Personal Paragraphs

George Augustus Sala is still in Rome, and is still complaining greatly. Princess Maud of Wales, when slie cycles, wears a neat tailor-made costume, with plain skirt, similar to that of a riding fcabit. Major Von Wissman, the famous African explorer, who has been spending the winter at Naples, proposes to take up his permanent residence in Berlin. F. J. Williamson, sculptor, has executed u bust of the late Lord Tennyson in marble, to the order of the queen, to be placed in the grand corridor of Windsor Castle. Prince Mgssimo, of Italy, thinks that his is the oldest family in Europe. He traces his ancestry to Quintus Fabius Maximus. Since the recent attack on his life Premier Crispi wears under his shirt, says the Caffaro, a Genoese Journal, a light but solid coat of mail of steel, of doublé thickness over his heart. Col. Waring, the street-cleaning commissioner of New York, recommends the building of street lavatories in that city. Charles G. Wilson, president of the board of health, joins also in the recommendation. The Marquis of Lorne has just finished writing a light opera libretto, of which the scène is laid in Scotland. A story by this nobleman appears in the current Pall Mali Magazine. He seems to be bene on literary fame. A gold medal, commemorative of the naval parade on the Hudson rlver on April 30, 18S9, will be presented to exPresident Harrison by the New Jersey Historical Society of Newark, at its semi-centennial in that city on May 16 next. Few persons are aware, probably, that John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, commenced his ministry in Savannah, and was several years rector of Christ Episcopal church, which stands in, the center of that city, just as it did then, with the exterior unaltered, altliough the interior has been remodeled and modernized.