Personal Gossip

Lord Wolseley is very much disliked by his fellow soldiers. The Earl of Zetland has forty-three livings in the Established church at his disposal. J. D. Wickham, D.D., of Manchester, Vt., is the oldest living Yals alumnus; he graduated in 1S17. Six governors of Massaehusetts were Imrn iu 1818: Claflin, Boutwell, Rice, Butler, Andrew and Talbot. Ex-Congressman Stephen P. Wilson, of Wellsboro, has built for himself a granito tomb in thé sliape of a log cabin. Lord Salisbury has dispensed with the gnard of detectives that have watched over his safety for the past three years. Col. Swope, who vas killed by Col. Goodloe at Lexington, Ky., bore a striking resemblance to Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. The Hon. George Bancroft takes a long walk evei-y pleasant afternoon, often with a volume oí Shakespeare in his hand. M. Zadoc-kahn has been unanimously elected grand rabbi of France, as successor of the late M. Isidor, who died a year ago. Challes Hall, the head of the English delegates to the maritime eongress, is tall, barrister looking and profoundly well dressed. G. J. Wolseley, the Australian squatter and brotiier of Lord Wolseley, has floated on the Lomlon market a sheep shearing machine eapitalized at $1,000,000. Sir Francis Grenfell has an extremely wealthy aunt, who wrote him a check for $50,000 when she heard the account of nis brilliant victory in Egypt. Sir Julián Pauncefote, British minister at Washington, spends much of his time ia drh ing an,d wulking with his four daughters, Maud, Sybil, LiUian and Audrey, il r. Ibsen, the Norwegian play writer, spent much of last summer at the village of Gosseusass, in the Tyrol, and a square there has ben named Ibsenplatz in honor of him. M. Yves Guyot, French minister of public works, has prepared a scheme for a Paris underground railway, which he intends to present to the chamber early ia January. Capt. R. B. Forbes, who has been justly called "the Howard of the sea" in reference to his work for sailors, is 86 years old- ths oMest member of the Boston Marine society. Cien. Mahone is not ashamedto confess that he has read only one book since the war Gun. Taylor's reminiscences. He has not read a newspaper, not even his personal organ, for years. Mahomet Rechad, brother of the Turkish sultan and heir to the throne, is described as a miserable looking specimen of humanity, who is kept under constant surveillance, as though suspected of treason. Mr. James D. Reíd, who has been appoiuted United States consul at Dunferline, is eommunly called "the father of the telegraph." He personally handled the first president's message ever sent across the Alleghanies by wire. Henry George is a heavily built, short and bald headed man, with an air of great Independence and an abundant lul. He is a good orator, and always keeps his right hand securely buttoned up in the breast of his frock coat. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, the late Col. Goodloe's great únele, has a record with the knife whieh is noteworthy even for a Kentuckian. He had three personal encounters before the ar In whieh knives were used, and in each case he succeeded in killing his opponent.