PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8020, 6 August 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

PER SONAL ITEMS.

Proi Spknorß F. Baiiid, head of the United «t:ites Fisheries Department, is gradually recovering. Lord Porchestor, eldoct son of the Earl of Carnavon, who will soon come of age, will have £100,000 a year. Anton iiubenstein haa collected 50,000 roubles toward realising his plan of founding a national Russian opera at &t. Petersburg, to bo connected with a new conaervatorio of rrußical instruction. Mr, Gladstone, acknowledging receipt of a photograph of tho Fawcott atatue at Salisbury, wnteß : —"lt conveys tho impression that tho etatue is excellent, and that it worthily commemorates one who was among tho heroes of civil life." Baron Alphonso Rothschild diaguisas himself as a blouse-wearing artisan, aud pays court to workgirls going or returning from thoir work, in the hope of finding among them Bonio pearl of rare price who will not marry him for his money. The Duko of Rutland will not allow gas anywhere in Belvoir Castle, his ancestral soat. J .amps are used all over tho immense building, and a servant who has spent fifty yeara in tho ducal service occupies his whole time iu tilling the bowls and trimming tho wicks. There ia no foundation for tho report that Sir John E. Millaii, K. A,, haa been ordered to theContinentowiug to severe indisposition. 110 was never in be.tter health, and contemplates taking up his summer residence at Birnain Hall much earlior than ho had dono iu former years. Mr. Abiugton, the owner of Merry Hampton, tho horse that won first money iu the Derby race, is a yonng Scotch ironmaster, and ia said to be enormously rich. Hβ bought the winning horse for 3100 guineas, but would not sell him now for twice that sum. Mr. Jamee Payn is probably the pleaeantest gossip in England. 110 ia not the most learned, lfbr the wittiest, nor the most suf'gt'stivo, but ho is tho most gonial. His copiousness does not smack of the commonplace book ; if ho uses ono at all, ho keeps it carefully up his sleeve. John Bright has written to Gladstone an apology for inaccurately quoting his speech. The letter concludes as follows :—'l grieve that 1 cannot act with yon ns in years psst, but my judgment aud conscience forbid it. If I have said a word that seems unfriendly or harsh, 1 will ask you to forgive it," Captain Scharlipp, the last survivor of the "00 IJerlin volunteers who, on March 17th, 1813, presented themselves to King Frederick William for tho purpose of serving against the Great Napoleon, died recently. He fought at the battles of Leipsio and Waterloo, and received the Iron Cross. It is said that there aro only twenty-one holders of that honour, Aged 95. The Brothers of the Little Oratory, Hrompton, having resolved to make to the Qui en .1 Jubilee presentation consisting of Cardinal Newman's works. Her Majesty wao communicated with, and a reply has been received through Bir Henry Ponsonby, intimating her pleasure at tho offer and her willingness* to accept the gift. The presentation will bo in thirty-six volumnes, beautifully bound. Fred Douglass recently said in Paris :—" I have travelled through most of the countries of Europe, and whenever 1 .1111 iu tho cars, in the theatres, in the ball-rooms, anywhere in fact, I find I am treated always with courtesy, and not rarely with distinguished consideration. As far m I can see, a man ia judged over here without any regard to the colour of hie hair, or his eyco, or his akin." At an inquest at Tipon roepeoting tho death of a boatman named Stephen Poolc, it was shown that the deceased had been for years in tho habit of sleeping in brickyards and near to furnaces. On a recent W'cdnes day morning his chirred remains were found on a cinder heap near to some ironworks. It is'supposed deceased waa overcome by the fumes from cinders, and that his clotsha becoming ignite i, he was burned to death, Tho committee formed to commemorate the services rendered to the town of Birmingham by Mr. John Bright as for over twenty-five years one of ite representatives in Parliament have presented to tho town, through tho corporation, a handsome full-leugth statue of the right hon. gentleman in marble, executed by Mr. \V. Bruce Joy. The presentation, which was announced at a meeting of the Town Council on the 7th of June, wns unanimously accepted and ordered to be put in the public art gallery.