Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18
PERSONAL POINTS.

| ALPHoNso TAFT, of Ohio, at one time a
| member of General Grants Cabinet, and now
nearly SO years of age, is expected TO live but a
| short time, although until a few months ago he
| was hale and hearty.
ToLsTofs niece has prepared an edition OF
"War and Peace for the blind This edition
will be printed entirely in raised letters, and
| each copy will contain about 1000 pages. The
preparation of the work has lasted five years.
JULES SIMON, the venerable French author
does the greater part of his writing while in bed
He lies fat on his back and writes on tablet
held above him, and in spite Of the awkward
position his manuscript is a marvel Of neat
ness.
QUEEN V1cToRIA's favorite dish for dinner
is well-done beef, with which she usually takes
glass of champagne. Her ordinary breakfast
consists of coffee or cocoa and mullins, of which
she is very fond. With her luncheon she drinks
glass of ale.
THE University at Geneva has just made an
NJ. d. of the young Polish Countess Wanda
Won Szcawinska. Her graduation thesis was a
remarkably learned paper concerning the eyes
! of crustaceous animals and the effect of light
and darkness upon them. The Countess Wanda
will practice in Poland.
COLONEL DAN LAMONT is now the picture of
rugged good health, though when he left the
White House. two years ago, he was worn to a
shadow. at that time had just finished a four
years term of hard work which had sometimes
amounted to 16 hours day and had given him
but few opportunities for rest.
The new Countess Devonne, nee Audenreid,
whose marriage in Washington on Wednesday
was the social event of the season there is very
young and beautiful She is not yet 20 years
old, and is about five feet in height. She has a
very slight and graceful figure with blue eyes
and wavy. golden hair, and she is very vivacious
and witty.
EMMA ABBOTT wears in her coffin a part OF
the handsome veil that she used to wear in her
performances of Juliet. This veil she bought
in Paris, and she was wont to call it ner mascot.
because fortune favored her from the moment
it came into her possession. AT her death half
of it was cut up into souvenirs for the members
of her troupe.
A. STATUE OF Henry Bergh. in bronze. is to
be erected at the center Of huge granite
drinking basin for horses in Milwaukee. at a
cost of $4,000. The figure has been modelled
by ]. H. Mahoney, of Indianapolis. In one hand
is held the light cane. which was Bergh's we'll
known baton of authority, and the other rests
lightly on the head of greyhound sitting at his
side.
MISS ANNA PANELL, the Irish leaders sister,
is almost. if not quite. well posted in the poll
tics of the most dstressfu country as is her dis.
nguished brother. She is slender and very
delicate little woman, nervous, high-strung and
of an apparently cold temperament. No one, to
look at the fragile little creature, would think
her capable of thescoDtinuous hard work she
has performed in her brothers cause for months
at a time. She dresses very quietly, and is
Usually found buried in a pile of papers.
DIR. JACOB H. GALLINGER, nominated by
the New Hampshire Republican caucus TO sue
ceed Educational Bill Blair in the Senate, has
figured in politics many years. He was born in
Ontario, Can, 53 years ago In early life he
worked as a printer in Cincinnati, but has been
practising medicine for 50 years. He drifted
into New Hampshire N years ago. and soon
began to mingle politics with medicine. AS
member of the Legislature and in the hustings
he has won the reputation Of being shrewd,
practical political manager.
MRS. DAVIS, widow of the President of the
about a month ago. has been living very quietly
at the New York Hotel. As she is not over
strong she had to decline the many courtesies
offered her and sees only few intimate friends.
All her time has been devoted to superintend-
ing the memoir of her husband, which will be
published about the first week of February.
Mrs. Davis does hotIintend to return to the old
place at Beauvoir, nor to raise anything on that
farm next summer. She will go to Colorado
Springs, where her. eldest daughter lives, and
spend the summer there.