, 1877-09-30
PERSONAL


Boston on brief vis,t, during which she will NAL
study oF the head OF Judge Abbott for her hi
torlcal painting Of the Electoral Commission.
Prof. Max Muller has returned to Oxfor
very much benefited by his years eojoum abroae
aud will now dcyot: himself to tho editing OF til
transat,ons Of tho Sacred Books Of the world whic
he has undertaken.
DR.. Joyce, Of Boston, author of 'Deirifre,
! which remains the only poem yet in :ae No-Nan,
Series, is at work upon another epic, whose them
is tue ancient days Of the Isle Of Man. full Of Gu
rous history and ghoslly mystery aud sensation.
Among tue moro noted 1nen who hav
sons in the new class at Yale arc Secretary Erarta
Edmund c. Stcdnan, cx-rrcsidcnt Wooleey
Maj. -(:en. SchoGcld, anu e1-Seeretary Boric
This class is also the third 10 include member 0
| the co1ored race.
It il painful to observe" says the Phi1a
dclphia Times, that the Nrs. r. B. Hayes TEN
pcrance Society at Washington holds its meetings
passes resolutions, and issues charters on Sunday
| The Good Book, which does not prohibit drinking.
| forbids this desec:atton OF tho SaoDath."
The Loudon Spectator begins review O.
| Julan uauthorne's 1'Garth II with this astoun.
| ing sentence: 1T must not be taken rs q dcprc
| cation OF Mr. Hawthorncs novel when nc FL,
! that 1t reminds more distinctly than anythin!
that lie has before written Of his fathers tales" "
''1t is Il surprising revelation, and seems
little strange" remarks the Boston Herald, *'tha
| Massachusetts should have known, honored, an6
loved Charles Sumner for 50 many years, and gel
never been able to find out what Grant SO readily
discovered Grant said. in 60 many words, tha,
Sumner was ! constitutional liar.
The first Belgian expedition for the ex.
plo.ation of Central Africa is to leave the 18th
OF next month. 1t will embark ut southampton on
board the steamer Danube. After short stay at
Natal it will continue the journey to Zanzibar, and
nc1r to Lake Tan:anyika, and from thence to the
interior to establish the first station.
Miss Una Hawthornes dea&h is announced
in somewhat pathetic fashion By one Of the En-
glieh journals, thus '.She atlianced to Mr..
Albert Webster, since whoee death she had slowly
lost strength, and gradually faded out Of life
without any specific disease. Had Mr. Webster
lived, sic was to have been married to him about
this time
Joseph ". Harper, of the New York pub
fishing firm. was recently married to Mrs. Wands,
an estimable lady who had been compelled To OBJ
tain dfsorce from her first husband. The groom
is 56 and the bride 80. At the time OF the marriage
Mrs. Wands was A1atron in the Middletown Ineanc
Asylum. Her first husband was Lieutenant Col
one1 in tho army.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson, who was so
successful the delivery Of her twelve lectures
English literature in New York IN the autumn Of
1875, and in Boston and New England during the
autumn Of 1876. Is at present giving the same
series in Denver, Col. An cfVrt is to be made to
hare her stop here On her way East to repeat this
entertaining sad instructive course,
The advertisement Of Joaquin Miuers new
book, s.The Baroness OF New York. must have
been written by The poet himself between sherry.
champagne, and kirschwaesser. The book Is thus
described: *Thc longeet and most ambitious work
OF this author; with plot Us intricate as the most
passionate love tale, and the same lawless melody
and breezy freshness that distinguish the best
works Of the author OF Songs OF the Sfcrras.'''
It is stated in the CHronHue des Arts that
H. Theirs hal 1t In contemplation, at the time OF
his DEATH 20 write History Of Florence, and also
Life OF Michel Angelo. He Was, as is we'll
known, an able art-connoisseur and critic, and
found time among all his other avocations to con-
tribute numerous articles on aesthetic subjects to
various journals and reviews. 1t is hoped that
these will now be gathered together in volume.
Col Robert Ingersoll holds strong opin-
ions on cookery. He says that cooking is one OF
the fine arts that it takes far more sense to be an
excellent cook than a tolcrable lawyer; and that
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itentary TO FRY bcc1stcak. "
One OF hentuchy plool6aes 10 'nu7 oo-
scribed by newspaper pr'nted IN henderson, &nat
State: ''There Is whlte man IN our e'ty' eooer
sensible gentleman no" IN MS 4@o seaF' VINO mas
good common cdncat'oh. Ac never "fote 'ct'et
in his lifc' never owned postasc-slamp anu never
~as never rcad bv him. but was deposited
j., h;s nockct and hacked around until worn out
.n, he ocs mt know Till this day the name Of the
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