The evening times., 1895-12-21
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WHITE BUILDING.
All Around the World.


Charles De Kay, United States consul
| general at Berlin, was prominent member
| of the Fen GERS Club in New York icty. Hels
| forming an organization of like character
in the German capital and has secured FOR
it twelve charter members Mr.. De Kay is
| very skiilful with the foils.
The King OF Portugal, who left the country
TO borrow money, expended a large sum
during his recent travels. In London he pur-
chased several valuable paintings, and in
Paris his inclination to buy bric-a-brac.
| books, etc, had to be checked by his
advisers. King Carlo has luxurious tastes
and is not a good financier.
Prof. Dewar of London, whose cx-
/ periments i'm the liqucfaction OF gases are
well kno wn, has a last solved the problem
/ of producing liquid air cheaply. His device
consists of spiral pipe, ,in a vacuum through
which air under 800 pounds pressure pa sses.
escaping through tinyapertureintothev vac
uum chamber.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway re-
Gently appeared in a new role ut the per-
| formance given by Stuart Cumberland in
Stockholm Mr.. Cumberland does not know
| Swedish. and his interpreter failed to ap-
| pear; so the king, who is an excellent lin
| gust offered his services. and explained
| things to the crowded audience with sur
prising ease and flucncy.
David PIunkett, member of Parliament
for Dublin University, who has just been
| raised to the pcerage though not IA wealthy
man, has probably more money standing
! in his name than any single private citizen
| in the world He Is trustee FOR many rich
| people, including the Guinnesses, and gen
orally holds III that capacity from 81 So
| 900. 900 to S2uu, ,UOU,UuU worth OF securl
/ ties.
DR.. Dove Wilson, in recently addressing
the Judicial Society Of Aberdeen on Law
and the Legal Profession in the United
| States" told his hearers that no one who
| knew anything about America would un-
! dervalue American institutions. The gen
| rral Impression left on his mind as to the
state of the law NJ America. especially in
| the Eastern and longer settled States, was
an impression of the highest merit.
The Adams family is stili in evidence in
| Massachusetts,. Charles Francis Adams
| ii, who was installed mayor of Quincy
I last week. marks the fifth generation OF
I lAdaniscs in office. He is Il son Of the late
! JonD Quincy ADAMS, a grandson OF Cha ries
! Francis, a great-grandson of the great
! John Quincy and great-grcat-grandson
| OF the original John Adams. Three of his
ancestors were national statesmen, and two
OF them Presidents.
| Prof. William NJ. WiIIet, one of the
pioneers OF Methodism, and descendant
oc the Willctts, who were among the early
settlers OF Manhattan Island, died at his
| home in Jersey City Sunday aged 90 years.
Prof. Wiilett was one of the founders of
the Theological Seminary al Concord. His
great < ranufather was mayer of New York
in 1867, and his father. Col. Marinus Willctt,
, succeeded De Witt CLINTON ma yor of that
city
Barney Barnato endures unmoved the
many newspaper attacks on himself and his
schemes. He says that on only one occa
| siou have the journalists succeeded In caus-
ing him real pain. Her was pia wing in pri-
| vate thcatricals at big country house.
| He played. as he believed. extremely well,
and was immensely proud of himself In
consequence. To his chagrin, the local
| papers did not even mention his name.
much less praise him. That was gan and
| bitterness.
Nubar Pasha. who recently resigned the
premiership of Egypt, is thus described:
| Turned cventy-one, SO he and other
folks believe; fun of life's fatigue, heavy
eyed. prominent purple veins on the right
cheek. very little hair. mostly gray; un-
| kempt white mustacne; strong jaw; tar
| boush hangs over the right ear and is much
| too large for his head; tall aud large-bo ned:
| careless in dress; wears very old half-laced
boots when at home; sto ops; uses piDce-nez
to read State and other papers.
Fifty years ago this winter DR.. PhiliI
| L. Scla;er. the English ornithologist, wrote
| his first paper on n subject connected with
this branch of natural history. He is still
an energetic worker in his chosen field
| and. as secretary of the London Geological
| Society. has become known to scientists
| in all parts of the world. As Il fitting way
of celebrating what may be called DR.
sclater's golden Jubilee the Smithsonian
| Institution has offered to print a complete
| record of his work, which includes some
| thing over 200 books and papers.
| 1t is related in this city that when thu
| San Francisco committee called on Speaker
Reed and asked him if he wasn't In favor
| of the Pacific coast city as the place fol
| holding the Republican convention, he
| drew himself up an inch or two. smiled
pleasantly, and remarked: That is a
| question upon which the eternal prophetic:
| require me TO maintain n persistent, digni
| fled and diplomatic silence. Rut. conf
dentially, gentlemen" and at this the com
| mittee became eagerly eXpcctant. but
confidentiaIly. l don't mind telling you
don't care a continental where the conven
| tion is held
In poor Alexis Bouvier's notes to La
Belle Greelee.'' a play that the Theater de
| la Republique will perform, now that he is
| dead and not in need of anything earthly
he needed a great deal of food and clothes
while he lived, for he was tall, big and atn-
letic-appears the following notes on one
| of the personagcs: Felix Faure, n tall
| and handsome fellow, the most joyful among
us. was the original OF this character
He was the most enthusiastic of oarsmcn.
he was never tired, We surnamed him the
tanner LIE Figaro asks itself If the
president of the French republic sometimes
| thinks of those days.
Do YOu Know Him?
| j. Fl. Flanagan. manager for the WASH
| ingtOn Jewelry Company: the old stand
| filled with Il large assortment of Dia-
1 fpnnda Watches C1OpES JaUalrv GfIyor-