PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 30 October 1890, Page 32

PERSONAL NOTES.

It is a curious fact that Edison, whose mission in life seems to be to make the world " all ears," should he himself almost as deaf as a post. When you address him he holds his band behind his ear, watches your face intently, and when he catches your meaning breaks into smilos and laughter. At other times his face is expressive only of cogitation and reflection. Miss Eleanora Fleury, a student of the London School of Medicine for Women, who took her degree at the Royal University of Ireland with much distinction, has received the appointment of assistant resident medical officer to the Fever Hospital, Homerton, under the Metropolitan Asylums Board. Mr Stanley has quite recovered from bis recent illness, say." the London Court Journal. TTe is to sail with his wife and mother-in-law for America on October 26. Americans, as a rule, are humorous, not to say sarcastic, on mothers-in-law. They will find in Mrs Tennant a charming lady, who, perhaps, will incline them a little more sweetly to that much-abused relation. Mr Stanley commences his lectures on the 12th of November at the Metropolitan Music Hall, New York. The Czar has purchased from the Barone?S de Stackelberg the island of Wornis for the sum of 1.000.000fr. Some years since the English Government wished to buy it for a coal station, but the Russian Government objected. The former offered 25,000,000fr for it then, and now the disastrous sale has been obliged to be effected through reverses of fortune of the family, and the Czar has profited and snapped up the wished-for island for a mere trifle. Mad King Otho of Bavaria gets from bad to worse. He has lost his reason entirely, but still possesses great phy&ical strength. His attendants are obliged to continually watch over him. Otho thinks himself a lion, and bites at whoever approaches him ; a few days ago he bit tie leg of his aide-de-camp, who in consequence was invalided for seme time, and very unwillingly resumed his service near to his Leonine Majesty. The King has a great passion for cigarettes, which he only half smokes, and when he has finished with them he amuses himself by throwing them at the face of whoever is nearest to him.

Within the Arctic circle 762 kiuds of flowers have been found. Since 1871 Germany has spent £15,000,000 upon new firearms nlone. Hundreds of peoplo suffer from bni's, carbuncles, and other eruptivo disensm. Theaearo evidences f hafc the system is fcrtlng to purge itself of impurities, and that it needs the powerful aid of Ayer's Sarsaparilla.