PERSONAL NOTES,

Otago Witness, Issue 1935, 26 March 1891, Page 30

PERSONAL NOTES,

Mrs Littledale, who recently accompanied her husband in an adventurous journey overt the Pamir Mountains, is a Hindoo lady off high caste.

The late Lord Tollemache left a large family, for no fewer than eleven sons survive him, the eldest of whom is himself a grandfather. Like the Lytteltons and the Walkers,, the Tollemaches have frequently put a cricket eleven in the field, and on one occasion it was composed ot the eleven brothers.

Mr Gladstone has just sent a characteristic gift to the Oldbury Methodists in the shape of a large fragment of a tree out down with his own hand on his estate at Hawarden. The gift, which was intended in aid of a chapel bazaar, was mistaken by the railway carriers for a butcher's block, and they asked for Mr Bateman, butcher, instead of the resident Methodist minister. The mistake has afforded a little amusement in the district.

Mrs Potter Palmer, of Chicago, president , of the Lady Managers of the World's Fair, is not only a beautiful woman but an accomplished one as well, who knows Europe as well as her own country, has made her sumptuous house an art museum of pictures, statuary, bronzes, tapestries, and curios, and who presides with the utmost self-possession at all the committee meetings of the Fair.

Miss Xavier, who formerly held the position of instructor in Spanish at Wellesley College, has. received the appointment oh secretary to the French and Spanish consulate at Washington. She is the first, woman ever appointed to an official place of this kind. Miss Xavier will be able to. convey assurances of distinguished consideration in Spanish, French, Italian, German, or English.

Without eloquence, an alien, in religion, ia but an alien in race, absolutely devoid of the gift of humour which we associate with the Irish name, and endowed with a personality the reserve and coldness of which have made it almost repellent, Mr Parnell has yet fascinated the Irish people as no other man of modern times has done, has climbed as high as O'Oonnell, and has accomplished more than O'Connell ever did. — Speaker.

Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the " Battle Hymn of Freedom," published during the war of 1866, is still a beautiful woman, with finely modelled features, trained voice, and gracious manners. Besides being an accomplished poet and prose writer, a philanthropist and grande dame of society, she •enjoys the unique honour of having been president of the Boston Women's Club' for 20 years by the unanimous choice of the members.

In Sir John Pope Hennessy the anti-Par-nellites have enrolled one of the cleverest, 'cutest, most obstinate, and most subtle minds in their country ; and, what is more, a man whose hatred of England and her governance is as deep as Mr Davitt's and as bitter as Mr; ParneU's. It is not improbable that poor Mr M'Carthy will have some trouble with' this ambitious and quarrelsome person ; but if malignancy should happen to be needed w ( here Mr Parnell no longer leads, Sir John Pope Hennessy is just the man to supply the deficiency. — National Observer.

Dr Moorhouse, the Bishop of Manchester, is an old acquaintance of the Prime Minister. Many yeard ago, when the former was a London par,son and the latter was Lord Robert Cecil, the two happened to meet. Lord Robert was living in Mr Moorhouse's parish, and offered to do some parish work. The offer was, of course, gladly accepted. The next time Dr Moorhouse heard from his quondam lay-helper was when the latter _ wrote to offer him the Bishopric! of Manchester. — Pall Mall Gazette.

The Rev. W. Lock, part author of the now famous theological work " Lux Mundi," is a well-known ' figure in Oxford circles. Mr Lock is a little under the medium height, with a, clear-cut face, reddish beard, and penetrating grey eyes. He is the sub- warder of Keble College, and it is very much to his credit that he fulfils his duties there gratuitously, on account of the rather depressed financial state of that college. He holds a fellowship at Magdalen College. Mr Look is accounted one of the best lecturers on theology in the university, and does a good deal of writing as well on matters connected therewith. Just now he is engaged on a life of John Keble.

Prince Luitpold, who for four years has acted as Regent of the Kingdom of Bavaria, will before long resign the reins of government into the hands of his eldest son, a clever, energetic politician, who during the last 12 months has performed mast of the duties of his father's position. The Regent, who is 70 years of age, has suffered terribly of late from rheumatism, and for some time has been unable to mount his horse. His rule, however, has been, marked by economy, if not actual parsimony'; one happy result of which has been that out of the "Civil List " enough has been saved in four years to pay off nearly two-thirds of the enormous debt which the late king left as a legacy to his faithful subjects.

Madame Schliemann, it is understood, will continue her husband's researches in Greece.

The family of the Stuarts is of great antiquity. The earliest accounts deduce them from a thane of Lochaber. But antiquity is ever involved in obscurity. However, we are certain that the first of them who reigned in Scotland was Eobert 11, surnamed Blear-eye. He was descended from Walter Stuart and Marjory Bruce, daughter to .King Kobert Bruce. In the year 1371, Robert Stuart ascended the throne of Scotland, as next heir to King David Bruce the Second, his mother's brother.

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