PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7656, 5 June 1886, Page 4 (Supplement)

PERSONAL ITEMS.

'Jctlks Verne can stir about now, but it is with the aid of crutches. Canon Wilberforce is so far recovered as once more to be able to take his place on the temperance platform. The Bishop of Sodor and Man has recently become an abstainer. There are now ten a bstaining Bishops on the Bench. Lord Wentworth, the grandson of Byron, has written a letter deprecating the proposal of a centenary celebration of the poet's birth. Ben Hogan, the converted pugilist, is conducting a revival in Virginia City. He will soon assault Satan's works in San Francisco. Mr. Samuel Morley has accepted the office of president to the Homes for Inebriates (Dalrymple Home) Association in place of the late Earl of Shaftesbury. Dr. Lucy C. YVaite, of Chicago, has been admitted to the University of Vienna on equal terms with the male students. She is taking a special course in diseases of children. A despatch from London via tho MackayBennett cable says that the Baroness Burdctt Coutta celebrated Easter Sunday and the anniversary of her seventy-second birthday on April 19. Miss Geneva Armstrong, one of the teachers of music in Klmira College, lias invented and patented a device for feeding and watering cattle while they are journeying in cattle-cars. John White, the well-known boat builder of Cowes, England, has designed a fishing vessel on lifeboat principles, whica he claims will not sink if overwhelmed by the sea and filled with water. a Count L6on Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, »as, it is said, abandoned the literary calling for that of the cobbler, his object being to carry out to the letter the precepts of the Scrtncn on the Mount. The Earl of Pembroke has entered into an arrangement with one of his tenants in Wiltshire to give up about twenty acres for allotments. About four-fifths of the allotments have already been taken up. At a meeting of the proprietors of tho Bank of England, held on April 4 in the Bank parlour, the court elected Mr. James Pattiaon Currie governor, and Mr. Mark W. Collett deputy-governor of the Bank. Dr. Leopold Zutiz, the first of German Hebraists, died on the 10th ApJil at the age of 92. His "Synagogue Poetry of the Middle Aijes," to a great extent, inspired George Eliot in writing "Daniel Deronda." It is said that the Rev. George Dyson has sent in his resignation to the Wesleyan body. He intends going abroad for a few months, and will in all probability, study for the law after taking his LL.D. degrees at Dublin. Prince Bismarck has been recommended a brief sojourn in a southern latitude by his physicians. The Emperor Francis Joseph, at the first intimation of the fact, placed the Palace of Miramar at the disposal of the Iron Chancellor. Louise Michel attended five Communist banquets in Paris lately. She ate nothing at any one of them, but made speeches at all. She and M. Rochefort were presented with bouquets by little girls dressed in red, and wearing Phrygian caps. The Lancet has reason to believe that Sir James Paget, Professor Burdon Sanderson, and Dr. Lauder Brunton have, together with Sir H. Roscoe, consented to serve on the Commission to inquire into M. Pasteur's ' method of inoculation for hydrophobia. Another New York alderman, Mr. William Miller, has been arrested in Florida, and taken to New York on a charge of bribery, and Mr. James Richmond, president of the Broadway Surface Railway, has been arrested for bribing the New York aldermen. They are telling many anecdotes about Theodore Ritter, the brilliant pianist, who has just died in Paris. The best of them is the remark of his old master, Duprez, when Ritter told him that he had made an utter failure in his dtbut as a vocalist on the lyric stage. "That does not astonish me," said Duprez, "you are far too good a musician to be a singer." Now that the Czar and the Czarina are paying a visit to their beautiful summer palace, it will be interesting to see whether the eccentric yacht which Alexander 11. bad constructed on the Clyde, and named after bis Crimean palace, will be brought into use. The Livadia was built as a final refuge from the Nihilists ; but the late Czar never saw her. Ho was assassinated almost exactly at the time when she first entered Russian waters.