The herald., 1896-08-23
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Ex-Premier Crispi is undergoing a course
of mud baths near Padua. Besides suf-
fering from gout, he is afflicted with weak
ness of the spine, and is likewise almost
entirely blind, being unable to make up his
mind TO undergo the operation for cataract
which alone can restore his sight.
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison has many beau
tftul pieces of statuary at her charming
home, Glenmont, Llewellyn park. as well
as many paintings by, French and German
by Bouguereau and Miss Gardner-that
was
Ihomas Atwdter Jerome. who died az
New Brighton, Staten Island, a few days
ago, in his S7th year, belonged to the we'll
known Jerome family. and was second
of a family of nine children. His broth
ers were the late Lewrence. Leonard, and
Addison G. Jerome all well-known club
men in New York. His wife was Miss
Emma Vanderbilt.
"Amiable,'' is the adjective which sticks
to President Faure, every president save
one having had his own peculir ,epithet:
Theirs was '.un grand homme politiQue."
McMahon N ?, "un gallant homme,' Grevy was
Cassmir Perier alone was not long enough
in office to acquire his adjective. though
he received abuse from the radical press.
The great italian actor, Tommaso Sal
Vini evidently possesses wisdom well
as great histrionic ability. He recently
wrote to a manager who tried to induce
from the difficulty of getting together a
good company for such a repertory as he
desired he was prevented from complying
his fame untarnished by the appearance on
the stage after his powers had declined.
Miss Nellie Ross is a champion kite flyer
in California. She has invented the barrel
kite which looks more like a flattelned
balloon with the ends knocked out than
anything els.,, and, what is more, she has
demonstrated that it is capable of flying
great editication and amusement of her
neighbors the small ones above all. Miss
Ross daily. flies ten or twelve kites at a, time
while she laughingly names one after some
celebrity and registers bets as to which
can climb the highest.
The London Chronicle prints this new
and true story" OF President Cleveland.
painted by an artist whose home is on
this side of the Atlantic. At one of the
slttings the president said: Now, you, as
physognomy. What do you think of me-?
I think you solid and stolid.' was the re-
ply. and the president laughed heartily
Henry Cockavne Gust, formerly editor
OF the Pail Mall Gazette William Waldorf
Astor's paper, has started on a journey
through Africa. He proposes to make
himself thoroughly acquainted with the
dark continent, with view to entering
parliament.
Nine. Simounet whose age of 10S years
and months is well authenticated. is the
oldest person in Paris. She was born in
1873 in Paris and has always lived there.
AZ 10 Slle eHleTeu u notary y service as
bonne. stayed with him till he died then
married messenger of the Conseil d Etat.
She has survived her husband and chill
dren and lives now in the Salpetriere asy-
lum in fairly good health. Her memory
is very good and she likes to talk of Ma
poleon. Josephine, Louis XVIII, and the
other great people she saw when she was a
girl
Nine. Hanna Korany, the beautiful Sy-
rian woman who visited America as a rep
rssentative of her native country to the
worlds fair. has started at her home
near Beirut. Syria a woman's club, the first
in that part of the world. 1t is growing
fast, and great Importance is attached
to it by the Influential people Of the place.
khediye Abbas of Egypt is declared to
rich man and would infinitely prefer to live
as his own master in Vienna or Paris
bondage. According to authoritative re-
ports he is at the present time hagging
with the English government about the
allowonce he is to receive if he abandons
his throne.