The herald., 1897-02-02
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Queen Christina of Spain is at pres
ent the only sovereign who possesses a
| motor car.
Count Tolstoi Is fond of music, but
refuses to attend any entertainment for
| which an admission fee is demanded.
When the queen of Italy enters a
| store to do some shopping, the doors are
| closed and the public excluded until she
| has left.
man recently drank pint of yeast
| in mistake for buttermilk. He rose three
hours earlier than usual next morning
-Tit-Bits.
What is wit?" asked Lord Chatham
"a good thing well applied just as if
| you gave me the living of -" replied
| a sound divine.
Stage News.-"Did you know that
Henry Irving had sprained one of his
knees?" "Yes; now he will have to
make gestures with his arms. Chicago
Record.
The Husband During the quarre)-
You're always making bargains Was
there ever time when you didn't?"
The Wife-"Yes, sir; on my wedding
day. '-Tit-Bits.
DO you mean to say that your daugh-
ter hasn't told you that she was engaged
to me?" mo; I told her not to bother
with those affairs unless she intended
to get married. Life.
Ranavalo, the queen of the Madagas-
car Hovas, is described as a handsome
woman of chocolate complexion. She is
gowned in the latest Pai1sian fashion.
and is revered as a fetch by the super
stitious Hovas.
The brothers, Henry and Walter Ke-
ney, Hartford merchants, who left
park to the city, are to be commemorate
ed in a beautiful clock tower, erected on
the spot where they were born and car
ried on business all their lives.
Perhaps as fine an autograph album
as exists is the visitors book at Ha-
warden, wherein the names of Glad
stones guests are recorded. 1t contains
entries as far back as 1860. The most
recent of consequence is that of Ii Hung
Chang.
Commodore Richard Peck of New Ha-
ven, Conn, completed his sixty eighth
year in steamboating the other day. He
is 81 years of age, and has been with the
company more than half a, century. He
has been in the steamboat business
longer than any other man in the coun-
try.
The kaiser's cousin, the crown prince
OF Sweden, has every one of his teeth
barred. That is to say, bar of bone
runs through the roots of every one Of
his molars, and it has to be crushed be-
fore a tooth can be extracted. He is a
martyr to toothache. and spends con-
siderable portion of his existence with
a handkerchief tied around his head to
relieve the pain
One of the things Gen. Buckner did at
Boston was to go down the harbor to old
Fort Warren, taking Mrs. Buckner
along, and hunt up the casemate in
which he was domiciled as prisoner cf
war in 1862, after his surrender to Gen.
Grant at Fort Donelson. The general
and his wife sat on camp stools and had
the iron doors closed. to recall old times
Cen Russell A. Alger of Michigan, who
has been suggested as possible choice
for the war portfolio, was asked what
the sentiment in his state was in rela-
ton to Cuban affairs. He replied: "Our
people have an abundance of sympathy
for the Cubans, but the predominant
feeling is against involving this govern
ment in any international difficulty. We
want rest"
Among the most interesting of the
New Years gatherings in Worcester
Mass, was the meeting of five sisters,
who never were all together before in
their lives. Their presence was a sur
prise to their brother, whose wife
brought it all about as a way of cele-
brating the thirty-second anniversary
of her own wedding. The oldest of the.
sisters is 67 years of age, and she left
her home before the youngest, who is
now As. was born.