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Show A LITTLE TOO GROTESQUE. rhe Rumor That Dir. Gladstone Was About to "Enter the Church." The story about Mr. Gladstone's supposed sup-posed intention to jhot the churpji at the age of 85 might be said to exhaust the utmost capacity of credulity. Mr. Gladstone's renewed interest in theology has been vigorously attested since his retirement from public life by copious writings on abstruse points of doctrine, but the rumor about his "taking orders' or-ders' ' is a little too grotesque even for the contents bills of the evening papers. There is a certain attraction, however, how-ever, in the idea of Mr. Gladstone as a curate eclipsing his vicar and overawing overaw-ing the bishop of his diocese. To him preferment ought to be rapid, and either ei-ther Lord Eosebery or Lord Salisbury would be only too glad to make him archbishop of Canterbnry at the earliest possible moment. Having been the most tremendous personal force in politics for 30 years, Mr. Gladstone might easily become the most formidable primate since the days of Becket. Nothing is impossible to this marvelous man, but all the same we do not expect him to submit himself him-self to ordination. London Illustrated News. Florence BIythe's Millions. Florence Blythe-Hinckley has virtually virtu-ally come into possession of the large estta fFtritrh contestants in the California Califor-nia courts 9 resolutely tried to wrest from her. Generally speaking, it is worth frea $4, 000, 000 to 5,000,000. It consists of a San Francisco block, 80,000 acres of land in San Diego county, coun-ty, 44, 000 acres of land in Mexico, adjoining ad-joining California, and an interest in 1,800,000 acres of land in Mexico. Just what the Blythe estate interest in these 1,800,000 acres is will have to be decided de-cided by the Mexican courts. A suit has been broTighlrrb determine the size of the Blythe interest in the large tract of land. There is also $125,000 in cash on hand belonging to the estate. This will go principally to pay the expenses of administration of the estate. San Francisco Letter. |
