Personals

The prliwse of Wales Is growing stoutr. Grau intenús to gire an autuinn season oí Germán opera In London. President Faure, ia his shooting license for last year, was described aa "getting gray." Consuelo, duchess of Marlborough, is loved by all the tenants on her husband's estates. Poetmaster General Wilaon will try the rural free delivery at ihis home, Charlestown, W. Va. Prof, Morris, of the unlversity of Melbourne, is preparing a dictionary of Australian English. The emperor of Gernlany stands twenty-first in the direct line of succession to the British throne. A granite block has been erected to the memory of Prof. Huxley on the southern shore of the Lake of Sils. Sylvanus Dodge Locke, who has just died at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., was the inventor of the flrst grain Wnding machine. Johan Strauss is worklng on a new operetta on the text by William Buchbinder. The work will be flnished at the end of next year. Prof. Villard, of the Paris Ecole Normale, has at last suceeeded in combinlng argén and water. It required a pressure of 200 atmospheres to do lt. Ellen Gulbranson and Fritz Friedrichs, two of the ue -ngers who made a sensation at Parreuth this season, have been engeged by the Royal Opem. The Gaekwar of Baroda possesses the most costly sword in the world. The bilt is 60 set with precious stones that the weapon is worth at least L220,000. Dr. Mas Wilf, of Heidelberg, has discovered flve new asterold on photographs of the heavens. This brimgs the number of minor planets up to 423. William Thompson, C. E., of London, received the idea of pneumatia ■tires from the pneumatic springs, which were proposed for carriages in 1845. Herr Krupp, the gun manufactures, has dismissed all foreign workmen and officials from nis ëmploy on the ground of betrayal of secrets to foreign governments. Miss Bettie Wilson, the young daughter of the postmaster-general, has entered Hollins' Institute, Virginia, near Roanoke, wliere she will be a student for a year.