The Critic and record., 1891-04-17
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

Mr.. George b. Jones, assistant TO the
general freight and passenger agent of
the Farmyille and Powhatan Railroad of
Virginia, accompanied by his bride, is
spending his honeymoon in this city.
Mr.. Fred Spaulding, engineer of the
Rock Geek Park, has returned from q
brief vacation srelt in Pennsylvania.
Gail Hamilton has succeeded better than
most writer's in keeping the facts of her
life to herself.
Verdi has finished n comic opera en-
titled '.Falstaff," which is to be bro lght
out at Milan next winter.
Cardinal Manning is godfather to w.
II. Gladstone, who is named Henry after
him.
President Harrson's presence az the
formal dedication of the Leland Stanford
University is so much desired that an eff
fort will be made to arrange the date so
as to secure him during his present tour.
Neither Verney nor de Cobain, the two
members OF Parliament now charged with
immoral and unnatural offenses, will re-
sign. They vow they will fight the battle
to the end, and strenuously deny all the
charges made against them.
Missouri believes in the equality of the
sexes in matters of religion, at least. Mrs.
Mary Il. Miller, Miss Carrie Carter and
ing elders to the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church in Stoddard County.
II was at Resaca that General Harrison
led the charge against the Confederate
battery in Which he lost nearly half his
regiment. Marshal Ransdell, who accom-.
panies the President on his trip, lost his
arm in that engagement. He was non
commissioned officer IN the Presidents g
regiment.
Mr.. Thomas Edison's house at Orange,
n. j., is beautiful and luxurious one,
and is but five minutes walk from his
laboratory. His family consists of his
wife, a daughter, about IS years old, two
boys and two babies. The boys are being
educated at home by tutor; one inherits
his fathers inventive genius while the
other is musically inclined
NJ. Paul Crampel, French explorer,
has given an account of the Blgayas,
a pigmy race, inhabiting the great forests
north of Ogowe, who appear to be related
to the Nambuttis of Staney's expedition.
They live among the NJ fangs, to whom
they are in measure subject. The Blga-
yas hunt ivory for thu M'fangs and re.
ceive manioc and bananas i'm exchange.
The NJ fangs are about . feet o inches to
9 feet high. whereas the Bagayas are 4
feet inches.
Eugene Field tells this story:
joaquin Miller was in Chicago two or
three months ago and he was thinking
about staying here some time but little
incident happened that made him feel
like moving on. The second day he was
here he was invited to a reception on the
South Side, and he went. There was an
enormous crush of women folk and II was
grand aiiair--the victuals and flowers
must have cost 81 900 or $4,000.
Joaquin was happy. He cottOne1 10 a
sweet young girl who had fawnlke eyes,
wayy hair and peachy complexion. To
this bud Of beauty was the poet OF the
Sierras particularly attentive; told her
golden romances Of other days among the
! snow-crowned hills and gnrgled bits OF
poetry into the coral porches Of her ear
But the jig was up when finally this
dream Of feminine loyeliness rolling her
beauteous eyes upon the poet and signing
Enthusiastically, quoth, Mr.. Miller, yon
talk so beautifully, why don't you ever
Try your hand at writing somethingY
The poet of the Sierras started for the
Pacific slope early the next morning."
Douglas b. w. Sladen, The English poet,
has written after his own happy style a
ballad of The Spanish Armada" The
treatment is noble one, inspired with
almost religious feeling and couChed i'm
nervous fascinating diction.