The morning news., 1891-05-15
PERSONAL.

IBsES was entertained at a banquet of jour
naists and actors in Vienna lately. Won Son
nenthal, the actor. toasted him as the greatest
living dramatist.'' -
JOSEPH JEFFERSON and family are already in
their summer home at Buzzard's Bay, where
the feroci0us clam squirts maliciously through
the ses-washed sands
TIE well known actress. Beatrice Cameron,
Just divorced from G. R. Phebus will, it is re-
ported, marry Richard Mansfield. of whose com
pany she is member.
He has been found at last-the man who
says he has got all the money he wants. His
name is Leopold Bloom, and he has been one
OF the most daring spectators on the Chicago
Board Of Trade for years.
FRANK HURD of Ohio is being pretty freely
talked up as possible free trade candidate for
the governorship. the mere suggestion of
which is liable 10 make Maj. Mckinley goose
feshy enough to let himself out as an animated
rasp.
WHILE Mrs. S. s. Cox was in Washington last
week. Intellectual attempts were made to elicit
from her some expression Of opinion regard
ing tho letter carriers statue of her husband
whose artistic merits have been called in ques.
ton.
PRESIDENT J. s. GARRISON of the National
Republican League is just &c years old. He
has lived in Iowa since he was boy of r. and
he began mis- career in life as composiJor on
the LlcG state Register, of which he is now The
owner.
II. c. BUHNER, author. and editor of Puck.
lives etNutley,N. J.. where ne has pretty cot
tage nearly buried in the woods. He is great
pedestrian andsnmeDhirE OF an amateur pho-
tographer. He has a wife and a little daughter
named Nancy. -k2tt
THE Rev DR.. HEBER NEWTON calls Father
Ignatius ian ecclesiastical Anarchist" while
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr, refers to him as "a
vagabond bogus monk !" And these ntlemen
were not trained to sing singing sarcasm upon
religious country weekies
REv.'G H. LpRAH, pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church at DeylestowD, Pa, left
yesterday with three bicycling friends for
tour OF Europe on their machines. They will
ride through Great Britain, France. Italy, Aus
trla, Germany and probably portions of Egypt.
CHARLES A. DANA's great ambition, it is said,
is to be able to play Slosson on equal terms at
billiards, but he viii probably never be able to
do II. Maurice DAILY has been giving him les
sons for long time and is still giving them.
The great editor fatters himself that he is i'm
proving.
Rev FATHER DoucET, s. j., who died lately
at St Johns College, Fordham, N. Y, was one
of the few men with whom Edgar Allan Poe
was intimate. Father Doucet left g number of
manuscript "reminiscences of his intercourse
with Poe, and an effort is being made to have
the college authorities allow them to be printed
in book form.
ALMA TADEBA's STUDIO is reached by flight
of golden stairs, the steps being entirely Gov
cred with plates of polished brass. 1t is great
contrast to go from this room, entirely
Greek in its character, to the studio OF Mrs.
Alma Tadema, which Is Dutch interior, with
quantity carved oak walls and little diamond
paned windows brought from Holland.
CAPT. THOMAS of the steamship Pennsylvania
has been presented by the British government
with splendid silver cup for his rescue of the
survivors of the wrecked steamship Falconer
last November. First Officer Crockett was given
a gold medal, and four of the crew silver
medals. The testimonials were presented in
Philadelphia, Friday, by Collector Cooper.