PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8360, 13 September 1890, Page 4 (Supplement)

PERSONAL ITEMS.

P. T. Barnum's fortune is estimated at 11,000,000d015. Mr. Gladstone makes it a rule never to travel on Sunday. Cardinal Manning won't take liquor even when prescribed by a physician. Bismarck has sixteen chests full of letters which he deems important enough to save. Beside laying up treasures in heaven, Rev. Dr. Talmage is picking up £10,000 a year in this climate.—World. The Count of Paris will sail for New York on September 23, with his son, the Duke of Orleans, and his friends. Lord Wolscley will take over the command of the forces in Ireland on Oct. 1, in succession to General Prince Edward of SaxeWeimar.

Ex-King Milan is said to be mad. Well, a man who has been deprived of his kingdom and his wife and euchred out of his fortune by Monte Carlo sharps has " a good right" to be mad.

Sir Samuel Wilson, M.P., in order to complete his recovery from a severe attack of Russian influenza, has been ordered a long sea voyage, and will go to Melbourne by the steamship Cuzco. The Rev. Edward Harland, Vicar of Colwich and Prebendary of Lichfield, died a lew days ago. He was the author of "Index Sermonum" and "A Church Psalter and Hymnal." Aged 80. The Right Rev. Louis Marie Petit, Missionary Bishop of France and recently Chaplain in the French Navy, has just arrived in New York as a steerage passenger en Le Bretagne. He came in this way in order to learn how emigrants are treated.

The Rev. W. Jeffries, LL.D., for so many years minister of Pitt-street Church, Sydney, has accepted an invitation recently presented to him to become the minister of New College Congregational Chapel, St. John's Wood, London. Dr. Jeffries is an alumnus of New College, and was ordained in 1858. He is a graduate of the University of London.

Mile. Bilbesco, the rich and beautiful young Roumanian who has lately taken her degree of LL.D. in Paris, has attended every lecture of the Law School for the last six years, never missing a lesson, and always accompanied by her mother. Her father is a wealthy man, but she hopes by her example to rouse young girls to earn an honourable livelihood by hard work.

An invitation was sent to Prince Bismarck by the American students at Gottingen to attend the fourth of July fetes at that place. In his reply, which was written in English, the ex-Chancellor said : " Of the four distinguished Americans who are to be honoured with memorial tablets,

I have had the privilege of counting two among my intimate friends—Motley and Bancroft. Therefore lam doubly sorry that it will be impossible for me to take part in your interesting ceremony. Convey my thanks to your countrymen."

King Milan has pleaded—in relation t the divorce suit against him—that his royal rank absolves him from being put upon his defence; but he has been informed that his royal prerogative ceased when he abdicated. The awk ward part of this affair is that the ecclesiastical court may pronounce a sentence excommunicating King Milan for immorality, and obliging him to make a public amende before he can be readmitted to the sacraments of the Church, including that of marriage.

Mr. Godfrey Sinclair died at his residence in Edinburgh lately. He was the youngest and last surviving of the numerous family of the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, of Ulbster, Caithness, M.P., the founder of Mr. Pitt's Board of Agriculture. He had fourteen brothers and sisters, all of whom were distinguished by great height and remarkable powers of mind and memory. One was Sir George Sinclair, many years M.P. for Caithness, a brilliant scholar and speaker, another William, Vicar of St. George's, Leeds, rector of Pulborough, and Prebendary of Chichester. His sister Catherine was the author of "Holiday House" and other works of fiction well known in the earlier part of the century. Mr. Godfrey Sinclair was always a welcome visitor amongst a numerous circle of friends in all parts of Scotland, to whom his reminiscences of the past (his father was born in 1754) never failed to be interesting. He was 78 years old.