The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-06-17

is going over to live. The Hamiltons
fOrnia millionaire Croker. Is going to
sail at once with his bride for Europe.
II IS doubtful IL Jennie Lind (Mme.
GoldschmidD ever forgot her first recep..
ton in America. IL was one prolonged
and wide spread ovation, such as no
cantatrice ever before or since evoked.
One does not need to be an octogenarian
to remember the Jenny Lind Juror. Men
almost Impoverished themselves to secure
the best seats at her concerts, one Lind
lunatic paying as high as 500 for seat.
Castle Garden, about which many un-
savory memories have since clustered,
was the scene of her great American
triumph. Her personal profits from the
first concert she gave In New York city
are said to have amounted 20 $4,000.
Otto Goldschmidt. her husband. was at
that time travelling Nth her as her plan
list. Mime. Goldsehmidt died I'm 1887 and
this past April a memorial tablet - her
memory was placed in the Poets coi;.er
in Westminster Abbey.
Mrs. Langtry wears splendid ball
gown In her new play. 1t is OF white
satin with a cUbw % % lac strained
across the bodice. and >rou-frou OF
the same transparency caught IN with
knots of satin on the hem OF me skirt
The Empress Eugenie, accompanied by
Mime. Lebreton and NJ. Franceschinf
Pietri, has bean spending a few days in
Paris on her return journey to England
from the south. She IS travelling in the
strictest incognito as the Comte sse de
Pierrefonds The Empress has received
visits from the Princesse MathiIde, Prince
Murat. the Prince and Princesse de Polk
and other friends
The social prophets are puzzled over
what to predict for Newport Some Of the
NaQdernlltS.
will be closed but. after all. what have
the Willie KS ever done for Newport
except to put the prices Of everything, up
and go sailing solemnly OF on the Alya,
and more lately on the Valiant?
The Burdens, the Kernochans. the
Havemeyers, the Sloans and the Fred
VanderbilS will all be on hand as usual,
and these are some Of the families VINO
are not in mourning and may be expected
to entertain more or less.
The Burdens though. are the only ones
that have a marriaseable daughter ana
can be looked to for dances ana All sCrtS
of young peoples parties.
II the Wetmores come home n time
with their two charming Young IL Dies
that fact alone will save the Newport sea-
son.
The term, Get there, Eli" IS said to
have come about at a baseball mdtch
played in central New York state. Inc
name of one of the players h-plened 10
mine" was continually urging INN on,
and inadvertently mispronOuncins his
name The cry was Get there, Ell!
and the expression has been 'aken UP as
an expressive bit or American siahs'
From Hardware
The foolish habit that Americans have
OF assuming foreign names az soon as
they 20 on the lyrical stage was eAelnpll-
fed in a conversation overheard IN
street car the other day. apropos OF l'illan
Russells separation from her last nus,
hand. Perugini. 1T seryedbllian Russsii
right for marrying a rank Italian VINO
has tastes. habits and ideas diametrlcally
ouposite to our civilization, SAID large
man. evidently Il New Enslander trans
planted to Gotham. 1T happens; re-
piled the other man. that Peruglnl ~ an
American. and his real name IS Chatter
ton" "'rhen II serves him right Tor chans-
ing his name and no wonder II was ms
fit marriage" concluded the New Englah-
der.
Gordon's "Soudan throne" IS q folding
armchair he always sat In at hhartoum
and carried with him on his camel jour
neys. IL was nttle stralghtS,pa ..ci,' -,
chair. having a skeleton frame OF round
iron. a carpet back and seat. gilt knobs
for ornament and small pads on the arms
for comfort. "
African sun, which deprived II OF all
ROYAL pretensions, so that when Gordon
returned from his governorship Of the
Soudan and suddenly asked: where IS
my throne? Has it been brought inY
they were all surprised. His thronef No
body had seen a throne. Bat at length
the camp-stool was found where 1t had
been slowed away.-Chambers' Journal.
Mr.. Luke Fildes is a fortunate man.
He has the distinction of having begun
his career as the illustrator Of Charles
Dickens last novel. "The Mystery or
Edwin brood" he has painted the most
popular picture OF recent years. The
Doctor" exhibited in fs9i1. and h. was
chosen last year to reproduce for poster
t,,, tho features of the fair and gracious
princass who viii after the demise Of the
rcignfng sovereign share the Imperial
throne.