The critic., 1891-03-02
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. S. B. Buckner, the wife of the
Kentucky Governor, is woman of great
personal beauty and grace of character.
Mrs. Mckee, the Presidents daughter,
is preparing an article for literary club
in indianapolis on the Pan-American
Congress.
DIR. S. Weir Mitchell is making his ar
rangements to start for Rome, where he
expects to witness the gorgeous and inn
pressive ceremonial of Holy Week, and
also to be presented to the Pope.
Francis II. of Naples, that luckless
Bourbon Ounce whose throne Garbaldi
overthrew in 1860 and who is said TO be
one Of Daudet's "kings in exile" still
lives in nj Mess comfort in Paris. where
his sole activity is walking once day from
his apartmentto the Church of ST. Phil
ippe to say his prayers. He is rather
small and Insignificant.
One of the greatest writers of penny
dreadfuls died in Paris February 27 in the
person of Fortune Hippolyte Auguste dc
Boisgobey. He was bern at Granville
(Manch) in 1924. and was graduated ut
the Lycee Saint Louis. His parents were
wealthy and the du Boisgobeys are an
ancient respectable aristocracy of magis-
trates in the Avranchin, but Fortune du
Boisgobey took to writing fiction rs to any
other money-making av0cation.
The King of Spain is still baby; the
Queen of Holland is no more than I,
schoolgirl; the Emperor of Austria has,
son to fill his throne; Emperor William of
Germany would, II he passed away, leave
nobody to be his successor, to be krcigi
herr or war lord except boy of 8; the
CzarOwitZ Of Russia is -, but he is nm
married, and the Prince of Naples, heir to
. the Italian throne, is also childless.
hecelebrated Count Napoleon Bertraud,
before taking the heights of CONSTANT
nople, put on a pair of white kid gloves
that he had specially brought with him
from Paris. He said the gloves had the
same effect on him as the "Marseillaise'
had on his men. Julien, the chief dor
music on the programme, put ON fresh
pair OF kids, brought him upon silver
salver.
Mines asked Thackeray one day
whether his audience with Goethe was very
awful. Yes" was the answer; "lika a
visit TO n DENTIST Referring to the same
subject later, Thackeray declared that "if
Goethe is god, Pm sure I'd rather 20 10
the other place"
Nine. de Barrios, widow of the late
President of Guatemala, continues her
Saturday evening musicales at her palatial
residence, No. S55 Fifth avenue, New
York.
Rev. jeremiah 0'Cnnor, of the Society
Of Jesus, pastor of st. Lawrence Roman
Catholic Church, at Eighty-fourth street
and Park avenue, New York. died Feb.
ruary ~ of catarrhal pneumonia and
fatty degeneration of the heart, in the 50th
year of his age. Father O'Comor had
been In poor health since last December,
when he had an attack OF erysipelas. |,
was then discovered that he had a heart
trouble also. He had been able, however,
10 attend TO his duties up 20 last Monday
when he was obliged to take to his bed
Father O'Connor was born in Dublin
Ireland, April 10, 1871.
Mr.. X. Sedgewick, Deputy Minister OF
Justice, gave luncheon ut the Rileau
Club, Ottawa, February q, to Mr.. Cal
deron Carlisle Of Washington, who was IN
Ottawa on business in connection with
the Bering Sea seizures
Truxton Beale, who has been appointed
Minister to Persia, Is the only son of Gen
eral II. II. Beale, whom President Gran
sent as Minister to Austria. The youn.
diplomatist-he Is 33 years of age-wa
graduated from the Pennsylvania Mill
tary Academy, at Chester, in 1874, ant
later from the law school of Harvard Uni
| Nerslty, ana Thereafter nnlshed ms eiuca
| ton in Paris. He practiced his profession
for time in Philadelphia, with Wayn,
MacNaagh, and for several years past ha
resided In California, having full charg,
Of the vast landed estates of his father OF
the Pacific Coast. He Is well known il
diplomatic and social circles in Washing
ton and abroad. He is prominent mem
ber Of the Metropolitan and Columbil
Athletic clubs, at the Capital. Mr.. Beale
brother-in-law, NJ. Bahkmeten, is th
Russian Charge d Affaires at Athens.