Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-02
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

EX-SPEAKER REED and Minister to Rus
sia Smith are in Paris and are having a roya
time.
ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND, the %
year-old heir to the throne of Austria, ha
the measles.
JULES GREvY, so well known as tn,
late President Of the French Republic, Il
neither "Jules" nor "Grevy," but Juditl
Fancoir Paul Greviot.
MRS. MoNcURE D. CONWAY is tall
handsome woman with gray hair and darl
| eyes. She knew both Mr.. and Mrs. Carlyle
| and often visited them at their Londor
home.
SARAH BERNHARDT'S tips completely as
founded the belIboys and servants of the
California Hotel. To the waiting maid who
attended her the divine gave two $50 gold
pieces, and on the garcon who served her
meals she conferred four twenties.
LORD SALISBURY, stout and indolent as
he may now seem, has been a hard worker
and in 1852, when he was Robert Cecil, visited
the Bendigo and Ballarat gold fields, where
he Joined the diggers, lived in tent, did his
own washing and cooking and dug and
gathered nuggets.
GENERAL JAMES B. LoNGsTREET, who
up work on his history of the Confederacy
which, for year, has been engaging his un-
divided attention. He is not seriously or
dangerously sick, but his physicians have
ordered him to stop working.
\. MARION HARLAND is a large, pleasant,
lhatron-like woman, above medium height,
with nut-brown complexion that suggests
open air and plenty of exercise. She has a
broad forehead, and hair just turning gray.
This she combs back in pompadour fashion.
Her eyes are rather deep set, and bright and
clear. Her mouth is firm and she has a
strong chin. At 6years Of age she began
writing stories.
THE great English painter, Wilson, who
was almost the founder of the landscape
school, was very poor in his younger days.
One hot summer day he, with some compan-
ions took q rural walk. Coming to lovely
stream they all determined to bathe; but
Wilson hung back. They almost forced him
to undress, and then his secret was ex-
posed; he had patched his waistcoat with an
unsold canvas, and a lovely cascade tum-
bled down his back.
The Queen Regent of Spain is a very
devoted mother, and lives as quietly as any
of her most humble subjects, bathing with
the little King and Princesses in the morning,
anu uf1Vlng or sa11ng with them in the
afternoon. The baby King asserts his pre-
rogative full royalty even now, to the de-
spair of his governess, who cannot persuade
him to conform to the conventionalities of
life, or to address his titled subjects by other
than their Christian names.
MRS. ELLEN MITCHELL the first woman
nominated to seat in the Chicago Board of
Education, sums up her experience in this:
81 am particularly pleased to notice that the
question of university extension is rapidly
coming to the front. The greatest possibili-
ties in the way of securing educational ad-
vantages should be placed within the reach
of the poor, for it was never SO true as it is
to-day that knowledge is power, and the
safest place, think, for power to rest is in
the hands of the people,"
CHEEvER GOODWIN, the author of the
book of wang" is not a novice in the play
wright's work by any means He made the
adaptations of the operas Of Lecocq andOffen-
bach. in which Alice Oates sang early in the
seventies. Then he wrote the libretto of
'Evangeline," for which Edward E. Rice
composed the music. Then he made the
book for the opera which at first was called
'Le Petit Corsair," afterward Conrad
the Corsair," and recently renamed "The
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