Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-16
NAMES FREQUENTLY SEEN.

LABoUCHERE promises to visit this
country next autumn.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER is patroniz.
ing the baths at Marienbad.
THE Duke of Cambridge, Commander in
Chief of Her Majesty's army, is known as
Umbrella George"
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE LAMAR, of the
United States Supreme Court, is taking a
vacation at Bethlehem, N. II.
PROF. HARRINGTON, Chief of the
Weather Bureau, has gone to Europe to the
Meteorological Conference, which meets in
Munich.
GRANT ALLEN asserts that out of 90 girls
whom he sits next to at dinner in London,
10 are Hedda Gablers. All in all, Mr. Aliens
dinners must be pretty lively affairs.
Mrs. LANGTRY's 5,0O0-acre property on
the Pacific slope has increased ten-fold in
value. Such is the report, at least, and it
doesn't come from an advance agent, either.
MISS RACHEL GURNEY, the protege of
the Duchessof Bedford. who is to marry the
young Earl of Dudley, is besides being very
handsome, extremely accomplishment one
of the best amateur singers in England.
SECRETARY BAYARD's daughter, the
Countess Lewenhaupt, intends to pass the
fall and possibly the winter in Sweden. 1t
is not improbable that she will make her
permanent home in King Oscars kingdom.
THE Norwegian National Assembly has
granted DR.. Fridtjof Nansen $55,O00 toward
his Polar expedition, and 1S Norwegians in
their private capacity, one of them being
the King himself, have given the intrepid
ice-wanderer 200 more.
SIR wINsHAw NJ. PETIT, one of the
most famous men in the English Queens
Indian country, is millionaire and philan-
thropist, owns lS of the largest spinning
mills in India, and with one exception Is the
only native ever knighted by Victoria.
WARNER MILLER is the peripatetic tray
eler Within the last eight months he has
crossed the continent twice, gone to the
West Indies and to Nicaragua, besides max
ing countless trips to the South and West.
Meanwhile his political foes have done moth
ing to get him inside the breastworks.
IT is queer how they write. Andrew
Lang is declared to write best in a rose gar
den; Tolstoi sits on his bed and puts the ink
stand on his ruffied pillow; Dumas fills uses
an ebony desk, while Mary Anuerson-Na-
varros is mother Of pearl; James Whitcomb
Riley is at his best when the room is bleak
and uncomfortable.
THE Marquis of Ailesbury, who has lust
been refused permission to impoverish the
family estates by selling a s75O,OOO slice of
them, is a sporting man who, having once
won a big race with his horse Saver
make, has managed to gamble away more
than a hundred times as much upon worth
less horses and polished blacklegs.
MIR. CREMER, the Radical member of
Parliament who has given notice that he
will introduce q resolution favoring treaty.
with the United States by which disputes
shall be arbitrated, is an interesting sort of
person, according to London newspaper
gossip. Cre1ner reads German philosophy
as a diversion, although he had no schooling
to speak OF.
Mr.. SPURGEoN, the famous English
speaker, has found enough of spare time in
his busy life to become botunist q fiori-
culturist and practical landscape gar
dener, and his Norwood residence has glass
houses, gardens and grounds surrounding it
which are the envy of the neighborhood.
He knows every gardener and every choicetI
plant in Kew gardens.