Show PERSONAL MENTION President Gompers of the American Federation of JabOr has gone lo Cuba to study industrial mal rs there with a view of formIng unions S A 0 Gen Joubert by way of being a humor Ist complains that the English countermanded counter-manded an order to attack his troops without notifying him and thereby deprived de-prived him of a whole nights sleep C a o James Whllcomli Rlleys long experience experi-ence as a lecturer nnd reciter might be supposed to have cured hls basiifulnc UK a Hoosier i wet but he confesses lo stage fright Ho nays I am always frightened half to death When I begin herla to speak lucre is always n moment when I cant HOC anything at all but a yellow sky with blue windows In ita dreadfully yellow sky with blue windows S a S Mrs Daniel Manning widow of tho Secretary Sec-retary of tho Tnasury under Cleveland Is to be appointed as a member of the board of sixteen American commissioners to tho Paris exposition and It Is said that Mrs Potlor Palmer will also be appointed ap-pointed The amendment to the bill pro vldlrg for tho commissioners which forbade for-bade any compensation to such women as might bo appointed was stricken out on motion of Senator Coclcrel of Missouri I is said that the Duchess of Marlborough Marl-borough h Is much exercised over the fact I that her husband has taken a whIte horse to Africa with him She thinks he will I bo a mark for every Boer on the battlefield battle-field But his Grace Is not afraid and Insists anr sists upon going to war looking like a family portrait I I prtrnl t Congressman Thomas J Bradley of tho Ninth Now York city district Is sometimes some-times sloaiglly referred to as tho man with the polyglot cinch HL constituency constitu-ency includes voters of numerous nationalities nation-alities and Mr Bradley Is able to address almost any voter In his district in tho voters native tongue The Congressman BPoaks German French Ilobrcr Polish Italian Irish and Bohemian having in hit way a pull of such strength as in I tiles him to the nickname mentioned |