PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8538, 11 April 1891, Page 4 (Supplement)

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Cecil Rhodes is a millionaire ; but he is said to live on ten pounds a week. Prince Bismarck's present hobby is a little wren, which flies about his room and eats out of his hand. Queen Victoria has five maids to assist at her toilet, three of them being dressers and two wardrobe women. During the forty nine years of his life the Prince of Wales has drawn £3,300,000 from the public Treasury of Great Britian. The new Archbishop of York, Dr. Magee, formerly Bishop of Peterborough, is the first Irishman who has ever become Primate of England. The income of Lord Revelstoke, the head of the house of Baring, will not in future exceed £3,000 a year. It was once more than £40,000. Sherman was a3 light a sleeper when in the field as the great Napoleon was. He rarely took more than five hours of rest when the enemy was near by. This is the seventy-third birthday of Sir William Muir, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, author of a " Life of Mohammed," and of " Annals of the Early Caliphate." The Rev. Dr. Robert Collyer can still hammer out a very respectable horseshoe, and i 3 said to have accepted a challenge not long aero to illustrate his proficiency in his old trade. Cardinal Manning is eighty-two years old and Gladstone eighty-one, and when the two cronies get together and talk about their boyhood's days they are as happy as ,old soldiers on pension day. Queen Victoria is taking great interest in the promotion of a large whisky distillery in Wales. She has had the plans and photographs sent to her and agreed to take a cask of the creature itself. It is reported from New York that Mr. Henry George has had a touch of asphasia, and that he has been warned by his physicians not to attempt any literary or active political work for some time to come. Henry M. Stanley is weary of lecturing. His trip through the country has been made with great economy of time, and the explorer has had no opportunity for rest or recuperation. He finds lecturing in America much more exacting than sojourning in Africa. Strangely enough, the nominal rulers of three European nations to-day are children. Spain has a baby King, Servia a boy Monarch, and Princess Wilhelmina, a little girl of ten, frail and delicate, now becomes the rightful sovereign of Holland, under the regency of her mother. General Sherman, at the Yale alumni dinner in New 'York, having been welcomed as usual by " Marching Through Georgia," remarked, feelingly, in his little little speech: " I have often thought that when I was marching to the sea it would have been well had I marched on into it." Professor Tyndall writes: —" Kindly allow me place for a line from my own pen, to mitigate the anxiety of my friends caused by the publication of a recent bulletin. Since my return from Switzerland, in October, I have been much knocked about by sleeplessness, added to which, later on, I have had to endure the tortures associated with severe inflammation of the veins of one leg. But the worst is now past. lam under the care of a sagacious London physician, who, on visiting me yesterday (January 19), reported most favourable on my progress." * A New York correspondent writes: — What is described as "a startling discovery" has been made at Dayton, Kentucky. It is stated that John C. Taylor, who has been living in obscurity, is the reputed heir to the estate and the Earldom of Tyrone. If the lineage is proved he gains the title, and shares with other members of the Taylor family the accumulations of rental of the estate for 100 years past, j The estate is valued at a million and a-half pounds. The title of Earl of Tyrone is now borne by the Marquis of Waterford, and it may be added that the family name is Beresford, and not Taylor. i