PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8082, 24 September 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Comte de Paris says he will yet be King of France. The Rev. John Walton has been elected president of the Wealeyan Conference. Canon Wilberforce has been making a tour in America in the temperance cause. Queen Victoria's favourite dessert is tapiooa pudding. Her favourite wine is claret. The probate of Samuel J. Tilden'a will in England brings out the fact that he had a personal estate there valued at £138,000. Lord Luoan, who has just been made a Field-Marshal, is eighty-seven years old, and haa served in the British army seventyone years. The death is announced in Toronto of Siir Matthew Cameron, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas of Ontario, who waa knighted only last month. Senator George, Mississippi's candidate for the Supreme Bench, is noted for two things: He writes » shockingly bad hand and he has never had his picture taken. During the debate on the Irish Land Bill in the House of Lords, Earl Spencer declared that it would not relieve the tenants nor settle the Irish question, and that it was not worth considering. The Queen-Regent of Spain is a skilful embroiderer, and has just completed a magnificent flag for a new ironclad named after her. The standard is over eleven yards long and six and one-half wide. Mr. A. C. Mackenzie has left England for a retired village on the coast of Normandy, where he will remain some time at work upon his magnum opus—an oratorio intended for the next Birmingham Festival. Mr. George Bancroft is still the most conspicuous example of the relations of horseback riding to longevity. This season be will be seen at Newport again enjoying his favourite exorcise at the age of eighty-Be The scholarship system is in a state of high development in Germany. From recent statistics, it appears that more than 25 per cent, of the German students are in receipt of mote or leas support from public funds.

General Bonlanger has written to friends in Baltimore, Md., that he is in good health and a contented frame of mind. He seems to be about the only prominent man now in Europe who is in a thoroughly robust physical condition. Lord Delamere died at Vale Royal, Cheshire, on August 1. Deceased, who leaves a widow, a son, and a daughter, was colonel of the Cheshire Militia, and represented Welsh constituencies in Parliament from 1841 to 1848. He was 75 years old. Tbe funeral of Alfred Krupp took place at Essen on July 10, and waa very imposing. The Prince of Reuss represented the Emperor, and twelve thousand workmen were present. Letters of condolence were received from the Emperor William, the Crown Prince, Bismarck, and Von Moltke. The women of the world have great cause for thankfulness in this nineteenth century. They are privileged to undertake whatsoever they may wish to do, and the world appears in so amiable a light that it is difficult to remember the time when housework, teaching, and sewing were almost the only occupations open to them. A funny difficulty arose at Windsor a few days ago. The Queen wished to entertain the Indian Princesses at luncheon, but was told that, though they would kiss her hand with pleasure and kneel to her with delight, they could not eat with her, even though she was the great Ranee. So they had to lunch with the Duke of Connaught. A few days ago Freiherr von Faber, the founder of the lead pencil firm of A. W. Faber, at Stein, in Germany, celebrated his seventieth birthday. He has changed the village of Stein (near Nuremberg) into one of the finest in Germany, founded the famous Germanio Museum in Nuremberg, and will be remembered for many other charitable bequests. President Cleveland has been Buffering with rheumatism, so his symphatiaing countrymen have sent him 39 remedies for the malady. His secretary publishes the list with thanks to the senders. Amongst other certain cures, the President was recommended to apply hot flat irons, to keep his muscles lissom by sabre exercise, to live upon oatmeal andgruel, or raw beef, German bread and dry Rhine wine, to use goose-grease, a fly blister or liniment of rattlesnake and skunk oil, and to carry horse-chestnuts in his pocket.