Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-17
PEOPLE In GENERAL.

Mr.. Gladstone has been told that he must
reserve all his speeches for the House Of
Commons, his late efforts in public being
altogether too much for his strength.
The queen regent of Spain has appointed
the titled husband of Christine Nilsson Span
ish ambassador to Sweden.
Prof. Kari Ludwig Michelet the philo-
sophical writer, will celebrate his Goth birth
day at Berlin next month.
President Harrison is great pedestrian,
and his favorito method of getting a good
tramp Is to be driven out into the country
in the White House mail wagon, md have
the driver set him down at long distance
from home, so that he can walk back.
Senator Calvin S. Brice resides in New
York. represents Ohio in the United States
Senate, and is educating his sons in New
Eng land and his daughters in Paris.
Mrs. Langtry has cancelled all her Ameri-
can engagements and, it is said, will not
appear upon the stage again until next fall
Gov.-elect McKinley's choice of Mr.
James Boyle, well-known newspaper man
Of Ohio, as his private secretary, gives uni
versal satisfaction to the republicans of the
Buckeye State.
Senator Stanford enjoys the reputation of
giving some Of the finest dinners III " ash
lngton.
Louis Prang, whose chromos have beauti-
fled many An artless cottage wall, worked
for a whole year in Boston, when u begin
ner, for 800, and was glad ia get it,
1t is stated that the archbishop of Can.
terbury Will visit America next year and
make tour through the United States and
Canada.
| ig Ell iinr
temperature is normal and his appetite good.
His early recovery is now confidently ex-
Iectel.
1t is no sinecure to be viceroy OF India
That dgnitary has to issue l50 great execu.
tive orders every week, to say nothing of
his other duties, official and social
Andrew johnson was the only presidsn
who ever stood on foreign soil while hold ng
Office. 1t occurred during the famou:
Swing around the circle" IN 1863, whi!c
visiting Niagara Falls, when he went in
carriage to the Canadian side. The presi
dent did not think at the time that he hat
violated precedent, and it occurred to hlu
only when he had returned to his hotel anc
was alone with his secretary, who promiseC
to keep the matter secret.
Miss Helen Could daughter of ia,
Gould, will make her debut in New Norl
society on the 26th proximo Miss Goui,
is p, tall and slender, with dark brown hal
and eyes.
Mr. George W. Childs's first hit in III
publishing line was with Or. Kane's Arc
tic Explorations, which yielded the au
thor nearly $40, 900 within year.
The widow Of Dr. B. f. Stephenson, tn,
founder of the Grand Army Of the Repub
bile, is reported to be- helpless and in abso
solute need of care.
Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet scout, ha
been in the service OF the government sine
1868, when, as a boy of Is, he enlisted il
the army.
1t was only few years ago that f. 7
Dubois, now senator from Idaho with
salary Of $4,000 year, was trying hard t.
get 5000 clerkship in Washington.
The Prince OF Wales has been grand mas
ter of the English grand lodge of Ere
Masons for II successive years, and will b
nominated for the office again this month