PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1951, 11 April 1889, Page 35

PERSONAL NOTES.

Arabi Pasha, who is living in exile in Ceylon, is said to. be gro-wlng old very fast, and, ; to, present the appearance ( <gf broken man. . _ Mrs Reagan,, who acts as her .husband's private secretary, is entitled on all occasions to occupy a place on the floor of the 1 United States Senate, where no other woman is admitted. Archdeacon Philpot, of Mina Lodge, Oak Hill, Surbiton, is the oldest living clergyman in the Church of England. He i& in his 100 th year. He graduated as far back as 1812. P. T. Barnum, who has finally retired from the show business on a fortune of 10,000,000d01, is building a palatial residence at Waldemere. His old home at Bridgeport (Connecticut) will be turned into a summer hotel. . Margaret Lady Sandhurst, who has just been elected one of the county councillors for the Brixtbn division of Lambeth, is endowed, according to the Pall- Mall, "with exceptional gifts, both social and magnetic. "Some of the' feats of healing which she has, been able to perform at "her little hospital in Northern London are almost incredible, were they, not well authenticated." „ ' ' The Princess Louise is at, work on a statue which is to be erected in Kensington Gardens, between' the palace and the Round Pond, as a jubilee memorial, The statue will represent her Majesty as she appeared on that morning in June 1837 when it was 'announced >to her that she . was : Queen' of England. The Princess Victoria on this occasion appeared in her night garment, with a shawl loosely . thrown; '.over her shoulders, and in this "costun^eTshl appears in Sir George Hayjter's weltloio^^ictuiPe. Prdfessor James Bry'ce/wh^se^ admirable book on "The American Commonwealth" every one is reading or has read, js ajnan of 50 years of age, into whose hair and beard a few silver thread? have orejttv- Professor Bryce is a member of' Parliament a- professor at Oxford, a lecturer at the Inns of Court, a man of affairs generally,-and an indefatigable student and writer, and yet he finds time for a certain amount' of social recreation and to , walk, several miles every .day. Professor Bryce's home is in. London, where his ' sister,keeps house for him. At present he is on his way to India for a needed vacation. Apropos of the Morier indident, Sir Robert commenced public life, as a clerk in the Education Office, arid between 186O'andl876 passed most of his time' at thejsmaller German courts, going the usual weary round of Zurich, Darmstadt, Frankfort; r^nttgart, Coburg, &c. It was while so engaged that he had his first quarrel with Prince Bismarck, In 1866 Sir Robert was station at Frankfort, and on a petty question of official precedence asserted his right, and held his own in face of the Chancellor, who sought to browbeat the British Attache, and the: Prince never forgot the independence, which he chose^to term insolence. ' Probably Bismarck's , more recent action has done his bete noir /good service. The man who poses as the victim of an unjust . accusation invariably claims public sympathy ;and that sympathy, is ever accorded where the claimant is a man of undoubted probity and ability.

"That invalid wife, mother, sister, or, child can be made the picture of health with Dr Squle's American Hop. Bitters." . "\ '-, ; {Continued on page 37.) - - :i