Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-03
PERSONAL.

.... The Emperor Of Russia has created
Alexander Won Humboldt knight Of the
Imperial Order Of Alexander Newsky, as a
mark of particular regard.
80. Mr. Sumner has declined the BANQUET
rendered him at Boston on account of con-
tinued i'll health, but announces his intention
to be present on Tuesday to vote for Fremont
80. The New York Mirror contradicts the
report published in its columns of the sale by
Edwin Forrest Of his Fonthill Estate" to
Bishop Hughes for a nunnery
go. Govsrnment-that is to saw, Lord Pal.
msrston-hss granted pension Of f10O per
annum to the widow Of the late Gilbert Alb
bott A Beckett, and has contributed fIOO to
wards the maintenance Of Angus Reach, who
il insane.
80. Cen Jim Lane, of Kansas, was nearly
killed few nights since, in a runaway scrape
near Dayton, Ohio The horses attaceed to a
carriage in which he was riding run away and
ran down . bank twenty feet high, crushing
cat about the head and face.
go. The Evening Gazette, Of Boston, SAYS
Poor cid Palmo is now a waiter in a New
York restaurant, and if misery loves company,
he must be satisfied with reviewing the list Of
those who have, like himself, failed to make
money from performance Of italian Opera in
Gotham. Even Hackett declared at the Me-
tropolitan Theatre, on concluding Grisi and
Mario's engagement, that when he left New
York for Boston he was strongly tempted to
jump overheard and end his troubles at once -
-. Thomas Jefferson was tall and very
thin Gen. Knox was very short and very
thick. The two met one day at the door Of
Nsshington's house in Philadelphia While
they were there bowling in the street, each in
sisting that the other should take precedence,
mp comes Mr. Peters, wit Of that day, who,
casting sly glance from one to the other,
pushed boldly between them, exclaiming,
." Pardon me, gentlemen, if in haste I dash
through Thick and Tim"
80. The London Leader thus sets down
Miss Warmers last novel: Five hundred
pages Of narrative without an incident-such
10 this paradox by the author of "The Wide,
Wide World" That was tedious enough |:
this il indescribsbly dull 1t is an endless
stream Of talk, sometimes incoherent, always
unnatural and repulsive. ALI Miss Warner 9
Personsges speak in calculated manner, the
calm hero is defiant. the hero with the flashing
eyes lnsolent, the heroine with the poutipS
lips saucy, the heroine with the steady brow
insulting An ordinary person could not live
one day in such company"
80. An English paper states that John
Bright n. p, is so completely Frustrated in
health that he is unable to take any part in
public life. The same journal adds
The fear amongst his friends is that the ca
reer of Mr.. Bright as legislator and an ora
Tor has terminated-that his sun, in fact has
SET forever This is a calamity which we an
nounce with intense pain, for no man of his
Gay mas climed so rapidly to eminence as the
Suaker member for Manchester, Mr.. Bright
nas 50 severely overtasked his mental powers
tnat nis mind has given way To use his own
expressive words, he has exercised hi. -;
too much and his body too IittIa "a T.
now only the wreck Of the once nova,f,I
clsimer and the sturdy politician who .a., uo
the applause Of listening and sSm;.;
senate. nifihg
zee. The year 1872 witnessed the I..
taking of Mrs. Siddons, an actress of the NJ,
transcendant talents. Mr. Young himself rs'
lated to Thos. Campbell, the poet Of "Hope ,,
the impression which that matehless woms
made upon himself, when he was playing with
her in The Gamester," upon the Edinburgh
boards In the fourth scene Of the fifth act,
Hnen Beverly has swallowed the poison, Bates
snters, and Mrs Beverly, in answer to a
onAse against her husband Of having been
seI qusrreling In the streets with Lewson
I us false, old man! they had no
quariel-tney had no cause for quarrel" In
SteIlng tnese words, Mrs Siddons caught
hola OF JARVIS, and gave an exclama alton WITH
sucn piercing grief, that Young said his throat
svelied, and his utterance Was choksd m.
stood, unable to speak the sentence which bs
ought Immediately to have uttered IT.
prompter repeated the line without sF.o.
wien the gifted actress walked up 70 our 80
sedian, and in q low voice said, tMr. Yonns
Sscoueet YOURSELF"