleas
ure i'll showing his friends how many differ
ent faces he turns to the public.
Emile Zola is anxious to visit this country.
Hehas not the usual French prejudice against
other lands, and it is said to have read a
good deal of American literature. He is
especially fond of Bret Harte's work.
Lord Salisbury is not great newspaper
reader The only dailies which he peruses
regularly are The London Times and Stand
for which periodical he used to write.
At North Lansing, Tompkins county, NY,
lives the Oldest postmaster in the United
States in the point of service. His name is
Boswell Beardslev, and for sixty-four years
he has distributed mail to his neghbors He
has held this Office under nineteen consecutive
presidents.
Archibald Forbes, the famous war CORE
spondent, who has recently arrived from
England, is distingue hammered man of
military bearing and talks seriously and
forcibly. as BELTS man who has probably
seen more fighting than any one who has
never done any.
The Rev. W. II. Milburn, the blind chap
lain of the house of representatives is native
Philadelphian and was born in 1872 He lost
the sight of one eye when quite young. and
the other soon became practically useless.
He mastered the blind alphabet, and at the
age of 20 was ordained a minister.
The death of Shelley's son, Sir Percy Flor
ence Shelley, takes the title out of the poets
direct line and it now goes to cousin. The
late Sir Percy was a portly, jovial country
squire, having no trace of genius from either
his father or mother though he derived a
love for outdoor life from the former.
Isaac Holden, member for Keighey, York
shire, is the richest man in the English house
of commons AS young man he vas for
some time an i'll paid schoolmaster. While
teaching his pupils chemistry he discovered
the principle on which lucifer matches are
made. But out of this great invention Mr..
Holden made no money.
By the death of NJ. Eugene Bersier Paris
loses one of her most famous pulpit orators,
and France the foremost pastor of her re-
formed church. Pastor Bersier was well
known in the United States where he spent
the earlier years of his career, and was sur
rounded by large circle of American &C
quaintances and friends at Paris.