Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24
PERSONAL POINTS.

L. o. RoEHRIG, lately Professor of San
scrit and the living Oriental languages in
the Cornell University, is master of no less
than 80 languages.
CATHERINE WEED BARNES, a niece oi
Thurlow Tweed, resides at Albany, n
Y, and is recognized as the leading woman
amateur in this country in the art of photog.
raphy.
DUFFIELD OSBORNE, the novelist and
author, is young and rather delicate in ap
pearance. His hair and mustache are be-
coming tinged with gray. He is member
of the Authors Club and lives in Brooklyn
DR. LoRIMER meditates starting an en-
terprise in or near Boston as rival to the
Cnautauqua movement. 1t Is to be called
the Temple Educational Union. Bible study,
literature, science and social and political
economy will be included in his system.
YvETTE' 'GUILBERT, the reigning concert
hall favorite of Paris, is said to earn $500 an
evening, and for a couple of songs in a
drawing room she receives $4OO. Her father
and mother are concierges, and a few years
ago she was poor and obscure.
JOHN w. THOMPSON, of the Ballston Spa
National Bank, of Ballston Spa, n. Y, who
assumed the Presidency of the predecessor
of that institution (the old Ballston Spa
Bank) in 1s45, and has uninterruptedly held
the same position to the present time, is un-
doubtedly the oldest bank President in the
country.
ANTOINE CHAPU, the French sculptor
who recently died from influenza, executed
a bust OF President Carnot last year, making
his model in Bonnat's studio, where that
painter was at work simultaneously on q
portrait. He was bright, vigorous gentle.
man of IS years, and was often seen at re-
ceptions and fetes with a lovely daughter,
who completely tyrannized over him.
Mrs. LELAND STANFORD has decided to
turn the Lathrop Memorial in Albany over
to the trustees of the local orphan asylum,
and endow it with 5000 d year, SO as to Sc.
cure relief from personal attention to this
charity, which she founded in memory OF
her parents several years ago. New cares in
connection with the Leland Stanford Uni
versity will prevent her visiting Albany as
frequently as hitherto.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, to the surprise of
many people, has appointed Prince Albrecht
of Prussia, at present Regent of Brunswick,
the successor of Count Won Moltke as Presi-
dent of the National Commission of Defense.
The Prince is a cousin of the late Emperor
Frederick. He is the handsomest living
member of the Hohenzollern family He is
one of the tallest officers in the army, being
almost six feet six inches in height.
PRINCESS LOUISE, of Denmark, daughter
of the Crown Prince of that country, and
Prince Eugene, third living son of the King
of sweden, are engaged to be married. The
bride is descendant of Queen Louise, of
Prussia, mother of the late Emperor Will
lam. Prince Eugene, who was born in 1866,
and is a cousin of the bride, spent several
wears in Paris in the studios of celebrated
PAINTERS and became an artist of some pre-
tensions.
GENERAL FRANZ SIGEL does not look
well, and it is evident that the hard expert
ences of life have told upon him. He is but
66 years of age, yet it is half a century since
he was q student of the military school at
Carlsruhe, in Germany, 4S years since he
held command in the Baden Revolution, 40
wears since he came to New York, and 30
years since he entered upon services in the
war for the American Union, in which he
won renown.
ADMIRAL WoRDEN, who commanded the
original Monitor in its historic fight with
the Merrimac, still shows in his face the
heavy peppering with gunpowder which lie
received in that engagement by the cxplo-
sion of IL rebel shellat The peephole to which
his eve was applied. He is living unostenta.
tiousIy in Washington, and it is difficult to
get him to say anything about himself or
about the battle in which he won distinc-
tion. He eschews all articles of dress which
would indicate his profession.