The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-05
PERSONAL.

The engagement of Miss Turnure and
Mr.. Pagct brother of Mrs. Paran
Stevens son-in-law, Is currently reported.
BY the authority Of the President, As
sistant Secretary Nettlcton has taken
charge of the Treasury Department for
ten days.
Miss Marion Langdon and Mr. Carroll
whose engagement was announced last
week, win be married in March, probably
at Miss Langdon's home, as the bride
groom Is an adhcrent Of the Roman
Catholic Church.
Senator Pierce of North Dakota was once
n newspaper man and was connected with
the Chicago Necs In those days he was
accounted good story teller and con-
noisscur in dinners.
Mr. Window, like General Grant aud
Secretary Manning. was great smoker
Of cigars, and his excessive use of tobacco
is supposed to have aggravated his heart
trouble. He was disinclined 20 take any
physical exercise and disliked walking
Even in going the short distance from the
Treasury Building to the White House
he was accustomed to take q carriage.
Arrangements for the wedding of Miss
Ava Willing and Mr.. John Jacob Astor,
which will take place in Philadelphia on
the 18th instant, have not yet been COM
pleted. Mr. Astor has chosen Mr.. Iispen-
ard Stewart as best man, and the following
men to serve as ushers: Thomas IL. How
ard, ii. lie Grand Cannon, Woodbury. Kane
and brother of the bride. The bride
will be attended by six bridesmaids. Mr.
Cannon will, ON Friday night give
theatre and supper party in honor Of Mr..
Astor and his bride On the previous
evening a dinner in their honor will be
given by Mr.. and Mrs. Astor, the parents
Of the bridegroom. Mrs. Astor will give
q large reception for the young couple on
their return from their Honeymoon trip.
Among the cabin passengers who have
arrived in New York from Bremen bv the
North German lloyds steamship Traye
are: DIR. E +. Biewend, DIR. Constantin
Bjerring, Mr. and Mrs. Max dc la Chapele,
DR.. Carl Frese, Ernst Won Hesse-Wartegg,
Mrs. Won Hesse-Wartegg (Minnie Hauk),
DR.. Paul Lindau and Lowell Mason. The
Pacific Mail steamship Newport included
among the passengers She brought uD
from Colon: John Sherwood, Baron lie
Leyssane, ii. q. Prescott and ID. II.
Many, jr
In New York Bishop Arthur Cleveland
Coke of Buffalo and Bishop William ID.
Walker Of North Dakota are at the Murray
Hill Hotel, Bishop Henry A. Neely Of
Maine is at the Everett, Bishop A. NJ.
Randolph of Richmond, Va. ut the New
York, Baron de I.eyssac of Paris is at the
Hoffman. Assistant Attorney General
James n. Tyner of Washington is at the
Gilsey, Nine. Minnie Hauk is at the Nor
mandie.
Mr.. Edison, in speech to the en-
ployes of the Ogden iron mines at Dover,
n. j., on Tuesday, said 'Boys, wait until
next winter, and we shall have no snow
to bother us upon this hill. During the
coming year shall invent electric and
| sunlight refectoTs that will melt the snow
| as fast as ii falls"
The New York .SuR says: '.rhe enmity
existing between Gilbert and Sullivan has
| grown more and more bitter with the
lapse of time ON the part of the shrewd
and short-tempered Scotch member of the
| once famous firm of collaborators Mr..
Gilbert has always been quarrclsome, but
his increasing years have made him more
and more acrimonious, until nowadays,
| If the gossip of London is TO be believed,
| he has reached the point where half the
| people in the theatre are afraid to speak
| to him. He has had three rows which
have attracted newspaper attention in
London within AS many months. His
wit always had a satirical twist, and now
u has become saturnine and cutting.
| There seems tn be some ground for the
belief that he will satirizc his former
partner, Sir Arthur Sullivan, in new
ouera. Just before the production Of
Ivonhoe' u famous London journalist
took lunch with Sullivan, and subse-
! qucntly described that distinguished
musician as man who gives one the
impression of having suffered great dis
appointments, and whose health is evil
IDENTITY very poor, yet with the most ge-
nial, affectionate and wholesome nature
in the world. He is the most peaceablo
| man on Carth'n