Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-03
PERSONAL.

Rebecca llubenstein has arrived in
New York from Odessa with her inter-
esting family of "a children. If they
Odessa visit we'd take to the woods
Philddetphm LetIger.
Mrs. Parnell is reported to be gaining
remarkable facility as typewriter since
she undertook the duties Of secretary to
her husband. However true this may
be, we are pretty sure that her husbands
chances for debating are not as good as
they were some time ago
Queen Victoria is said to have made
use for years of mechanical device to
enable her TO rise in her carriage and
bow to her enthusiastic subjects. Very
strong springs are arranged under the
carriage seat, and when the procession
moves she can, by simply pressing a
button at her side, be elevated into the
attitude of acknowledgment as often as
the cheers of the lookers-on require
These might be called "mechanical
bows" but the queen furnishes very
natural accompaniment of smilcs.-
I'hi2adelphid ESoning Bulletin.
The New York Commercial .4dgortiser
says that Grover Cleveland's doorstep
OH Madison avenue seems to have a
great fascination for children who live
in the neighborhood. The house where
the ex-President lives when iii town is
closed and barred for the summer now,
but any evening and in the afternoon
when the sun is low, little tots, all the
way from TO 10 years, sit on the stone
steps or climb up and down, seeming to
prefer that spot to others in the neigh
manhood ...l- .xalfr
the ex-President, too, and when they al
lude to the master of their soft-stone
sitting place they call him "Mr. Tariff"
Max Mueller, the philologist, will
visit Anhalt-Dessau next month, to un-
well colossal bust of his father, which
the Greek government has presented to
the duchy, in recognition of Wilhelm
Mueller's sympathy with Greece in the
days Of her fight for independence. The
old gentleman was something Of poet,
and his admirers have met the expense
of an deliberately sculptured pedestal
for the bust. The reigning Duke of
Anhalt has shown his appreciation of the
scholar, the poet and the patriot by as
signing place for the monument in
front Of the public school at Dessau, in
which Mueller was educated, and in
which, for several years afterward, he
was employed as a teacher. During the
later years Of his life he had charge of
the ducal library.
The many friends of Kemper Bocock,
formerly member of the North Ameri-
cans editorial staff, but recently of the
New York Press, will doubtless be sur
prised to learn that he has retired from
the field of journalism, of which he was
a shining light, to prepare himself for
the ministry of the Episcopal church,
for it was the belief that he was thor
oughly welded to the profession of
which ne was an honored and respected
member from boyhood. In connection
with his editorial work Mr. Bocock
found time to devote to theological re-
search, and now proposes to devote his
entire attention to the work of equipping
himself for the MINISTRY. Possessed OF
good, sound judgment and rare intelli-
gence, there can be but little doubt of
his success in the field in which he has
chosen for future labor, and what jour
nalism has lost will soon be the pulpit's
gain.--Phtlpdeiphia NORTH american.