About People.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6308, 19 November 1891, Page 3

About People.

Capt. Hawley Smart, the English sporting novelist, is an old soldier, and fought in the Crimea.

The youugest of the cardinals at Rome are each 57 years of age ; tbe oldest 84, ivho has worn the scarlet for thirty-two years.

M. Ader, of Paris, after expending more than £20,000 on a flying machine, has produced one in which lie flew about 100 yards

It is a florist in Vermont who has secured the permission of President Harrison to call a new double white pink the "Mrs Harrison pink."

Annio Bssant makes her name rhyme with "peasant," but Walter Besant pronounces his name, according to late information, as Bessant.

The works of Thackeray are said to sell more largely at the booksellers and to be in greater demand at tho libraries now than ever before.

Rudyard Kipling's age is definitely fixed by the statement that he was born in Bombay in Christmas week, 1865, and is thetefore in his 26th year.

G. P. Root, who wrote "The Battle-Cry of Freedom," ''Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!" and "The Vacant Chair," is living at an advanced age in Chicago.

Miss Helen Gladstone, the Grantl Old Man's daughter, is always laughing, joking , telling stories, and invariably keeps the dinner table in a. roar.

Mrs Will M. Carleton, the poet's wife, went as a missionary to British Burinah when scarcely twenty years ol'l, and remained there several years.

Emanuel Griesuer, of Lebanon, Pa., who is forty years old, has been in America twenty years, married twenty years, and is the father of twenty children.

The words of the " Marseillaise," when sung before the Czar, are not according to the French text, but are changed for others more acceptable to the oars of his Majesty.

James Russell Lowell is said to have seen the inside of more English country houses than any other American who ever visited England, and he was always a social success.

Liliuokalani, the name of the Hawaiian queen, who is said to be growing unpopular, means Lily of the Sky, and is pronounced as though written Lil-liea-woke-a-lanny.

The Duchess of Westminister is fond of cricket, and at a game played between two elevens of ladies at her country place in Cheshire she scored a remarkable sucoess as a bowler.

Melbourne, who is running a rainery Iβ the west of America, gets £100 per shower, and, as he brought down three in one day recently, the fall trade may be said to be quite brisk.

Tolstoi, who bitterly opposes all marriages except whathe calls "angelmarriages," is the father of sixteen children, only nine of whom are now living. Tho youngest is three years old,

A son of 010 Bull, the famous Norwegian violinist, has inherited some of his father's genius, and will soon uiako his debut in Pad? as a solo violinist. He is a youth of about Wenty-two years.

Leo XIII. is said to bo engaged in the preparation of another encyclical letter, in which he will treat of civil governments. Tho Pope is believed to have a strong leaning toward Republican institutions.

Lowell never admired Dickens, but regarded his humor as artificial and somewhat coarse. The majority of people prefer " Ivanhoe " of Scott's novels, but Lowell's favorite was "The Bride of Lammermoor,"

Beatiieo Kipling, a sister of Hud yard, has just finished a novel called " The Heart of tho Maid." Every one is anxious toread it, in order to find out if the talent for story writing- is possessed by all the Kipling: family.

William Hay ward, the oldest jockey on. the American turf, owua a stable of Mβ* own, and is supposed to be worth about. £12,000. The hordes he rode won something in excess ot £200,000 in stakes and! purses.

Julia Marlowe, the actress, is said to have a wonderful memory. As a tent not long ago she committed to memory and recited the entire letter of Baron Pava to Secretary Blame after it had been read but twice in her presence.

AthanasioH, tho Greek brigaud, enjoys a larger income from the railroad companies than the shareholders, in addition to which he compels the Sultan to pay him tribute in tho shape of ransoms for the foreigners whom he seizes.

The house which. Benedict Arnold occupied when a young man in Now Haven ie still standing. Hβ was a compounder of drugs, and the sign which swung before his little shop is preserved by the New Haven Historical Society.

" Never marry literary men," says Andrew Lang. The marriage of authors have besn wretched—out of all proportion to the common lot. The chief cause of married misery among writers is this : They do their work at home.

There are said to be about four hundred, gipsies in the northern States of America. The men are nearly all tinkers, and profess to make a living mending pots and kettles, but fortune-telling by tho women 18 the great source of tho family revenue.

The crazy King Otto of Bavaria recognises no one except an old nur.se who used to carry him in her arms when he was a baby. When he sees her ho cries out her name in a loud voice and immediately relapses into his usual state of apathy.

"Lucky" Baldwin, the multi-millionaire miner and horseman of California, has j»st pur-jhaßed in Chicago furniture for his 'three big hotels— one at Wanta Anita, anotbsc in Eldorado county, but the largest,, a £600,000 structure, in San Francisco..

Henry M. Stanley, like the gallant gentleman he i», says that " a wife is too sacrod for the world to know and discuss." The idea is a delicate truth, ueally put, and will be accepted as all sufficient, except in the high-pressure, atmosphere of the Divorce Court.

Queen Victoria is a judge of pictures «nd a connoisseur in sculpture, aaid inn't at all squeamish about the nude in art when tho excellencies of the work and its ilelieaoy of troatment justify the adoption of tha undraped. if'rost, Mulready, and Conreggi'J ure her favorites.

The poet Swinburns is small, red-headed and a bachelor. His forehencL is very prominent, but his mouth is small and fVminine, and his chin weak. His eyes are large and brilliant. The poet v s frank and oonrteons in manner, but he ay aids general society because of his deafness.

The youngest married couple, in Connecticut, probably, dwell in tho little country hamlet of Sterling, amoug tho Windham County bills. They are Mrr ar.d Mra C. i'euijtjr. Ho is It years and. 7 months old, and she is 15 jears and 4 moniths. They have been married for several mo uths.

Sophia Gunsberg, tho beautiful Nihilist privately executed some weeks ago in a Russian prison, is said to have been the original r>f the heroine of Col. Savage's novel, "My Official Wife." Col. Savage?s said to have met the fascinating intriguante in Paris once and to have been completely tamed by her charms.

The Shah of Persia ban recently become so unpopular with his subjects that they are said to be ripe for revolt. Nasr-ud-Din has never been much liked by his people, and his latest action in endeavoring to make a Minister of War out of the obnoxious boy who accompanied him on his tour of Western Europe has raised a Din to whioh even the royal ears are not deaf.

Mme. Wagner feels that she is fulfilling a eacred mission when she presents her husband's works to the audience at Bayreuth in the most perfect settings and performed by the best of singers. It is said that over £20,000 have been spent in bringing out "Tannhauser" alone. In everything the great composer's widow has followed her husband's directions to the slightest detail.

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