Omaha daily bee., 1896-01-19
GOSSIP ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

An English paper revives an old story
about Artemus Ward. When he was in
London he gave a children's party. One
OF John Bright's sons was invited and re-
turned home radiant. 90, papa" he ex-
Grained, on being asked whether he had en-
1oyed himself, "indeed l did! And Mr..
Browne gave me such a nice name for you,
papa" What was that?" "Why, he asked
me how that gay and festive cuss, the gov
ernor, was!" replied the boy.
The queen Of Portugal is a remarkable
woman. She has been studying medicine
and has passed her third examination. Her
medical library is the best of its kind in
Portugal. She reads French, English, Span
ish and Italian and takes all the leading
medical reviews published in these LAM
guages. She corresponds with eminent ply
slcians on special subjects. She teaches
her eldest son botany and the uses of the
Rev. Thomas Alexander, a Presbyterian
minister, long resident in Chelsea and well
known as a brother Scott, was most anxious
to meet Carlyle, but had no opportunity Of
getting an introduction to him. One day
on the kings road he saw Carlyle coming in
his direction and took advantage of his OPP
portunity by going up to the sage and saying:
Thomas Carlyle. believer" Carlyle's re-
PS "NN' VIM i uoW 1Hey
became good friends, and later Mr.. Alex
ander wrote to Carlyle for a subscription
toward a school building fund and Carlyle
wrote back a refusal in d~oggerel. where
upon Mr.. Alexander replied that II he
did not send him f5 he would sell his
poetry to a collector to publish 1t. The f6
was at once forthcoming.
General Joubert of the Transvaal Is de-
scended from Pierre Joubert, a native OF
Motto d'AiYupg I'm DraVpnre and Q,.onuo
Reyne de la Rogue, married February 1, 1858.
as the registry Of the Walloon community of
Brill, In Holland, shows. They sailed for
Marseilles on the ship Mount Sinai, as pill
grims to the Cape of Good Hope. where the
Dutch East India company was founding a
colony. They were Huguenots. The name
OF Joubert is distinguished In the annals of
France Paris commentaries In the name OF
a street only too we'll known to foreign Wis.,
itors the republican General Joubert, who
fought under Bonaparte at Castiglione and
Rivoli, and fell In the front of the battle Of
Now, August 15, 1898. This was Napoleon's
day. Joubert died In time to miss oyertures
which the directory intended to make to him,
and which they were compelled by his death
to make to Napoleon. Another Joubert.
lily in the sixteenth century, and Joseph
Joubert, Sainte -Beuve says, united 1.-THE hui
NOR of Sterne and Charles Lamb with great
subtlety and critical force.
A woman made a sensation In the superior
court of North Carolina, In Raleigh, last
week, which will be remembered for some
time. Mrs. Pattie Arlington had been sued
by ex.Judge Spier Whitaker for libel In the
statement in a publication conducted by her
self that he had stolen 81, 800 from her by an
order in a case In which he had appeared
before he had been appointed Judge. Not
being able to employ an attorney, she de-
tended herself, and she did IT with ability
and tact. giving the e~x-judge a scorchlng
cross-examination. She went on the witness
stand. and her evidence was graphic and
startling. She got beyond the control OF the
court and detailed her experiences in all her
litigation. She denounced many OF the most
prominent lawyers and judges in the state
as being guilty OF crimes for which they
should be breaking rock in the penitentiary.
Her speech to the Jury was imprisoned and
eloquent. The case went against her. but
she probably got her moneys worth out Of
the excitement she created. She IL also
charged with libeling an ex-chief Justice OF
the state. Mrs. Arlington IL OF one Of the
Oldest and best families OF North Carolina,
and her character Is excellent.