The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-12-27
ON SOCIAL TOPICS.
SOME INTERESTING GOSSIP ABOUT
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

marriage In the case of Miss Enid Hunt,
who was recently welded to Mr.. Samuel
Slater, the bride became the step-daughter-in-
law of her sister. There never has been any
thing in Washington in the spectacular line
to equal the glories of that wedding. The
BRIDES presents were handsomer and more
valuable than those received by many royal
brides. Besides lavish display, ancestry
played its part. The lace on the BRIDES dress
had been worn by her grandmother at her
own wedding, the pendant of sapphires and
diamonds was an heirl oom, and the set of
silver given by Mrs. Hunt to her daughter
was relic of American antiquity, having
been in the family eighty years This is as if
one spoke of the era of the discovery of the
continent of America by the Cabots The
lineage OF the Skaters is also very Norman
Conquest like. 1t dates back to the planters
of Rhode Island and besides the ancestral
backing, there is W ealth galore to uphold it.
Mr. Slater, sr., toge ther with his wife and a
small party of friends will sail for Europe
next week In his steam yacht, Sycamore.
The party will remain abroad indefinitely,
and will wander wherever their fancy dictates
Mr.. Slater has engaged frie nd of medical
persuasion to accompany the party. The
yacht in the world. How can very rich peo-
pie ever reconcile themselves to dying
Have you noticed the latest deve lopments
in ''the marriages of the B onapartes ?" The
grandson of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of
Canine, is before the London divorce court,
seeking an annulment of his marriage. 1t is
queer sort of story. The petitioner, Prince
Clovis Bonaparte, has only just discovered
that he Is prince. His father, Prince Lucien
Bonaparte kept him in ignorance of the secret
of his birth until just as he (the old sinner)
was about to 90 the way of all flesh Then he
made the not uncommon death-bed reparation
by telling the whole truth and nothing but
the truth. So the young man, who thought
himself only plain Louis Clavering Clovis,
found himself entitled to the name of Bona
parte and the rank of prince. Two days later
he married a Miss Scott, claiming that his
first marriage was invalid, as the lady had a
living husband from whom she had not been
legally divorced. The father of the prince
now suing before the London court was a
very old man at the time Of his death, which
occurred on the 18th Of October last. He
was buried in the cemetery of Kensal Green.
Years before his death, Prince Louis Lucien
composed the following inscription which is
engraved on his tomb: .'Here in this sarcopha-
gas lies H. III. Prince Louis Lucen Bonaparte,
Senator of France, Grand Cross of the Legion
OF Honor, and Doctor of the University OF
Oxford son of Lucien Bonaparte, the most
distinguished brother of Napoleon l., and
first Prince of Canino. He was in early life
student of chemistry and until his old age de-
voted to comparative philology. Born at
ThoingraVe, near Worcester, 18th of January,
1873" You observe how he booms his father
and himself in the above epitaph. But the
world is much more Interested in the story of
his sons life, whose existence is evidence
that he was devoted to other pursuits besides
chemistry and comparative philology.
The marriage of Miss Agnes McDonough to
Mr.. John G.. Agar, of New York, will be
solemnized in January, at st. Matthew's
Church. The brideelect is one of the great
California heiresses, a niece of Mr.. John
O'Brien. She resides with her aunt, Mrs.
Coleman who has leased the Meyer house for
the season. Just now, New York men seem
to absorb the wealth of California, but Balti-
more, through the Mays, got quite slice
when the two brothers of that name married
the whole Coleman estate, and got lovely,
charming wifes, too.
have not yet found out why the Christmas
clubs are disbanded. But l really believe the
work done this year by the school children
has been more far-reaching and more intell-
gent. / remember in some instances purses
were given the poor little things last year,
and this seemed the greatest mockery What
was done for the poor this Christmas Day
gave comfort and cheerfulness to wretched
homes, known only to the distributors. 1t
was really wonderful to see with what alacrity
the school children responded to the teachers
appeals, and what pleasure it seemed to give
their young hearts to bestow of their abun-
dance in some cases and in others, the mite
contributed must have entailed little sacrl-
flee. | am sure this way of taking Christ
mas into the homes of the suffering poor,
gave board of plenty to all of that class in
this city on the great feast day of the big
round year.
Great expectations are filling the hearts of
the pie women and miscellaneous venders at
the Capitol, that Speaker Crisp may give
them, New Years present, the right to
return to their former field of activity and
profit in the House end of the Capitol. Their
leader and persistent advocate is Aunt Clara,
who has been in business in the Capitol cor
rdors since the days of Henry Clay Ex-
Speaker Reed made clean sweep of all the
stands in the part of the Capitol under his
control, and great is the rejoicing among the
victims that his day of power is over.
This week has given two brides to the
House of Representatives-Mrs. Tim Camp
bell and Mrs. D. j. HemphiIl. The ceremonies