About People.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6377, 12 February 1892, Page 2

About People.

Lord Lytton was a believer in ghosts. H.ii seat, Knebsworth, was haunted, he was C'livilK'.L-d

Jβ , . Jsicholl* Or :ich, author of "Kathleen Mnvomiiivm, , ' has neen four times rnarri- d.

_ ! .:rer;irv citcler wf Germany mourn (i.■ Mli or Ai.-iciy Bofilti?, the* well-kr ,wu writer of hi.-t.orical novels. She was born in wn._t. u t wii- imsy wii.h her pen until a snort time aijo s iu , spent considerable limu in tr,slftiKl (md bmime an intimete f.ie.idot Tho.ua* drl vie. While iv London Khe acted *h correspondent for a nuraher of German newspapers, and became widely knowu through her letters. I n m 2 she returned to Germany and devoted herself to literature. Sue published several • f^ B ?/• V*8lwl» life Among her books is « The Vwitni»r Ln-r ot a German Physician in .London. Ihe "l< rauenbrevier "is one of her must popular works.

Sir Edwin Arnold says there is a curious little broivn birthmark or the poet Tennyson's nock—a spot that looks as if a drop "of wine had fallen there and stained the skin

archdeacon Farrur, of London, offere£loo for the proof of any one case, either in the church or out, of it, where drunkenness has beeu cured without total abstinence.

The youngest university professor of Germany is I)r. Ulnch Wilcken, of Breslau 29 years old. He studied Egyptology under Ebors at Leipzig, then straigh'ened out the numerous papyri of the Berlin Museum. written iv Kgvptian shorthand, which took him two years, and finally elucidated points of Egyptian coinage, of slave purchase, and of internal admiustration.

Bishop Brooks' greeting to Whittier was the neatest of the lot: "I thank God that you have lived, that you are living, and that you will always live." What could be said better or more comprehensive than that? Olive Schreiner, author of '< The Story of an African Farm," smokes an occasional cigarette, having besn ordered to do so by her doctors to prevent and cure a tendency to aathma. J

London journals assert that a cheque for £10,000 recently received by the treasurer of the Gladstone Liberals by a local soap firm, was paid for by a few words from the Grand Old Man endorsing the firm's soat) for advertising purposes. This ia the way the ex-K m p resß Eugenic recentlj gave her personality to a census agent: Mane Eugenic, Countess of Pierre fond, G-i years of age. bom i n Granada Spam , naturalised ii France ; a widow • a traveller. '

The veteran actor, Couldock, wrote his 2? me .i, On a ? ' e)3ristor ° f a Mc »pWe hotel the other day m as hrm and clear a hand aa if ho were 17 instead of 70. After a lifetime .pent in the wearing work he finds himself as vigorous and hearty as a man of half his years.

Dv Maurier, the famous artist of Punch has lost the use of one eye, and it is feared that he may become blind.

Paderewski'e sorrowful personal career ia thus referred to by the Boston News •— 'Married at eighteen, his wife died a year later, leaving him with a son who from his birth has been a cripple, and on whom he has lavished all the love, and pity of hie heart. It is said that his eyes invariably fill with tears at the sight of a strong- and healthy child." a

The Prince of Wales may have some things to learn, but he knows the enterprise of a modern newspaper reporter At .i re-option at Marlborough House, hi 6 royal highness was informed rhat there were some gentlemen of the press outside. Show them ,n " was the quick response, tor if they don't come in at the door they will come in at the elevator."

Alexander Kielland, the poet-novelist of Norway, is a candidate for Mayor of his native town, Stavanger. As Kielland has ridiculed tha society institutions and intellectual culture of Stavangor in his stories, his political ambition has caused considerable surprise. At first it was believed that the novelist was not in earnest

The birthplace of Chopin, the composer, is suitably marked through the activity of the musical society of Warsaw. The dwel family" °°° apied a P«» Peasant

At a play g.ven by his orders at the Court Theatre recently, Kmperor William a pplauded energetically and often, especially where hite were made at the Socialists, though the audience, wearotold, "received theplaymutterailer.ee." uiaiveo.

Queen v lctorla| with aD j ncQmo q{ £ a day, has had some queer experiences of being penniless On one occasion, while driving over Windsor bridge, she wished to give a poor man a thilling, and was obliged to borrow it of the turnpike keeper. g

The "poet ot the Sierras " whoso son has developed ,nto a mghwayman, changed bis own name from C. Hiner Miller to " Joa quin Miller in honor of Joaquin Murietra a noted California robber and bandit There seems to have been '• Homething in a name in this instance, but the influence skinned one generation. »J"ppea An autograph letter of the laureate, sent to a woman who wrote him that she couldn't understand the meaning of one of his poems, is Si id to have lately come into the possession of a collector. It reads" •'Dear madam-1 merely supply poetry to the fcngheh people, not brains Yours obediently, Alfred Tennyson " 8

A strange figure on the streets of Wash .ngton is that of Josephine J. Jarocki a Polish oouutese and a grandniece of Count Pnlnflki, Of revolutionary fame. She fadescribed as a «■ human dried apple," poor to indigonooand shabbily dressed, kmfahe" about ,0 years old. For twen< v-fivo years

Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent h»e two elaborate equjprnents-one for hot the other for cold regione-aad paeroorta chrerLiUtur c s ommand of his editor - i -

The Czarina of Russia has received the

Mrs livans, the new "lady Mavorpss " as her official designation go J, of TonT'n was at one timo a chambermaid in a courTy" hotel in a small Kentish town, where her future husband then a London lldennan used to spend hw winters. Her married life has been most happy, and sheTnX a woman of grace, dignity, and intelligence The Duke of Cambridge i 8 one of the best known old boys in London, aD d there is hardly a soldier, policeman, r he man in town who is not acquainted with the rosy-g.lled and white-haired two-bottle man, who has never been over popular with the othcers of the army because

Empress Elizabeth's gorgeous new palace at Corfu wi l have a high lighthouse 15 shimug vnth electric lights of 12,000 Candle P° wer - I" the ground, about the pa£

Sir William Turner, of the University of Edinburgh who has made a careful study of the whale, calculates that one oighty feet lung, in order to attain a speed of twelve miles an hour, oiust exercise a propelling torce of 145 horse-power. u±>wung

The young ladies of Wellesloy Colls ße arP in a rebellious frame of mind beoauso^th™ are no longer permitted to use the phra'e I guess so." In future they mUBt ia^^ bly conjecture. *"vttn»-

Henry Villard, the famous railroad mar, began life as as reporter, but :>8 he did Tot happen to be a, favorite with the city editor ho was compelled to thrr.w up h is fob become a millionaire. J aßd Thomas Hardy, the novelist, be-an hi* career as an architect in SnHishV,," . i« dwelling houses terra cotta SSSSSSSPr 2

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Respecting receut discussions on the delineations of real pc, sondes in tUu ™™ { romance Owen Thoraan, n Hchoolfellow of Charles Dickens, who cuUiuuCu much in formation to John Fo. s!t i cno-uh,? Sβ early portion of the great nov,-list's life writes that Mr Creakle, in « David Copper.' field, was undoubtedly a portraiture in some respects, of one of JnTtoi a achool which they both attended in E sm * Xt Si^.tLtisjar^ But Dickens did ~,,i ;*,'- J°.f Mfc^ l ' i *«. ! personal appminrnc,) of'+V master, tho -~m r 1,,,.; rt !/ "'"' t < l '-\ looking. •• i v sii( , H .. ':t U 'r l , - Oott "you may ink-- a th-u raa f; ~;; ' ;"■';'. aoterfl, especialu i -~'i. • - "" ' from living of Mr Dick/ns to me I owif them whose original 1 knew, < B £,£ colored.' I may be allowed to add that Mr Diukens to d me he had felt it a pl oa6 u re t 0 have been in after years of some service to our old schoolmaster, and also to one of t£ assistant masters." "*