| Show PRO3UXEXT PEOPLE V Mr ZansT > ell is following M du Maur iers lead as a chronicler of artstudent life in the Latin quarter He has lately been making studies in Paris for a long novel i Lady Henry Somerset and Frances Wit lard will sail for England on Wednesday of this weelc Lady Somersets first duty in her native land will be to preside over a big meeting at Exeter hall London to protest against the English opium trade The sale of Trilby is now well up toward to-ward 200000 copies It is needless to add that Mr du Maurier is writing another novel If he had not waived his right to royalties and taken 5000 In cash he would now have received between 10000 and 550000 Prince Louis Bonaparte lieutenant colonel of the Russian Dragoon regiment of NljnlNovgorod has been promoted to the rank of colonel by the new czar The prince is the second son of the late Prince Napoleon and one of the cleverest members of the family General Le Prtidhomme Count de Fontenoy who tiled In Paris the other day was the last officer who had the right to use the single letter liP before his name This letter was used to distinguish dis-tinguish the young men who iiafi been pages of Louis XVIII and Charles X and afterward became officers Governor Atkinson of Georgia has been plunged into great domestic trouble by the prostration of his wife who seems through mental aberration to have exhibited exhib-ited the proclivities of a kleptomaniac i She has been taken to a private asylum I In the east The ladys use of morphine I and other opiates in connection with 1 nerve debility conduced to her unfortunate I unfortu-nate state of mind Some years ago Fredericjs Douglas addressed ad-dressed a Convention of negroes in Louisville Lou-isville says the BufCal Courier He said in the course of his remarks that he dId t not think an amalgamation of the white I and black races desirable the pure negro being in his opinion the best of the race While speaking his eyeglasses continued to slide from their perch But I wish interpolated the speaker I wish we could get up some sort of an alloy fee the negro capable of holding spectacles The late Ismall Pasha exKhedive of Egypt was a warm friend of the United States having his entire army organized and officered by military men from this country He was likewise the donor of the obelisk which now adorns Central Park New York and when he instituted the International tribunals made a special spe-cial point that the United States should have a seat on the bench realizing that it was the only great power upon the dis interestedness of whose friendship to Egypt he could entirely rely air Astor I am told says Harold Frederic Fred-eric ia his London cable to the New York Times intends winding up all three of his newspaper properties the Pall Mall Gazette Magazine and Budget selling Cliveden and his London leases and re turning to America It is impossible to verify the report but It comes to me from source entitled to confidence Ho paid 250000 for the Gazette alone which wan an excessive price my Informant says He has recently offered it for sale with the other two thrown in for 5200 000 but falling to find purchasers or even bidders at their own price decided to put an end to them Two million dollars Is mentioned as the round sum that his experience ex-perience as a publisher cost him |
