PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2057, 27 July 1893, Page 42

PERSONAL NOTES.

Miss Millicant Fawcett, who distinguished herself by taking a place above the Senior Wrangler, has adopted the profession of electrical engineer. Mr Adams, of Newport, Shropshire, has bequeathed £70,000 for the purpose of teaching agriculture to men and youths, and dairying and housekeeping to womenand girls. Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has dedicated his beautiful country seat at Hinderlelten, Austria, for the purposes of a sanatorium for poor patients Buffering from pulmonary complaints. Biaz Pacha, who now exercises great powers in E^ypt, is -a Hebrew by descent and religion. He is a man of enormous energy 'and will power, and has little fear of the young Khedive. He has many enemies, however, at court*. Miss Tynan, the Irish poetess, and a leading contributor to the literary columns of United Ireland and the Irish Independent, is shortly to be married to a literary man in London. Miss Tynan ha 3 been one of the chief ornaments of literary Dublin. Professor Garner, who has interpreted about 200 words of " monkey tongue " into our own language, is an American. He served in the Confederate army, and for some years, on the plains, carried on offensive and defensive operations against the Indiacs, an experience which devt loped his extraordinary powers of observation. In the course of her long life the late Lady de Ros had been acquainted with no fewer than 19 Prime Minister*. Lady de Ros's recollections of Lord Salisbury dated from his early youth, when his mother, one of her greatest friends, used to prophesy that "Bobby would some day be a very clever man ! " „ , The Czar has, perhaps, more medical attendants' than any other potentate in Europe. He has three court physicians and 12 honorary ones, two court surgeons with four honorary 'ones, two oculists, one aurisr, one dentist, one specialist for children, with other doctors to attend upon his sui' c. Out of this regiment the Czir, even wben he takes the shortest journey, chooses ono to attend bis precious person. Sir Andrew Clark, Mr Gladstone's doctor, shares the Prime Minister's devotion to H'gh Church doctrines Outjof his consulsing room, in Cavendish square he likes nothing better than a theological bout with two or three friends. Sir Andiew Ciark has no small skill in such an argument and is well read in theological literature. In his consulting room he i 3 humorous or grave, as the nature of the case may suggest, but for the imaginary invalid he has no pity. The Prince of Wales not t ,lpng r ago was one of a large house party^at a place in the English Midlands his host beifig a very wellknown Deer. After dinner the royal guest, the hose, and the other male visitors repaired to the billiard room. 'On a table at the sidevere two or three boxes of cigars, and the Prince was helping himselE to one, when an ambitious milliopaire approached him, and, taking from his pocket a cigar case, held it out to the Prince," saying : " I think, sir, you will find these bettjer." "Mr , if a man's dinner is good enough, for me, his cigars are good enough for me." The millionaire was unexpectedly callad away to town next morning on business I