New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-27
PERSONAL.

Hans Christian Andersen is Ill ana lhniln'
Bis eyes are falling, and he will write no more
Miss Kanel q Long Island woman Is en-
gagged in exercising herself by walk to Omaha
Prof. Evans of Cornell University IS very
IN. and will travel in the south in quest Of health
The Rev. F. p. Lowe is dead, IN England,
brother of Robert Love- the distinguished statesman
Allibone. who made the great dictionary OF
oior a. oator OF The American Sunday Union.
Theirs has lately decorated" eight balloon
ISIS for high services, during the French and Prussian
Mr. William p. Ross is the new Chief of the
Cherokee Nation succeeding Mr.. Lewis Downing, de-
ceased
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend and Mr.. Dom
Patt associate themselves new evening paper In
washington
The remains of brave officer, Capt LIE
grand Who during the siege Of Paris tried to carry dis
patches into the city by swimming across the Seine,
honOrs
The relatives of Prussian military officer,
who eloped with girls from Berlin and went TO Salt
Lake City, have published card giving the very
OF Free Love"
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild eldest son of
Baron James ROthschild Of Paris preparing History
Of the Rohschild Family. from 1906 TO 1871 1t will con-
tain several letters written by the First Napoleon hth
ertO unpublished
AuOlHeT survivor OF NdJtIlOOs NduiCi WI
nelius de Witt Agel 49, just dead at Holland City,
Michigan Said TO have been in all OF Napoeon's bat
ties. Bore charmed e-5ut age and Michigan extln-
gushed him.
A foreign letter gives this description OF
King Victor Emanuel: "Hs Majesty looking even
more repulsivey ugly than usual his head nearly dis
appearing between his shoulders consequence OF his
increasing bulk, and his complexion, always dark nav
ing become nearly black His neck is now so short, from
obesity, that his enormous mustaches rest on each
shoulder, and perpetual scow CLOUDS bis face.'
The Rev. TheO. L. CuyleT, in a description
of visit TO Carlyle thus sketches his personal appear
ance Presently an old man. apparently over three
attired in q long blue wooden gown reaching down 10
his feet. His gray hair in uncOmbed mop on his
head. His clear blue eye sharp aud piercing.
bright tiuge of red his thin cheek, ana MS hands
tremDed as he took or own"
Mark Twain writes to a London paper as
follows; "sir-With your kind permission, desire TO
say those societies in London and other cities Of Great
Britain under whose auspices have partly promised to
lecture, that am called home by cable telegram. L
shall spend. with my family. the greatest part Of next
year here and may be able TO lecture mouth during
the autumn upon such scientific topics as know least
about, and may consequently feel less trainmeied III
dllaung upon
The statistics as to the Dickens Readings in
America furnished. The American Reading Tour Of
Dickens extended from Dec 1867 to April &c. 1863
The number OF readings given 49, The assembages
averaged 1900 peTsons-the net receipts, 5000 night
The whole number OF persons who heard Dickens
1400O The total net receipts S22S0O0 The largest
audience a 5000 one the smaeSt,-at Rochester,
ton. Nov - Mr. Dolby sat at the pgeonAOle IL con-
/ secutve hours, and took IN $4,000.