The morning news., 1891-11-18
PERSONAL

Hon WILLIAM Il. ENGLIsH. the Indiana poll
ecian. Is preparing history Of Indiana.
Sorrow does not agree with royalty. Ex-
Queen Natalie OF Servia has grown short and
LORD LASsDoSEE is 20 return to Europe In the
spring, and il is probable that Lord George
Hamilton will be his successor as viceroy Of
India.
JOSEPH Cook hnds that prophet has no
prestige away from home. He has been draw
,ng poor houses in the west, where he has been
lecturing
EVEN PREACHERS live TO good old age. The
Bishop OF Chichester England. is So years old,
but be still performs his regular round of do
cesar work
LAUREscE GRosLUND. the most intelligent
and hroadest of the American socialists. earns
a scanty income from a clerkshipin the bureau
OF LABOR at Washington.
THE ENPERoR WILLIAM told queer mess-room
stories TO the czarina. and the Russian poten-
tate has taken great offense thereat. The lady.
on the other hand, enjoyed them.
MARY Z. SPENcER considers in a recent article
Five Reforms for Women" and observes
casually that women conservatism works
quiLe as sturdLy for evil as for good.
FRANCIS L. GkRsIDE, a bookkeeper In the
Atchison Globe Office, is the author OF the witty
and often. severe sayings about both men and
women which are quoted so universally.
EDoUARD LocKREY. the author Of the book on
Won Moltke, which has attracted so much at
tention in Paris. was one OF the 1000 redshirted
lrregulers who followed Garibaldi to Sicily and
Naples.
IT IS SAID that George Kennan has cleared
$4,000 from his writings aud lectures on the
Russian exile system. Last season he Travelled
over 90 900 miles on the lecture tour and spoke
200 times.
The man. next to DR.. Briggs. best pleased
with the result of the heresy trial. is Prot.
David Swing of Chicago, who once npon a time
had a little heresy circus of his own with the
heV. Dr. Patton. now Of Princeton.
HENRY LABoUcHERE says that Mr.. Parnell was
pleasant man when he unoent-quiet, gentle
manly and courteous. His reading was not ex-
tensive, and. except on politics, mines and
chemistry, he had very little to say
MRS WILLIAM HENRY SMITHS title is to de-
scend to her son Frederick, and it is announced
in the English press thar that was the
prime object in view In making peeress Of
the widow Of the leader of the House of Com
mons
NINE. ETELKA GERsrER, the opera singer who
was so famous few years ago, has purchased
the Palazzo Mezzona, in Italy, which has be-
longed to the Rossi family for upward of two
centuries. The castle is most picturesquely
situated on the summit OF a hill, surrounded
by cypress trees. The frescoes in the galleries
ana halls are known to be OF great artistic
value.
The PRIMA DONNA. Marie Roze, has a beautiful
house at Regents park. On the drawing room
table are albums containing souvenirs of her
career so interesting that visitors can scarcely
tear themselves from the room. OF living
prima donnes, Marie Roze has, with the ex-
ception of Nine Patti, had the most brilliant
career Although she was famous at the time
of the downfall Of the French empire, was an
idol In London at the age of H. was a favorite
In America by the time she was 80 and Is now
the star OF famous opera company, she still
appears young.