The morning news., 1892-02-03
PERSONAL.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. now In the South
seas, is greatly improved in health.
EDISBURG ladies are collecting money 20
erect a statue 70 Mary Queen Of Scots.
YAHIA KHAN, Persian minister OF justice and
commerce, died this week from influenza.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE, who was re-
covering from an attack Of Influenza, has had a
relapse.
OscAR WILDE, having exhausted all the posi-
biiities Of absurdity in other directions. is now
posing as socialist.
BIRs. ''SToNEwALL'' JAcKsos recently visited
Richmond, Va, TO consult Dr. MCGUIRE in re-
gard TO troublesome neuralgia affection Of
her head.
WILLIAM CHASE BARNEY, q grandson Of JUS
tice Chase. one of the signers of the declaration
Of Independence, died in Baltimore Friday, n
years Of age. o
VpS MoLrKE's SISTER, Frau Brocker. has Just
died at the age of 81. The late field marshal
vas wont 70 refer to her in his letters as his
tavotite sister, 3. 5aIo-9
GEoRGE MOORE, the novelist and essayist, Is
not unlike Emile Zola Is personal appearance,
thoagh his head is as red as that owned by
Swinburne, the poet ia' 51s1
TIE condition Of scanlan, the actor, has i'm
proved since bis removal 70 the Bloomingdale
asylum, and it is thought be may be able to
return 70 his profession = 7l
MISS JEAN INGELoy has. expressed her opin-
ion 9f gonan's rights wiEheltspoken frankness.
II don't Approve Of them stalL. she said; I'VE
cannot have rights and privileges, and prefer
privileges" Z. - -,sg-
WILLIAM s. RAYMOND of Fairmont, W. Va,
claims uobe the youngest confederate veteran.
He was IN service as courepdn 1862, when only
10 years OF age. and in ayear afterward bore
his commission as major.
RALPH WALDO EaERsoN, the junior owner of
thatfamous name. is getting well on toward the
sos. He is a pleasing and successful lecturer
and fond Of philosophical subjects, in which he
seems TO center much of his interest.
SAMUEL EDISON OF Michigan. the father of
Thomas A. Edison, is in Florida to spend the
spring months, and thinks some of going to
Amsterdam, the place of his fathers birth, to
spend year. He Is 50 years Of age.
HENRY LABoUcHERE says the last time he saw
Mr.. Gladstone he appeared very stately, very
simple and very singular in the sense of not re-
sembling any other man. He SCOTS at the story
of his shrinkage of stature and says it is pure
fiction.
BISHOP HERBERT VAUGHAN, of Stafford. re-
garded as the most likely successor to Cardinal
Manning as archbishop OF Westmester is the
son OF lieutenant colonel in the British army,
and is the editor of The Tablet and DUBLIN
ReulelO.
ALBERT BIERsrADT, who is to paint four his
torical pictures for the worlds fair illustrating
the work of Columbus, hhs recently spent a
good deal of time in SPAN and the West Indies
studying thoroughly scenery costumes, equip
ment Of vessels and other details.
CHARLES VILLIERs, who recently celebrated
his Goth birthday in England, had been in par
Lament just three years when Victoria assembled
TIE throne. He was an important figure in Brit
iSh public life forty years ago, though but little
of his fame has descended to the present gen
GRAFTON.
AT THE Vanderbilt ball in New York Mrs
Ogden Mills wore an amount OF jewelry that
would have blocked the sidewalk in front Of any
jewelers. store in which it had been exhibited
She literally dazzled behoders with her display
of diamonds and sapphires, aud the value of
the gems she wore ran up into the hundreds of
thousands.