The Negro world., 1892-09-03
PERSONAL AND MPERsonAl.

While colored resident OF Leba-
non, Conn, was sleeping the other
night he swallowed his false teeth
-Salvini, the tragedian, is said to be
the only man on the stage who was
born in palace. 1t was the Palace
Caprainca, in Milan, now called the
Grille palace, in honor of Ristori, who
is countess of Grille.
"A tradesman on Fiatbush avenue.
Brooklyn, has a big sign stretched
across the front of his store bearing in
large black letters the legend, dealer
in Green Goods He sells vegetables
and general garden truck.
"A man who was apt to forget some
important duty when the day came to
discharge it, used to write a postal card
him at the right time. 1t wouldn't be
a bad idea il only one could remember
to write the postal card!
Queen Victoria has. like other wom-
en-, her pet superstitions, one of which
is the belief that anything made by
blind person brings luck Accordingly
the cradle with all its furnishings for
the latest Battenberg baby has been
prepared entirely by the blind.
Joseph Pulitzer, of the World. has
cabled IA subscription of s.. 900 to the
permanent charity fund of the New
York Press club This makes the third
$1,000 gift the charity fund has received
within two years The other two were
given by W. w. and John Jacob Astor
Rev. DR. William ii. Furness,
the venerable Unitarian clergyman of
Philadelphia, is the oldest graduate of
Harvard, having been graduated in the
class of 1920. Rev. DIR. Frederick
A Farley of Brooklyn, who died March
a. this year, was at the time of his
death the oldest graduate.
It. B. Ballentine of Norfolk, who
has accumulated wealth in, truck"
farming, has purchased a square of
ground in that city on which he means
to erect widows home" He has no
children to inherit his estate, and in
tends to bequeath to this institution
the revenue from his city property.
Miss BERTHE o. Burr, of Nebraska,
will probably receive the governments
gold medal for having displayed both
heroism and endurance in the rescue of
two young ladies from drowning in the
Blue river near Crete, Neb, last sum-
mer. Miss Burr learned to swim at La
sell female seminary, Auburndale,
Mass
"A famous duchess in London recent
ly went through the ordeal of having a
dress made on her own figure. She
stood for three hours while the dress
makers wrought fifty yards of rare old
lace that could not be cut into gown
for a soiree, at the close of which every
stitch had to be carefully cut and
picked out before the lady could dis
robe
They are fond of old things down
in Delaware. A Sussex county farmer
preserves with pious care and exhibits
with pride an ear of corn grown upon
his fathers farm in 1885, and another
produced from the ancestral acres in
1875. Both ears look well, but on ex-
animation they prove to be damaged by
weevil, and the grains are found to
have lost the germinal spark of life.
Cyrus w. Field was the oldest hon
orary member of the New York cham
Der of commerce. He was elected in
1858, after he had succeeded in laying
the first cable. There have been only
nineteen honorary members since the
chamber was organized in 176s, so that
the distinction is a high one. There
are now ten honorary members-ex-
President Cleveland, ex-Secretary Ham
ilton Fish, ex-Secretary William NJ.
Evarts, John Sherman. ex-Secretary
Carl Sehurz, john Bigelow, George
William Curtis, Thomas A. Edison.
Judge Enoch Fancher, and Whitelaw
Reid.