PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 10 August 1888, Page 34

PERSONAL NOTES.

Queen Louise of Sweden is threatened with a return of the cancerous trouble which nearly took her life a year ago.

Mr Gladstone is what would be called in America a fresh-air crank. He has a great horror of a badly-ventilated room, and is pretty apt to be made sick if he speaks in one. The Czarewitch Nicholas, the oldest son of Alexander 111, was born at St. Petersburg on May 18, 1868, and so has just celebrated his 20th birthday. He is not tall, like the men of his father's family, and seems to resemble in feature his Danish rather than his Eussian relatives. A recent English reviewer says that there are but two English authors of the present day whose works are pre-eminent for quality of style — namely, John Morley's and Cardinal Newman's. But one would say that the man of all others among recent English writers who had in a pre-eminent degree the gift of what we call style — that quality in literature • which is like the sheen of a bird's plumage — was Matthew Arnold. — John Burroughs. When he first came forward, under Mr Butt's patronage, as candidate for Parliament, Mr Parnell was warmly recommended to the public by the parish priest of Avondale," who wrote: "Mr Parnell, though a young man, has much talent and much practical acquaintance with country life. Though he is the youngest in his bench of magistrates, his opinion is much respected, and when he is not sitting difficult cases are frequently put off until he can attend." — The Pope has intimated to the Emperor of Brazil that he intends to present the Golden Rose to the Crown Princess in token of his approval of the perseverance and firmness she has shown in the matter of negro emancipation. This princess, who is the Empecor's daughter and heir to his' throne, is a religious woman and " tries to tame her pride by exercises of humility. One of these lies in cleaning churches with mop and broom as if she were one of her father's meanest subjects." Alexander Graham Bell, the telephone millionaire, has only just turned his 40th year. Mr Bell is a (Scotchman, and has only been in America since 1872. He was very poor when he landed, but he is very rich now, and his poor relations in Scotland have profited by his generosity. Mrs Bull is a deaf mute, but she understands lip-rending so well that her husband converses with her the same as be would if she were not so afflicted, and no one who sees them suspects that she cannot speak and hear as other people. Charles Bramwell, who died in 1878, was sexton of the churoh of St. Thomas a Becket, at Ohapel-en-le-Fritb, in Derbyshire, for 24 years ; his father was sexton there for 43 years; his grandfather was sexton for 50 years ; his great-grandfather held the post for 38 years; his great-great-grandfather for 40 years; and his great-great-great-grandfather was sexton there for 52 years. James Bramwell, who is sexton now, is nephew of Charles Bramwell, and has occupied the position since 1878, a further period of 10 years. So that the office of sexton has been held by members of one family consecutively, for the period of 257 years. TITLED AMERICANS. Cyrus W. Field has an English title, and can be Sir Cyrus whenever he wishes. Claus Spreckels is a member of the highest Sandwich Island nobility, his title being given by the King in return for a money loan. Mr Loubat, of New York Union Club fame, has a patent of nobility from the Pope. "Sir George" Pullman is the way Mr Pullman can write his name in Italy, thanks to King Humbert. Mr Murphy, of Chicago, is a Marquis of the Papal States. Surgeon Warren is Warren Bey, through the kindness of the Khedive of Egypt. •Dr Gwin, of San Francisco, had the title of Duke given him years ago by the illstarred Maximilian of Mexico.

The silent pressure of the hand is often of more vital good than a whole volume of good counsel ; and one tear, one kiss, one bright encouraging smile can help the broken heart, the sinking spirit, where words of advice would fall unheeded, or be an aggravation to present pain. Adyick TO Mothxrs I—Are1 — Are yon broken In your te»t by a sick child suffering with the pain of cutting teeth ? Go at once to a chemist and get a bottle of ' Mi<9 Wimblow's Soothing Sykup. It will relieve V!ie poor 3UJ*forer immediately. It is perfectly tiarra1038 and pleaoant to the taste; it produces natural •\wi.l. sleep, by relieving the child from piin ; and the little cherub awakes "as bright as a button." It toothes the child, it softens the gums, allays all E«in, relieves wind regulates the bowels, and is -the best known remedy for dysentery an 6 diarrhoea whether arising from teething or other causes. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Sy.ru;> is sold by medi-aino-dealon $vervwbe.M iA 1$ >M p?r bettle.—