St. Paul daily globe., 1891-07-05
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. James q. Blaine Jr. has settled
down resignedly to the conviction that
rheumatism has maze her cripple for
life. it is said.
William w. Clapp, for twenty-five
years connected with the Boston Jour
nal. has retired from the editorial and
business management of that paper.
William Ross. the queens heafpiper,
who has piped for her majesty for
thirty-seven years, died at Windsor re-
Gently. His were mostly piping times
of peace.
James BARLEY. of New London, says
he has just spent thirty-siX hours in a
whales belly. Ii is an open question
now whether James more resembles
Jonah or Ananias.
Sir Julian PauDcefote. the British
minister. would not care to see wVr be-
tween this country and England. but
he likes racket now and then for all
that. He plays tennis.
The Crown Prince OF Swe len is the
latest victim among the royalties of in
fluenZa. His royal highness is not
strong by any means, so that his affiic-
ton is looked upon with some concern
by the members of his family.
King Milan, it appears. leads a some
what enviable existence in Paris. Ac-
cording to the Figaro he recently won
10000 francs at baccarat within forty
eight hours. Baccarat is his favorite
game, although he is passionately fond
of poker.
Gen. Jubal A. Early has accepted the
invitation of the monument committee
to be the orator on the occasion of the
unveiling of the Jackson monument at
Lexington, Y a., July 21. His subject
will be the military achievements and
character of 'StOnewall'' Jackson.
Sir Arthur Halliburton, the newly ap-
pointed assistant under secretary OF
state for the English war Office. is the
youngest son of that famous old Nova
Scotian, Judge Thomas Chandler Hall
burton, whose savings under the
pseudonym of ''Sam Slick" have amused
more than one generation of readers.
Queen Victoria's family circle now
numbers fifty living defendants. in
Guiding sons and daughters. grandsons
and granddaughters, great-grandsons
and at-gIanddaughters. Besides
these she has four sOns-in-law. four
daughters -in-law. five grandSons-in-
law, and one NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
There nave died one son, one daughter,
FIVE grandsons, one granddaughter, one
gTeat-grandson, and one son-in-law.
George LippeTt, not satisfied with dis
playing one more fully-fOrmed leg than
the law of nature allows, now aston
ishes the entire medical and surgical
staff of Bellevue hospital by revealing.
under examination. that his heart is
about six times the normal human size
of that organ. and. according to DR..
Overmiller. ''beats as plainly on the
right side as on the left, and apparently
extends the whole way across This
astounding discovery reveals that Mr..
Lippert has bigger heart even than
Jay Gould.
The Austrian emperor is said to be
much exercised in mind concerning his
heir and nephew. the archduke Fran
els Ferdinand. He is anxious to see
the young prince married. but the
archduke has formed an attachment
to certain fascinating actress and will
not listen to any of the schemes formed
for his union to one of the unmarried
princesses of Europe.
In the palmy days of the wild specu-
lation at Wichita a dozen colleges and
universities we're built almost in a
night to satisfy the craze for culture
that succeeded the boom. They cost a
round million dollars, and are now so
many elephants on the towns hands.
Still, expensive as these institutions of
learning were, they did not cost Wichita
so much as the learning of the simple
truth that boom is hollow sham and
mockery.