New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-18
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| Urgent appeals to Col. Robert lngersol to
| lecture are reaching him from various regions.
Gen. Bartlett's good health is happily re-
turning. lie is able to sit up short time every
| day
The Rev. w. T. Clarke will preach his last
sermon at Unity Chapel Harlem, tomorrow mornnr
He will hereafter confne his attention to journalism and
| ecturng.
A newspaper correspondent says he ines
Senator Conklng the other day the train from New
York to Utica, and found him fast rcgainng his vsor
| health"
Miss Mary Fletcher of Burlington, VT, has
bestowed upon herself piece OF happiness. She has
given that city 81 so 900 the establishment OF pub
lie hospital which Is 10 bear her name. III VIII pe tne
only Institution OF the kind IN Vermont
Madame Essipoff is Russian about % years
old She has bright and graceful manners and speaks
several lam uently Her eyes and hair are DARK
and her arms and hands while they are tensely museU
lar, are beautifully formed II is said thaI slncs ne.
arrival here she has peen gos h heinz
ry disabled. 90
Fanny Kemble shows the keenness with
which she felt parts In describing her sensations
when acting in "The Stranger" with her father shs
said that she mixed up her own personal feelings for
him with her acting and the sight OF his anguish ana
sense of his disleasure really very dreadful 20 her
though 1t was only all about stun and nonsense ater
all"
There are two remarkable little English
peope--brother and sster-noY on the London stage
Their names are Grattan and they play the fte princes
In Richard Ill" They miss point, they never
cease TO act; they can lsen they talk together with
their eyes, while the elders dsc0urse they perfectly en-
body Shakespeares differentiation OF the princes CHAR
actrs In the tower scene these children act oeaa n
fully; the young Kings WEAKNESS is most touching ana
York's afraid to stay here makes one start WIN
the horrd sense Of u childs real dread
For ten years Rowland Hill, the great
preacher, that singular mixture of wisdom droery aud
pioty was an tinerant and his ministry attended
h,yv lis vii never
OCCASION preaching Hampsteadheath. some rain fell,
and he deliberately put his hat saying: Excuse my
hat friends but do not LEI the rain alarm You so mucn
it, give for single drop of this delightful rain 80,
when he was reproyed Tor not preaching 70 tne srs
them with bit Of chalk and then I'll talk TO thein
Shelley, as a small boy, was an eccentric little
being He used dress his four sisters to reprcsen'
fends, and, filing nre-stove with some inhaInmanle
fluid and setting It aaame, he would marshal the daoor
ical procession To the back door, His great delight WI"
e. teach his infant brother schooboy words and MS uss
attempt at his knowledge OF the devil was an nnocen'
"Debbee" As boy at Etou he would watch the i've
long night for ghosts AID consulted his books now "
raise His diet IN after years was meger ehoug
bring him weird fsuces. Bread became his chlef ss
nance and his pockets generally wei stored Win
it. circle upon the carpet clearly defined py an ia
verge o. crumbs oeh nm nenr IN contnct with his
book dcyOuring bread at intervals anna MS pfolvu
distractions. Sometimes he ate raislns Win H. anu @
sweet tooth immense. Occasionally whea Waans
IN London with friend he would suddenly dash mo
bah ~ shop and emerge with supply ." bread wnics
10 wcni1 break ard offer half To 10 bs s1npaDlon ana
very mach surprised would DO when any Lody relusoo
the 4, raCy.
There is story told of Sir Waiter SCOUTS
exucr,cnce with doctor tst is certainly good cloush
Ia he true WAile in ANAL English town his serVa"'
fell sck q medical man was sent for. and Sir Wsltef'
LOOKING Up WHOM he ents red. before him grave
accommodating person. atiired in black. with sho'e
hat in whom, TO his uter astonshncn lie rccog nzed
scottish blacksmith who 0ad formerly practieed WIN
considerable success veterinary operator ia INC
| neghborhOod Of Ashestiei How, In ali tbs worid,
exclaimed Sir Walter came you herei Caa u be pSsr
bile that this IL John Lundie T. In truth, a. lg%s
honor-ust a'thats for him." "We, lot us hear Ioa
were korse-doctor before now, It seems you ARC :
mau-loctor How do you get onp On Just exusS
dinay wce; for your honor mann ken that my pScsv
ia vera sure and LrtLodeS. depend entirely upon W."
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