The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-07
Personal.

fNllE NNthittlf SUI VI NhN Ahlo'phAi
Senator, Is a high-school boy and an ac-
complished stenographer who does much
work for his father
Queen Victoria calls bouquet by the
old.fashioned name Of nosegay.
Mrs. jefferson Davis is said to be suf-
fcrcr from heart disease, which has
reached q critical stage.
President Harrison Is said to take more
delight In the streak of Indian blood in
his veins than in any other attribute.
Lord Londonderry, the cx-Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland, Is q prominent turfman
and Il forward saddle in the hunting field.
His wife is handsome and stately
woman. whose principal occupation is
practical charity, into cases of which she
examines with personal care and attention.
Nine. Spitzer, widow of the celebrated
collector Of medieval and antique armor,
bric-a-brac and art has given to the
Louvre q reiquary which is said to have
once contained the arms uf st. Louis,
Bishop of Toulouse. II is carved with
rock crystal and ornamented with
enamcls.
Olivia Golibart, the young Baltimore
society girl who is about to venture into
theatrical life, is apretty and rather small
brunette. Her eyes are dark, and her
hair, black MS ink, falls to her waist. In
figure she Is attractive, and she dances
well. She has appeared in many anna
teur theatrical performances in her native
city.
Drs. Berlin and Picq OF the Nantes fac
ulty, who recently injected fifteen grains
of gonts blood into the muscular tissue Of
the thighs of two patients suffering from
tuberculosis, assert that cures can be cf-
fccted by renewing such injections every
ten days.
The Court of Queens Bench in Dublin
has Just passed upon the rights of an un-
born child. A Nine. Walker was in a
railroad wreck at Armagh, and the child
to which she subsequently gave birth was
deformod in consequence. She brought
an action IN the name of the child to re-
cover damages. The court decided against
her.
Robert Buchanan, the poet, novelist
and reviewer, was poor Scotch village
boy, q score Of years ago, without fame
or fortune or prospects of either. The
success he has had in literature has been
won by hard work and merit, but to-day
he is one of the foremost men in London
literary life.
Senator German IS most meth odical
man. He rises at just @ o'clock every
morning sits sixty minutes at dinner and
never on any pretext permits an Interrupt
ton of his meals. He takes walk of
fixed length every day, bathes at the same
hour and never uses tobacco or liquors.
Although the Duke of Bedford was
cromated when the bearers raised the
coffin they found IL as heavy as usual, the
Duke having left instructions that piece
of lead should be put into his coffin with
q statement of the cremation, in case, il
the coffin were opened centuries hence,
there should arise some suspicion concern
ing his death.
Mr.. j. ii, Blackburnc, the celebrated
blindfold chess-player, has arrived in New
York on the White Star Line steamer
Teutonic from England. Mr.. Blackburne
| is on his way TO Havana to fulfil an en-
| gagement he has made with the Havana
| Chess Club to give blindfold and other
| chess performances for the edilication of
| Cuban lovers of the game and also to
| contest short matches with Seniors Col
mayo, Nasquez and Others.
In consequence of the recent duel be-
tween Count Deym and Count Luetzon
| of the Austrian Embassy in London. say
foreign papers, the Queen of England has
asked Lord Salisbury. to. request foreign
| governments to refrain from appointing
so many honorary secretaries of legation.
il has become customary for many conti-
| mental countries to allow members of dis
| tinguishcd families to act as honorary at
| taches to their Embassy during residence
in foreign capitals. The Queen has de-
| cided that in the future diplomatic privi-
lepts shall not be accorded to such at
tathos in London.
The New York Truth says: THE recent
Death of the French composer, Leo Deli
hes, has hardly caused the stir and
amount of comment which would have
been thought probable in the case of such
al eminent man. BY many Delibes il
thought to have stood at the head of the
list of composers of opera-comique
though he is better known, in this coun'
try, at least, by the opera of "Lakme," al.
most his latest work. He was appointed
twenty. years after his first opera ia
Roll a Dit" was produced at the Opera
Comique to be followed after short in
terval by jean de Niville." In 1884 Del
ibes was elected q member of the Institute
as successor to Victor Masse. The splen-
did production of "Lakme," which was
especially written for Marie Van Zaudt
ut the Academy of Music by Mrs. Thur
ber's American Opera Company, will not
soon be forgotten. 1t was last heard in
this city at the Metropolitan Opera-Houst
in the course of last season.
At the Pennsylvania Academy of Fin,
Arts the gold medal has been decreed Il
Abbott II. Thayer for his Winged
Figure" and the silver medal to Kenyon
Cox for his Portrait of a Lady," Rober
Reid has an honorable mention fol
Vision of Notre Dame de Lourdes,
View" and George II. Bogert for Even
ing in France" The Mary Smith priz,
went to Miss Cecilia Beaux for portrait
in pastel. The two-hundred-dolla Charlie
Tappan prize was won by Elizabeth ii
Thomas, and the One-hundred-dolla
prize by Albert j. Adolph.
7, ii. Pullen of Milford, Ca, in pack
ing bale of cotton recently placed in /
a note requesting the finder to send wore
where the cotton went into the process o
manufacture He has Just received let
ten from Moscow, Russia, giving the dc
sired information.