GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 10 December 1890, Page 5

GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS.

•Mr Stanley thinks be has undergone sufficient hardship in his journey through Central Africa, and does hot mean to rough it in future travel. In his engagement with the agent Who has arranged his forthcoming lecture tour in the* States he stipulated that he ishall have a private car, in which he may not only travelbut feed and sleep throughout his tOur. Colonel Pond not only agreed to this request but writes that he has had hear specially constructed for the use of the lecturer and his bride. Stanley's remuneration for his lectures Is on the same princely style. For his first lecture ha will receive £1000, and iilOO for each repetition. ' This comparea favorably with hia 1 last lecturing tour, which took place a short time before he started to rescue Rmin. He then contracted to deliver a aeries of lectures at a foe of £25 each. . Hand-painted dress shirts ara the latest novelty devised in -Paris for the New York young taau. The design is to be *ia consonance with the wearer's predilections. A miniature regatta in w_ter« coiors will adorn the manly' front of'the yachtsman. Dogs and horses wiU'Sot thtfmselve- over the shirt front of .fhe ■ sportsman. Bicycles of Lillputtan dit_|nsions will appear on the bosoms of-those who bestride the real article. A little inappropriate-to the dinner, hour, the ball; and-the how* «_*ieh l more so is all this hahd-painting to the laundreai and the wash tub I , The average ealary of a master in first* rate schools In England Is steadily falling; in elementary schools, ,ifc ie steadily rising. Ten years' d&Ql.J** always used to hear that in Mods." was worth £250 a year;' It would be painful but Intere-tiug If ths scholastic agents would tell us'lea market value now. Meantime we are told that the average -alary of tbe certificated master (we presume '•head-master"'is implied) has gone up from £91 in 1870 ta nearly £120 m 1890, while in London the average was 163 in voluntary schools:,'and £2-0 in Hoard schools. In ajdjtibtrta their salaries 10,500 teachers are Supplied with residences rent free. In the spne number of the Journal comes the proposal that lady graduates should' form G)igmselves into a Union,', and refune to tike posts of less than £100 a year. What Is che irreducible minimum of the m&to graduate f ■"'.". Mr Qeorge "Bancroft, the American Ms* toriah, hat/just celebrated his hldefclfetb birthday. Though somewhat weakened by-the heavy burden of his years',' he continues to enjoy his walks and drive-J, and every pleasant day finds him wandering among his flowers or along the taking a short carriage drive. He hm entirely given up horseback used to be one of-his greatest pleasures, His mind remains perfectly clear Oh, all subjects historical, and, he will dffacusa the matters aud happenings of a/de&ade ago without hesitancy, but he te vmk% Ivc have lost all interest in the present.' ',; A link with the, past generation oJ musicians has been severed by the death of M. Sainton, the well-known violinist. He died at the advanced age of seventyseven ; but, aithoup;h lonfe a sufferer &va asthma and broebitis, his death wWbxnc means expected.' ' 8_ was hale andhearty, and attending to his numerous dqtlaoen days ago. A violinist of considerable power, and a master of style, hinf presence at the head of an orchestra was* always a safe guarantee of excellence, biitfiis inane Is perhaps best known to the'. praahni generation an a Profeaßor at'the'HoyaJ Academy of Music, where he taught lo_g aud earnestly, and founded a scholarship in memory of his wife, Madame SaluthnDolby,' who died some years agp. Hii gracious and graceful prcseaco will. 'bs sadly missed irom the teaching fccadejaaj in Tenterden street. ' , A writer In a Home paper says:—Thai quaint and charming writer, Mr Samuel Butler (the author of ** "); spdnt some weeks during the so matter,,, al Varailo, collecting further- material for a forthcoming Italian edition of his ,***J_j Voto;" Mr Butler has recently discovered much fresh information about Tabachettl the great sculptor, whose work on thi Socio Monte as Varalio is at last begin ning to receive the recognition it deserve!