The Critic and record., 1891-05-01

The engagement has Just been an
nounCcd OF Miss Iames, the singer to the
American artist, Julian Story, son of
William Wetmore Story, the sculptor.
Miss Mary Garrett has given 100000
toward the 100000 to be raised for
woman's medical school for Johns Hop
kins University.
Sir Edwin Arnold saws the Mikado of
Japan is always obliged to walk alone in
public, his arm being considered too sa-
cred for even the Empress to take.
Andreas Dippel, the German operate
tenor, is not yet 30. He is slender, pale, q
blonde, and does not look strong enough
for the heavy work he has done the past
season.
The Duke of Edinburgh will play the
violin and lead the orchestra at a charity
concert to begin at Bristol, England, next
week.
DR.. John S. Billings, surgeon in the
United States Army, has prepared series
of lectures upon "Methods of Vital Sta
tistics," which he Is delivering at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
DR.. Philip Leidy, one of the best known
practitioners of Philadelphia died at his
residence in that city April %, after a two
weeks illness, of the grip and pneumonia.
DR.. Leidy was native of Philadelphia,
graduating in medicine at the University
Of Pennsylvania in 1859.
: Dir. Stearns, of the Hartford Insane
Asylum, maintains that in a large pro-
portion of cases, insanity is durable under
scientific treatment.
The Marquis of Lorne neither favors
the annexation of Canada to the United
States nor believes that the majority of
the people of the two countries desire that
the greater should engulf the lesser.
Geronimo, the vanquished Apache chief,
along with great number of his follow
crs, is prisoner at Mount Vernon Bar
racks, twenty-nine miles north of Mobile
on the Mobile and birmingham Railroad
The other day the passengers on that rail-
road were startled by colored man who
burst into car eXclaiming: '0h, ,marser,
come out; here's old Deuteronimo out
yerr'
b. p. Hutchinson, "Old Hutch" was
one of the most remarkable men who
ever operated on the Chicago Board of
Trade and for years, except in times of
exceptional excitement, ruled it as with a
rod of iron, sending prices up and down
as he pleased lie was a New Highlander
by birth and began his business career in
North Reading, n. H., nearly fifty years
ago.
Miss Ethel Forbes Leith, who is to be
married in London in June with much
pomp and circumstance, is the daughter
VI AitAdllutI lItllns u ptOlNlliidn MLu
came to this country few years ago and
made a large fortune. He visited st.
LOUIS and there married Miss January.
Mr.. Reagan, who has just become an
United States Senator from Texas, was
| Postmaster General and Acting Secretary
of War of the Confederacy, shared Jeffer-
| son Davis's flight and narrowly escaped
being captured with him. Mr.. Reagan is
almost 20 years old.
Old as is the venerable Count de Ke-
ratry who has just returned TO France
after visit to this country, he is con-
siderably younger than were his father
and grandfather at the time of their
deaths. One of them at least, was con-
| siderably over 100 years old and should
the Count, himself, realize his expecta-
| tions and live beyond the year 1900, three
! generations of the family will have seen
| four centuries.
On being asked if he were descended
from the Bard of Avon, Joe Shakespeare,
| the Mayor of New Orleans, is said to have
replied 81 never heard that the Bard of
Avon left anything but name, SO ! took
no interest in his family. If he had left
money it would be different" AS mat
ter of fact, Shakespeare did leave an
estate that was reckoned good in its time.
] The new Shakespeare of New Orleans is a
native of the neighborhood of Baltimore,
|
! rich iron founder.
Colonel J. Thomas Scharf, the Mary
land historian, has presented the Johns
! Hopkins University with a large collec-
ton of books, pamphlets and manuscripts
on American subjects. The pamphlets
number more than $4,000.
! The first lady in England who has made
a professional success as a landscape
gardener is Miss Wilkinson, daughter of
a Manchester physician, and she was
drawn into the business by pure love for
it. Miss Wilkinson designed the VauX
hall Park and the Myattsiield Public
Gardens, Camberwell. She does all the
work for the Metropolitan Public Gar
denis Association and for the Kyrle So
ciety. She is engaged now in designing
the grounds for the new Hospital for
Women, l1uston road. Besides under
taking public pieces of work, Miss Will
kinson does much for private people, and
often stays at country houses while she
plans laying out estates, draws up esti-
mates and does her own surveying.