New-York tribune., 1877-10-26
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Faricon. the novelist, and his wife are
expected TO arrive here next week, in the steamship
Ijsy.
The Emperor William is to have a golden
Wedding next Spring and very great festivities ie ex-
yccted in Berlin. Many potntates are TO att nd it, az
ii is even hoped that Queen Victoria win appear
Mr. Gladstone is to honor DR.. Schliemann's
welcome book his Mycen@ excavations With PIE
face. Mr.. Gladstone has sso IN press collection Of
Essays. Letters, and Addresses" He is Industry
Nr. Archibald Forbes, British war CORE
spondent nigh honor. When in Bulgaria The
Car called upon bin TO narIate what lie Lad seem ana
Queen Victoria has also expressed her Nlsh that ne
should give her personal uccOdut 0t his eApelebctS
Mr.. Sturgeon gave his congregation the
other day some personal information concerning hats
IL said that in his younger days tuo chnney-pot hat
was Indispensable if preacher wished 20 maintain his
respcctahjy but that nc now wore any Eud oil q nat
regardless Of consequences.
Tho Duke of Argyll has suffered a loss il
Tho almos complete destruction by freoi his magnificent
Jnyerary Castle Tie alarm WIS sivoD in carly mo- n-
ing and tie D9ke and Duchess. the Marquis Of Lone
and the Princess Louise al saf y got cut Of lie
walls Many valuable aud beautiful objects were
destroyed, but neary al The pictures were saVou'
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale says that all
The young women who graduate 1t Antioch Col pass
the full Greek they wish, and most Of them for
fifteen years, have wished It, ana he adds that ho re-
members Of these students a. for GONE time the
head OF the Greek department IN one Of our high schools
an her pupils were ever rejected either ~ Yale
or Harvard"
Mr. f. w. Bird says that Mr.. Phillips is mis-
taken in thinking that Ut sumner called upon the Pres
den, day after the dinner table interview ana gayo
reasons why he could not support the treaty. " MI
eunner mover had any interview with tac Pres rea
the san Domugo treaty from the first one above re
frled 10 up % the day Of his death Mr. Phillips e ms
taken in saving that Mr. Sumner received from the
hands o' General Grant the treaty OF san Domingo.'
General Grant did not bring the treaty win him hu'
sgted or atter,p.ed to state orav its substance MT
where words things without a careful IeIs * o. ON tne
teVi than most cautious business mah ~ st,es,
would sign notes IN blank 10 Do hiieu ouV win any
amount tnat suited the holder.
General McClellans presence in Camden the
other day aroused some amusing manifestations OF en-
tbusiasp One old soldier could hardly restrain him
eelf from breaking the line filing past the General ana
when AT last reached Mcclellan he could only gasp ex-
plosively "Fa- yninth-Fair Oaks nv
Old boy" rs no passed with his head
turned for lingering look mechanic was
at the head OF the line, carrying little boy in h-
arms; before he would roach out his own hand he took
his cbd's placed it in the Generals, and said: That's
your uamesake. General; you must shake hands with
ther came a piainv-dIessed woman with troo1 Of
children. II hayei brought them over from PhisdeI-
Old Andrew jackson Democrat"
Mr.. Joaquin Miller thus describes his first
sight OF his play or the stage ~ bad never been in
that thea re before 50 captured small boy and told
the ilte fellow would give him so cents II he would
get 25cent ticket for me- aud we'd into the gallery
together. he was Estonished and delighted and
II was the funniest thing in the world!taEng my dollar
bill he went End bought 25ceut ticket; then "a got
one himself, and went in. met couple o. me-
going down there, and absorbed them and took tlen
along with found Old in there, t.. whom
I had known before. And 1 sat there aud cried.
And. 10 yOu know. this old fellow turned and
me crying; be saws, What are yOh doins !
SIT / never happier IN my liio than am now.
mover had any show IN America anti this, ana 1t
seems mighty good America is my country; nave
lived n II aud worked III II; belong to A. am nara
honest worker; and have aways wanted 10 do sOmo-
thing to make a marx among my counuymen."
Authors sometimes acquire such habit of
observation that observation becomes after while in
spctve aud y often unconscious. They study oharao-
ter, closely and minutcy aud when they come ~ write,
reproduce the characters without knowing how or
whence they have got them notable instance oi his
s attributed 10 George Eliot Tie character Of Cassubon.
In "Mddemarch" was so Ike Professor Marx
Pattison OF oxford in many OF It's personal and some
other features tuat his aequaintauec saw The Aeness
chang with using himhe is an intimate friend
rs the original OF her portraiture she de
MED having him her mind when she drew the cdrac-
ter aud she undoubtedly told tho truth H was prODdDy
Of )nscous copying OF confusion o. oD'e IVat0h
1itl imagin stOn WAT equally singular ls tIat the
entirely unknOwn 10 George Eliot. life OF Isaac Casa-
bO the celebrated critic and bchO4r whO Joseph scal-
tiger pronounced tine most learned man OF ms era Iheee
may De cited as Two OF tbe mos tsihaifDe HeIdy
condolences OF the day aud Ia are SAID Dy persons IN
position 10 know. 10 DC strictly true.
MeissOnier, the painter, carries his sixty five
fears hgHty Le Ia ~ lively, sanoy, active and inausr