The record-union., 1891-04-13

Mobile organization of veterans. 1t is
intended to raise $4,000 or Sl2, 900 for this
purpose.
SENATOR w. H. Crane will spend the
summer at his new home in Cohasset. He
will begin his next season in September;
will present three new plays during the
season, the work of Clinton Stewart, Au-
gustus Thomas, Clay M. Green and Hen
ry Guy Carlton.
Mr.. Blaine's gout is an occasional vis-
ltor. 1t is not something he has acquired.
1t is an inheritance. He never earned it,
and therefore does not enjoy it with the
zeal that self-made man applies himself
to the assimilation of the possessions that
have given him the joy of accumulation.
The King of Greece has recently pur-
chased a handsome castle and park in
the neighborhood of Copenhagen, which
is thought by many people to indicate his
intention of retiring from Greece at an
early day. he has accumulated quiet
little fortune Of about Sc, 600, 900 during his
reign.
Senator Walthall and ex-Gov. Lowry,
of Mississippi, will be the orators at the
unvailing of the great Confederate monu-
ment in Jackson, June I'd. The former
gentleman will pay tribute to Jefferson
Davis, and the affair is expected TO prove
the most important Confederate demon
!
| Putting the Duke of Edinburgh in
charge of the admiralty establishment in
Devonport is costing the British taxpayer
rather pretty sum. For five months
workmen have been busy repairing, al
tering and enlarging the official resi-
dence, and now the Duke has found out
that there is not enough privacy for him
| there, and a high wall has to be built all
around the house.
Queen Victoria's months sojourn at
| Grasse, in the Maritime Alps, will cost
somewhere between $50, 900 and 100000.
Probably only two persons will know
| the exact figures, namely, the Queens
Director Of Continental Journeys, who
makes all the arrangements and pays the
bills, and Sir Henry Ponsonby, the
Queens man of business, who checks of
the accounts and preserves them.
Everyone has q liking for some partic-
ular gem, although, indeed, most women
prefer diamonds, which are the most try
ing jewels worn. Mrs. Grover Cleveland
Mrs. James G.. Blaine, Mrs. Frederick
Vanderbilt, Mrs. VIM. Astor and Mrs
Cameron, wife Of the Senator, are among
the well-known women who wear anC
love the brilliant. Mrs. Willie K. Van.
derbilt chooses pearls, Mrs. Matt Quay
sapphires; Mrs. Noble, moonstones, anC
Mrs. Roswell p. Flower, opals.
A regular contributor TO the Bostor
Post, after expressing an earnest hop,
that Mr.. Booths threatened retiremen
from the stage will be only temporary
| adds: "His position as the foremos
American actor is one which we canno
permit him to vacate without protest.
say this not alone because l admire hi
f art immensely, but because / think tha
his cultivated, dignified. self-respectinI
career has an incalculable influence fo
good upon his profession"
A blind girl has matriculated at Mel
bourne University. In algebra, arithme
tic, French, Latin and several other sub
: jects of study she has taken a first-clas
position. She has been sightless from in
fancy. She has had, however, a passion
l for study, and it is her ambition to carr
her own living by educational or literar,
pursuits. At the examination she wrott
) her papers by the aid of the Brailie sys
: tenn. A teacher from the blind schoo
transcribed her work into the ordinar.
characters.