MAINLY ABOUT PERSONS.

Evening Star, Issue 10896, 3 April 1899, Page 4

MAINLY ABOUT PERSONS.

neotlon with the England, nyi ihlt'tbe ®fl«| Gon«|Qct6r of the Navy (Sir W. o? Bead of Hope boye, and »tUKp»»ld»i ; /t the mabtipg* oooawooeJly. Ho wgaed the pledge eixty ye&rt ego. Df Mufrey. of Oxford, who is bringing ont. the great ohtionary, is also a KeototilteiV'ahd an.old Band of Hope boy. Lord and Lady Carlisle are both teetotallers. - A recent cablegram, the i death through gas-poisoning of two leaders in New York society. It seems that after a dance at the Ardsley Casino, a fashionable suburban club, where women’s poll championships are held, Dr Henry E. Keyes, one of the most prominent physicians in New York, apd his wife retired to their room, which, like others in the club, was heated by a gas stove. Both were fnmd dead in bed in the morning, having been asphyxiated by escaping gas. They had been married only two years. Dr Keyes was formerly an instructor at Columbia University, and was a son of the-late Major-general Keyes, of the U.S. Army. Mrs Keyes was a Miss Ward, daughter of Captain Luttrell Ward, of the U.S. Army. All France loses a benefactor by the death of the Comte de Chamhrun on February 7. The deceased nobleman came of one of the noblest old French Tamilies. He played a prominent part in politics under the Empire and after, but for twenty years had led a retired life, devoting his energies to philanthropic pursuits, especially to the amelioration of the condition of the working classes. Only a month ago he made a donation of £120,000 to the Society for Providing Cheaper Dwellings for Workmen. It woud appear that the late Poet Laureate has transmitted some small portion, at least, of his power to two of his grandsons. In the February number of the ‘ Child’s Own Magazine ’ the names of Aubrey and Lionel Tennyson figure in the award list of an original composition contest —the former, aged seven, a winner of the junior prize, and his brother, aged ten, ns distinguished in his own division.

M. Carl Jacobson, a well-known Copenhagen brewer, has informed the municipality of that city of his intention to present the city with his collection of art treasures, on condition that they are suitably “housed.” The value of the collection is estimated at £270,000. General Gatacre, one of the individual commanders in the recent Soudan campaign, Kas no faith in tlie Czar’s Disarmament Conference, nor in the peace proclivities of the German Emperor. Addressing a number of old soldiers at Norwich, lately, the General commented on the fact the German Emperor had preached peace in Palestine, and sold £uns to the Turks. He believed in keeping lighting going on all over the world, ‘ and resuscitating it where it ceased. England had made herself by the sword, and by the sword she must live. We need not always be fighting, but we must maintain the old spirit that had kept us going so long and made neighbors respect us. Mr Louis Becke has been far from well lately, and suffers a good deal from rheumatism. Pain, however, does not prevent him from working. Two books of his (including his ‘Life of Governor Phillip’) will bo issued shortly, aad dWTligent bos just sold a n.ew vprame of short stories of Australian (not South Sea) life. Mr Becke, like Kipling, believes in the short story. The latter, according to A. P. Watt, means to stick to this form of fiction. As he can command 100 guineas for the English serial rights of 2,000 words, the preference is quite comprehensible. Miss Clara Clemens, Mark Twain’s daughter, is now with her people in Vienna, where she is immensely popular. The Twain family flourish on the Continent; both in Italy and Austria they have been lionised. Miss Clemens has developed a fine voice, and it is her intention to study for the stage. Lady Barkly, widow of Sir Henry Barkly, Las performed a graceful act in presenting to her husband’s old school at Enfield his valuable collection of Australian and South African fossils and ore made whilst he was Governor of Victoria and Cape Colony.

The experiments of Dr Danilewsky, of Charkov, Russia, are attracting much attention, as with a balloon shaped like an artillery shell, filled with hydrogen, and fiited with wings, be has demonstrated that a man can direct its movements while in mid-air. It is expected that the apparatus will be tried in America.

The young Duchess of Sutherland walked down Grafton street, Dublin, one afternoon without gloves, and behold next day half the women in Dublin were gloveless. A testimonial from grateful but fashion-bound womankind should commemorate this simple act.

In the Cape Town police force there are now on the roll thirty-eight constables 6ft high and over. The “ top-notcher ’ is Police Constable Andrews, who takes the standard with 6ft probably the tallest police constable in South Africa. Police Constable Lang figures next with 6ft There are five men ranging from 6ft 3in to 6ft 4in; three men between 6ft 2in and 6ft 3in; twelve men from 6ft lin to 6ft 2in; and seventeen between 6ft and 6ft lin. The most remarkable tattooed man in the world is Professor Frank Howard. He has upon his body 780 designs in red, blue, and brown. These different colors were made with lamp black, gunpowder, soot, charcoal, brick dust, Chinese, American, and English vermilion, Indian ink, Prussian blue, indigo, Indian red and carmine, Japanese and Chinese black. It took 154 days to tattoo him all over. Professor Howard is a native of the City of Providence, U.S.A. The ‘Sketch’ tells a good story of Mr MacDonagh’s career on the ‘Freeman’s Journal ’ during a wild and stormy period of political and agrarian strife in Ireland. He got a charge of buckshot from the police during tire terrible Orange riots of 1886, and was laid up for a fortnight. It is said that a telegram staling that he was killed was sent to the office of the ‘Freeman’ in Dublin, and that the chief reporter, apprehensive that the paper would be left without any account of the dav’s proceedings, telegraphed back: ‘ - Have the body searched for ‘ copy ’! If any is found wire it at once.”

It is no secret that the German Emperor is keenly anxious' to visit the Paris Exhibition of 1900 in state. But he is not at all sure whether he will be made welcome by the French. As a preliminary experiment be has induced the German Empress to lease Count Hatzfeldt’s villa at Dinard. She will reside there in March, and by what her suite can judge of the demeanor of the French the Kaiser will be guided as to Whether or not he shall go to Paris.

Mr Tennyson Smith, the well-known temperance lecturer, accepted a challenge to visit twenty-five public-houses in as many minut.es at Lye, near Stourbridge (Eng.), and won with eight minutes to spare. The death is announced at Melbourne of Mr J. W. Meaden. a well-known temperance worker and one of the founders of the Victorian Alliance. He also devoted himself with considerable success to literary pursuits, and was the author. of the cantata sung at the opening of the Melbourne Exhibition in 1880.

It seems that the simple Cingalese are so pleased by the introduction of Imperial Penny Postage into their sunny isle that they have sent Mrs Henniker Heaton a lovely sapphire rim*, and are placing a tablet outside the post office at Colombo setting forth their grateful acknowledgments to the member for Canterbury : From Greenland’s icy mountains To Ceylon’s arid sand, The noble name of Heaton Shall now immortal stand.