Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-22
POINTED PERSONALITIES.

MRS. HENRY M. STANLEY is direct
descendant-the seventh in line-from Oliver
Cromwell.
BARON Won RoTHsCHILD has pur-
chased the villa used by Gambetta's father in
Nice. 1t is said that the Baron intends to put
it up as an asylum for the poor.
BERNHARDT had only half-filled house
at the opening of her season in Washington on
Monday night, while Margaret Mather played
to large audience in the same city,
MISS KINGSLEY, daughter of Charles
Kingsley, has gained by her writings upon
French art decoration of French academic
palms, with the grade of "Oficer of the
Academy"
MRS. JENNIE NJ. LoZIER, who has been
elected President of Sorosis, is physician, al.
though she has not praoriced medicine for
several years. She devotes all her time to
philanthropic work.
RABBIT SOLOMON SCHNEIDER, of Bos-
ton, has taken strong ground against the propo-
sition to colonlze Palestine with Hebrews He
says that country cannot support more than
5000, 900 people, and the Russian exiles alone,
numbering 100000. would largely overpopulate
it
MARION CRAWFORD, who had served a
legal notice upon the managers of the Grand
Opera in Paris protesting against the produc-
tion Of Richepin's "Le Mage" on the ground
that the story of "Le Mage" is taken bodily
from his "Zoroaster." has withdrawn his
charge of plagiarism.
The CZARowITZ OF RUSSIA, who is
making tour of the world. is expected to
reach San Francisco in about a week. Russia's
treatment of the Hebrews leads that class of
eople in California to regard with indignation
fnr nfn Tn tha md
Duke upon his arrival.
REV. DIR. DAVID j. BURRELL, of Min
neapolis comes to tho Collegiate Dutch Re-
formed church. of New York, under a call that
has comfortable aspect. AS published, the
arrangement is one under which DIR. Burrell
will receive $40 900 a year. and in case of dis
ability IS 900 year for the rest of his life and
when he dies S. coo year for his wife, if she
survives him,
COUNT LEO ToLsToI and his family have
been so annoyed by false reports regarding
their affairs and manner of life, which have
appeared in Russian aud foreign papers, that
they have decided to receive fewer people in
the future. The Countess recently ordered
that no one was to be introduced to the family
or the Count who was not possessed of letters
from well-known people.
SIGNoR AGosTINo MAGLIANI, who
was Italian Minister OF Finance, with few
interruptions, from 1877 to 1889, died recently
at the age of 66. The adoption of the gold
standard of currency by Italy was mainly due
to him. He was man of fine administrative
ability and vast information, althou ugh
Roman paper in 1873 remarked: cit must not
be forgotten that to Magliani we owe the en-
lanced price and the inferior quality of cigars"
The RoTHsCHILDs are believed to have
$50 0OO, 900 invested in American securities Only
the Rothschilds themselves know what they
are worth. and they never tell family secrets.
One of their notices is, "Gold never repeats
what it Sees" and another. "a man will not
tell what he has not heard" )" but some idea of
their riches can be had from the fact that since
1915 they have raised for Great Britain alone
more than 81 OOO 600 000 for Austria $3.50 900 600;
for Prussia $500 900; for France s4OO 900 900;
for Italy, nearly $500 900; for Russia, SIPS.
600 900; for Brazil from $50 600 to $40 900
and for smaller States certainly between $780,
600 900 and $500, 100000.