New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-08

And then there tears and showers OF flowers asl
all those evidences OF expansive emotion In which -
charming little average schoolgirl loves 70 indulge.
A Chinese mandarin, wearing a bright and
Intelligent look very long ostrich feather and sort or
q curious yellow button his car, which the Ru.s,a.
Minister said indicated something extraordinary In tn
way Of q mandarin was of the New Year callers A
the White House: He came as the herald OF Chinese
maintain residence In Washington.
"You have hard job there" said Col. T.
W. Higgiuson the other day TO an ntellgentIookne
freshman who at work with pckax and spade upon
the ice in gutter cit Is that" answered the lahore,
promptly but not hard Job you have undertaken
-women's Rights" The Cooneps comment IL this:
AVE. like him. have the powers Of Nature our side:
Winter Is at least brcing ana healthy and by and by
will be Spring"
The Archbishop Of Canterbury has had an
interview with Mr.. Hanson, the original Of "Uncls
Tom" a subsequent meeting the black described
this interview and the quiet fashion In which his Grace
handed him a $50 note. An American in his audience
asked him II he had receyc I'd money from Mira
Stowe or the American British publishers OF the hook
OF which he was the hero "Not sixpencev said Uncls
Tom emphaticay. The Archbishop asked him in what
university he had graduated and he answered In tina
University OF Adversely" The story has a slightly
apocrypbal air.
The inhabitants Of the modern Athens have
notions" to which they adhere with desperate and
pathetic persistence One OF these notions that tho
striking Of the o'clock bell ia the signal for the right
minded Bostouan to for his home no matter where
he may be- At revival meeting last week numerous
persons rose to depart at the sound OF the bell Then
said the Rev. Mr. Pentecost: 1--WE may well learn ons
thing-that the work Of salvation doesn't stop at 0
o'clock Boston people seem TO observe prominently
the law OF going out at IL o'clock and at O'clock and
they must be free from the law" After that they
said.
Cornelius Casey, Western Union Telegraph
NIL n al
ton Of the most cordial sort. He employed In tho
office of the company at Brunswick, Ca during the
yellow fever epidemic there In the Autumn, while all the
local operators and those sent from abroad srug
cling with the disease he took charge OF the Office and
kept up the communication, without which the town
would have been entirely shut away from relief
He sent received dispatches correctly although he
had had instruction aud nobody in the office con-
scOus that he had picked up knowledge Of the art
He has been formally thanked by resolution OF the Relief
Association Of the town.
Mr.. Russell Sage comes into more prOmi-
nence in newspaper talk magnste OF wa-st since
Commodore Vanderbilts death. The Troy Timer re-
calls his early life follows: :" He began life in this
city IN the humblest capacity known in store He was
Observant and shrewd At the first opportunity he en-
parked in trade for himself In little while he got his
head above water and he kept there. His made
him its alderman for years then he served
county for the length OF time then he
went to Congress for four yearsservng during the last
term on the Committee on Ways and Means He tho
first to advocate the floor of Congress the purchase Of
Mount Vernon by the General Government. He was
natural politician well as shrewd business man, and
while his party in the ascendency 10 this city and
county his influence very large and generally pre-
dominant. The old Wing party going down, he united
with the Republican organization, gradually withdraw
ing from political activities, however, and devOtng his
wonderful energies TO trade and business specuatons
Had he remained in political service his natural abilities
,ynu bayp cd m al
spicuOusy Samuel J. Tilden has done. Indeed, his
aptness sagaety. and industry are superior to Mr. Til
dens" The Times estimates Mr. Sage's present wealth
at sjOOO.OOO, which is likely to be underest
mate than the reverse.