Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-28

Personal.
The Empress OF Russia IL going to Joru'
salem this winter.
- An Illinois woman offers TO plough against
any man In the State tor a wager Of 800.
= Lucca likes "to tread on the edge Of de.
corum."
Mr. James Anthony Froude pronOunces his
name to rhyme with cloud"
Mrs sumner, vile Of the Senator, has been
residing for some time ln Venice.
Two young ladies OF Muscatlne, Iowa, have
started on an European tour without the en-.
cumbrance OF male escort.
Olive Logan thinks that with half the labor
she has put into q book she CO uld have secured
a fortune In the military line.
- Commissioner DrummOnd, Of the General
Land Once, has gone to Iowa, to be absent q
lew weeks.
- Prof Baird, Of the Smithsonian Institute,
has returned and commence work on his report
to Congress 10 relation to the food tshO rlel on
the Atlantic coast
Frank Leslie Is building an elegant villa
residence at Saratoga Like ln front Of the
house and skirting tho lake shore ho is con-
structing dock six hundred feet long.
- Tho sale OF twenty American papers, In.
Guiding six New York dailes, IL forbidden In
the German empire. Urine They spoke dlsro-
specifically OF German princes.
MIR. E. A. SOthern, Lord Dundreary," h
negotiating for the purchase OF the Liverpool
(Eng.) Post, with tho Intention Of making
journalism his profession.
-Ellhu Burritt, 1.-THE Learned Blacksmith"
leaves Boston IN a few days for Europe, TO assist
In the arrangements for the National Peace Con.
gross, to be held In England next May.
- Charles Reade has written a letter to tho
Now York Tribune, thanking Its editor for
their enterprise In procuring details Of the al.
legged mismRnagement OF a lunatic asylum near
New York.
Says the Court Journal! There has been
some talk Of Miss Kellogg becoming Russian
lUNNl Ia Nka
cantatrice has refused tho hand Of a very
wealthy count
Den. ]. II. Baker Commissioner Of Pen.
slOns, Is still confined To bis home In Minnesota
on account Of a spTained ankle, and will not re-
turn to Washington until alter the Presidential
election.
= Archduke Henry OF Austria, who, for love,
married the actress Leopoldlne Hoffman, and
the Archduchess Sophia, has been permitted to
return and reside In Tho TyrOl.
A memorial In the shape Of a portrait OF tho
late Professor John +. Frazer is 70 be placed in
the college chapel Of the University OF Pennsyl-
yAnia among portraits Of other distinguished ad.
yOcAtes OF the Institution, who have departed.
We expected It. Il starts every year about
the last Of Ootober, that controversy as to who
W. Watson or Mr.. Henry FaxOn. Mr.. Faxon's
friends have obtained new Atfidaylts, and the
contest again promises drearlly.
Tho Pope Is hard upon the marriage state /;
LOT ne thlut on nohTluks llhl utneT hynclntle
was married, 'The Saints be praised the rene,
gade has taken bis punishment into his own
hands. The ways Of Providence are lnscrutA-
BILE Yet there must DC marriages. or else
say Witty thingsH
- Old Dir. Lyman Beecher was stOutly opposed
to Henry Wards going TO Brooklyn to preach.
| " Henry" he said 10 the Plymouth church PEG.
pie, as settled In Indianapolis, Is doing WE'LL
| and II he goes to Brooklyn will be 0vershadowed
and never DO heard OF again" Henry Ward's
salary In ludlanapOlls at that time was A7OO a
| year and he went 10 Brooklyn for u, 800 year,
| with VI, 900 additional 10 pay up his debts.
A correspondent says: The strong minded
woman OF tradition or caTTloatuTe Miss Faithful
Is not She has a large, full hgure, kind,
thoughtful face, light brown eyes, and short
| hair. She has so gentle and quiet presence
| that the spectaoles, the Bingham umbrella, the
tracts, the frownlng ieaIlesaness with which the
/ caTlcaturist decorates the believer In WOmAn's
| rights uttelry disappear before her, and one Ia
i glad 10 recognize tho clear.minded and accom-.
/ plished EngllshwOman Mhs has never been dis
| AgTeeably loud In her aiirmatlJns
| MD. Conway thinks that Sir Rounded
/ Palmer as Lord Chancellor will be Just such n
/ man as roasted heretics for the glory Of God
and that he will 0rieye because the days OF
| roasting horetlcs are over. II would give him
| especial delight to stir the Goals under poor
| Charles NOysey, whose prosecution he conduct
cd and whose conviction he secured and who is
now enjoying something like decent Income,
being no longer dependent on the favor OF Epis-
/ cOpal princes and prelates.
| A dispatch from Paris announces the death
i Of Jacques Bablnet, one OF The most celebrated
i OF the physicians Of France. He was born at
i LuslgnAn on the 9th Of March, 1895, was edu.
/ Gated at the Lyoeum Napoleon and at the Poly
| technic School, aud was appointed sous lieu.
/ tenant OF artillery. Resignlug from the army,
| he was appointed to the chair Of mathematics IN
| the college Of FOntenOy-le.COmpte and for many
subsequent years held prOfessorshlps In a mum.
| Der Of learned Institutions. He was q thorough
| physicist and scientist, has published vast
| number OF works on physiological and scientific
| subjects, and has been for years contributor to
the Revue dCS DCuF MOHdss and the Journal dSS
| DcbdiS.
The once famous lion tanner Herr Dries.
bach Is now residing at Worcester, Ohio. His
| settlement there Is tho result Of a love AFFAIR.
| While travelling through the country number
| Of years ago, he was waited upon at her fathers
| hotel table by handsome young woman.
| Drlesbach was enamOTed Of her charms, and not
| many months thereafter they were married.
| lie continued 10 travel she accompanying
him, until about seven years ago. when he re-
| nOunced the show business, never, he says, Ia
| take TO the road again. Being unfortunate In
| his ventures, he lost almost all that he ever
| made, and has settled down TO the more peace
| full and quiet vocation Of a farmer. He is happy
| and cOntented with his wife and two children,
both Of whom are nns looking, and know what a
| great many others do not know, Herr says, and
| that IL good manners.
Laughing Bill, the champion laugher Of
| the United States" IL made famous by the New
| York Sun. His name Ia William Bennett, and
| he halls from Philadelphia, where he was born
| In ls2T. He Is a stout, thlcL-set man, with a
iDlly, round face, fair complexion, ruddy cheeks
| and blue eyes. He is Ave feet six inches Ia
/ height, forty two Inches around the waist, and
| weighs 800 pounds II Is as natural for Laugh
Ing Bill to laugh and be Jolly as 1t Is for some
men to be solemn and melancholy. II his hair
| was white and his beard frosted, he would bs the
| very RECONCILIATION Of Santa CLAUS, as he Il
| represented every Christmas to the admlTinK
| gaze Of millions Of children all over ChTisten.
| dom. Rlll proposes TO laugh against any man
In the United States for from 800 to $500 side
/ but no could make much more money by letting
/ himself out u Greeley prOoessiOns.
| In RELATION to llassaurek's influence the
Cincinnati Courier remarks: 1t Is notorious
fact that the unIustihable sOmorsault Of this po
llticAl mountebank into the Greeley camp has
driven many wagering German Republican
directly Into tho Republican ranks, so that they
might not be suspected Of being Influenced by q
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