PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Northern Advocate, 29 July 1893, Page 2

PERSONAL G OSSIP.

Miss Mary P. Isnit has given $;0.000---■jo tlio Young Men's Christian associadcii ol ICiislma. l'« . I— The Trench acidomy does not for one ngree to the n^vAosiiou that tlxe name of SiL no Li i .--';=oi''.-iVi-i.uld 1.0 removed from tho roll oJ: its in«-niber^ The late Captain B>nry H. Lewis of Baltimore bore a strong facial tnv\ physical resemblance to Cvoovgo Washington, v.iiose groat-grandncplieAA 1 - he was. J. L. Pm-vos, Q. C. is tho leadins: criniinal lawyer of AustrnliK. He is said to be r.s clever and ruthless as a cross examiner as Sir Charles Russell himself. Cleveland is tlie eighth president .who li.is been elected to tlie office for a second torjn, his prrdecr'sr.f.ors in tins (li^tinctioT. having boon Vy'adirns'con, JofTerson. Madi.'-oi:. Monroa, Jachson, Lincoln and Grant. Henry Munsen, xvho died in New Haven recently, was the inventor of tho device tmivcrsally employed for boring gun barrels. Ho neglected to patent it, and thus let slip/a fortune that would have mado him h millionaire. Probably the finest kennel of fox terriers in America is in Hempstead, N. V., and is owned by Aiigust Belmont, the backer. It contains some of .the finest specimens in. ' tho world. Many of the dog-shave tiikeri prizes from their English relatives. The //finest service of gold plate in Great/ Britain is the property of the MargYiis of Breadalbane. Ho alwaj-s scapes it over to the Station hotel at P'S7:th to bo tisod nt t!i-? cp.toen's Irmclieon party when her majesty is on her way Vo her Scotch homo. John Carroll PoAver, the aged custodian of tho Lincoln monument in Springfield, 111., is supported entirely by tho admission fee charged to visitors. Tho custoJinn is a man of largo frame and carries his age well. His dark hair is streaked with white, .and his full beard is silvered.