Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-23
OF Personal interest.

The young khedive of Egypt Is said TO
pe an excellent amateur musician 1t
seems that he has ventured upon com
position.
Major General Nelson a. Miles has been
| elected to an honorary companionship in
the Military Order of Foreign Wars OF
the United States.
Sir Edward Malet. late British am
bassador at Berlin. whose opera Harold
was performed at Covent garden last sea-
son, Is at work on a new opera.
4 clergyman in Brooklyn intimated the
other day that he WAS not getting salary
enough and his congregation Immediately
cut him down 80 per cent.
III is generally admitted among barris-
ters that Sir Edward Clarke is now maxi
ing much the biggest income mt the Eng
nsh paf-not snort of S1u0.000 Il year.
/ General Booth proposes shortly to have
a great exhibition of living pictures in
London, which will consist of converts be-
longing TO almost every nation and tribe
1t is said that Prince Hell<off who is
minister of ways and has charge of all
| the Russian imperial railroads and who
served an apprenticeship in a machine
shop.at one time worked at boiIer-makin.s
in Philadelphia.
The czar of Russia has issued strict or
ders to the Moscow authorities looking
toward the freedom of that city from
| takers thieves and ruflians during the
coronation festivities. A large number of
detectives OF various nationalites have
been engaged for special service at Mos
One of the most popular members of the
diplomatic corps of Berlin is Viscount
SiuZo Aoki, the japanese minister to
Germany and now also to England. He
anu whiie there won the hand of the
baroness Elizabeth Won Rahden. the
daughter of an old and noble house.
Among, William F.. Gladstones most
cherished possessions are personal letters
that he has received from nearly every
land under the sun. There is hardly i
modern language that has not been useG
by some correspondent of the grand old
man during the many years in which ne
mas been the most prominent figure in;
England.
Colonel Rhodes. the brother of Cecil
RhodeS. whose name has been
mentioned many times recently in con-
nection with the South African troubles.
was for two years in command of the
FIRST Royal dragons and a fayorite III
| London. He also served as aid de
camp of Lord Londonderry when the
latter was lord lieutenant of Ireland.
Emperor William II. to his numerous
aVocations has now added that of n
hotel proprietor. He has purchased
the Weller lodging house at Theerbude,
but intends to have it's regular business,
continue, to which end he has let it for
| only a certain number of rooms for
occupancy during the hunting season at
| a fixed rental.
| Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. in
thanking Nj. Bourgeois for the courtly
hospitality of France, remarked that
the sight of two detectives watching.
over his safety was the only irksome
reminder of the change in his position.
And yet" answered the minister with
smile, they are the same agents who
Swallowed your royal highness when
you repeatedly visited Paris incognito. y
Since Leo Kill has filled the chair of
st. Peter he has repressed the humor-
Gus side of his nature which made him
greatly in demand as a diner-out while
filling the Office of nuncio at Brussels.
Always severe in matters of propriety.
he was deeply offended on one of these
occasions by baron who passed him a
snuff box on the lid of which was en-
ameled feminine figure en- dishabille.
Admirably controlling his annoyance.
his future holiness replied: Very
pretty? Is 1t your wife?"