The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-07-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

William c. Whitney rides a good
horse and sits in his saddle well; and
while cantering the bride paths of
Central park, New York, horse and
rider present a picturesque appearance.
The ex-secretary of the navy is hand
some man, of splendid physique.
Miss Florrie Bryan, young En-
glish woman, has forsaken Christianity
and married the maharajah of Patiala,
| in India. She was received as mem
Der of the Sikh religious community
| just before the marriage, which was
celebrated according to Sikh rites.
Commodore S. d. Bolton, hale old
sea-dog of eighty-six, who lives in New
Orleans, has a vivid recollection of La
| fayette, whom he saw in 1924. Bolton
was then midshipman nineteen years
| old, and was on board the new war
ship the Brandywine, which carried La
fayette home.
"A friend twas visiting Mr.. Oscar
Wilde one day recently, and found him
hard at work cutting" superduous
dialogue from his new play. Isn't it
infamous?" he asked, looking up after
moment or two; what right have |
to do this thing? Who am l, that l
should tamper with classic?"
William Wetmore Story, the sculp-
tor, is small of stature, white of mus
tache, and musical of voice;he discusses
statuary and art with an air of easy
mastery; his charming manners make
him much sought after in society at
Rome, where he has resided in the Bar
barini palace, for nearly forty years.
Christian Joachim Mohn, a Nor
wegian linguist, who was acquainted
with more than sixty languages, most
of them oriental tongues, died at Ma
pies early in May at the age of eighty
five years. He used to be familiar
figure in the British museum, and was
well known in most continental Euro
pean cities.
Mr.. Sala, who was intimate enough
with Thackeray to speak of him with
out presumption, protests that he was
not cynic. He admits that he was a
mas ter of irony and that he could not
help being satirist, yet he testifies:
81 never heard him say one unkind
thing of human weakness, frailty,
or misfortune"
Henry Astor Carey, who died at
Newport, R. l., recently, Ibequeathed
ten thousand dollars to Prof. Hill, of
Harvard college, and the remainder of
the estate, worth about two million
dollars, goes to Arthur Astor Carey, of
Cambridge, Mass Mr.. Carey's only
SISTER, formerly the Baroness De
Stuers, was ignored by the testator in
his will.
Mr. George w. Childs at Wootten,
his country place near Bryn Mawr,
has revived the pleasant custom of hay
ing friends who are visiting him to
plant memorial trees, and he has a
monumental memorial forest spring
ing up in which there are trees planted
by famous Englishmen, by great artists
such as Christine Nilsson, and celeb
rites such as Grant, Bayard, Bancroft
the historian; Robert c. Winthrop,
Hamilton Fish, and many others
Story of Lustrous Diamond.
One of the finest diamonds in the
world was found not long since in the
Brazilian sands 1t came in novel
form. small quartz rock was found
about the size and shape of an egg, ly-
ing in the sand along the banks of the
Amazon. in Brazil. This was carried
home by Brazilian peasant, who was
attracted by its odd shape and light
weight. For some time 1t lay in his
home with number of other geologi-
cal specimens, a mere curiosity. Hap
pening one day in handling it to drop
1t on a stone block, it burst open and
lay IN halves on the block. The hol-
low interior that gave the light weight
to the stone was filed with blood-red
sand. In this sand lay the diamond,
sparkling stone of the rarest quality.
The stone was later sold to a diamond
merchant and left the finder exceed
iu0lv wealthy.