The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-09-05
PERSONALS.

| Mr. Depew made forty-two speeches
| I'm one day on special train with Mr..
! Blaine. In 1884. They were of great va
rietv.
Emperor William has bestowed one of
tho Berlin Academy of the Fine Arts
gold medals on the American artist.
Jules Stewart.
A memorial slab to Gov. John Han
! COCK. standing over the family vault in
the old Granary burying ground. in
Boston. Will be unveiled September TO-
Andrew Cameron, the champion diver
or the world. has undertaken an urdu-
GUS task by Offering to attempt to get
the mail bags out of the Drummond
Castle. which lies in $50 feet of water
1t Is not generally known, perhaps.
that Rudyard Kipling. who has just
sailed for Europe. is related by marriage
TO Major MCKINLEY. Mrs. William Gid
den Mrs. Kipling's aunt, Is first cou-
sin OF the Republican Presidential can
didate.
DIR. II. II. Hale. Of Detroit, carries a
walking stick. the intrinsic value of
which Is $4,000. 1t was presented to him
some years ago by friends in Edin-
hureh. 1t Is ornamented with gold and
Jewels. and the head contains a fine
chronometer.
The London World says: 1.-THE Queen
is In excellent health, and has been
scarcely at all troubled with rheuma-
tism for several months past. All the
gossip about Her Majesty's having re-
Gently contemplated "abdicating is
simply nonsense"
LII Hung Chang was amazed at the
knowledge which every one in England
whom he met had OF his doings. why"
ne said. how can they have found il
out? There are millions OF people in
China to-day who do not yet know of
the war with Japan"
William A. Clark, who Is known as
the Silver King of Montana, and who
Is reputed to be worth $40. 900. O0o is
about to erect mausoleum in Wood
lawn Cemetery. New York, in memory
of his wife. who died about two years
aro. The memorial is to cost about
100000.
The proposed scheme of Gen. Lew
Wallace to play chess with Ii Hung
Chang by telegraph. in order to call
pnblic attention to the fact that the
roVal game of chess was given to the
world bv China over 1000 years ago,
shows that the Generals mind is busy,
even though he is laid up with u trou-
blesome leg.
In speaking of Clement Biddle Bar
claH. the phianthropist who has just
died ut his home in Philadelphia. the
Times of that city says: Mr.. Barclay
was horn In Louisiana in 1920. and edu-
cnted at st. Mary's College, Maryland
ne was one OF the most interesting and
attractive of the men, and his death will
he deDlored by those who knew to what
extent his life was devoted to works of
mercy and generosity.
Lord Russell's visit to America re-
minds the London Chronicle of an an
cient story. 1t says that during Lord
Russelrs previous tour in this country
with Lord Coleridge he came in contact
with MANY members of the bar, includ-
ing MIR. Evarts. 1t was while walking
with Mr.. Evarts one day along the
banks of n stream that his attention
was called to point at which Wash
inEtoD. according to tradition. had
thrown dollar right across. The water
was wide. and Lord Russell looked
doubtful You know n dollar went
further in those days than 1t goes now"
the American lawyer blandly insinuated,
All" said Lord Russell quite equal to
the occasion. land 1t may have been
easy enough 10 Washington; it is we'll
known that he threw a sovereign across
the Atlantic"