Show PEl5ONATj oossir Walter Besant has started a movement for the erection In London of a statue to the late Robert Louis Stevenson Lady Monkton Started life as o dressmaKer dress-maKer But this 3s no bar to her beIng a welcome guest in the most select London society John D Rockefeller hag recently lost 1500000 on the Monte Cristo mine but he erection of his little SSOTOOOO Adiron lack cottage will go on just as If nothing noth-ing had happened There are some nice thoughtful and kindly Christians In Maine and the other day they got up a donation for a poor invalid who was dying frorn dyspepsia They sent him a beautiful angel cake decorated with frosted angels and sugared sug-ared Cupids Senatorelect Carter of Montana will be admitted of course notwithstanding he fact that his credentials are a little faulty There Is no reason for keeping I him out except the recollection of the i mess that he made as manager of the i Republican campaign in lSi2St Louis GlobeDemocrat i iI I President Faure of France and the KIng of the Belgians are good friends I Whenever there was any difficult question ques-tion pending between the French government govern-ment and the Congo State 3L Faure was quietly sent to Brussels to talk over the matter with the king He is also an intimate in-timate friend of King George of Greece At one time M Faurp represented Greece as consul at Havre Queen Victoria is something of a hypochondriac hypo-chondriac It is not generally known but it Is a fact that she has a fondness for trying patent medicines for her rheumatism rheu-matism and other bodily afflictions She uses a good deal of secrecy in thus dosIng dos-Ing herself in order not to give offense to her court physicians and to furnish no free advertisement to the medicine with which she is experimenting Lord Brassey who has been appointed covernorgoneral at Melbourne Austra 11a will bo the first English colonial governor to proceed to his viceregal dominions do-minions In his own ship Ha will go to I I VIelbourne direct In his famous yacht sunbeam and will take In tow his twen tyton racing cutter Dragon He expects I to reach Melbourne before the opening of the Victorian parliament in July The greatest triumph of the evening however says the Detroit Tribune in speaking of the Michigan club banquet was reserved for the last of the regular speakers Hehry D Estabrook of Ife Qraslra Mr Bstabrook is a new star in tho firmament of spellbinders and he Is a comet When Mr Estwbrpok stand up straight he can look on a level over the heads of many of the men who were beside be-side him on the platform last night |