Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-02-14 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

MEN AND -MANNERS.  ANOTHEit romance of Ito;fifty lain social circulation to the effect that the younger sister of the Duchess of I'de hissf4 dlowed thAt patriotic lead by felling ire hive with a native nobleman, an Englishman this tile. The Royal elioce is a young Earl, not by any nip-ins among tie w,althiest members of his order, bat per,onally what they call in tieorland a very pretty man, M sued iiitellectir a gifts and ugh character. it is said that the lieir-Apparent fully approves the Erie succe,fnl suit, while the queen, though regretting the limited rent-roll, has decided not to interkre.  Me. and Mra. Joseph Chamberlain and family aid Mr. de,. Culling,: have arrived in Paris, where they Kopivie remaining for a brief period before returnia g ti 1.11.1011.  of Lord Carington's Itvouriteanacternents is to run jttittiv down the beautiful harbour in a sttanilatindi and grill chops on the fureshorts with his own haiela  K,ItItESPON I 'ENT hILS asked Mr. Lationchere whether the 11:m-eminent or the opposition Ml'.'s arttiara better-looking. " Well "(wr tea Mr. Labouehere) I am not Paris, m I reply that handsome is as banalrarity does, and that- consequently my verdict is in In aitat of Ow opposition. Ptiysitally. however, lam isen).l to :Omit that the Government M.l' is are the better-looking. Sat far as looks are concerned, 1 siantl-1 rmge the parties thias:—Torics, Irish, Liberals, 'lire two best-Itioking men in the House are, I think, Mr. George Wyndham and Mr. Sidney Ilerls-rt ; thi• brst-looking Irishman is Mr. Parnell, and twat to him are NIL% rthilr and Nlh. John O'Connor ; the best-looking Liberal is Mr. rliert I:ardner ; the Least ill-looking Liberalnionist ix Sir Henry ; the best-hx-king man on thn Government Bench is 'Mr. Ritchie ; and the best-hail:6l4 man on the Front Opposition Bench it, 3; r Charles Russell. The youngest-10 iking man for his tem (ill. is above 801 is Mr. Isaac Holden : and of the :tged the handsomest titan is The O'Gorman Nlahint. The Speaker, in his wig and gown, is a remarkably hand -rime man. The best debater tin the Government Bench is Sir John Gortit, and next to him Mr. 1:alf tur : the hest on the Front Opposition Itencli is (I exclude Mr. Gladstone) Sir William 1-larc. iirt ; and dm second best is, I think, Mr. H. Fowler. The best thth ttor among the Irish is Mr. P. O'Connor. The hiatt debater belbw the gangway on the Government Main. is C:olrinel Saiinderson, and the best below the Opposition gangway is Mr. Bradlattgli.  MAnang Patti often takes violent fancies to young p.sip:e with pro fusing voices. In Chicago the other day she was delighted with the noire of a boy named Illatchford Kavanagh, who is the soprano in an Epbcopal Church there. She invited the boy to come and sin her, and he sang "0 Lord, rebuke me not:' "I never heard anything like it," said Madame Patti. " ft ia grand ; but if he were my boy I should not let him sing such heavy music." Finally, the dire showed her delight by kite,ing young Kavanagh.  A MARRIACE has been arranged, and will 'shortly take tbee, between Lady Winifred Ilyng. eldest daughter of the Eirl of Carnarvon, and Mr. Herbert Gardner, Kt%  M. ACHILLE Fonld, a grandson of the Emperor Napoleon's minister, is a very lueky man. A few days ago he married Mlle. Marie Louiae Helac, the sister of the Princess of Monaco, and received with her a dower amounting to about k 1,6110,000.  Couvr Moltke's niece has jest entered the noble reinvent at Priitz in Holstein, having been acmpsnied thither by the famous soldier.  AMONG the numerims distingnished victims of the influenza is to be reckoned the Chinese Minister in London, who has a sisicially virulent attack, which has confined him to his house for a month, and which at one time threatened very dangerous complications.  TIM richest man in I:I-many, according to recently published ststistics, is Iferr Krupp, of Essen. whose moome for the current year ',mounts to L 279,000. Oloarly his business has been flourishing in the pat year, for a twelvemonth ago his revenue was officially estimated at £210,900. CouNT Sjeff Tolstoi, the celebrated Russian novelist and philosopher, is reported to be seriously ill.  Ex-KING Milan, it is reported in Vienna, is in a very melancholy st4te of mind, and is talking of suicide as the only way out of his difficulties, which sossist chiefly of enormous debts contracted at the gaming table. A few days ago the ex-King's intifliete friend, Count Milewski, went to Belgrade to intercede with Queen Nath lie in his behalf.