The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1892-02-06
PERSONAL MENTION.
The Life Of the Queen of Roumanla
pespalred of-lbsen LioniEed
In Chrlstana.

London Is to have new woman't
club, presided over by the Duchess oI
reck.
II is reported that the doctors who are
IN attendance on the Queen OF Roumania
despair OF saving her life.
Ex-Minister TO Great Britain Vaux ol
Philadelphia, who has not been Ill for
forty years, has succumbed to Ia grippe.
Henry Clews, the New York banker,
Ia In favor OF making Saturdays In sum.
mer time whole instead OF hall holidays.
Mrs. Springer, the wife OF the Con.
gresham, is said to be his best aohlve-
mont, brightest accomplishment and
most admirable quality"
Ibsen is lionlzed In Christiana, but
they won't permit his plays on the
boards up there. The "pillars OF socl-
ETY. > must be reasonably fra in Scandi-
navia.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson is living
quietly ut Spring Hill, suburb Of Mo.
bile. The author OF "Beulah" Is said
10 be loath 10 welcome Amelie Riyes as
a rival in Southern literature.
Cornelius Vanderbilt liz to be asked to
take the Presidency OF the New York
Grant Monument Fund Association, and
is considering the question whether or
not he will accept the position.
The author OF "The Light OF Asia {"
inscribes his name on the hotel register
as "Sir Edwin Arnold" Fastidious
people may object TO this, but IL Is GER
tainly better than writing one's self
down an ass, as some distinguished tour
lists have done.
Thompson was first moved 20 write
verses, according 30 some special inior-
nation which the Boston Globe has re.
Gently obtained, when 10 years OF age
and upon Sunday while staying home
from church. The attempt was suggested
by some one else as means OF occupy
ing his spare time. The task was under
taken, so this story goes, and with such
success that the youth was encouraged
10 try further.
Walter Crane, the English artist,
openly announced sympathy with the
Socialists while he was in Boston, but
after he reached Chicago he did not find
IL convenient TO affiliate with them. Per
haps the withdrawal Of invitations TO a
dinner in his honor in the modern Ath-
ems taught him something.
The families OF the Queen OF England,
the King of Greece and the Gar OF Rus
sia have made arrangements TO erect
handsome monument in Copenhagen in
honor OF the golden wedding OF the King
and Queen OF Denmark. The model OF
the monument will be presented 10 the
royal pair next May on the anniversary
OF the wedding.
Congressman Hatch is said TO have
cured himself OF strong taste for liquor
len years ago by adopting Edmund
Burke's cure all OF hot water. He drank
quantities Of 1t, and thinks he derived
great benefit from IT, 1t stimulated him
without any OF the reaotionary effects
that follow stimulation from drinking
alcoholic drinks.
Kyrle Bellew is greatly changed, says
Labouchere in London Truth. He is no
longer the dapper, well-groomed Bellew
who was known by the matinee girls as
Z" Kyrlie." There is now a touch OF the
shabby genteel about the once-debonair
beau, and he has aged greatly, the hair
which used to be only streaked with sill
yer being now almost entirely gray.
The statement that Mrs. Marshall o.
Roberts some time previous to her re-
cent marriage to Colonel Vivian dropped
the CO." from her name, because GER
tain English people enormously con-
strued it as an indication that her hus-
band was an lrishman, leads the
Boston Herald to revive the story
told OF Frederick O. Prince, when he
was q candidate for Mayor OF Boston.
That gentleman declared that he es-
teemed himself fortunate in the posses
sion OF this initial. Mr.. Prince claimed
that a good deal of the strength he had
in the irish wards was due to this cause.