New-York tribune., 1877-03-12
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O'Conor Power, NJ. p, is to be the guest of
the Knights Of ST. Patrick at the banquet 10 DC gwen Oh
the 7th inst. in st. Louis
When the Hon. Eugene Hale gets back to
Ellsworth Me- he is to be formally received By his ad-
miring feOw-ctzens.
President Hayes believes in woman suffrage.
So at least says The Womdns Journal, which proceeds
to blow an uncommony loud trumpet over the statement
The late Gen. Changarnier inscribed his
preferences in album as follows: Plays, the pahto
mime. architecture balrack, music, the cannon poll
ties, government OF muets
The Rev. DR.. Adams Mr.. Bryant Mr. Weed,
and Mr.. George William Gurus have written letters
praisng DR. Spragues collection of autographs ana II is
possible that the state OF Ncw-Iork may BUY IT,
OF Monsieur Offcnbach this very wicked story
IA told IN Paris When somebody asked him If Bonn was
not his birthplace, he calmly replied: You are con-
founding two different 1t was Beethoven who was
born at Bonn. was bJrnat Cologne"
81 am sorry, Highness, that we meet so
rarely" Herr Richard Wagner, then resident III swzer
land is reported to have said to Prince Bismarck And
tho Prince is said to have answered dryy CnfOrtu-
natcy, it Is out OF my power to 1--we at Lucerhe'
Mr.. Gladstone, writing in The Nineteenth Cen
fry on the influence authority i'll matters OF opinion.
comes to the conclusion that there is something noble in
jealousy of authority when the intention Is to substi-
tnte for IL strong persistent of mental labor
labor Involves sacrice and sacrifice can ushiy
mich error
Mrs. S. c. Hall, the writer, has received
from queen Victoria as proof Her Majestys reco8ni
ton and appreciation OF her numerous contributions to
literature" large photograph Of Her Mesty's self, two
Autographs OF herself aud ia late Prince Consoit anu
autograph letter Mrs Han mas Ioi sonc uhe Occn
III feeble health.
Mr.. Charles Bradlaugh is. perhaps, the only
Englishmun who ever had association formed against
nrn during bis life. An Auti-Bradlaugh Society has been
formed at Northampton The cnarman OF tue meeting
which organized this curious society stated that us oh
ect was to unite all various political and theological
elements for the work OF preventing Mr. Bradangh from
representing Northampton In the House OF commons
K'mg, the Goth representative III the direct
line of Conucus is dead The French mobiles who trace
back to the fairy Melusne Highland chiefs whose lineage
Is lost in the echo Of the halls OF Selma are mere par
venues compared K'ung. While hundred dynasties
have risen and fallen in the West the house now lett
desoae by the death OF Kung has retained its hercdi-
tary title ana kept us place as INC onJ hoio"i' ''
tOcracy III china. .
The Pope now leans rather heavily upon his
stick and has lost great extent the n0Dy erect car
riage which distinguished him but very few years ago
His voice. too is weaker. and his artcuatioh less ds
tnct But his eye yet wonderfully bright and keen and
his mobile features change with every variation OF
thought His memory, too, is as tenacious as ever An
Epglshman who called upon him recently that the
venerable remembered on what subjects he had
talked his visitor five years before, and glided from
Italian into French and from French into Italian Just as
he did then aud his whole face frightened when his lips
framed OF old the ready mot in which he has never
his trials been known to fail The aeuteness OF
his questions TO affairs III the East proved now strong
IS the interest he still takes in questions Of TIE day. and
his Jokes about the Conference, and especially about tie
sultan, showed that beneath the ocuiar surface there
lurked . substratum OF shrewd observation
Theodore Hook, at dinner party one day,
charged with stealing from farce written by one OF
his friends the expression You down upon me, as
fl,o sh.rv ITa
proceeded show how little he under the necessity
OF stealing by supplying the same species OF witcsh 10
everything that said him for the next half hour, e.
g "You are very pressing, Dean the hlberts said 10
the nutcrackers. Pray pass the wine he continued
though I'm sorry to trouble yOu as the pin said to the
periwinkle." bravo, Hookems" shouted the Dean,
lyon must give up your plan OF going abroad; We can't
afford TO lose you" "Oh 1t will be all the one
hundred years hence, the American aloe said when 1t
came into bloom" "But your song, Hook; only few
verses" really reduce me 10 extlemltes, as the
rat said 20 the trap which cut his tail OH I've bad
cold will try my best and hope 70 come OF with NY
ing cOloTs the English general SAID when he ordered
ns nggers retreat lr attempt staye, don't make
a butt OI me-
That ancient gentleman, Lord William Lenox,
has been writing about the celebrities whom he has
known during his long life, and In the OF his rem
inscenees tells this story Of the Duke Of Wellington
'The late Lord Derby, when having of his country
mansions decorated, having the central hall floor
either painted tesseated. young was at work
on one OF walls when the earl ordered number OF
slippers 10 be thrown the door-mat, desiring this
young man TO order any that came IN TO put on o
pair before crossing the PASSAGE aud adding TO tho
Order II any fails To attend IL, You must take him
by the shoulder aud him out. Soon after party
returned from hunting. and the Duke, with his
splashed boots, opened the door and rushed along
tho hall. The young man immediately jumped od