Miscellaneous

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 76, 30 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

Miscellaneous

Prince Alexander went to Bulgaria with £100 a year. He lea res it with real property in Bulgaria alone worth £100,0- -0. He has evidently combined buaineiK with pleasure during hit short career as a Rus'ian agent, " What did the Puritans come to this country r for?" nuked a Massachusetts teacher of her cln«. "T<j > worship in their own way, '«nd make other people do the same," was the reply. . The fortune of the fate Baron' Meyer Rothschild, of Frankfort, is estimated at fifteen million* uterling. The art collection, which i* one oPfche largest and finest in the world, in left to the Baroness Louisa for her life, after which it is to pas* to Lord Upthi^ohild ; ■ so it will find tin ultimata home in England. Mr Grnut Allen i« making peace with the ladies. It in notorious that irame. diately after the publication of his novel '• For Maitui«^ S«k« M Mr Allen had to go into hiding, no many of the other sex ! wanted to talk to him about hi* heroine. So now with the craft that is natural to man. he sees in Sir George Campbell '■ recent utterances about marriage an opportunity of reinatatin? himuelf in the sex's good grace*. With that end— Mr Allen need n«t deny it —he contributes to the " Fortnightly Herfew" » delight* fully orthodox article on " Fatting m Love." VI r Allen's doctrine is " simply the eld fashioned and confiding belief that marriage* are made in Heaven.' Maimie was married twice, but few people would *ay that of either of her wedding*. On the whole, Mr Allen thinks that men and women marry "their natural complements"— in short, " marry for love and for lore only." Well, Mai* mie's hushiinds both married for love, and the luckier one "jumped into the Thames and swan till he sank."