New-York tribune., 1876-11-23
PERSONAL.

Fame comes to Prof. Francis A.. Walker.
His work wages is to be translated into Italian.
Ex-GOv. Stanford of California revels in
building He is about to begin another house which
Will cost 100000.
Mr.. III. l.. Sollace, the Vermont postmaster
whom the Republican electoral ticket knows no more, is
brothorSl-law OF Mr. John q. SAKE.
CuriOiHly enough, Ball, the sculptOr--whose
statue Webster is be presented formally to the city
in few days-has never been present at public In
augurati0n OF any OF his works
That clever amateur in literature and art,
Mr. Thomas G. Appleton of Boston, his bachelors
hall with I'll sorts OF beautiful valuable brc brac
He has just presented Reynolds to the Museum OF Emo
Arts.
Mr. Val Prinsep is the distinguished artist
who going paint, for large pot Of money the gor-
geous Empress of India picture He is man OF two
artshe has written oncact play which Is to be brought
out at the Court Theater
It's not often that husband and wife are en-
gagged in the art work. both being exccutivcly
clever. But such things be; Mrs. AimaTadema is AN
ist OF power well her husband and New iorkefs
who remember Mrs Henry Loops pictures in the last
Exhibition are permitted by tue critics 10 pride taem
selves upon similar instance.
Cardinal Lucca, the successor of Antoneli,
used to be Nuncio at Munich and at Vienna He Is mon
Of refined mind well read, and versed IN political af-
fairs and said have retained the friendship Of Illus
passing German and Austro- Hungarian events. He
his gait.
The Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng's faculty for
originating words has apparently somewhat mystiiod
the Bostonans OF the Y NJ c. A. who went TO hear him
the other evening. When he brought out the term
sanctifgumption" good brother felt mpclled to sug
cest that sanctied common sense would be much
Better medc of expression. This rebuke DIR. Tying
parried by relating amusing anecdote by which he
demonstrated that no other word would express his
meaning
Miss Farman, the editor of the juvenile
magazine Wide Atcake has made practical an excellent
idea. She has arranged Dolls Fair, where dolls shall
be exhibited aftcrward given Christmas presents
the sick children in hospitals all over the country
other advantages belong this fair The dolls must all
be girls under 15 years old Ten premiums
after the awards are Dade, the dolls will be distributed
To the children who need them.
That Mr.. Tilden resembles Napoleon, but not
in face Is the opinion Of correspondent OF The PhiIa
delphia Times He says "Thc LONELINESS and dullness
OF Tden are unreeved. by the occasional light Of
cold, yet genial. smile from the small, pleasant, firm
mouth The face despite rather fresh complexion, has
washedOut faded look Its lines betray the wear and
tear deep study OF menra strain unrest and
intrigue and the eager grasp OF boundess ambition. The
tie steeiiike paebne eye flashes back response to
enthusiastic greetings OF the men who take his hand
with no shade Of fmperOusness but weak and mild, with
the single exception of the thin, cold lips which denote
the character OF the man as no other feature ever can 40
No position to which he may be called will materially
affect mechanical routine of his ways nor stamp his
a
OF unrest Within coating OF ice conceas chem II there
be Wild tossing fears defeat, the passoness race
masks them well. Not nerve seems unstrung, not
muscle quiyers."
Of the artist Turner'S strange last illness and
DEATH Walter Thornbury thus writes and is quoted by
Mr. NJ ID. Conway in The Cincinnati Commercial:
Feeling himself to be dangerously Ill, Turner sent for
wellknown doctor from Margate whom he hadpreyousy
employed and in whose skill he rcposed implicit con-
hdence The sick man. who had declared that he
would give all his money If he could but be 20 once
again. watched physieians face with eager anxiety
When he was told that death near Go down stairs
he exclamed take glass Of sherry, and then look at
me again. The doctor did he WAS hidden. but no
could not alter his judgment. Turner however, would
not believe that the awful change was so ngh he nau
no religious hope afraid, to cheer him at that nour
On that final day. believe within an hour OF ms deah
his audady wheeled his chair to the window 10 enaDie
him to look upon the sunshine in which he delighted 80
much mantling and uunatng the sails OF the
passing boats told that up to the period OF ms
very last illness he would often at daybreak, ana
with blanket or dressngGown earelessly thrown over
him. 20 out uron raedn roof to see the sun rise and
10 observe the color flow, flushing back into the pale
morning sky. He died with the Winter.morning sun
shining upon his face he lay in bed The attendant
drew up the window bind and the iulnnary shed us
beams upon the dying artstthe sun lie had been wont
TO regard with such love ard yeneration"